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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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41:50

Episode 229: This Bastard Nationality

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2025/01/15

The passage of a bill regarding the Jesuit Order in Quebec's legislature sparks a heated debate on the kind of nation Canadians have been building since confederation. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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41:31

Episode 228: The Wrong of '67

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2025/01/08

The new premier of Quebec, Honore Mercier, hosts his colleagues from across the country as they fashion a constitutional program that puts the provinces, not Ottawa, at the centre of confederation.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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44:43

Episode 227: The Knights of Labor

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2025/01/01

A new wave of labour unrest hits Canada, culminating in a battle over Toronto's public transit.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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43:31

Episode 226: Made One People By the Road

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2024/12/25

The Canadian Pacific Railway completes its trans-continental line, revolutionizing the economy, demographics, and politics of British ColumbiaBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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41:44

Episode 225: A Vaccine More than Suspect

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2024/12/18

A public health crisis in Montreal spins out of control, the product of mistrust between the mostly Protestant, Anglophone municipal officials and the French Catholic population of the city.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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43:05

Episode 224: The Regina Trials

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2024/12/11

In the aftermath of the fighting, the meaning and legacy of 1885 is determined in a series of trials in Regina.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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49:42

Episode 223: A Human Hornet's Nest

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2024/12/04

The Canadian militia arrives in the northwest to suppress a Metis rebellion, but finds the situation there more complicated than anyone in the east imagined.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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41:47

Episode 222: They Have Taken My Name Away From Me

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2024/11/27

While the Canadian government organizes a military response, and the Metis provisional government contemplates its next move, the initiative in the northwest passes to the Cree chiefs of Treaty Six territory, especially Poundmaker and Big Bear.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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47:42

Episode 221: Duck Lake

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2024/11/20

The mounting tension in the Northwest is finally released, as violence breaks out between the Northwest Mounted Police and a group of Metis.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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34:17

Episode 220: The Land of the Pharaohs

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2024/11/13

With a crisis brewing on the Nile, the British Army turns to the most celebrated river pilots in the Empire - Canadian voyageurs. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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46:52

Episode 219: Heart and Memory

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2024/11/06

On the one hundred year anniversary of the loyalist migrations, Canadians contemplate their historical identity, their place in the British Empire, and a possible expansion into the Caribbean.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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39:04

Episode 218: The More Wretched They Will Become

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2024/10/30

Facing famine, and a decade of unfulfilled promises, indigenous leaders on the prairies seek out new forms of political organization.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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36:31

Episode 217: History Repeating Itself

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2024/10/23

Fifteen years after the bungled expansion to the Red River, Ottawa risks making the same mistake in the northwest - ignoring the reality of the peoples residing there. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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48:09

Episode 216: Empire Ontario

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2024/10/16

John A. Macdonald finally meets his match, in Oliver Mowat, the Liberal Premier of Ontario.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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38:35

Episode 215: Engineering Impossibilities

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2024/10/09

Canada learns that building a transcontinental railway line is as much an exercise in politics as it is engineering.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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39:32

Episode 214: Strategic Indifference

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2024/10/02

Kahnawake becomes a testing ground for a new form of indigenous government crafted in Ottawa.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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43:53

Episode 213: Help Them Feed Them or Fight Them

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2024/09/25

Having completed its treaty-making campaign on the prairies, the federal government finds that treaty implementation is as challenging as treaty negotiations. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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46:48

Episode 212: The National Policy

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2024/09/18

John A. Macdonald makes his triumphant return to power on the back of an ambitious plan to save the Canadian economy through tariffs and rapid railroad construction.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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35:39

Episode 211: All Things are Possible

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2024/09/11

Infused with national confidence after rejecting confederation, the government at St. John's seeks, for the first time, to exert its influence across all of Newfoundland. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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37:12

Episode 210: An Awful Dread of the Future

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2024/09/04

As Canadian negotiators seek to complete their treaty-making campaign on the prairies, they find the Blackfoot intent on coming to a different kind of settlement than their neighbours to the east.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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