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Changing Politics: The Trans-Canada Pipeline
The Trans-Canada Pipeline, at the time of its construction, was the longest pipeline in the world. It was also an intense issue in the House of Commo…
4 years, 4 months ago
Small Town Histories: The History Of Rockwood
Rockwood, a Rural Municipality in Manitoba, is the home to a Victoria Cross winner and a Hockey Hall of Fame player. It also has a deep Indigenous hi…
4 years, 4 months ago
Small Town Histories: The History Of Gibbons
The community of Gibbons features a couple terrible fires, a family who helped build the railroad that they were travelling on, a wonderful museum, a…
4 years, 4 months ago
Small Town Histories: The History Of Bruderheim
Some great historical buildings and a wetland interpretive centre make for great places to check out in Bruderheim. On top of that, it is the locatio…
4 years, 4 months ago
A Canadian Institution: The Birth of the CBC
What started as an effort to limit American content from reaching Canadian radios, would become an organization that would play a vital and integral …
4 years, 4 months ago
The Ontario Elections
On my other podcast From John to Justin, I spent five weeks looking at every Ontario election from 1867 to 2018. Every premier, every election, every…
4 years, 4 months ago
The History Of 150 Mile House
In this tiny community, whose history includes a stage coach robbery, you will find a very old school and courthouse that still stand after over a ce…
4 years, 4 months ago
Small Town Histories: The History of Borden
This small Saskatchewan community was once the childhood hometown of John Diefenbaker, the future prime minister of Canada. That history, along with …
4 years, 4 months ago
A Marvel Of Engineering: The Confederation Bridge
From a proposed underground train in the 1890s, to broken promises by the federal government in the 1950s and 1960s, it took until 1997 for PEI to of…
4 years, 4 months ago
Small Town Histories: The History of Black Diamond
Started as a coal mining camp, Black Diamond would grow thanks to the booming oil industry of Turner Valley. Its history features a giant glacial err…
4 years, 4 months ago