NationsOfCanada

A narrative history of Canada from its initial inhabitants to the present day.

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Catch up on episodes at the Nations of Canada Podcast website

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Episode 326: Strangers to Each Other

1920. For the first time the indigenous nations of Canada band together in a country-wide organization and spur a national debate on the Indian Act.

https://t.co/ENyw8I4oeI

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Episode 325: They Gave Their Bodies as Bulwarks

1920. Japanese-Canadian veterans return from the war determined that their sacrifices count for something - specifically, the right to vote in Canadian elections.

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Episode 324: The Syndicate

1920. Two British Columbian brothers revolutionize hockey, bringing the eastern game into the modern age.

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Bonus Episode 30

Canada's largest agricultural drainage project; a settlement program funded by the Netherlands government; a devastating hurricane; and an immigration agreement with Portugal combine to create Ontario's most fertile farming region.

https://t.co/DlrjS8rJbq

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Episode 323: Turnover

1920. With Canada's two-party system seemingly under threat, both the Liberals and the Conservatives (Union) contemplate new leadership.

https://t.co/mH2eRwO1i6

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Episode 322: To Cleanse the Whole Public Life of Canada

October 1919. Dissatisfied with the traditional Liberal and Conservative parties, the farmers and workers of Ontario unite to form a novel kind of provincial government.

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Episode 321: Reconstruction

1919-1920. Politicians and business leaders attempt to manage Canada's transition to a peacetime economy, but discover the task far more challenging than they anticipated.

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Episode 320: A Nation of the World

1919-1920. Canadian delegates gather in Paris for the greatest diplomatic conference in history, determined to win recognition of their nation's status on the international stage.

https://t.co/5gYWYBhoQ3

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Episode 319: Sedition and Conspiracy

1919-1920. In a series of trials the federal government attempts to fashion a narrative of what happened in Winnipeg in the spring of 1919.

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Bonus Episode 29

How alcohol imports from the American colonies created Newfoundland (and in a sense, created New England).

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Episode 318: By Authority of the Strike Committee

Spring 1919. Months of mounting tension culminates in a general strike in Winnipeg - the outcome of which could re-shape post-war Canada.

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Episode 317: There is No Alien But the Capitalist

May 1919. Labour unrest in Winnipeg spills over into the largest strike in Canadian history to that point, threatening the status quo throughout the country.

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Episode 316: Dismal Times

1919. Before Canadians can recover from the trauma of war, a deadly pandemic reaches the nation's shores.

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Episode 315: A Minimum of Sentiment

1919. The Canadian government faces the daunting task of transporting 260,000 soldiers across the Atlantic and re-incorporating them into a rapidly changing domestic society and economy.

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Bonus Episode 28

Canadian bicyclists and a Frenchman living in Edmonton invent modern warfare.

https://t.co/cB6g4QN2VA

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Episode 314: Vladdy

1918-1919. Determined to tackle the forces of international revolution head on, Canada leads an imperial military expedition to Siberia.

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Episode 313: Crisis

1919. As the war comes to an end Canada faces a threat just as grave at home - international revolution.

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Episode 312: The Privileges of Civilized Warfare

1919: Indigenous veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force return home to find that the freedom and democracy they fought for in Europe is not much in evidence in Canada.

https://t.co/ZxgpoUW1O9

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Episode 311: The Edge of the Unknown

1918. Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson returns from five years in the Canadian arctic with a new vision for 20th century geopolitics - with the far north at the centre of it.

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Bonus Episode 27

Robert Flaherty travels into the Canadian arctic in search of exploitable iron deposits, and returns south the pioneer of a new genre of filmmaking.

https://t.co/KJdW664lXo