Historia Canadiana - A Cultural History of Canada: Recent Episodes

Patrick & Mackenzy

A bi-weekly discussion that critically engages with literature, culture, and people that helped inform Canada's unique history. Hosted by two English Literature graduate students Patrick & Mackenzy. Named best podcast of all time by their mothers!

In which Patrick rides solo for a brief overview of Norman Bethune's rock n' roll life. --- Further Readings

Bock, Dennis. The Communist's Daughter, 2007.
Tse-Tung, Mao. "In Memory of Norman Bethune." December 21, 1939.

In which I talk to writer Christine Estima about her debut novel, Letters to Kafka. The novel conjures the voice of Milena Jesenská, the absent interlocutor to Franz Kafka's posthumously published Letters to Milena, in a vivid portrayal of a stifled intellectual whose spirit and ambition outpace the role of women in her time.

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After one year, we are hear to finish our exploration of the man who has widely been called the greatest PM of Canadian history. Of course we'll laugh at him!

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In which Patrick talks to Max Brault about The Race to the Starting Line, which details his public and private work as an accessibility activist, as well as his being one of the drivers of Canada's recent "Accessible Canada Act." You can find out more about Max and his book here! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

In which we talk about the creation of the Man of Steel and why he matters. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana)

In which Patrick reads from and raves about George Elliott Clarke's Whylah Falls while Mack is away. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana) --- Further Readings

Clarke, George Elliott. Whylah Falls, Polestar Press, 1990.

In which we discuss a largely forgotten early example of the Canadian modern/postmodern in Howard O'Hagan's 1939 novel, Tay John. Sorry for the delayed episode release, we all got caught up in other things.... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana) --- Further Readings

O'Hagan, Howard. Tay Tohn, New Canadian Library, 1939.

A discussion with Eve Lazarus about her new book, Beneath Dark Waters!

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In which we discuss how fascism has generally played out in Canada and why right wing movements today are different, all while Mack battles sleep live on the pod. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana) --- Further Readings

Allan, Ted. This Time A Better Earth, Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press, 2015 [1939].
Eco, Umberto. "Ur-Fascism," The New York Review of Books, 1995.

An interview with Tim Falconer about his new book, Windfall!

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In which we talk about one of the most influential poets in modern Quebec - who only published one collection in his lifetime! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana) --- Further Readings

Garneau, Saint-Denys. Complete poems of Saint Denys Garneau, Oberon Press, 1975.

In which Patrick talks to Karin Wells about her new book Women Who Woke Up the Law. You can find the book here or at your local bookstore! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

In which Patrick talks to Ruby Smith Díaz about her new book Searching for Seraphim: The Life and Legacy of Serafim 'Joe' Fortes. You can find the book here or at your local bookstore! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

In which we overview the story of the Black Nova Scotia once known as Africville, as well as briefly discussing Jeffrey Colvin's novel Africaville, which was inspired by the events. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana) --- Further Readings

Colvin, Jeffrey. Africaville: A Novel, HarperCollins, 2019.
McRae, Matthew. "The Story of Africville," Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Feb. 23, 2017.
Remember Africville. Directed by Shelagh Mackenzie, National Film Board, 1991.

In which Patrick talks to Tom Fraser about his new book Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against the Future. You can find the book here or at your local bookstore! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

In which we slowly unravel (you have been forewarned) as we talk about the absurdities of our contemporary relations to America... Check out our Patreon page for more episodes (that are slightly less stupid).

In which we talk about Quebec's 'grande noirceur' period (1939-1959) through its figurehead, Maurice Duplessis, and classic author Félix-Antoine Savard. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana) --- Sources/Further Reading

Jones, Richard. Duplessis and the union nationale administration, 1983.
Savard, Félix-Antoine. Menaud, maître draveur, 1937.

In which Patrick talks to Andrea Currie (Métis) about her new book Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves, a narrative that extends from Andrea's experience of being a Sixties Scoop survivor. Find the book here or at your local bookstore! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

In which Patrick talks to Thomas F. Pedersen (professor emeritus at the University of Victoria) about his new book The Carbon Tax Question: Clarifying Canada’s Most Consequential Policy Debate.--- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

In which Patrick sits down with Carolyn Roberts to discuss her new book on decolonial education practices and what exactly it means to 're-story' education. Find more about the book here or at your local bookstore! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

In which Patrick talks about Wayson Choy's beautiful novel The Jade Peony and how it portrays the lives of Chinese Canadians of the 1930s. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading

Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony, Douglas & McIntyre, 1995.
Deer, Glenn. An Interview with Wayson Choy. Canadian Literature 163, 1999, pp. 34–44.
Ty, Eleanor. “‘Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous’: Multiple Voices in Wayson Choyʹs The Jade Peony.” The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives, University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp. 116–34.

In which we discuss the time the Canadian government asked itself: 'wait... are [white] women people?' For real though... We compare that event to two P.K. Page poems. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading

Brandt, Gail, et al. Canadian Women: A History, 2011.
Hamilton, Sheryl. Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture, 2013.
Irvine, Dean J. Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916–1956, 2008.
Killian, Laura. “Poetry and the Modern Woman: P.K. Page and the Gender of Impersonality,” Canadian Literature 150, 1996, pp. 86–105.
Page. P.K. "After Rain" and "Nightmare".
Sharpe, Robert J. and Patricia I. McMahon. The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood, 2007.

In which Patrick talks to filmmaker and writer Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes) about his new book, Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir, which you can find here or at your local bookstore. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

In which we discuss the Prime Minister during the opening years of the Depression, and how he mostly struggled to keep things running... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading

Bowering, George. Egotists & Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin, 2000.
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MacLean, Andrew D. R.B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada. Excelsior Publishing, 1935
Ondaatje, Christopher. The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1867-1967. Canyon Press, 1967.
Werthman, William C., ed. Canada in Cartoon: A Pictorial History of the Confederation Years 1867-1967. Brunswick Press, 1967.

In which we discuss some of anti-capitalist responses to the Depression, like the creation of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the On-To-Ottawa Trek.

Discussed caricatures/images: On-To-Ottawa; "unemployement relief camps" --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Further Reading:

Baird, Irene. Waste Heritage, 1939.
The Regina Manifesto, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme, 1933.
Vanderhaeghe, Guy. “We’re All Right.” 2017

In which we channel our inner feelings and talk about The Great Depression, with the help of Jack Winter's play Ten Lost Years (1974). --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Further Reading

Winter, Jack. Ten Lost Years, Talonbooks, 2013.

Patrick sits down with activist Ellen Gabriel (Kanien’kehá:ka, Wakeniáhton) and historian Sean Carleton (University of Manitoba) to discuss their excellent new book When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance (released on Sept. 24). --- Find the book here or at your local bookstore. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory)

In which we talk about a Looney Toons episode happening in the Arctic - and a bit on another Rudy Wiebe novel!

Sorry about Patrick's mic quality - he didn't notice it was recording on a different device --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Further Reading

Wiebe, Rudy. The Mad Trapper, Calgary: Red Deer Press, 1980.

We somehow made a hundred of these bloody things! Why? Who knows? But, for the occasion, we started taking about WLMK, only the longest lasting PM ever. I think it's thanks to his dead mom's advice.

Find our ranking of the P.M.s so far here! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading

Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin Books, 2000.
Dawson, R. MacGregor. William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography. University of Toronto, 1958.
Scott, F. R. “W.L.M.K.” The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott, McClelland & Stewart, 1981, pp. 78–79.
Stacey, C.P. A Very Double Life: The Personal World of Mackenzie King, Macmillan, 1977

In which we discuss one of the most forgotten Prime Ministers in Canada's history: Arthur Meighen. He was a great politician, but... nobody cared and his ideas were outdated.

Find our ranking of the P.M.s so far here! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading

Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin Books, 2000.
Cartoon #1 - Conscription
Cartoon #2 - Wheat Board

In which we talk about modernism and its early days through a rag-tag group of McGill students who wanted to make poetry different. Many of them would go on to be quite famous in poetry and politics!

FYI: We're in a new Top 5! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading

Irvine, Dean. The Canadian Modernists Meet, University of Ottawa Press, 2005.
Norris, Ken. The little magazine in Canada, 1925–80, 1984.
New Provinces: Poems by Several Authors, Macmillan, 1936.

In which our heroes discuss the emergence of realism in Canada through an excited talk about two novels: Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese and F.P. Grove's Settlers of the Marsh - both coincidentally published in 1925. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading:

Grove, Frederick Philip. Settlers of the Marsh, McClelland and Stewart, 1925.
Ostenso, Martha. Wild Geese, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1925.

In which Patrick does a bit of a freewheeling talk about the early days of national radio broadcasting in Canada. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading:

Shea, Albert Aber. Broadcasting the Canadian Way, Harvest House, 1963.
Weir, E. Austin. The Struggle for National Broadcasting in Canada, McClelland and Stewart, 1965.

In which our heroes talk about Archibald Belaney, a.k.a. 'Grey Owl' - a British man who pretended to be an Indigenous eco-activist in the 1920s. He's... complicated... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading:

Belaney, Archibald [Grey Owl], Grey Owl: Three Complete and Unabridged Canadian Classics, Firefly Books, 2001.
Dickson, Lovat. Wilderness man: the strange story of Grey Owl, Abacus, 1976.
Ruffo, Armand Garnet. Grey Owl: the mystery of Archie Belaney, Regina: Coteau Books, 1996.
Smith, Donald B. From the land of shadows: the making of Grey Owl, Western Producer Prairie Books, 1990.

In which our heroes talk about the shockingly pervasive ideas about eugenics in the early 20th century and how they still pop up today. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) ---Sources/Further Reading:

Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973.
Dodd, Dianne. "eugenics." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Ludolph, Rebekah. “Exposing the Eugenic Reader: Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed and Settler Self-Education,” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 44, no. 2, 2019, pp. 101–120.
McLaren, Angus. Our Own Master Race: Eugenics In Canada, 1885-1945, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990.
Stote, Karen. An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women, Fernwood Publishing, 2015.

