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Episode 271: Strangers Within Our Gates
1909. Canadians grapple with the implications of large scale migration from continental Europe, and begin a long-running debate on how so-called "New Canadians" fit into the national story.
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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Episode 270: Lord Beaverbrook
1909. A hustler from New Brunswick exemplifies a novel class of stock brokers and promoters who transform Canada's financial environment, and usher in a new era of industrial consolidation and econom…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 269: Degraded by Yankee Professionalism
1908. In southwestern Ontario, oilmen, brewers, and cabinet-makers forge a complicated relationship with a different nation-defining sport - baseball.
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Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 268: The Athletic War
1908. From Montreal and Toronto, to the mines of Timiskaming and old Rat Portage, Canadians battle over the soul of the nation's most important institution - hockey.
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Published on 3 months ago
Episode 267: Our Nationalism is Canadian Nationalism
1908. Disillusioned with Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal party, a group of French Canadians commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Quebec by mapping out a new kind of Canadian nationalism.
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Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 266: A Canadian Diplomat
1908. In the aftermath of the Vancouver anti-Asian race riot, Canadian officials visit Tokyo, Washington, London, Bombay, Shanghai, and Beijing - in the process, crafting a position for Canada on th…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 265: A White Man's Country
September 1907: An anti-Asian race riot in Vancouver thrusts Canada into the centre of a multi-faceted trans-Pacific geopolitical puzzle involving Japan, Britain, the United States, and India.
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Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 264: Bell Canada
1907. A new technology sparks national debates about public utilities, labour relations, and gender.
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Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 263: The Killing Winter
1906-1907. A coal miner's strike in southern Alberta restricts the supply of fuel on the prairies, just as the region enters the coldest winter on record.
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Published on 4 months ago
Episode 262: Another Railroad or Two
1906. Hoping to encourage a national railroad to rival the Tory-aligned CPR, Liberal Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier gets more than he bargained for.
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Published on 4 months, 1 week ago