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Episode 160: Le Commerce est Libre
Independent Metis traders in the Red River colony provide the Hudson's Bay Company with the greatest challenge to its monopoly in 180 years.
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 159: The Torch of Discord
Canadians take to the streets of Montreal to re-fight the 1837 rebellion, destroying the parliament building in the process.
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 158: Responsible Government
As revolutions sweep across Europe, two former rivals in Nova Scotia carry out their own political transformation.
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 157: A New Ireland
An increase in Catholic migration from Ireland reshapes Canada's demographic landscape, and reminds the Orange Order in the colony of its original, s…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 156: 54-40 or Fight
The arrival of American settlers in significant numbers, and a bellicose presidential campaign in the United States, force an end to the Anglo-Americ…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 155: The Bagot Commission
A generation after the military alliances of the War of 1812, indigenous communities and the Canadian state begin forging a new relationship.
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 154: I Know Not What to Call It
Post-rebellion Canadian politics are muddied by a series of untimely deaths in the Governor-General office.
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 153: New Identities
With the collapse of the Patriote movement, the Catholic Church re-emerges as a key pillar of French Canadian national identity. At the same time, h…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 152: The Missionary Company
In an effort to improve its brand in Britain, the Hudson's Bay Company allows missionaries into the northwest to minister to its indigenous partners,…
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 151: A Stupid Place to Build an Outpost
Anglo-Russian border tensions on the Pacific coast are enlivened by a murder in the Hudson's Bay Company's most remote trading post.
2 years, 7 months ago