Patrick is moving after coming back from a conference, Mack is still reeling from the end of semester, so we vibed by doing quizzes on Canada and talking about news bits. Back to normal in the next episode!

In which Patrick talks with wildlife biologist Wayne McCrory about the beautiful - and surprisingly controversial - wild horses of the Chilcotin region. In this compelling book, McCrory draws upon two decades of research to make a case for considering these wonderful creatures, called qiyus in traditional Tŝilhqot’in culture, a resilient part of the area’s balanced prey-predator ecosystem. McCrory also chronicles the Chilcotin wild horses’ genetic history and significance to the Tŝilhqot’in, juxtaposing their efforts to protect qiyus against movements to cull them. Find the book here or at your local bookstore. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

In which we discuss the paintings and philosophy of the most famous group of painters in Canada's history -- with a short story by Margaret Atwood for good measure. Patrick also rants in the wake of Brian Mulroney's death, be warned... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading: * Atwood, Margaret. “Death by Landscape” * Maccallum, Reid. “The Group Of Seven: A Retrospect.” Imitation & Design and Other Essays, edited by William Blisseti, University of Toronto Press, 1953, pp. 162–69. * Murray, Joan. The best of the Group of Seven, Edmonton: Hurtig, 1984

In which Pat and Mack discuss who was once one of the most influential and powerful women in Hollywood history - an actress from Toronto! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading:

Brownlow, Kevin. Mary Pickford Rediscovered: Rare Pictures of a Hollywood Legend. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
Whitfield, Eileen. Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

In which Patrick lectures by himself about a poet whose work, Acanthus & Wild Grape, actively tried to bring Canadian poetry into the realm of modern sensibilities. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading

Avrum Malus, Diane Allard and Maria Van Sundert. “Frank Oliver Call, Eastern Townships Poetry, and the Modernist Movement,” Canadian Literature 107, 1985.
Call, Frank Oliver. Acanthus & Wild Grape, McClelland & Stewart, 1920.
Trehearne, Brian (editor). Canadian Poetry, 1920 to 1960, McClelland & Stewart, 2010.
Beattie, Munro. “Poetry: 1920-1935.” Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English (Second Edition) Volume II, edited by Alfred G. Bailey et al., University of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. 234–53.

In which Pop Canada returns to discuss Brendan Fraser, who has become one of the most acclaimed actors of the 21st century - and played in Encino Man, the greatest movie of all time.

Find the full episode (and more) on Patreon! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory).

In which Patrick talks alone in a microphone as Mack faces a cyclone! The show is going solo this week to talk a little about Japanese-Canadians and how Daphne Marlatt's Steveston interprets their history. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading * Marlatt, Daphne. Steveston, Ronsdale Press, 2001 [1974]. * Szabo-Jones, Lisa. “Matters of Poetics and Resiliency in Daphne Marlatt’s Steveston.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 25, no. 2, 2018, pp. 377–95 * Thompson, Paul. “Community History.” Oral History, vol. 4, no. 2, 1976, pp. 98-101.

In which Patrick sits down with historian Dustin Galer to discuss his new book, Beryl, which explores the life and times of the famous Canadian disability activist.

Find the book here or at your local bookstore. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory)

In which we unleash our anti-capitalist sides (again) to discuss how Marxism/communism was brought over into Canada, what it did and how it failed, as well as some lefty writers that sometimes are great and sometimes aren't.

Read some commie poems here! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading

Doyle, James. Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002.
Livesay, Dorothy. Day and Night, The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1944.
McKay, Ian. Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920, Between the Lines, 2008.
Naylor, James. The Fate of Labour Socialism: The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Dream of a Working-Class Future, University of Toronto Press, 2016.

Patrick sits down with playwright Meg Braem to discuss her play Flight Risk, "an empathetic exploration of grief, friendship, and hope, [which] asks what we lose when we ignore the knowledge of our elderly, challenges the way that we think about aging and death, and inspires a brighter, more compassionate future." Meg Braem is an Alberta-based playwright and dramaturg. Her plays have been nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award and have won the Alberta Literary Award for Drama, and the Alberta Playwriting Competition. Find the book here or at your local bookstore. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory)

In which we discuss the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike in relation to Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion (1987). We get unhinged as we discuss strike tactics, modernism/postmodernism, and Christmas. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading: * 1919: 100 Years Later. CBC, 2019. * Masters, Donald C. The Winnipeg General Strike, University of Toronto Press, 1950. * Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion, Vintage, 1987. * Spinks, Lee. “In the Skin of a Lion.” Michael Ondaatje, Manchester University Press, 2009, pp. 137–70.

In which Patrick talks to Governor General's Award winner katherena vermette to discuss how she brought Métis history to life through her comic series A Girl Called Echo.

Find the omnibus at your local bookstore or here. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory)

In which we bring back Covid-19 pandemic memories by discussing the Spanish Flu in Canada with the help of Kevin Kerr's excellent 2002 play Unity (1918). Sorry for having posted so little in November - it was pure and simple a scheduling mistake. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further Reading: * Budgell, Anne. We All Expected to Die: Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918-1919, ISER, 2018. * Darroch, Heidi Tiedemann. “The War at Home: Writing Influenza in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away” and Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918),” Canadian Literature 245, 2021, pp. 90-104. * Humphries, Mark Osborne. “Paths of Infection: The First World War and the Origins of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.” War in History, vol. 21, no. 1, 2014, pp. 55–81. * Kerr, Kevin. Unity 1918, Talonbooks, 2002.

In which two tired & sick boys try to talk coherently about Timothy Findley's major literary achievement: a reckoning with the reality of World War One in his seminal 1977 work The Wars. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further Reading * Brydon, Diana. “‘It could not be told’: making meaning in Timothy Findley’s The Wars,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 21, no. 2, 1986. * Findley, Timothy. The Wars, Penguin Modern Classics, 1977. * McKay, Ian, and Jamie Swift. The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War, 2016. * Novak, Dagmar. Dubious Glory: The Two World Wars and the Canadian Novel, New York: P. Lang, 2000.

There were some audio issues on Phil's end, but I think it's still listenable! Apologies. Patrick sits down with Phil Lind and Robert Brehl to discuss their new book Tales of an Unsung Sourdough: The Extraordinary Klondike Adventures of Johnny Lind.

Phil Lind is a recipient of the Order of Canada, and the vice-chair of Rogers Communications Inc. His co-author, Robert Brehl is an award-winning journalist and author of a previous collaboration with Lind, Right Hand Man.

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In which we discuss Hugh McLennan's pivotal 1941 book Barometer Rising and how it informs our understanding of World War 1 as it was experienced in Canada.--- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---Sources/Further Reading:

Mac Donald, Laura M. Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917, Walker & Company, 2005.
MacLennan, Hugh. Barometer Rising. McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
Morton, Desmond. “First World War.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Woodcock, George. Introducing Hugh Maclennan's Barometer Rising: A Reader's Guide. ECW Press, 1989.

In which we discuss and rank Canada's first wartime PM, Sir Robert Laird Borden!

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Bliss, Michael. Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney, Toronto: HarperCollins, 1994.
Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Minister of Canada. Penguin, 1999.
Cook, Tim. Warlords : Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada’s World Wars, Toronto: Allen Lane, 2012.

Mack is away this week, so enjoy another interview! Patrick sits down with Winnipeg documentarian and writer, Robert Lower (After the Big One: Nuclear War on the Prairies; Shameless Propaganda) to discuss his new book Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’s Scottish Colonists.

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In which Patrick has a long discussion with David Austin to discuss the re-release of Fear of a Black Nation. "Situating Canada within the Black radical tradition and its Caribbean radical counterpart, Fear of a Black Nation paints a history of Montreal and the Black activists who lived in, sojourned in, or visited the city and agitated for change. Drawing on Saidiya Hartman’s conception of slavery’s afterlife and what David Austin describes as biosexuality – a deeply embedded fear of Black self-organization and interracial solidarity – Fear of a Black Nation argues that the policing and surveillance of Black lives today is tied to the racial, including sexual, codes and practices and the discipline and punishment associated with slavery."

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In which we turn to a cornerstone of Quebec literature and talk about the pastoral! Written during the 1st World War, Maria Chapdelaine has become a must-read for Quebec literature students... but perhaps for the wrong reasons...

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Sources/Further Reading

Deschamps, Nicole. Le mythe de Maria Chapdelaine, Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1980.
[English] Hémon, Louis. Maria Chapdelaine, trans. by Thoreau MacDonald, Toronto: Macmillian, 1916 [1986].
Mezei, Kathy. “Quebec Fiction: In the Shadow of Maria Chapdelaine.” College English, vol. 50, no. 8, 1988, pp. 896–903.

In which we discuss a milestone in Canadian realism, Woodsmen of the West (1908). What does it tell us about the early logging industry, workers' rights, and masculinity? A lot actually!

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Further reading:

Dean, Misao. “The Construction of Masculinity in Martin Allerdale Grainger’s Woodsmen of the West.” Canadian Literature 149, 1996, pp. 74-87.
Endicott, Stephen Lyon. “Woodsmen of the West.” Raising the Workers’ Flag: The Workers’ Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936, University of Toronto Press, 2012, pp. 244–62.
Grainger, M. Allerdale, Woodsmen of the West, New Canadian Library, 1908 [1973].
Tippett, Maria. “Butchering the Garden of Eden: Martin Allerdale Grainger.” Made In British Columbia: Eight Ways Of Making Culture, Harbour Publishing, pp. 30-50.

In which we discuss legendary long-distance Indigenous runner Tom Longboat and try to simultaneously imagine what kind of cultural items could be made about him and his life! ---
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--- Further reading: * Forsyth, Janice Evelyn. Reclaiming Tom Longboat: Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport. University of Regina Press, 2020. * Hatfield, Philip J. “Colonialism’s Gaze: Representing the First Peoples in Canada.” Canada in the Frame: Copyright, Collections and the Image of Canada, 1895-1924, UCL Press, 2018, pp. 77–105. * Kidd, Bruce. “In Defence of Tom Longboat,” Sport History Review, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 34-63. * Kidd, Bruce. Tom Longboat, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1980.

In which Patrick sits down with Kristin Schwartz to discuss the new book she co-wrote: We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action. Kristin grew up with the Toronto chapter of ARA from 1992-2003, contributing to the long struggle against white supremacy. She went on to work in community radio and has produced several audio documentaries including Women: the Oppressed Majority (2016) The Ravaging of Africa (2007). Her writing has been published in Our Times, Canadian Dimension, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor and Labour/Le Travail.

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In which we talk about the idea of the Canadian "Wild West", a contender for the Billy the Kid title of Manitoba, and Dennis Cooley's Bloody Jack - all in one episode!

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Sources/Further Reading:

Cooley, Dennis. Bloody Jack, University of Alberta Press, 2002 [1984].
Gray, James. H. “On the Trail of Jack Krafchenko,” A Boy From Winnipeg, Macmillan, 1970, pp 75-86.
Stubbs, Andrew. “Accessing the Criminal Paradise in Dennis Cooley’s Bloody Jack and Other Outlaw Fictions,” Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem, ed. by Angela Robbeson and Frank Tierney, University of Ottawa Press, 1999, pp. 173-187.
Zeilig, Martin. “The Story of “Bloody Jack” Krafchenko,” Manitoba History 35, Spring 1998, pp. 15-20.

In which Patrick sits down with Ricardo Tranjan to talk about his new book, The Tenant Class. Ricardo is a political economist and senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Previously, Tranjan managed Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy and his current research is on the political economy of social policy in Canada. Ricardo holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo, where he was a Vanier Scholar.

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WE'RE BACK! This time, our heroes talk about The Northwest Passage, another Rudy Wiebe novel (A Discovery of Strangers), and the meaning of the Canadian North. Your heroes haven't spoken face-to-face in a bit, so bear with the jokes please. ---
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--- Sources/Further Reading: * Bottez, Monica. “Memory and Place in Rudy Wiebe’s A Discovery of Strangers,” Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives, Polska Akademia Umiejętności, pp. 49-58, 2005. * Francis, Daniel. "Northwest Passage." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004. * Wiebe, Rudy. A Discovery of Strangers, Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995.

In which Patrick sits down with Jenny Kay Dupuis to talk about her new book, Heart Berry Bling. Jenny is an award-winning, best-selling author, educator, artist, and well-sought after public speaker who focuses on raising awareness about Indigenous realities through literature and art.

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In which Patrick sits down with acclaimed prairie poet Dennis Cooley to talk about his new work, body works.

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In which we discuss Canada's seventh prime minister and first French-Canadian PM! We look at some caricatures that were made of the man and some of the major decisions that came up during his career!

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--- Caricatures:
* Manitoba Schools Question: One and Two * Transcontinental Railway * Creating new provinces * Reciprocity

Sources & Further Reading:  * Bélanger, Réal. “Laurier, Wilfrid.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Bliss, Michael. Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney, Toronto: HarperCollins, 1994.
Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Minister of Canada. Penguin, 2000.
Laurier, Wilfrid. “Speech on Political Liberalism,” June 26, 1877.

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Note: Patrick had to record in his kitchen, so there's a slight echo, but everything is clear. In which we talk about how the average person in Canada would have seen the Boer War in South Africa (hint: big questions were asked about why). We talk about a Robert Service poem and Stephen Leacock's famous Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. ---Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading: * Berger, Carl. The Sense of Power, University of Toronto Press, 1970. * Brown, Brigitte. “The South African War (1899-1902) and the Transperipheral Production of Canadian Literatures,” Carleton University, 2020. * Leacock, Stephen. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Broadview Press, 1912 [2002]. * Robinet, Alicia C., ““The seal set on our nationhood”: Canadian Literary Responses to the South African War (1899-1902)”, The University of Western Ontario, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository, 2021. * Service, Robert W. “The March of the Dead,” Songs of a Sourdough. William Briggs, 1907, pp. 62-65.

In which Patrick talks to Katherine Palmer Gordon to discuss her new release This Place Is Who We Are. We discuss the central theme of the book, how Indigenous communities in BC are reconnecting to their lands and waters, what it means to write about Indigenous peoples as a settler scholar, and much more!

Katherine Palmer Gordon is the author of five books of non-fiction, including several BC Bestsellers: The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley, The Garden That You Are, and Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia, for which she was awarded the 2007 BC Haig-Brown prize. She is also an award-winning freelance journalist and lives on Gabriola Island, BC. ---Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory).

In which our heroes discuss the famous Cree chief and Rudy Wiebe's 1973 novelization of his life. ---Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources & Further Reading: * Grace, Sherrill E. “Western Myth And Northern History: The Plains Indians Of Berger And Wiebe.” Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1983, pp. 146–56. * Wiebe, Rudy. The Temptations of Big Bear, Knopf Canada, 2010 [1973]. * van Toorn, Penny. “Dialogizing The Scriptures: A Bakhtinian Reading Of The Novels Of Rudy Wiebe.” Literature and Theology, vol. 9, no. 4, 1995, pp. 439–48.

In which, in honour of May being Asian Heritage Month, Patrick talks to Vancouver-based artist Henry Tsang about the anti-Asian riots that took place in British Columbia in 1907. Find out about Henry's work, how he adapted the event into virutal art, and edited a book around the event: White Riot.

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SORRY FOR THE AUDIO, WE DID OUR BEST - IT WILL GET BETTER In which Patrick presents the watershed Quebecois poet, Émile Nelligan, to his co-host who never even heard of him! ---Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---Sources & Further Reading:

Brissette, Pascal. Nelligan dans tous ses états: Un mythe national, Montréal: Fides, 1998.
Dole, Robert. Émile Nelligan’s Homosexuality and Schizophrenia, Journal of Literature and Art Studies, April 2020, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 304-306.
Hamish. “The First Poets, Part 1: “Gaydar Moments””, The Drummer’s Revenge, 2009.
Nelligan, Émile. The complete poems of Emile Nelligan, Harvest House, 1983.
Michon, Jacques. “Nelligan, Émile.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1998.

In which Patrick sits down with acclaimed literary scholar J. Edward Chamberlin (Officer of the Order of Canada and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto) to talk about his new book Storylines: How Words Shape Our World.

For more information about the book go to: https://douglas-mcintyre.com/products/9781771623513

In which our heroes discuss Jewish communities in Canada, and how they impacted late 19th/early 20th century life! ---Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources & Further Reading: * Abella, Irving M. A Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada, Key Porter Books, 1990. * Segal, Y.Y. “Late Autumn in Montreal.” (trans. Miriam Waddington) Canadian Literature 42, pp. 41, 1969. * Smith, Goldwin. “The Jewish Question.” Essays on Questions of the Day. London: Macmillan & Co., 1881, pp. 221–260. * Soprano Pauline DONALDA: Two Songs (1908) * Tulchinsky, Gerald. Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community, Lester Publishing, 1992.

In which we are joined by long-time background guest and feminist extraordinaire, Camille Houle-Eichel, to talk about the early suffrage movements that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries! We talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of those movements, stopping just short of the actual achievement of provincial or federal suffrage. ---Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---Sources/Further Reading:

Cleverdon, Catherine. The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1950.
Crawford, Isabella Valancy. “Malcolm’s Katie”. "Old Spookses' Pass," "Malcolm's Katie" and other Poems, Toronto: James Bain and Son, 1884.
McClung, Nellie. “Speaking to Women”. Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts. Vol 1. Ed. Cynthia Suggars and Laura Moss. Toronto: Pearson, 2009, pp. 533–39
Dorland, Michael, and Maurice R. Charland, “’Impious Civility’: Woman’s Suffrage and the Refiguration of Civil Culture, 1885-1929,” Law, Rhetoric and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture, 2002.
Strong-Boag, Veronica. “Women's suffrage movement.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Patrick is at a conference this week, so no new episode, but enjoy this preview of the latest episode of Pop Canada we recorded last week on the once-superstar singer, Portia White. We'll be back next week with a brand new episode!

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In which, using Lorena Gale's play Angélique, we talk about the life and times of Marie-Joseph Angélique - a New France slave who was accused of burning down almost 50 buildings in Montreal in 1734. Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading: * Cooper, Afua. “Confessions of a woman who burnt down a town.” Utterances and Incantations: Women, Poetry, and Dub in the Black Diaspora, ed. Afua Cooper. SisterVision Press, 1999. * Cooper, Afua. The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal, The University of Georgia Press, 2007. * Gale, Lorena. Angélique, Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1998. https://archive.org/details/angelique0000gale/mode/2up (Can be borrowed with a free account) * Torture and Truth: Angélique and the Burning of Montreal, Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Project, 2006, https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/angelique/accueil/indexen.html

In which, in honour of Black History Month, Patrick talks to writer and researcher, Professor Carolyn Whitzman about her new book Clara at the Door with a Revolver. A social history of a famous Toronto trial of Clara Ford, a Black cross-dressing woman, the book illuminates an underdiscussed aspect of Canada's working-class history!

Find the book here (on sale on Feb. 1, 2023): https://www.ubcpress.ca/clara-at-the-door-with-a-revolver ---

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A sample of the latest episode of Pop Canada, in which the boys talk about Pop Punk in Canada, how it emerged in the wider post-9/11 cultural sphere, and Simple Plan.

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In which our heroes talk about aspects of emerging French-Canadian nationalism in Canada in the late 19th century. We talk about the national anthem, Henri Bourassa, Gilbert Parker's novel The Seats of the Mighty, and more.

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Harris, Robert. Song of a Nation: The Untold Story of Canada’s National Anthem, McClelland & Stewart, 2019.
Parker, Gilbert. The Seats of the Mighty, 1896. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6229/6229-h/6229-h.htm
Rothenburger, Sunnie. “Terror, Love, and the National Voyeur: Gilbert Parker's The Seats of the Mighty.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 34, no. 2, 2008, pp. 91-112.
Stockdale, John C. “The French Canadian According to Gilbert Parker.” Modern Language Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1973, pp. 97–105. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3194458.
Waterston, Elizabeth. “The Politics of Conquest in Canadian Historical Fiction.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 3, no. 1, 1969, pp. 116–24. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24776196.

