Episodes

  • Episode 212: The National Policy

    Episode 212: The National Policy
    Sep 18 2024
    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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    47 mins
  • Episode 211: All Things are Possible

    Episode 211: All Things are Possible
    Sep 11 2024
    Infused with national confidence after rejecting confederation, the government at St. John's seeks, for the first time, to exert its influence across all of Newfoundland.

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    36 mins
  • Episode 210: An Awful Dread of the Future

    Episode 210: An Awful Dread of the Future
    Sep 4 2024
    As Canadian negotiators seek to complete their treaty-making campaign on the prairies, they find the Blackfoot intent on coming to a different kind of settlement than their neighbours to the east.

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    37 mins
  • Episode: 209 - The Place Protected from Fire

    Episode: 209 - The Place Protected from Fire
    Aug 28 2024
    A group of Icelanders repeat the voyage of their ancestors almost 900 years earlier, and once again establish a colony in Canada - this time in Manitoba.

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    39 mins
  • Episode 208: Come Like Men and Talk to Us

    Episode 208: Come Like Men and Talk to Us
    Aug 21 2024
    The Canadian treaty campaign in the northwest begins its most important negotiations yet - for the surrender of Cree lands along the fertile belt of the North Saskatchewan River.

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    47 mins
  • Episode 207: The Field Game of Our Dominion

    Episode 207: The Field Game of Our Dominion
    Aug 14 2024
    A dentist from Montreal seeks to turn an indigenous game into a marker of Canadian national identity.

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    36 mins
  • Episode 206: A Medium Course

    Episode 206: A Medium Course
    Aug 7 2024
    After a generation of playing second fiddle to conservatives, liberals re-emerge in Quebec thanks to a new generation of leaders.

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    37 mins
  • Episode 205: Caraquet

    Episode 205: Caraquet
    Jul 31 2024
    A new education act in New Brunswick sets off protests within the province's Catholic minority, and sparks a resurgence in Acadian nationalism.

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    38 mins