Episodes

  • Episode 228: The Wrong of '67

    Episode 228: The Wrong of '67
    Jan 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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    42 mins
  • Episode 227: The Knights of Labor

    Episode 227: The Knights of Labor
    Jan 1 2025
    A new wave of labour unrest hits Canada, culminating in a battle over Toronto's public transit.

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    45 mins
  • Episode 226: Made One People By the Road

    Episode 226: Made One People By the Road
    Dec 25 2024
    The Canadian Pacific Railway completes its trans-continental line, revolutionizing the economy, demographics, and politics of British Columbia

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    44 mins
  • Episode 225: A Vaccine More than Suspect

    Episode 225: A Vaccine More than Suspect
    Dec 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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    42 mins
  • Episode 224: The Regina Trials

    Episode 224: The Regina Trials
    Dec 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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    43 mins
  • Episode 223: A Human Hornet's Nest

    Episode 223: A Human Hornet's Nest
    Dec 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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    50 mins
  • Episode 222: They Have Taken My Name Away From Me

    Episode 222: They Have Taken My Name Away From Me
    Nov 27 2024
    While the Canadian government organizes a military response, and the Metis provisional government contemplates its next move, the initiative in the northwest passes to the Cree chiefs of Treaty Six territory, especially Poundmaker and Big Bear.

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    42 mins
  • Episode 221: Duck Lake

    Episode 221: Duck Lake
    Nov 20 2024
    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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    48 mins