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The Canadian History Podcast. A narrative audio history of Canada from the 1830s to 1885. Season One covers the Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 and the fights over Responsible Government in the...
This week Anne McDonald joins the pod to talk about her book Miss Confederation: The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles. The diary is one of the very...
Late in the night on an Ottawa street someone snuck up behind Thomas D'Arcy McGee and shot him dead. We're back with David Wilson this week...
This week we kick off our bonus interview episodes by welcoming University of Toronto professor David Wilson to talk about everyone's favour...
The final episode of Season 2 answers all the big questions about Confederation: What just happened? Why? And - my favourite - so what? We r...
It's time to get Confederation done - but only after completing our trilogy of constitutional conferences, this one in London just before Ch...
The Fenians are back at it this week - threatening to raid New Brunswick and then (for real) attacking along the Niagara frontier. Arthur Go...
The radical Irish republicans are coming and they're going to scare British North Americans into a confederation. This week we learn all abo...
We time travel back one month earlier to February 1865 when everyone in Canada wanted to give a speech. And so they did. Canadians debated C...
Early 1865 is a bad time for supporters of Confederation in British North America. Joseph Howe is back - and he is penning scathing attacks...
This week we catch up on the activities of a posse of Confederate soldiers who decide that the best way to fight their war with the American...
We are heading to Quebec this week to drink more champagne, dance the night away, and spend hour after hour in conference meetings. There wi...
We're off on board the Canadian steamer Queen Victoria this week as the Canadians crash the Maritime Union party at Charlottetown. We'll dri...
Southern Confederate pirates bring the American civil war into Nova Scotian waters and we meet the pugnacious Charles Tupper who isn't afrai...
This week we begin in utter confusion - trying to figure out just exactly when New Brunswick achieved responsible government. There is, thou...
A London lottery creates more than 100 years of grumbling conflict on Prince Edward Island. We meet William Cooper who comes up with a too c...
We're in Newfoundland this week so we are of course talking cod - and seals. But we also have a violent election in 1861 that involved an in...
George Brown takes a British holiday and falls in love. He comes back a changed man - sort of. In Canada, it's another round of wack-a-mole...
A drunken John A Macdonald and his government collapse over their plan to bolster Canadian defence in the midst of the American civil war. T...
The Americans decide to fight a civil war over slavery and Britain and British North America discover that this is going to shape their futu...
Queen Victoria sends her teenage son (and aristocratic chaperone, the Duke of Newcastle) on a North American tour and the Canadians get a li...
In one of the quirkiest episodes of Canadian political history John A Macdonald and George Etienne Cartier perform a political two-step to a...
John A Macdonald asks the Queen a favour. Thomas D'Arcy McGee arrives in the country, wonders which gang he should join, and then almost bec...
This week it's murder, mayhem, and controversy in the fallout from the murder of Robert Corrigan, an Irish Protestant tough guy who met a da...
The ornery and handsome George Brown is joined today by his nemesis - and later frenemy - John A Macdonald. The new Tory government gets thi...
This week we're introduced to the handsome George Brown, the fervent and ornery Reformer who inspired both love and hate. Two former friends...
This week we revisit some old friends - William Lyon Mackenzie, Robert Baldwin, and Louis Lafontaine - and meet a new one - William McDougal...
We're back with Season Two of 1867 & All That and we're starting (where else?) with yet another riot. This time it's the controversial ex-pr...
This week we are at the end of Season One and we do our best to figure what just happened. What was responsible government? Why did it emerg...
Louis Lafontaine proposes the Rebellion Losses Bill into the Canadian parliament and things get ugly. A mob burns parliament; Montreal is tu...
The potato blight arrives and disaster does too. It's time for coffin ships, disease, and economic strife as a new Governor General - Lord E...
Lord Sydenham takes a summer work-cation in Nova Scotia and leaves a political system. Joseph Howe joins a coalition government and then fal...
Fresh from his libel trial, Joseph Howe gets himself elected to the Nova Scotian Assembly. And then he makes himself even more famous by doi...
We are in Nova Scotia this week (and for the next two weeks) so it's rewind time as we (briefly) catch up on things like the Acadian expulsi...
Governor General Charles Metcalfe tries to keep a government going - fending off nice insults like 'Old Square Toes' - while Reformers try t...
The Canadas have a new Governor General and this one comes with a cancerous tumour that is going to - yet again - limit his time on this pla...
The new Governor General Charles Bagot decides to ask for forgiveness and not permission. And this means we have a government - sort of - co...
It all starts with a letter from Francis Hincks to Louis Lafontaine. But soon Robert Baldwin is getting in on the action and then the Reform...
It is early 1841 and the Canada's have been officially joined together. Now Lord Sydenham has to find someway of making the shotgun marriage...
How did we go from loyalist victory in the rebellions to loyalist anger in the Rebellion Losses Bill mob riot in 1849? When did winning look...
The Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 are finally over. Houses have burned; Governors General have come and gone; rebels have fled, been imprisone...
The secret Hunters Lodges come out of hiding and launch attacks in the autumn of 1838 and General Colborne, and especially the loyalist mili...
Winter extends from 1837 to 1838 and the rebels in exile try to turn around their fortunes. William Lyon Mackenzie captures an island. Canad...
A Swiss-born revolutionary stirs things up in an already pretty agitated region of rebellion west of Montreal. Things turn pretty dire for t...
The regular troops have left Upper Canada to go help put down rebellion in Lower Canada and that gives William Lyon Mackenzie an idea. Well,...
An intercepted letter proves fateful to the fate of rebellion. And the remaining British force in the Richelieu valley heads toward (and not...
The Rebellion in Lower Canada is absolutely underway this week - the Patriotes leaders flee Montreal; the habitants fortify local stronghold...
It's the summer of 1837 and Lower Canada is in turmoil - horses are losing their tails, effigies are burning, the charivari has turned polit...
A special bonus episode from our sister podcast Cool Canadian History. You can - and should! - subscribe to more than one Canadian history p...
From 1834 to 1836 reformers in both colonies move from hope to anger as two new governors, in their very different ways, prove to not be wha...
In Upper Canada a fiery reformer named William Lyon Mackenzie shows that anger at the political system can flourish even amongst supposedly...