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The Nations of Canada

A narrative history of Canada from its first inhabitants to the present day.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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Episode 110: Affection to Animosity

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2022/10/05

A prolonged war-time boom propels Newfoundland towards self-sufficiency, while impatient Newfoundlanders wonder if Britain will ever recognize their existence.

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Episode 109: Tecumseh and the Chesapeake

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2022/09/28

Simultaneous crises on the Atlantic and on the western frontier bring the United States and Britain closer to war than at any time since the Revolution.

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36:59

Episode 108: At High Romps

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2022/09/21

Upper Canada matures into a developed colony, complete with shipwrecks, murder, and drunken carriage rides up Yonge Street.

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30:39

Episode 107: This Rascally and Unnatural Country

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2022/09/14

The fur trade war escalates as the Northwest Company faces a rival upstart in Montreal. The resulting influx of voyageurs makes French-Canadians a permanent fixture in the landscape of the Northwest.

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Episode 106: Anxiety and Paranoia

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2022/09/07

As the global war with the French continues, the colonial governments at York and Quebec grow increasingly distrustful of their own subjects.

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42:21

Episode 105: The River of Disappointment

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2022/08/31

Fur trader Alexander Mackenzie is convinced that the future of the continent lies on the other side of the Rockies, and he's determined to find it.

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39:28

Episode 104: Fallen Timbers

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2022/08/24

Unfinished business on the western frontier threatens to drag British North America back into a continental war.

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39:10

Episode 103: Our Liberty Becomes an Illusion

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2022/08/17

With the British Empire once again at war with France, ethnic divisions in Lower Canada suddenly take on a greater significance.

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35:42

Episode 102: The Nootka Crisis

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2022/08/10

Spanish, British, and American rivals scramble to secure a base on the Pacific coast, creating a diplomatic crisis half a world away in Europe.

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48:26

Episode 101: Willing to Go Wherever

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2022/08/03

The institution of slavery finds itself under assault in the courts of British North America, but when Black Loyalists get a chance to leave the largely hostile colonies, many seize the opportunity.

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37:41

Episode 100: The Very Image and Transcript

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2022/07/27

Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe attempts to recreate England in the wilderness around the Great Lakes.

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39:52

Episode 99: The Canadas

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2022/07/20

As loyalists establish themselves in the Upper St. Lawrence and Great Lakes, the British government takes the opportunity to totally re-organize the colony of Quebec.

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Episode 98: Ferryland

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2022/07/13

Newfoundland emerges from the wars of the 18th century a fully fledged colonial society, complete with its own religious, class, and ethnic divisions.

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40:30

Episode 97: The Northwest Company

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2022/07/06

The independent fur traders of Montreal get organized, and beat the Hudson's Bay Company at their own game.

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38:05

Episode 96: An Asylum of Loyalty

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2022/06/29

So many loyalists pour into the St. John valley, that the British decide to carve out a new colony on the continental side of the Bay of Fundy - New Brunswick.

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Episode 95: Shelburne and Birchtown

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2022/06/22

Thousands of loyalists descend on Nova Scotia, turning one sleepy corner of the colony, overnight, into the largest urban centre in British North America.

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32:39

Episode 94: A New Country

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2022/06/15

Tasked with implementing the peace in North America, Guy Carleton scrambles to find new homes for tens of thousands of loyalist exiles.

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39:36

Episode 93: What is to Befall Us

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2022/06/08

The conflict south of the Great Lakes turns into a prolonged guerilla war, with devastating consequences for both European settlers and the Iroquois Confederacy.

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Episode 92: Civil War

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2022/06/01

Parallel civil wars within the Iroquois Confederacy and the European settlers of the Mohawk Valley lay the seeds for the latest nation of Canada.

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Episode 91: The Undiscovered Country

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2022/05/25

Episode 91: The Undiscovered CountryRussian, Spanish, and British explorers converge on a blank spot on the map in the Northern Pacific.

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