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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, 4 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.
3 years, 5 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 …
3 years, 5 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.
3 years, 5 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 inhospi…
3 years, 5 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 cen…
3 years, 5 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, 6 months ago
Episode 120: Peace
After failing to achieve much of anything on the battlefield, Britain and the United States bring their costly misadventure to an end at the negotiat…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 119: Breaking the Stalemate
In 1814, as political pressure to end the war builds in both the United States and Britain, each side makes one last bid to end the stalemate on the …
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 118: The King of the Woods
The second half of 1813 sees the two most important battles of the war, from the perspective of Canadian history. Not coincidentally, British soldier…
3 years, 6 months ago