Happy New Year!! We're back to talk about Confederation-era BC and a novel/travelogue called The Western Avernus, which likely influenced Conrad's Heart of Darkness! Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further Reading/Sources: * Mouat, Jeremy. “Morley Roberts in the Western Avernus.” The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 93, no. 1, 2001, pp. 26–36. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40492820. * Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, London, 1992. * Roberts, Morley. The Western Avernus, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1887. https://archive.org/details/westernavernus00robegoog/page/n66/mode/1up?ref=ol&view=theater * Stanley, Timothy J. “The Chinese in Canada,” Canadian History: Post-Confederation, edited by John Douglas Belshaw, 2012. * Treaty 8 map, https://canadianhistoryworkshop.wordpress.com/treaties/treaty-eight/

In which we give a peak behind the paywall curtain as we take a little break during the Holidays. This is the episode we recorded for last year's holiday season.

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In which Patrick sits with author Mary Graham about her new book, A Stunning Backdrop: Alberta in the Movies, 1917-1960!

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In which we talk about The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Métis) as a way to address the history and legacy of residential schools in Canada. Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further Reading/Sources: * Andersen, Chris, and Roger Maaka, eds. The Indigenous Experience: Global Perspectives, 2006. * Dimaline, Cherie. The Marrow Thieves, Dancing Cat Books, 2017. * Milloy, John S. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986, University of Manitoba Press, 1999. * Vowel, Chelsea. Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada, 2016

In which we offer up a full-on literary episode to discuss the four poets collectively known as "The Confederation Poets". Why are they important? What does it tell us about the Canadian literary canon? What is the canon even?

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Further Reading/Sources: * Bentley, D.M.R., The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897, University of Toronto Press, 2004. * Carman, Bliss. “Low Tide on Grand Pré,” Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics, New York: C. L. Webster, 1893. * Lampman, Archibald. “The City at the End of Things,” The Poems of Archibald Lampman (ed. Duncan Campbell Scott), George N. Morang, 1900. * Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada, The Ryerson Press, 1952. * Roberts, Charles G.D. “The Tantramar Revisited,” (1883) Selected Poems of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Ryerson, 1936. * Scott, Duncan Campbell. “The Onondaga Madonna,” Poems, McClelland and Stewart, 1926. * Woodcock, George (editor). Colony and Confederation: Early Canadian Poets and Their Background, UBC Press, 1974.

In which Patrick chats with Richard Van Camp about the re-release of his comic book: A Blanket of Butterflies!

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In which we discuss the tenures of John Abbott, John S.D. Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell, and Charles Tupper as they try to keep the reigning Conservative Party afloat after Macdonald's death.

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Grip, Toronto, [s.n., 1873-1894]. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06509
Caricatures (in order of viewing):
Abbott: - https://image-tor.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc0hx15p7441b/full/max/0/default.jpg - https://image-tor.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc0g15t93976r/full/max/0/default.jpg
Thompson: - https://image-tor.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc0ww76w1jv6m/full/max/0/default.jpg - https://image-tor.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc07w6757nq4d/full/max/0/default.jpg
Bowell https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/new_article_images/MackenzieBowell/Bolt%20cartoon.jpg https://frenchcanadiansoutsideofquebec1.weebly.com/uploads/9/6/2/9/9629162/1880275.jpg?345
Tupper -https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/TupperCartoon.jpg

In which the boys talk about the first wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada and its influence, with the help of Vasyl Stefanyk's 1899 story, "The Stone Cross". Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). Further Reading: * Balan, Jars. "Ukrainian-Canadian literature." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997. * Hryniuk, S. & Luciuk, L., Canada's Ukrainians: Changing Perspectives, 1891-1991, University of Toronto Press, 1991. * Petryshyn, Jaroslav. Peasants in the Promised Land : Canada and the Ukrainians, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 1985. * Stefanyk, Vasyl. “The Stone Cross,” The Stone Cross, 1899. http://sites.utoronto.ca/elul/English/Bilenko/Stefanyk-Stone-Cross.pdf * Swyripa, Frances. "Ukrainians." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.

In which Patrick talks to geographer-historian Derek Hayes about his latest book about the fascinating history of infrastructure in British Columbia: Incredible Crossings.

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In which we dive into the life and films of Ontario-born James Cameron!

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In which we discuss the events, immediate impact and aftermath of one of the most famous trials in Canadian history.

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Archibald-Barber, Jesse. “A Poetics of Place and Apocalypse: Conflict and Contradiction in Poetry of the Red River and Northwest Resistances.” Indigenous Poetics in Canada. Ed. Neal Mcleod. Wilfred Laurier Press, 2013.
Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation, BC Open Textbook, 2012. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/
“Final Statement of Louis Riel at his Trial in Regina”. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/riel/rieltrialstatement.html
Machar, Agnes Maule. “Quebec to Ontario: A Plea for the Life of Riel, September, 1885.” Lays of the "True North": And Other Canadian Poems, 1902. https://archive.org/details/laystruenorthan01machgoog/page/n50/mode/2up?view=theater
Macleod, R. C. “North-West Rebellion.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Riel, Louis. Poems Written in Prison. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems_written_in_jail
Teillet, Jean. The North-West Is Our Mother, Patrick Crean Editions, 2019.

In which we overview the return of Louis Riel and the second - and ill-fated - attempted to secure Métis rights in Canada. We then look at how writers reacted to what is one of the most important Canadian events of 1885. Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further Reading: * Archibald-Barber, Jesse. “A Poetics of Place and Apocalypse: Conflict and Contradiction in Poetry of the Red River and Northwest Resistances.” Indigenous Poetics in Canada. Ed. Neal Mcleod. Wilfred Laurier Press, 2013. * Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation, BC Open Textbook, 2012. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/ * Johnson, E. Pauline. “A Cry From An Indian Wife," E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose. University of Toronto Press, 2002, pp. 15-17. * Macleod, R. C. “North-West Rebellion.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004. * Simpson Hayes, Kate. “Riel” (1895), Canadian Poetry: From the Beginnings through the First World War. Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, eds. McClelland & Stewart, 2008, pp. 312-13. https://ceww.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/hayes-riel.jpg * Teillet, Jean. The North-West Is Our Mother, Patrick Crean Editions, 2019.

In which we present the second part of our talk with former Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke! Topics include Confederation-era African-Canadian lives, their poetry, and a bunch of tangents.

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In which (for reasons of storage space) we present the first part of our very interesting talk with former Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke! Topics include Confederation-era African-Canadian lives, their poetry, and a bunch of tangents. The next part is out next week!

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In which we discuss the idea of the Canadian Pacific Railway - what it represents to Canada's myths, its symbolism, and its role in nation/state-building. We use works by E.J. Pratt, F.R. Scott, and G.M. Grant to help us think through this landmark moment in Canada's history.
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Further Reading: * Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation, BC Open Textbook, 2012. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/ * Grant, G. M. Ocean to Ocean: Sandford Fleming's Expedition through Canada in 1872, James Campbell & Son, Toronto, 1873. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=VCNaAAAAcAAJ&pg=GBS.PR16&hl=en * Jackel, David. “Ocean to Ocean: G. M. Grant’s ’round unvarnish’d tale’.” Canadian Literature 81, Summer 1979, pp. 7-23. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=81 * Pratt, E. J. Towards the Last Spike, Macmillan of Canada, 1952. https://www.trentu.ca/faculty/pratt/poems/texts/188/fr188annotated.html * Scott, F. R. “All the Spikes But the Last.” The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott, 1981. https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/all-spikes-last

In which we address issues of linguistic and religious rights in Canada's Confederation-era education.

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Further Reading:

Stanley, George F. G. "The Caraquet Riots of 1875." Acadiensis, volume 2, number 1, autumn 1972, p. 21–38.
LeBlanc, Phyllis E. "New Brunswick schools question." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Little, John I. “New Brunswick Reaction to the Manitoba Schools’ Question.” Acadiensis, vol. 1, no. 2, 1972, pp. 43–58. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30302427
Perin, Roberto. "Manitoba schools question." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Robson, Karen L. Sociology of Education in Canada, 2019.

In which, using James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888), we talk about utopianism and postmodernism as it relates to Canada and its culture, past and present! It's a wild episode that goes everywhere, but we love it.

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Sources & Further Reading:

De Mille, James. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, Harper & Brothers, 1888. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ZG0mAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PP1.w.1.0.0&hl=en
Parks, M. G. “Strange to Strangers Only,” Canadian Literature 70, 1976, pp. 61–78. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit70-Strange(Parks).pdf
Woodcock, George. “An Absence of Utopias.” Editorial. Canadian Literature 42, 1969, pp. 3–5. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit42-Editorial(Woodcock).pdf
Lamont-Stewart, Linda. “Rescued by Postmodernism: The Escalating Value of James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder,” Canadian Literature 145, 1995, pp. 21–36. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit145-Rescued(Stewart).pdf
Milnes, Stephen. “Colonialist Discourse, Lord Featherstone’s Yawn and the Significance of the Denouement in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder,” Canadian Literature 145, 1995, pp. 86–104. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit145-Colonialist(Milnes).pdf
Multineddu, Flavio. “A Tendentious Game with an Uncanny Riddle: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder.” Canadian Literature 145, 1995, pp. 62–81. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit145-Tendentious(Multineddu).pdf

In which we talk to Philip Earle about the book he wrote about his father, Guy Earle! Tune in to learn more about this fascinating mariner in Newfoundland's history and how he became an emblematic folk hero.

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In which we dive into the history, cultural significance, and controversies surrounding Canada's (and Quebec's) National Holidays!

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In which we use Guy Vanderhaeghe's novel 'The Englishman's Boy' to discuss the Cypress Hills Massacre (1873) and how, in its aftermath, Canada fast-tracked the creation of the North-West Mounted Police.

