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Episode 171: The Future of the Company
Almost two hundred years after its founding, the Hudson's Bay Company is forced to contemplate a world without its monopoly charter.
Published on 2 years ago
Episode 170: Little Better Than a Parody
In an effort to avoid a repeat of the Oregon surrender, the Hudson's Bay Company establishes a settler colony on Vancouver Island. The early returns are, however, mixed.
Published on 2 years ago
Episode 169: Reciprocity
Deprived of preferential access to the British market, the colonies seek economic salvation in the form of railroads and free trade with the United States.
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 168: Coarse Vulgar Democracy
Taking a page out of the Reformers book, a new generation of conservatives form a coalition across the linguistic divide.
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 167: Do More and Talk Less
Teacher and newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd initiates a debate about what Canada's role in ought to be in furthering the cause of blacks in North America.
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 166: The Place Where the Dead White Men Were
The desperate search for a Royal Navy expedition sparks the most concentrated burst of exploration in the history of the Canadian arctic.
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 165: The Land Question
The tenant farmers of Prince Edward Island decide they no longer want any part of an experiment to revive a bygone era of aristocratic land tenure.
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 164: Common Schools
An attempt to implement a publicly funding school system produces mob violence in Lower Canada, and a slew of court battles in Upper Canada.
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 163: I Must Have Something For It
Shingwauk, an Ojibwe chief in the Sault Ste. Marie area, calls on the Canadian government to form an economic partnership for the development of the territory north of Upper Canada.
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 162: Refuge
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in the United States accelerates black migration across the international border, creating new communities and re-shaping the racial politics of Upper Canada.
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago