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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 partisa…
2 years, 9 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 wh…
2 years, 10 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 Toronto…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 137: Bluenosers
In Nova Scotia, distinctions between Planters, Loyalists, and British migrants begin to disappear as a new, shared identity emerges.
2 years, 10 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 f…
2 years, 10 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.
2 years, 10 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.
2 years, 11 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 innovativ…
2 years, 11 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 neig…
2 years, 11 months ago
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 re…
2 years, 11 months ago