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Episode 217: History Repeating Itself
Fifteen years after the bungled expansion to the Red River, Ottawa risks making the same mistake in the northwest - ignoring the reality of the peopl…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 216: Empire Ontario
John A. Macdonald finally meets his match, in Oliver Mowat, the Liberal Premier of Ontario.
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1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 215: Engineering Impossibilities
Canada learns that building a transcontinental railway line is as much an exercise in politics as it is engineering.
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1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 214: Strategic Indifference
Kahnawake becomes a testing ground for a new form of indigenous government crafted in Ottawa.
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1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 213: Help Them Feed Them or Fight Them
Having completed its treaty-making campaign on the prairies, the federal government finds that treaty implementation is as challenging as treaty nego…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 212: The National Policy
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 railro…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 211: All Things are Possible
Infused with national confidence after rejecting confederation, the government at St. John's seeks, for the first time, to exert its influence across…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 210: An Awful Dread of the Future
As Canadian negotiators seek to complete their treaty-making campaign on the prairies, they find the Blackfoot intent on coming to a different kind o…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode: 209 - The Place Protected from Fire
A group of Icelanders repeat the voyage of their ancestors almost 900 years earlier, and once again establish a colony in Canada - this time in Manit…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 208: Come Like Men and Talk to Us
The Canadian treaty campaign in the northwest begins its most important negotiations yet - for the surrender of Cree lands along the fertile belt of …
1 year, 10 months ago