The Nations of Canada
History Podcasts
A narrative history of Canada from its first inhabitants to the present day.
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Location:
United States
Genres:
History Podcasts
Description:
A narrative history of Canada from its first inhabitants to the present day. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Language:
English
Episodes
Episode 242: Bonanza
4/16/2025
A gold find, this time in the sub-arctic Yukon, once again transforms Canada's Pacific region. But if the rush promises prosperity, it also brings political, diplomatic, and humanitarian challenges.
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Duration:00:43:23
Episode 241: The Last Best West
4/9/2025
After decades of constitutional reform and millions spent on railway construction, the Canadian confederation finally fulfills its economic potential thanks to technological developments in the flour and paint-making industries.
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Duration:00:36:09
Episode 240: Sunny Ways
4/2/2025
Liberal leader Wilfrid Laurier ends a generation of Conservative rule through a canny combination of optimism and opportunism.
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Duration:00:40:14
Episode 239: A Nest of Traitors
3/26/2025
A series of Conservative Prime Ministers struggle to hold together the party that the late John A. Macdonald spent his career building.
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Duration:00:38:44
Episode 238: Our Darkest Hour
3/19/2025
A devastating fire in St. John's, and a comprehensive financial meltdown threaten the very existence of Newfoundland as a self-governing colony.
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Duration:00:37:02
Episode 237: We Are Lonesome
3/12/2025
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 years - Indian Residential Schools.
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Duration:00:38:13
Episode 236: A Continent on the Moon
3/5/2025
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 frontier will ever fulfill its potential.
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Duration:00:37:39
Episode 235: Lord Stanley's Cup
2/26/2025
In the wake of a divisive federal election, and in the face of bullying economic policies emanating from Washington, the Governor General turns to hockey as a unifying force in Canada.
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Duration:00:37:02
Episode 234: The Day of Small Things Was Passed
2/19/2025
Canada's Christians take their reforming zeal abroad to Asia, establishing the trans-Pacific links that Canadian politicians and businessmen have thus far failed to achieve.
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Duration:00:39:27
Episode 233: Toronto the Good
2/12/2025
Ambitious to overtake Montreal as Canada's first city, Toronto grapples with its dual self-proclaimed identities as the nation's economic engine, and its moral compass.
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Duration:00:41:42
Episode 232: The Old Leader
2/5/2025
With fresh tariffs and loose talk about annexation emanating from Washington, an ageing John A. Macdonald carries the banner of Canadian nationalism into one last election.
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Duration:00:42:08
Episode 231: The Feelings of an Outraged People
1/29/2025
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 destiny.
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Duration:00:37:50
Episode 230: A Community of Language
1/22/2025
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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Duration:00:36:21
Episode 229: This Bastard Nationality
1/15/2025
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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Duration:00:41:50
Episode 228: The Wrong of '67
1/8/2025
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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Duration:00:41:31
Episode 227: The Knights of Labor
1/1/2025
A new wave of labour unrest hits Canada, culminating in a battle over Toronto's public transit.
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Duration:00:44:43
Episode 226: Made One People By the Road
12/25/2024
The Canadian Pacific Railway completes its trans-continental line, revolutionizing the economy, demographics, and politics of British Columbia
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Duration:00:43:31
Episode 225: A Vaccine More than Suspect
12/18/2024
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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Duration:00:41:44
Episode 224: The Regina Trials
12/11/2024
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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Duration:00:43:05
Episode 223: A Human Hornet's Nest
12/4/2024
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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Duration:00:49:42