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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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1 year, 5 months 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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1 year, 5 months 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 th…
1 year, 6 months 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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1 year, 6 months 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 i…
1 year, 6 months 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 n…
1 year, 6 months ago
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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1 year, 7 months 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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1 year, 7 months 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, a…
1 year, 7 months 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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