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Sources & Further Reading:

Calder, Alison. "Unsettling the West: Nation and Genre in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy." Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, volume 25, number 2, fall 2000, p. 96–107. https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/scl25_2art05
Dempsey, Hugh A. “Cypress Hills Massacre.” The Montana Magazine of History, vol. 3, no. 4, 1953, pp. 1–9. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4515883.
Janes, Daniela. “Truth and History: Representing the Aura in The Englishman’s Boy.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, volume 27, number 1, spring 2002, p. 88–104. https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/scl27_1art07
Macleod, R. C. “North-West Mounted Police.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Vanderhaeghe, Guy. The Englishman's Boy, London: Anchor, 1996.
Wang, Mei-Chuen. “Wilderness, the West and the national imaginary in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy.” British Journal of Canadian Studies (2013), 26, (1), pp. 21–38. https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2013.2
Zacharias, Robert. “A Desire for the Real: The Power of Film in The Englishman’s Boy.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 2, 2009, pp. 245–263. https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/scl34_2art12

In which we take a peak behind the paywall. We offer up an interview that Patrick conducted with a professor he and Mack had while at Concordia, Daniel O'Leary. Prof. O'Leary's research has focused on transnational and transatlantic Canadian genre and print culture studies, intellectual and academic culture in Canada, and the print culture of Canadian, especially Irish-Canadian, cultural communities.

We started off by talking about Don Messer's Singalong Jubilee and ended up talking about music in Canada in general.

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In which we talk about the early days of Canada's other, more famous, national sport, with discussions about its cultural and metaphorical importance.

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Further reading:

Holman, Andrew C., editor. Canada’s Game: Hockey and Identity. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.
Howell, Colin. "hockey." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Jenish, D'Arcy. The Stanley Cup: A Hundred Years of Hockey at Its Best, McClelland & Stewart, 1992.
Marche, Stephen. “The Meaning of Hockey,” The Walrus, December 2011, pp. 34-39. https://thewalrus.ca/the-meaning-of-hockey/.
Robidoux, Michael A. “Imagining a Canadian Identity through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey.” The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 115, no. 456, 2002, pp. 209–25, https://doi.org/10.2307/4129220.

In which we dive into the history, cultural significance, and controversies surrounding the famous Canadian (?) dish!

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In which we talk about one of Canada's national sports - how it started, how it got so popular, and what it represents in the national myth of the country!

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Further reading:

Beers, William George. Lacrosse: The National Game of Canada, 1869.
Fisher, Donald M., Lacrosse: A History of the Game, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Howell, Colin. "Aboriginal games." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
McCluney, Eugene B. “Lacrosse: The Combat of the Spirits.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1, 1974, pp. 34–42, https://doi.org/10.2307/1184199.
Metcalfe, Alan. "lacrosse." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Robidoux, Michael A. “Imagining a Canadian Identity through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey.” The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 115, no. 456, 2002, pp. 209–25, https://doi.org/10.2307/4129220.

In which we return to some caricatures to talk about Canada's second Prime Minister: Alexander Mackenzie, who served from 1873-1878. Find the caricatures in order in the sources below!

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Further Reading:

Bengough, John Wilson. A Caricature History of Canadian Politics, Toronto: Grip Print. and Pub. Co., 1886.
Pacific Scandal:https://archive.org/details/caricaturehistor01beng/page/160/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/caricaturehistor01beng/page/164/mode/2up

Elections:https://archive.org/details/caricaturehistor01beng/page/176/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/cihm_00128/page/n113/mode/2up

Railway & Economic troubleshttps://archive.org/details/cihm_00128/page/n149/mode/2up
The idea of A. Mackenzie:https://archive.org/details/caricaturehistor01beng/page/190/mode/2up
Bowering, George. Egotists & Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin Books, 2004.
Bumsted, J. M. “Mackenzie, Alexander.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
English, John. "liberalism." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
McLachlan, Alexander. “Young Canada, or Jack's as Good as his Master.” Poems and Songs, Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1874, pp. 119. https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/young-canada-or-jacks-good-his-master

In which we offer a glimpse of what we do on Patreon! This time, we discuss the sexiest Canadian - nay, person in the world!

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In which Patrick sits down with Ryan Uytdewilligen to discuss one of his latest books: The History of Lethbridge! It's a great self-published book about a fascinating Alberta town that has much more to offer than meets the eye!

Find out about the book and the author: https://ryanuytdewilligenauthor.com/the-history-of-lethbridge/

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In which Mack gets mad as we go through the context and major parts of the infamous piece of Canadian legislation. Topics include the White Man's Burden, racism, racism, sexism, and racism.

Cover caricature by Dale Cummings.

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Further Reading:

“History Of The Indian Act (Part One)”, Saskatchewan Indian, Vol. 8, No. 3, March 1978, pp. 4-5.
Indian Act, 1876, https://nctr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1876_Indian_Act_Reduced_Size.pdf
Kelm, Mary-Ellen, and Keith D. Smith. Talking Back to the Indian Act: Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Titley, Brian. “Indian Act.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.

In which we offer a glimpse of what we do on Patreon! We talk about Canada's most famous author! What do we think of her writing? Her politics? And especially, of the backlash she has gotten over the last few years?

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In which we discuss cultural practices that emerged in and about Plains Natives communities before, during, and after early colonization! Topics include powwows, the Ghost Dance, and Paul Kane.

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Sources/Further Reading:

1894 Sioux Ghost Dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tMXbxVTby8
Axtmann, Ann. “Performative Power in Native America: Powwow Dancing.” Dance Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, Congress on Research in Dance, 2001, pp. 7–22, https://doi.org/10.2307/1478853.
Corrigan, Samuel W. “The Plains Indian Powwow: Cultural Integration in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.” Anthropologica, vol. 12, no. 2, Canadian Anthropology Society, 1970, pp. 253–77, https://doi.org/10.2307/25604831.
Ens, Gerhard J. "buffalo hunt." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Francis, Daniel. The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011.
Milloy, John S. "Plains Aboriginals." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Paul Kane, Assiniboine Hunting Buffalo, https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/assiniboine-hunting-buffalo

In which we discuss the changes happening in Canada's music scene at the end of the 19th century, before going over the country's first international sensation: Emma Albani! You know you've hit it big when Queen Vicky becomes your friend.

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Sources/Further Reading:

Albani, Emma. “Angels ever bright and fair,” (comp. by G. F. Handel) London, England, Gramophone & Typewriter Company, Ltd., 29 Dec. 1903 https://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/16815.mp3
Chitty, Alexis, and Gilles Potvin. "Albani, Dame Emma." The Grove Book of Opera Singers, Oxford University Press, 2009. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195337655.001.0001/acref-9780195337655-e-21.
1892 photo of Emma Albani, https://jstor.org/stable/10.2307/community.18296334. Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania: Furness, P/Al100.1 M, Medium Box.
Kallmann, Helmut. "Music History". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 4 March 2015, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/music-history.
Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle. Emma Albani: Victorian Diva, Dundurn Press, 2001.
Vogan, Nancy F. “Music Publishing,” The History of the Book in Canada, edited by Yvan Lamonde, et al., University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. 435-440.

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In which we put our chronology on hold as Patrick sits down with Dominique Prinet to discuss his new book 'Flying to Extremes'.

Recounting his adventures as a bush pilot in the Northwest Territories, 'Flying to Extremes' is steeped in historical knowledge and first-hand experience of the Canadian Arctic, the Canadian aviation sector, and bush piloting in the rough and tumble late 1960s and early 1970s.

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In which we look at how the now-extinct Beothuk population helped the creation of a distinct Newfoundland identity that actively rejected Canada. Other topics include painting, poetry, and the attempted entry of Newfoundland into Confederation in 1869.

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Sources/Further Reading:

Fowke, Edith. "The Anti-Confederation Song". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 11 August 2014, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quotthe-anti-confederation-songquot-emc
Goldie, Terry. Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1989.
‘Mary March’ portrait of Demasduit by Lady Hamilton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demasduit#/media/File:Demasduit.jpg
Hiller, James. “Confederation Defeated: The Newfoundland Election Of 1869.” Newfoundland In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries: Essays In Interpretation, Edited By James Hiller And Peter Neary, University Of Toronto Press, 1980, pp. 67–94, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1vxmcpn.7.
Leggo, Carl. “Who Speaks For Extinct Nations? The Beothuk and Narrative Voice”, Literator 16 (1), April 1995, pp. 31-49. https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/582/752
Lowell, Robert Trail Spence. The Poems of Robert Lowell, Boston, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1864. https://ia800208.us.archive.org/3/items/poemsofrobertlow00lowe/poemsofrobertlow00lowe.pdf
Owen, Suzanne. “The Demise of the Beothuk as a Past Still Present”, Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 2015, pp. 119-139. https://www.academia.edu/12175598/The_Demise_of_the_Beothuk_as_a_Past_Still_Present
P. P. “The Boeothicks,” Newfoundland Patriot, page 1, April 19, 1836. https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/the_patriot/id/9569/rec/15
Santu Toney Beothuk Song, 1910, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvwmEguJp8Y

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In which we look at many forms of free speech (and how it was limited) in mid-19th century Canada! From newspapers to workers movements to the censoring of a literary association by the Church, this episode starts the new year off strong!

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Sources/Further Reading:

Bourget, Ignace. Lettre pastorale de Mgr. l'évêque de Montréal : sur l'Institut canadien et contre les mauvais livres, Montréal, Diocèse de Montréal, 1858. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.29733/7?r=0&s=1
Camire, Alexandre. Confrontations et excommunication: L’impact de l’affaire Guibord, au Canada et ailleurs (Master’s thesis), Ottawa, University of Ottawa, 2011. https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/19888/1/Camire_Alexandre_2011_these.pdf
Hudon, Théophile, L'Institut canadien de Montréal et l'affaire Guibord, Montréal, Librairie Beauchemin limitée, 1938.
Levine, Allan. Scrum Wars: The Prime Ministers and the Media, Dundurn Press, 1996. https://www.deslibris.ca/ID/410534
Rioux, Jean-Roch, L'Institut canadien: les débuts de l'Institut canadien et du journal l'Avenir (1844-1849) (PhD dissertation), Québec, Université Laval, 1967. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28670
Sotiron, Minko. "Newspapers." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.

In which we reach 50 episodes with a bang! Listen in to our last episode of the year as we talk about the second half of the Red River Resistance and the creation of Manitoba. Happy holidays all!

