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Episode 141: Unrest in the Countryside
With a conflict looming between the Patriotes and the colonial government, both sides look to the majority habitant population for support, only to discover neither of them know much about rural Lowe…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 140: Let Them Come if They Dare
Upper Canada's new Lieutenant-Governor arrives with a mandate to bring harmony to colonial politics - a mission he seeks to carry out through partisan interference, electoral manipulation, and intimi…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 139: The Accursed Progress of Civilization
A new Lieutenant-Governor arrives in Upper Canada with a plan to insulate indigenous nations from the setter population - but he runs into trouble when he fails to either consult indigenous leaders, …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 138: A Youth Aping Maturity
A maturing Upper Canada exits its pioneering phase. To mark the occasion the colony's capital gets a new name, initiating a long tradition of Torontonians believing they live at the centre of the uni…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 137: Bluenosers
In Nova Scotia, distinctions between Planters, Loyalists, and British migrants begin to disappear as a new, shared identity emerges.
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 136: Confusion and Uncertainty
The polarization of Lower Canadian politics intensifies, and begins to effect other aspects of society, including women's suffrage and civil rights for the colony's black population.
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 135: A Tale of Two Canals
In the same of economic development and imperial security, Upper Canada re-shapes the landscape of the Niagara peninsula and the Ottawa valley.
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 134: New Canadians
A new wave of migration from Britain alters the demographic landscape of the Canadas - and also brings with it a public health crisis.
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 133: A Desert of Fur
Desperate to consolidate its control over the Pacific Northwest before the arrival of American rivals, the Hudson's Bay Company adopts some innovative, ruthless tactics in the fur trade.
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 132: The Alien Question
Upper Canada struggles to come to terms with the fact that a large proportion of its population is made up of immigrants from a recently hostile neighbour.
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago