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Episode 231: The Feelings of an Outraged People
The burden of railway debt forces Newfoundland to contemplate joining the Canadian confederation, until a patriot emerges, calling on Newfoundlanders to believe in themselves and their national desti…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 230: A Community of Language
A bill to excise the French language from Manitoba's government and schools sparks a debate on what kind of nation Canada is.
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Published on 11 months ago
Episode 229: This Bastard Nationality
The passage of a bill regarding the Jesuit Order in Quebec's legislature sparks a heated debate on the kind of nation Canadians have been building since confederation.
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Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
Episode 228: The Wrong of '67
The new premier of Quebec, Honore Mercier, hosts his colleagues from across the country as they fashion a constitutional program that puts the provinces, not Ottawa, at the centre of confederation.
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Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 227: The Knights of Labor
A new wave of labour unrest hits Canada, culminating in a battle over Toronto's public transit.
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Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 226: Made One People By the Road
The Canadian Pacific Railway completes its trans-continental line, revolutionizing the economy, demographics, and politics of British Columbia
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Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 225: A Vaccine More than Suspect
A public health crisis in Montreal spins out of control, the product of mistrust between the mostly Protestant, Anglophone municipal officials and the French Catholic population of the city.
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Published on 1 year ago
Episode 224: The Regina Trials
In the aftermath of the fighting, the meaning and legacy of 1885 is determined in a series of trials in Regina.
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Published on 1 year ago
Episode 223: A Human Hornet's Nest
The Canadian militia arrives in the northwest to suppress a Metis rebellion, but finds the situation there more complicated than anyone in the east imagined.
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Published on 1 year ago
Episode 222: They Have Taken My Name Away From Me
While the Canadian government organizes a military response, and the Metis provisional government contemplates its next move, the initiative in the northwest passes to the Cree chiefs of Treaty Six t…
Published on 1 year ago