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Sources/Further Reading:

Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation, BC Open Textbook, 2012. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/
Flanagan, Thomas. “Political Theory of the Red River Resistance: The Declaration of December 8, 1869.” Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue Canadienne de Science Politique, vol. 11, no. 1, 1978, pp. 153–64, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3230524.
Manitoba Act, 1870. https://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ma_1870.html
Métis 1870 List of Rights http://victoria.tc.ca/history/etext/metis-list-of-rights.html
Morton, W. L. “Two Young Men, 1869: Charles Mair and Louis Riel”, Manitoba Historical Society, Number 30, 1973-74.
‘Declaration of the People...’, http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/09/rupertslanddeclaration.shtml
Teillet, Jean. The North-West Is Our Mother, Patrick Crean Editions, 2019.

In which we offer a glimpse of what we do on Patreon! In this Pop Canada holiday special, we talk about Christmas history in Canada and our own holiday traditions.

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In which we start talking about the 1869-70 Métis resistance that led to the creation of Manitoba and represented many of the issues that Canada still faces today.

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Sources & Further Reading

Bumsted, J.M. Reporting the Resistance: Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave on the Red River Resistance, University of Manitoba Press, 2003.
Métis List of Rights https://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/socstud/foundation_gr6/blms/6-1-2a.pdf
Mair, Charles. “The Bison,” Canadian Poetry from the Beginning Through the First World War, 2010.
Mair, Charles. Dreamland and Other Poems, Dawson Brothers, 1868. https://books.google.ca/books?id=H7BcAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Morton, W. L. “Two Young Men, 1869: Charles Mair and Louis Riel”, Manitoba Historical Society, Number 30, 1973-74.
‘Declaration of the People...’, http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/09/rupertslanddeclaration.shtml
Teillet, Jean. The North-West Is Our Mother, Patrick Crean Editions, 2019.

In which we each power through a concussion and antibiotics to discuss how mid-19th century modernization affected Canada and talk about folk tales once more! Topics include life in the country and the city, child labour, and of course Karl Marx.

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Further Reading & Sources:

Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, BC Open Textbook, 2012. https://opentextbc.ca/preconfederation/
Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation, BC Open Textbook, 2012. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/
Marx, Karl. Capital, Volume One: A Critique of the Political Economy, Penguin Random House, 1992.
Spray, Carole. Will O’ The Wisp: Folk Tales of New Brunswick, Brunswick Press, 1985.
Trovato, Frank and Carl F. Grindstaff, editors. Perspectives on Canada's Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues, Oxford University Press, 1994.
Woodcock, George. A Social History of Canada, Viking Books, 1988.
The Wizard of the Miramichi. http://en.copian.ca/library/learning/miramichi/wizard/wizard.pdf
Will O’ The Wisp. https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2021/11/12/tale-of-the-will-o-the-wisp/

In which we unlock our latest episode of Pop Canada to the public! Listen in as we discuss how nature appears in Canadian culture and then segue into a talk about the current climate crisis.

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Sources/Further Reading:

An Overview of Fairy Creek: https://ricochet.media/en/3727/fairy-creek-explained-whats-at-stake
Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8642262.html
Robert Hayman, Quodlibets, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ssd?id=umn.31951001645058j;seq=11
John Richardson's Wacousta and other books about nature, https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/

In which we talk about the dark side of Macdonald's legacy and the latter part of his life, again using caricatures (but ones that make us go "yikes...").

Caricatures: https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/j-a-macdonald-caricatures-the-darker-side/

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Sources/Further Reading:

Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation, BC Open Textbook, 2012. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/
Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats, Penguin Books, 1999.
Creighton, Donald. John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician/The Old Chieftain, University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Gillespie, Alastair C.F. John A. MacDonald: The Indispensable Politician, Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy, 2017. https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/MLIConfederationSeries_MacdonaldPaperF_Web.pdf
Johnson, J. K.. "Sir John A. Macdonald". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 28 November 2017, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-john-alexander-macdonald.

In which we examine the legacy of Canada's first PM through caricatures! This episode focuses on his early life and what is considered to be J. A. Macdonald's more 'positive' legacy...and how that is certainly a double-edged sword.

Caricatures: https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/some-caricatures-of-sir-john-a-macdonald/

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Further readings:

Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats, Penguin Books, 1999.
Creighton, Donald. John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician/The Old Chieftain, University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Gillespie, Alastair C.F. John A. MacDonald: The Indispensable Politician, Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy, 2017. https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/MLIConfederationSeries_MacdonaldPaperF_Web.pdf
Johnson, J. K.. "Sir John A. Macdonald". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 28 November 2017, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-john-alexander-macdonald.
Levine, Allan. Scrum Wars: The Prime Ministers and the Media, Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1996.

In which we talk about an acclaimed fantasy series - 'Malazan: Book of the Fallen' - written by two archeologists from Ontario and Manitoba. We also delve a bit into the genre as it developed in Canada!

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In which we we discuss the officialization of the British North America Act, its immediate impact, and much more as Canada takes on its first kind of independent form! We also discuss photographer William Notman as a case study for how culture is changing in the new country. It's an episode of debates, dirty tricks, exclusions, and parties!

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Further Reading:

The British North America Act, 1867, https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/constitution/lawreg-loireg/p1t13.html
Hayday, Matthew. “British North America Act.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2008.
Heidt, Daniel, editor. Reconsidering Canada: Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999, University of Calgary Press, 2018.
Martin, Ged. Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-1867, UBC Press, 1995. https://www.deslibris.ca/ID/404058
Silver, A. I. The French-Canadian Idea of Confederation, 1864-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1997, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1287sgt.
Smith, Peter J. “The Ideological Origins of Canadian Confederation.” Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue Canadienne De Science Politique, vol. 20, no. 1, 1987, pp. 3–29. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3228803.
Triggs, Stanley G.. "William Notman". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 15 December 2015, Historica Canada. http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/scripts/explore.php?Lang=1&tableid=1&tablename=artist&elementid=00480__true

In which we talk about the conferences in Charlottetown and Quebec that laid the groundwork for Canada and the British North America Act! We also end on by analyzing some artistic depictions of those moments.

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Further Reading:

Beck, Murray. Joseph Howe: The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. https://www.deslibris.ca/ID/400510
Bowering, George. Egotists & Autocrats, Penguin Books, 1999.
Martin, Ged. Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-1867, UBC Press, 1995. https://www.deslibris.ca/ID/404058
Martin, Ged. “Launching Canadian Confederation: Means to Ends, 1836-1864.” The Historical Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, 1984, pp. 575–602. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2639270.
Smith, Peter J. “The Ideological Origins of Canadian Confederation.” Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue Canadienne De Science Politique, vol. 20, no. 1, 1987, pp. 3–29. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3228803.
Charlottetown Conference plaque: https://www.hmdb.org/Photos5/522/Photo522076o.jpg
Quebec Conference Painting: https://www.ourcommons.ca/About/HistoryArtsArchitecture/fine_arts/historical/609-e.htm

In which, we discuss the early-2000s TV show Total Drama, its spin-offs, and the creators' other endeavours (like 6teen). We get to talking about Americanization, Canadian parodies, and have a general fun time!

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In which we discuss a famous poet and politician that allows us to address the Fenians, the further establishment of Irish-Canadians, and who fully leads us into Confederation!!

NOTE: I forgot to mention that the person who was accused of shooting McGee was called Patrick J. Whelan. Thought it was important to include it.

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Further Reading:

Ashe, Ian. “Thomas D’arcy Mcgee - Ireland's Lost Patriot And Canada’s Assassinated Hero.” History Ireland, vol. 28, no. 2, 2020, pp. 6–7. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26915165.
Burns, Robin B. “D'Arcy McGee and the Fenians: A Study of the Interaction between Irish Nationalism and the American Environment.” University Review, vol. 4, no. 3, 1967, pp. 260–273. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25504793.
D’Arcy McGee, Thomas. The poems of Thomas D’arcy McGee, D & J Sadlier, 1869. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.09480/15?r=0&s=1
Gillespie, A.C.F. Thomas D’Arcy McGee: The Idealist, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, 2017. https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/MIConfederationSeriesMcGeeF_Web.pdf
O'Leary, Daniel. “Irish-Canadian Identity, Imperial Nationalism: Irish Book History and Print Culture in Victorian Quebec.” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 61–66. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25515661.
Wilson, David A. “A Rooted Horror: Thomas D'Arcy McGee and Secret Societies, 1845-68.” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2005, pp. 45–51. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25515558.
Wilson, David A. “Thomas D'Arcy McGee's Wexford Speech of 1865: Reflections on Revolutionary Republicanism and the Irish in North America.” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 26/27, 2000, pp. 9–24. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25515346.

In which we talk about the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, its part in the creation of the colony of British Columbia, and a modern take on the event in Raymond Maher's 'The Deadly Five' novel.

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Further Reading:

Boissery, Beverly. Beyond Hope: An Illustrated History of the Fraser and Cariboo Gold Rush, Dundurn Press, 2003.
Geddes, Gary. "British Columbia, Writing in." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Gough, Barry M. "Fraser, Simon." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Klan, Yvonne. The Old Red Shirt: Pioneer Poets of British Columbia, New Star Books, 2004.
Loo, Tina. "New Caledonia." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Maher, Raymond. The Deadly Five, Friesen Press, 2020.
McDonald, Robert A. J. "British Columbia." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.

In which we discuss the ways that the Great White North is shown in various media - from the Simpsons to Kevin Smith films! It's a veritable popluck of topics... I don't regret the joke. Here are the first 10 minutes of our talk!

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In which we have Native American, Himanish Goel, join us to talk about the Trickster figure as a way to open on a central part of many Western Indigenous myths and British Columbia generally! We use Eden Robinson's Son of a Trickster to help us with some of the themes. Somewhat relevant tangents include Loki and To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Further Reading:

Larouche, Jean-Marc, and Guy Ménard, ed. L’étude de la religion au Québec: Bilan et prospective, Les Presses de l’Université de Laval, 2001.
Radin, Paul. Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology, New York, Schocken Books, 1956.
Reder, Deanna and Linda M. Morra, ed. Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010.
Robinson, Eden. Son of a Trickster, Knopf Canada, 2017.
Squint, Kirstin L. “Gerald Vizenor's Trickster Hermeneutics.” Studies in American Humor, no. 25, 2012, pp. 107–123. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42573645.
Vizenor, Gerald. “Trickster Discourse.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, 1990, pp. 277–287. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1185655.

