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A narrative history of Canada from its first inhabitants to the present day.
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9 SEP 2020 · An introduction to the project - a history of Canada
9 SEP 2020 · The last ice age ends, and humans follow the receding glaciers into Canada.
16 SEP 2020 · Inter-continental migrations from east and west meet in the far north of Canada.
23 SEP 2020 · Agriculture comes to the Great Lakes region, sparking an economic, political, and social revolution.
30 SEP 2020 · Fishermen out of Bristol follow cod across the Atlantic, and find an entire continent.
7 OCT 2020 · Seeking a passage to the orient, a French explorer investigates reports of open sea to the west of Newfoundland.
14 OCT 2020 · Jacques Cartier returns to Canada, this time intent on building the first permanent European settlement since the Norse period.
21 OCT 2020 · While the French abandon their colonization effort on the St. Lawrence, Canada's Atlantic coast plays host to a meeting of cultures from either side of the Atlantic.
28 OCT 2020 · England takes its turn attempting to colonize Canada, choosing as its destination the inhospitable arctic.
4 NOV 2020 · Europeans are suddenly drawn to Canadian fur. Meanwhile, the Upper St. Lawrence undergoes a cataclysmic change.
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15 MAY 2024 · The first monthly bonus episode, wherein we travel to Orangeville, and find out whether peanut butter could deliver world peace in the 1930s.
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15 JUN 2024 · In the second bonus episode for Supporters we examine the struggle for a French high school in a northern mill town; the life of trans-Atlantic financier John Rose; and Premier of Ontario James Whitney tells us what he really thinks of Americans.
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15 JUL 2024 · The LCBO does its part in the national struggle against Hitler; and a Canadian woman seeks to revolutionize Japanese cuisine.
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15 AUG 2024 · In 1914, Canadian soldiers sail overseas to fulfill a noble mission - bringing baseball to Europe; and after the war, Canadian railway companies find an innovative way to bring schools to northern Ontario.
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15 SEP 2024 · The latest bonus episode tracks Canada's contributions to the Allied war effort during the Second World War, from the construction of a prototype for the largest naval vessel ever imagined, to cornering the global market for an artificial food flavouring.Â
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15 OCT 2024 · Canadian officials travel to Argentina in search of migrants to found a Welsh colony on the prairies, and Maritime lobstermen re-shape the European alliance system in the run up to the First World War.Â
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15 NOV 2024 · A group of Finnish utopians found an experimental commune off of Vancouver Island, and Winnipeg falls to Nazi panzers in the winter of 1942.
A narrative history of Canada from its first inhabitants to the present day.
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| Author | Greg Koabel |
| Organization | Greg Koabel |
| Categories | History |
| Website | - |
| nationsofcanadapodcast@gmail.com |
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