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Episode 237: We Are Lonesome
In an effort to speed indigenous assimilation, the federal government turns to a new program that will define its Indian policy for the next seventy …
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 236: A Continent on the Moon
Twenty-five years after the Hudson's Bay Company land purchase, and ten years after the CPR, impatient Canadians begin to wonder if the northwestern …
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 235: Lord Stanley's Cup
In the wake of a divisive federal election, and in the face of bullying economic policies emanating from Washington, the Governor General turns to ho…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 234: The Day of Small Things Was Passed
Canada's Christians take their reforming zeal abroad to Asia, establishing the trans-Pacific links that Canadian politicians and businessmen have thu…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 233: Toronto the Good
Ambitious to overtake Montreal as Canada's first city, Toronto grapples with its dual self-proclaimed identities as the nation's economic engine, and…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 232: The Old Leader
With fresh tariffs and loose talk about annexation emanating from Washington, an ageing John A. Macdonald carries the banner of Canadian nationalism …
1 year, 4 months ago
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…
1 year, 4 months 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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1 year, 5 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 si…
1 year, 5 months 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 provin…
1 year, 5 months ago