In which Mack stays awake long enough to talk about Canada's "Colonial Poet Laureate" and rising English-Canadian nationalism. Topics include Gothic literature, the formation of Canada's military, and reciprocity treaties!

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Further Reading:

Bentley, D. M. R. “Charles Sangster: The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay,” Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994.
Brown, E. K. On Canadian Poetry, Ryerson Press, 1943.
“Charles Sangster.” The Public Health Journal, vol. 5, no. 9, 1914, pp. 589–593. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41997696.
“Haunted by a Lack of Ghosts: Gothic Absence and Settler Melancholy.” Canadian Gothic: Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention, by Cynthia Sugars, 1st ed., University of Wales Press, 2014, pp. 49–74. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qhhzf.6.
Kamboureli, Smaro. On the Edge of Genre: The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem, University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Latham, David. “Sangster, Charles,” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Masters, D.C.. "Reciprocity". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 12 November 2019, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/reciprocity.
Sangster, Charles. The St. Lawrence & the Saguenay and Other Poems, 1856. http://canadianpoetry.org/library/early-writing-in-canada/early-canadian-long-poems/sangster/

In which we give a taste of what goes on over on our Patreon sister show: Pop Canada! Here are the first 10 minutes of our talk on the many Degrassi shows before having an extensive talk about their legacy!

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In which, on our road to Confederation, we discuss he who was once known as 'French-Canada's National Bard'! Topics also include the situation in 1850s Canada, reflections on Confederation, and the Annexation Manifesto!

Patrick translated some of the French poems here: https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2021/06/28/translation-of-selected-octave-cremazie-poems/

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Further Reading:

Condemine, Odette. Octave Crémazie, 1827-1879, National Library of Canada, 1979. http://parkscanadahistory.com/publications/cremazie-nelligan.pdf
Crémazie, Octave. “Le vieux soldat canadien” (1855), Oeuvres complètes, Beauchemin & Valois, 1882, pp. 110-111. https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Œuvres_complètes_(Crémazie)/Le_vieux_soldat_canadien
Crémazie, Octave. “Le drapeau de Carillon” (1858), Oeuvres complètes, Beauchemin & Valois, 1882, pp. 128-137. https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Œuvres_complètes_(Crémazie)/Le_drapeau_de_Carillon
Fess, Gilbert M. “Octave Crémazie, a Late Defender of Romanticism.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 1925, pp. 73–80. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27533833.
Hayne, David M. “Le Mouvement littéraire de Québec,” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997.
McNairn, Jeffrey L. “Annexation Manifesto.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Scholl, Dorothee. “French-Canadian Colonial Literature under the Union Jack.” History of Literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian, edited by Reingard M. Nischik, Boydell & Brewer, Rochester, New York, 2008, pp. 88–110.

In which we are joined by the great Liv and Kate ('Just Watch Me' podcast) to talk about Margaret Atwood's 1996 historical fiction novel, Alias Grace. We discuss Atwood's use of fiction and history, the novel's purpose, Victorian perceptions of women and crime, and much more!

Patrick's opinion is majorly pushed back against and the episode is worth it just for that!

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Sources & Further Reading:

Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace, McClelland & Stewart, 1996.
Atwood, Margaret. “In Search of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction.” The American Historical Review, vol. 103, no. 5, 1998, pp. 1503–1516. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2649966.
Goldblatt, Patricia F. “Reconstructing Margaret Atwood's Protagonists.” World Literature Today, vol. 73, no. 2, 1999, pp. 275–282. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40154691.
Hulan, Renee. “Margaret Atwood’s Historical Lives in Context: Notes on a Postcolonial Pedagogy for Historical Fiction.” Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature, ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa Press, 2004, pp. 441–460. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ckpc18.28.
Peters, Joan Douglas. “Feminist Narratology Revisited: Dialogizing Gendered Rhetorics in Alias Grace.” Style, vol. 49, no. 3, 2015, pp. 299–320. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.49.3.0299.
Stanley, Sandra Kumamoto. “The Eroticism of Class and the Enigma of Margaret Atwood's ‘Alias Grace.’” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 22, no. 2, 2003, pp. 371–386. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20059158.

In which we give a taste of what goes on over on our Patreon sister show: Pop Canada! Here are the first 10 minutes of our talk on comedy: a staple of Canadian pop culture. We address the history of the genre, important figures, and why it developed in this country!

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In which we discuss the famous Hudson's Bay Company in relation to R. M. Ballantyne's 'Snowflakes & Sunbeams' (1856) - a pioneer of boys' fiction! How did the HBC inform Ballantyne's writing? What is the relation between the HBC and the sense of wonder and imagination that the novel depicts? This one covers all those great questions and more!

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Sources & Further Reading:

Ballantyne, R. M. Snowflakes & Sunbeams: A Tale of the Far North https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6357/pg6357.html
Bristow, Joseph. Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World, Routledge, 1991. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315669939
Cockburn, R. H. “R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894).” Arctic, vol. 37, no. 1, 1984, pp. 70–71. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40510249.
Nelson, Heather E. “Hudson's Bay Company,” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2008.
Oliver, Jeff, and Neil Curtis. “Placing the North.” Historical Archaeology, vol. 49, no. 3, 2015, pp. 7–20, www.jstor.org/stable/24757022.
Phillips, Richard S. “Spaces of Adventure and Cultural Politics of Masculinity: R. M. Ballantyne and The Young Fur Traders.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 13, no. 5, Oct. 1995, pp. 591–608, doi:10.1068/d130591.
Reynolds, Kimberley. “Ballantyne, R. M.,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006.

In which Kevin Hutchings (Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia) joins us to talk about the once-famous Ojibwe Methodist writer, George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh)! From Copway's relation to Romanticism to his resistance to European hegemony, this episode covers a lot! Kevin was great and allowed us to make one of our favourite episodes yet.

Check out his writings and more at: http://www.kevinhutchings.ca/writings

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Sources & Further Reading:

C. L. Howey, Meghan. “‘The Question Which Has Puzzled, and Still Puzzles’: How American Indian Authors Challenged Dominant Discourse about Native American Origins in the Nineteenth Century.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, 2010, pp. 435–474. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/amerindiquar.34.4.0435.
Copway, George. “Once More I See My Father’s Land,” Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War, 2010, pp. 83.
Copway, George. The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, Albany, Weed and Parsons, 1847. https://archive.org/details/lifehisttravels00copwrich?ref=ol&view=theater
Hutchings, Kevin. Transatlantic Upper Canada: Portraits in Literature Land and British-Indigenous Relations, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.
“Orature and Literature,” CanLit Guides, 2016. http://canlitguides.ca/canlit-guides-editorial-team/orature-and-literature/
Petrone, Penny. “Copway, George.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Rex, Cathy. “Survivance and Fluidity: George Copway's The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh.” Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, 2006, pp. 1–33.
Smith, Donald. "The Life of George Copway or Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1818-1869) — and a review of his writings", Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 23, no. 3, Fall 1988, pp. 5-38.

In which we use Brian Moore's 1985 novel Black Robe to discuss the use and creation of images by Jesuits missionaries in New France. This also acts as a kind of prelude to a very special episode in two weeks!

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Sources & Further Reading:

Banchoff, Thomas, and José Casanova, editors. The Jesuits and Globalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges. Georgetown University Press, 2016.
Churchill, Ward. “And they did it in like dogs in the dirt: An American Indian Analysis of Black Robe,” Indian are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America, Monroe: Common Courage Press, 1994, pp. 115-37.
Gagnon, François-Marc. “Conversion through the Printed Image,” History of the Book in Canada, Volume One: Beginnings to 1840, 2004, pp. 18-22.
Hicks, Patrick. “The Language of the Tribes in Brian Moore's ‘Black Robe.’” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 93, no. 372, 2004, pp. 415–426.
Iroquois History and Legends Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/0jGRXOijYiSKEhrTujeBpw?si=8Dr-8Hk4RMu2zQ72PwGwdw
Leeming, David Adams, and Margaret Adams Leeming. "Algonquin Creation." Oxford Reference, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Leeming, David Adams, and Margaret Adams Leeming. "Iroquoian Creation." Oxford Reference, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Moore, Brian. Black Robe, McClelland & Stewart - NCL, 1985.
Moore, Brian, and Patrick Hicks. “An Interview with Brian Moore.” Irish University Review, vol. 30, no. 2, 2000, pp. 315–320.
Moore, Brian. Wreath for a Redhead, Harlequin, 1951. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53348464-wreath-for-a-redhead
Richter, Daniel. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, Cambridge: Harvard, 2001.
Trigger, Bruce G. “The Jesuits and the Fur Trade.” Ethnohistory, vol. 12, no. 1, 1965, pp. 30–53.
O'Donoghue, Jo. “Historical Themes, Missionary Endeavour and Spiritual Colonialism in Brian Moore's Black Robe.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 82, no. 326, 1993, pp. 131–139.

In which we give a taste of what goes on over on our Patreon sister show: Pop Canada! Here are the first 10 minutes of our talk on the popular depictions of the Klondike Gold Rush.

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In which we cover a range of pre-Confederation plays, including Charles Heavysege's 'Saul', and discuss how they inform the performance of history, society, and culture. You can find 'Saul' in our recommended reading page below!

