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Episode 221: Duck Lake
The mounting tension in the Northwest is finally released, as violence breaks out between the Northwest Mounted Police and a group of Metis.
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Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 220: The Land of the Pharaohs
With a crisis brewing on the Nile, the British Army turns to the most celebrated river pilots in the Empire - Canadian voyageurs.
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Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 219: Heart and Memory
On the one hundred year anniversary of the loyalist migrations, Canadians contemplate their historical identity, their place in the British Empire, and a possible expansion into the Caribbean.
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Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 218: The More Wretched They Will Become
Facing famine, and a decade of unfulfilled promises, indigenous leaders on the prairies seek out new forms of political organization.
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Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 217: History Repeating Itself
Fifteen years after the bungled expansion to the Red River, Ottawa risks making the same mistake in the northwest - ignoring the reality of the peoples residing there.
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Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 216: Empire Ontario
John A. Macdonald finally meets his match, in Oliver Mowat, the Liberal Premier of Ontario.
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Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 215: Engineering Impossibilities
Canada learns that building a transcontinental railway line is as much an exercise in politics as it is engineering.
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Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 214: Strategic Indifference
Kahnawake becomes a testing ground for a new form of indigenous government crafted in Ottawa.
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Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 213: Help Them Feed Them or Fight Them
Having completed its treaty-making campaign on the prairies, the federal government finds that treaty implementation is as challenging as treaty negotiations.
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Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 212: The National Policy
John A. Macdonald makes his triumphant return to power on the back of an ambitious plan to save the Canadian economy through tariffs and rapid railroad construction.
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Published on 1 year, 3 months ago