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Episode 278: A Parting of the Ways
September 1911. An unlikely partnership of conservative imperialists and French Canadian nationalists bring an end to Wilfrid Laurier's fifteen-year…
9 months ago
Episode 277: Reciprocity 2.0
1911. Desperate for a distraction from the Navy Question, Wilfrid Laurier is presented with a golden opportunity to fulfill a decades-long ambition b…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 276: A Situation Disgraceful to the Country
1911. A damning report from a public health official sparks a national conversation on the future of the Indian Residential Schools program.
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9 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 275: Fiasco Canadense
As a growing pile of Canadian capital seeks new investment opportunities, a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, and corporate lawyers descend on the f…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 274: A Tin Pot Navy
1910. When Britain calls on Canada to help fund its naval arms race with Germany, Wilfrid Laurier faces his greatest political test since the Boer W…
10 months ago
Episode 273: The Fishermen's Advocate
1910. Disillusioned with the governance provided by the elites of St. John's, Newfoundland's outport fishermen form their own political and social mo…
10 months, 1 week ago
Episode 272: Coal and Steel
1910. Nova Scotia enters the industrial age with ambitions to become an international steel-making power. However, by extension, the province also e…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
10 months, 3 weeks 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 i…
11 months 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…
11 months, 1 week ago