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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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36:26

Episode 70: Good Goods and Kind Usage

The Nations of Canada ·

2021/12/29

The Hudson's Bay Company is forced out of its complacency by French competition in the interior, and anti-monopolist agitators back in Britain.

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39:08

Episode 69: Made in Canada

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2021/12/22

As Canada emerges as a distinct society from that of France, Canadians also begin to carve out a distinct colonial economy - at times, in opposition to policy-makers at Versailles.

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39:58

Episode 68: A Free Fishery

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2021/12/15

A base for a profitable fishery, a training ground for the sailors of the Royal Navy...Newfoundland would have been the perfect imperial possession. That is, if it weren't for the inconvenient existence of Newfoundlanders.

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33:08

Episode 67: Nova Scotia and the Mi'kmaq

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2021/12/08

Having secured Nova Scotia through the Treaty of Utrecht, the British discover that the Mi'kmaq, who possess the majority of the territory, see no reason to respect an agreement they did not participate in.

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34:43

Episode 66: An Uncomfortable Peace

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2021/12/01

The French, British, and Iroquois jockey for position in the new political and economic order of the pays d'en haut.

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37:45

Episode 65: Citizens of the Bay

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2021/11/24

Now the unchallenged masters of the north, the Hudson's Bay Company slides into a comfortable complacency.

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36:04

Episode 64: So Many Enemies in Our Bosom

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2021/11/17

In the post-Utrecht Maritimes, both the British and the French construct new colonies, once again leaving Acadians stuck in the middle.

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38:36

Episode 63: A Figment of European Imaginations

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2021/11/10

From Acadia to the pays d'en haut, actors on the ground scramble to translate the Treaty of Utrecht into reality as it crossed the Atlantic.

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39:44

Episode 62: The Dunkirk of America

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2021/11/03

While Canada is protected by geography and Iroquois neutrality, Acadia becomes the target of American fury.

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38:37

Episode 61: The Slave Colony

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2021/10/27

As enslaved labour becomes more common in New France, owners call on the Crown to explicitly enshrine in law their right to own human property.

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36:41

Episode 60: Detroit

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2021/10/20

The French experiment with a settlement in the heart of the pays d'en haut, but soo find that the politics of the upper country work very different from the inside.

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33:29

Episode 59: Captivity

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2021/10/13

After a brief pause, war once again breaks out between the English and French, re-opening a thriving war captive economy on the New England frontier.

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41:35

Episode 58: We Made a Bridge of All Those Bodies

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2021/10/06

As diplomats in Europe left the job half-done, indigenous and Canadian leaders gather at Montreal to establish a peace (and a new diplomatic system) that will persist for a generation.

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37:24

Episode 57: A Mountain of Beaver

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2021/09/29

As the fur trade enters a crisis, the French are forced to recognize that the institution has diplomatic and political dimensions beyond its failing economics.

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40:53

Episode 56: Nothing But Destruction

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2021/09/22

The war in North America concludes, but not before the devastation of communities from Newfoundland to the Great Lakes.

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34:31

Episode 55: A Very Active Lad

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2021/09/15

The Hudson's Bay Company sends young Henry Kelsey into the unknown interior of North America, to find out how their business actually works.

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35:03

Episode 54: The Mouth of My Cannons

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2021/09/08

Governor Frontenac makes his triumphant return to New France, and celebrates by delivering a pithy one-liner to an invading army of English Americans.

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35:12

Episode 53: Victory and Deceit

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2021/09/01

A new governor of New France makes a new set of mistakes, escalating the conflict with the Iroquois Confederacy.

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35:41

Episode 52: Canadian Warfare

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2021/08/25

Desperate for a victory, the new governor of New France sends a group of French marines and Canadian backwoodsmen to the English trading posts on Hudson Bay.

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33:18

Episode 51: The Empire Humbled

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2021/08/18

The new governor of New France attempts to solve the colony's Iroquois problem by marching an army into the wilderness beyond the St. Lawrence.

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