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Episode 131: The War for Religious Liberty
Upper Canadian Anglicans attempt to fashion a definition of loyalty and Canadian identity that excludes other denominations - a project that meets resistance from the colony's Methodists.
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 130: Cultural Preservation
French-Canadians and Kahnawake Iroquois both struggle to define their identities in a rapidly changing Lower Canadian environment.
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 129: The Great Miramachi Fire
Lumber overtakes fur as British North America's primary export. The forests of New Brunswick offer the greatest rewards in the new industry, but also the gravest dangers.
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 128: If Such a Passage Does Exist
Looking for something to do after the Napoleonic Wars, the officers of the Royal Navy seek out a new challenge in the arctic.
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 127: The Merger
The fur wars finally come to an end, and for the first time, a single company holds an uncontested monopoly in the northwest.
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 126: The Dirty Ways of Little York
An English statistician visits Upper Canada, and sparks a political reform movement that would last generations.
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 125: A Despised and Insulted People
The whipping of two impoverished fishermen galvanizes popular opposition to the Royal Navy's rule over Newfoundland. The result is the first reform legislation in more than a century.
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 124: The Year Without Summer
The end of the War of 1812 brings new waves of settlers across the Atlantic, where they face a climate anomaly unlike anything seen in living memory.
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 123: Opposed Abused and Cheated
The Royal Navy's emancipation policy produces a post-war migration of escaped slaves to Nova Scotia. The new arrivals find the colony just as inhospitable as the Black Loyalists had a generation earl…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 122: The Battle of Seven Oaks
With pitched battles, foreign mercenaries, and mass arrests, the fur trade reaches a state of conflict not seen since the Beaver Wars of the 17th century.
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago