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Episode 190: Secession and Assassination
In the first year of its existence, Canada faces a province seeking to leave the union, and the assassination of one of its leading politicians.
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 189: Questions and Answers
The podcast takes a pause in the narrative to field questions from listeners.
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 188: This Peaceful Revolution
Two and a half years after the Quebec Conference, and after bitter debates, dead-ends, political pressure of dubious constitutionality from London, t…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 187: The Battle of Ridgeway
After several false alarms British North America undergoes two Fenian invasions in a matter of weeks, creating the greatest security crisis in a gene…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 186: The Fenians
The end of the Civil War in the United States creates a military threat to British North America, though not the one many Canadians feared.
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 185: I Have No Faith in Canadian Statesmen
As the Maritime delegates return home from the Quebec conference, they discover that the voting public does not necessarily approve of their work.
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 184: The Tenant League
When all conventional political solutions to Prince Edward Island's intractable Land Question fail (including union with Canada), the farmers of the …
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 183: The Confederacy in Canada
Attempting to stave off defeat, an increasingly desperate Confederacy turns to an espionage campaign in Canada, perched on the Union's unprotected no…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 182: The Two Conferences
Canadian delegates crash a conference on Maritime Union, and present a much more ambitious confederation of British North American possessions.
2 years ago
Episode 181: A Tremendous Thing If We Accomplish It
With Canada facing crippling railway debts, political paralysis and dysfunction, and a looming security threat, George Brown proposes major constitut…
2 years ago