EarlyStuartEnglandPodcast

A narrative history of 17th century England

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Episode 134: New Canadians

A new wave of migration from Britain alters the demographic landscape of the Canadas - and also brings with it a public health crisis.

https://t.co/bSFLyg86r8

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Episode 127: The Merger

The fur wars finally come to an end, and for the first time, a single company holds an uncontested monopoly in the northwest.

https://t.co/eWbD8aRckk

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Episode 125: A Despised and Insulted People

The whipping of two impoverished fishermen galvanizes popular opposition to the Royal Navy's rule over Newfoundland. The result is the first reform legislation in more than a century.

https://t.co/GZTdU4Pe3Y

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Episode 123: Opposed Abused and Cheated

The Royal Navy's emancipation policy produces a post-war migration of escaped slaves to Nova Scotia. The new arrivals find the colony just as inhospitable as the Black Loyalists had a generation earlier.

https://t.co/5q1czx1Kf7

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Episode 122: The Battle of Seven Oaks

With pitched battles, foreign mercenaries, and mass arrests, the fur trade reaches a state of conflict not seen since the Beaver Wars of the 17th century.

https://t.co/nEeWvDVvHV

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Episode 121: The Red River Colony

The rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company reaches new heights, as the HBC plants a colony right in the middle of the NWC supply network.

https://t.co/aIq9yYocAb

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Episode 120: Peace

After failing to achieve much of anything on the battlefield, Britain and the United States bring their costly misadventure to an end at the negotiating table.

https://t.co/FmseNfmGsJ

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Episode 119: Breaking the Stalemate

In 1814, as political pressure to end the war builds in both the United States and Britain, each side makes one last bid to end the stalemate on the battlefield.

https://t.co/CKv9NVpFHq

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Episode 118: The King of the Woods

The second half of 1813 sees the two most important battles of the war, from the perspective of Canadian history. Not coincidentally, British soldiers play a marginal role in the fighting.

https://t.co/sXmzWkGzoQ

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Episode 117: A Favourable Moment

1813 brings another invasion of Upper Canada, this time threatening to cut the colony in two.

https://t.co/zL17xWzdpJ

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Episode 116: Queenston Heights

After his victory at Detroit, Isaac Brock rushes to the Niagara border to meet a second invasion force.

https://t.co/67wdPfSAvT

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Episode 115: A Mere Matter of Marching

The War of 1812 begins with an invasion of western Upper Canada.

https://t.co/wFr1hYWocc

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Episode 114: War

Yet another diplomatic crisis strains Anglo-American relations. Only this time, neither side is able to prevent the descent into war.

https://t.co/akP0XdrPeZ

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Episode 113: The Hart Affair

After exhausting every other possible disagreement, French-Canadian reformers and Lower Canadian officials battle over the political and civil rights of Jewish Canadians.

https://t.co/vRdei60eMd

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Episode 112: The Race to the Pacific

Amid rising political tensions in North America, rival American and Canadian fur companies race to establish a base on the Pacific Ocean.

https://t.co/L9vNtmrWvZ

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Episode 111: Prince Edward Island

The British experiment with new methods of colonization on an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

https://t.co/vZ1LTJt5sy

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Episode 110: Affection to Animosity

A prolonged war-time boom propels Newfoundland towards self-sufficiency, while impatient Newfoundlanders wonder if Britain will ever recognize their existence.

https://t.co/9LDBvEkf8C

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Episode 109: Tecumseh and the Chesapeake

Simultaneous crises on the Atlantic and on the western frontier bring the United States and Britain closer to war than at any time since the Revolution.

https://t.co/IQ6oPCp155

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Episode 108: At High Romps

Upper Canada matures into a developed colony, complete with shipwrecks, murder, and drunken carriage rides up Yonge Street.

https://t.co/t0qGlZkb6t