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Episode 130: Cultural Preservation
French-Canadians and Kahnawake Iroquois both struggle to define their identities in a rapidly changing Lower Canadian environment.
3 years 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 als…
3 years 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.
3 years 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.
3 years 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.
3 years, 1 month 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 …
3 years, 1 month 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.
3 years, 1 month 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 inhospi…
3 years, 1 month 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 cen…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 121: The Red River Colony
The rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company reaches new heights, as the HBC plants a colony right in the middle of the NWC…
3 years, 2 months ago