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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 …
9 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…
9 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 Ja…
9 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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9 months, 4 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 re…
10 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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10 months, 1 week ago
Episode 261: A Temple of Energy
1905. After more than thirty years of Liberal rule in Ontario, a new Conservative government makes a splash by re-writing the rules of the hydroelect…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 260: Cobalt
1905. A railway construction boom couples with a global arms race to unlock the economic potential of northern Ontario's mineral deposits.
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10 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 259: Something for Nothing
1905. Under pressure from prospectors, the Hudson's Bay Company, and Ojibwe and Cree groups, the federal and Ontario governments put aside their diff…
11 months ago
Episode 258: Buffalo
1905. Alberta and Saskatchewan join Canada as the eighth and ninth provinces, sparking a fresh round of contentious debates over minority rights, and…
11 months, 1 week ago