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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 insti…
11 months, 2 weeks 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 …
11 months, 3 weeks 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…
11 months, 4 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…
1 year ago
Episode 264: Bell Canada
1907. A new technology sparks national debates about public utilities, labour relations, and gender.
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1 year 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…
1 year 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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1 year 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…
1 year, 1 month 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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1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month ago