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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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago
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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago