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A narrative history of Canada from its first inhabitants to the present day.
1917. After touring the battlefield at Vimy, Prime Minister Robert Borden determines that conscription is necessary to maintain the Canadian...
Spring 1917. All four divisions of the Canadian Corps work together for the first time, demonstrating a distinctively Canadian approach to t...
1916 Faced with war-time budget cuts, the Commissioner of Canada's National Parks system, James Harkin, sees an opportunity in labour provid...
1916. The residents of Berlin, Ontario face the challenge of being German-Canadians in a nation mobilized for war against Germany. Become a...
1916. After two years (and intense study of battlefield conditions), the Canadian Expeditionary Force begins its evolution from colonial aux...
1916. The Newfoundland Regiment finds itself at the centre of the worst day in the history of the British Army. Become a supporter of this p...
1916. As the Canadian Expeditionary Force matures, its soldiers, officers, and (eventually) the politicians back in Ottawa come to realize i...
1915. A group of writers, journalists and activists based in Winnipeg, score the first victory for Canada's women's suffrage movement. Becom...
The Canadian economy, still reeling from a post-war recession, struggles to meet the production total war demands. Become a supporter of thi...
Spring 1915. The Canadian government grapples with the fact that over 100,000 residents in the country are foreign nationals, native to coun...
Spring 1915. The Canadian Expeditionary Force prepares for its first battle outside the Belgian city of Ypres, where, unbeknownst to the Can...
Summer 1914. Canadians prepare for a war far from their shores, that will nevertheless change their lives forever. Become a supporter of thi...
1867-1914. How did we get here? Where are we going next? Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of...
Summer 1914. Ireland teeters on the brink of civil war, re-opening old sectarian divisions in Canada. Become a supporter of this podcast: ht...
1914. A Sikh businessman charters a Japanese passenger liner to test Canada's anti-Asian immigration laws, while anxious British officials a...
1914. In India, the British government attempts to convince a growing independence movement that Indians enjoy all the benefits of subjectho...
Spring 1914. A disastrous seal hunt raises questions about the growing social and economic inequalities of an industrializing Newfoundland....
1913. Over a decade of consistent economic growth comes to an end, souring relations between Ottawa and the provinces, and forcing the milit...
1912. Robert Borden finds that his broad coalition (which was so successful on the campaign trail) makes for an unruly government. Especiall...
1912. New regulations on the use of French in Ontario public schools galvanizes the province's growing francophone population and sets off a...
1911. A panic over black settlers moving into western Canada sparks a heated debate on Canada's immigration laws, and the country's racial p...
September 1911. An unlikely partnership of conservative imperialists and French Canadian nationalists bring an end to Wilfrid Laurier's fift...
1911. Desperate for a distraction from the Navy Question, Wilfrid Laurier is presented with a golden opportunity to fulfill a decades-long a...
1911. A damning report from a public health official sparks a national conversation on the future of the Indian Residential Schools program....
As a growing pile of Canadian capital seeks new investment opportunities, a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, and corporate lawyers descend...
1910. When Britain calls on Canada to help fund its naval arms race with Germany, Wilfrid Laurier faces his greatest political test since th...
1910. Disillusioned with the governance provided by the elites of St. John's, Newfoundland's outport fishermen form their own political and...
1910. Nova Scotia enters the industrial age with ambitions to become an international steel-making power. However, by extension, the provinc...
1909. Canadians grapple with the implications of large scale migration from continental Europe, and begin a long-running debate on how so-ca...
1909. A hustler from New Brunswick exemplifies a novel class of stock brokers and promoters who transform Canada's financial environment, an...
1908. In southwestern Ontario, oilmen, brewers, and cabinet-makers forge a complicated relationship with a different nation-defining sport -...
1908. From Montreal and Toronto, to the mines of Timiskaming and old Rat Portage, Canadians battle over the soul of the nation's most import...
1908. Disillusioned with Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal party, a group of French Canadians commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Q...
1908. In the aftermath of the Vancouver anti-Asian race riot, Canadian officials visit Tokyo, Washington, London, Bombay, Shanghai, and Beij...
September 1907: An anti-Asian race riot in Vancouver thrusts Canada into the centre of a multi-faceted trans-Pacific geopolitical puzzle inv...
1907. A new technology sparks national debates about public utilities, labour relations, and gender. Become a supporter of this podcast: htt...
1906-1907. A coal miner's strike in southern Alberta restricts the supply of fuel on the prairies, just as the region enters the coldest win...
1906. Hoping to encourage a national railroad to rival the Tory-aligned CPR, Liberal Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier gets more than he bargai...
1905. After more than thirty years of Liberal rule in Ontario, a new Conservative government makes a splash by re-writing the rules of the h...
1905. A railway construction boom couples with a global arms race to unlock the economic potential of northern Ontario's mineral deposits. B...
1905. Under pressure from prospectors, the Hudson's Bay Company, and Ojibwe and Cree groups, the federal and Ontario governments put aside t...
1905. Alberta and Saskatchewan join Canada as the eighth and ninth provinces, sparking a fresh round of contentious debates over minority ri...
1903. In the wake of the Alaska border dispute, Canada looks to strengthen its claims on the islands off its northern coast, in the Arctic O...
1903. Canada disputes American territorial claims in the Alaskan panhandle, in the hope/expectation that recent sacrifices in South Africa w...
1902. In the aftermath of the Boer War, delegates from the settler Dominions gather in London to discuss the future of the Empire - only to...
1901-1902 Canadian soldiers find themselves in a Boer War that has turned into a brutally modern counter-insurgency. Meanwhile, a group of C...
Montreal's school system, delicately balanced between the city's Catholic and Protestant communities struggles to accommodate the arrival of...
As the Fraser River fishery prepares for the largest salmon run in its history, tensions rise between its labour force of white, indigenous,...
The indigenous nations of the prairies attempt to reap the benefits of the western wheat boom, but find their work obstructed by interferenc...
The rise of the Canadian west attracts a new type of migrant-settler from continental Europe, establishing new communities in Canada - none...