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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…
2 years, 2 months 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 S…
2 years, 3 months 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.
2 years, 3 months 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 Ame…
2 years, 3 months 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.
2 years, 3 months 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.
2 years, 4 months 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.
2 years, 4 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 …
2 years, 4 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 …
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 161: The Glorious Twelfth
As New Brunswick struggles with the loss of preferential access to the British lumber market and an influx of Catholic migration from Ireland, ethnic…
2 years, 5 months ago