Sources & Further Reading:

Charlesbois, Gaetan, and Anne Nothop. “Canadian Theatre History,” Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, Athabasca University Press, October 2020.
Conolly, L. W., and Richard Plant. "Drama in English. The beginnings to 1953." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Cushings, Eliza Lanesford. Esther: A Sacred Drama, Joseph Dowe, 1840. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=es9ZAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA3
Doucette, L. E. "Drama in French. The beginnings to 1900." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Filewod, Alan. Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre. Textual Studies in Canada, The University College of the Cariboo, 2002.
Heavysege, Charles. Saul: A Drama in Three Parts, 1859. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=nxSug2cPkcwC&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA5
Jones, Heather. “Class, Culture, and Belief: The Contexts of Charles Heavysege’s Christian Poetry,” Canadian Literature, no. 213, pp. 141-155, 2012. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=213
Lescarbot, Marc. Le théâtre de Neptune, 1606, http://www.optative.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sinkingneptune.pdf (English version starts on page 31)
Newton, Norman. “Classical Canadian Poetry and the Public Muse,” Canadian Literature, no. 51, pp. 39-52, 1972. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=51
Tait, Michael. “Playwrights in a Vacuum: English-Canadian Drama in the Nineteenth Century,” Canadian Literature, no. 16, pp. 5-18, 1963. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=16

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In which we cover mini topics as a way of setting up the Irish influence in Canada - and how ideas of sectarianism and unity within that population are more complicated than one might think. Topics include folk music, religion, politics, and St. Patrick's Day riots!

Excerpts of the writings we discuss here: https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2021/04/01/episode-33-extras-some-early-irish-writing/

Further Reading & Sources:

Akenson, Donald Harman, and David A. Wilson. "Irish." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Davis, J.B. “Medley - On the Grand Procession in Toronto City,” The Dominion Orange Harmonist, 1876, pp.167-171. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t2891q475?urlappend=%3Bseq=180
“I'se The B'y that builds the boat”, Great Big Sea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bQn9DtgUA
Houston, Cecil J. "Orange Order." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Houston, Cecil J. & William J. Smyth Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links, and Letters. Toronto: U of Toronto, 1990.
‘Marine Marchande’ by Les Cowboys Fringants (Octobre, 2015). https://open.spotify.com/track/2rtKBSpEgk2PBbMDjjuKtV?si=e5fce04563354b78
Moore, Thomas. “A Canadian Boat Song”, 1804. https://allpoetry.com/A-Canadian-Boat-Song
O'Leary, Daniel. “Irish-Canadian Identity, Imperial Nationalism: Irish Book History and Print Culture in Victorian Quebec.” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 61–66. www.jstor.org/stable/25515661
Seaweed, “The Society of Masterless Men”, Green Anarchy, no. 24, 2007. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/seaweed-the-society-of-masterless-men
Unidentified fiddle track: https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/sound/unidentified-tune-ben-lennon-fiddle
Wilson, David A. The Irish in Canada, Canadian Historical Society, 1989.

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In which we discuss the 1847 long poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline! Topics include the Acadian Expulsion in the 1750s, the American 'Fireside Poets', and the impact of Evangeline on the Acadians of old and today.

Content warning: We say 'fuck' a lot this episode as we read one of the modern reactions to the poem.

Further Reading & Sources:

Godin, Céleste. "Fuck you Évangéline," Kind of Intéressant Blog, Nov. 2015. http://kindofinteressant.weebly.com/blog/fuck-you-evangeline
Griffiths, N.E.S. 1982 “Longfellow’s Evangeline: The Birth and Acceptance of a Legend,” Acadiensis, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 28-41. https://www.acadian.org/history/longfellows-evangeline-birth-acceptance-legend/
Hart, James D., and Phillip W. Leininger. “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie.” The Oxford Companion to American Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Hawthorne, Manning, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. “The Origin of Longfellow's ‘Evangeline.’” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 41, no. 3, 1947, pp. 165–203. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24298574
Le Blanc, Barbara. “Evangeline”. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, 1847. https://poets.org/poem/evangeline-tale-acadie
Zichy, Francis. “Evangeline: A tale of Acadie.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006.
A recreation of the poem by singer Annie Blanchard, "Évangéline". https://open.spotify.com/track/2Xu5HLd5x9OAMNVXbkHiIv?si=J8rmrwo0R6W2NFu7rL7wpg

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In which we are joined by the delightful Craig (Canadian History Ehx, From John to Justin) to discuss the major changes in the Canadian government during the 1840s. Topics include the union of the Canadas, the gaining the responsible government, and the burning of Parliament in Montreal!

You can find Craig's three podcasts (yes, three!) on all platforms and through his website: https://canadaehx.com

Further Reading & Sources:

Act of Union, 1840. https://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/PreConfederation/ua_1840.html
Bowering, George. Egotists & Autocrats, Penguin Books, 1999.
Careless, J.M.S. The Union of the Canadas, 1841-1857: The Birth of Canadian Institutions, McClelland & Stewart, 1967.
Chennells, David. The Politics of Nationalism in Canada: Cultural Conflict since 1760, University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Laforest, Guy. The Constitutions that Shaped Us: A Historical Anthology of Pre-1867 Canadian Constitutions, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.
Lamonde, Yvan. The Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760-1896, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.
MacMechan, Archibald. The Winning of Popular Government, Toronto: Brook & Co., 1921. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30470/30470-h/30470-h.htm
Read, Colin. "Province of Canada." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004
Read, Colin. "Act of Union." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004

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In which, in honour of Black History Month, we discuss the early development of African-Canadian literature by covering newspapers, religious narratives, literary networks, and slave narratives from 1785 to 1855. Topics include the Underground Railroad, Loyalists, and myth-making in Canada. It's a big, but great conversation!

Further Reading & Sources:

Bynum, Tara. "A Silent Book, Some Kisses, and John Marrant’s Narrative," Criticism, vol. 57, no. 1, 2015, pp. 71–90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110/criticism.57.1.0071
Clarke, George Elliott. Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature, University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Clarke, George Elliott. "This is no hearsay: Reading the Canadian Slave Narratives", Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada, Vol. 43, no. 1, Jan. 2005.
Drew, Benjamin. The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, 1856. https://books.google.ca/books?id=MAFZVEh3wGEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Ferré-Rode, Sandrine. "A Black Voice from the “other North:” Thomas Smallwood's Canadian Narrative (1851)", Revue française d’études américaines, vol. 137, no. 3, 2013, pp. 23-37. https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2013-3-page-23.htm?contenu=article
Marrant, John. A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, A Black, 1785. https://blackloyalist.com/cdc/documents/diaries/marrant_narrative.htm
Mensah, Joseph. Black Canadians: History, Experiences, Social Conditions, Fernwood Publishing, 2002.
Smallwood, Thomas. A Narrative…, 1851 (pp. 13-63) https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/smallwood/smallwood.html
Siemerling, Winfried. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.
Winks, Robin. The Blacks in Canada: A History, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.

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In which we flash back to 1769 for a one-and-done-episode on 'The History of Emily Montague', a book often considered to be the very first Canadian novel - and it was written by a woman! How's that for being radical? We talk about 18th century feminism, the author's politics, what the book tells us about Canada at the time, and of course, whether this can be called a first in Canada!

Images that we compared: https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/episode-29-extra-comparing-portraits-of-women-writers/

Further Reading:

Brooke, Frances. The History of Emily Montague, London: J. Dodsley, 1769. https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/brooke/emily/emily.html
Edwards, Mary Jane. Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague: A Biographical Context," English Studies in Canada 7, no. 2 (Summer 1981): 171-82. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/693761/pdf
Howells, Robin. "Dialogism in Canada's First Novel: The History of Emily Montague," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 20 (1993): 437-50. https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/crcl/index.php/crcl/article/view/3209
McMullen, Lorraine. “Double image: Frances Brooke's Women Characters”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 21:2, 1982, pp. 356-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449858208588735
Robert, James Merrett, “The Politics of Romance in The History of Emily Montague,” Canadian Literature, no. 133, 1992, pp. 92-108. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=133
New, W. H. “Frances Brooke’s Chequered Gardens,” Canadian Literature, no. 52, 1972, pp. 24-38. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=52
Pacey, Desmond. “The First Canadian Novel,” The Dalhousie Review XXVI, pp. 143-150. https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/57817/dalrev_vol26_iss2_pp143_150.pdf?sequence=1
Sellwood, Jane. “Narrative as Coquette in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague,” Canadian Literature, no. 136, 1993, pp. 60-81. https://canlit.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CL136-Full-Issue.pdf

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In which we use Lionel Kearns' book 'Convergences' to finally discuss the other side of Canada! Topics include James Cook's arrival in British Columbia, contact with the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka, and the importance of understanding history as a narrative. It's a big one and we love it!

Further Reading:

Francis, Daniel. "Jewitt, John Rogers." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Hutcheon, Linda. “Historiographic Metafiction”, The Canadian Postmodern, 1991, pp. 61-77.
Jewitt, John. The Adventures of John Jewitt, Clement Wilson, 1896. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38010/38010-h/38010-h.htm
Jones, Manina. “Log Entries: Exploring Discursive Space in Kearns’ Convergences.” In That Art of Difference: ‘Documentary-collage’ and English-Canadian Writing, 105-119. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.
Kearns, Lionel. Convergences. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1984. https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/lionel_kearns/convergences/www.lionelkearns.com/convergences/index.htm
Langston, Jessica. “Then and Now Converging: Lionel Kearns’s Complicated Nation.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 35, no. 1 (2010): 40-55.
Moyes, Lianne. “Dialogizing the Monologue of History and Lyric: Lionel Kearns’ Convergences.” Open Letter 7th Ser. 5 (1989): 15-27.
Suthren, Victor. To Go Upon Discovery, James Cook in Canada, from 1758 to 1779, Dundurn Press, 2000.

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In which we cover the early life of famous Nova Scotian Joseph Howe; from his publishing endeavors that encouraged local talents to his 1835 libel trial that changed the game for free speech in Canada. All texts discussed are found below!

Major Sources & Further Reading:

Beck, J. Murray. “Howe, Joseph.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Beck, Murray. Joseph Howe, Conservative Reformer 1804-1848, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1984.
Bentley, D. “Joseph Howe’s Acadia”, Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994.
Howe's Accusation of the Magistrates (January 1, 1835): https://nslegislature.ca/about/history/joe-howe/howepaper
Howe, Joseph. ‘Acadia’, 1873. http://canadianpoetry.org/longPoems/Howe_Joseph/Acadia/acadia.html
Howe's Libel Defence (March 2, 1835): https://nslegislature.ca/about/history/joe-howe/howedefense
Howe, Joseph. ‘Melville Island’, Other Poems and Essays, 1874. http://canadianpoetry.org/longPoems/Howe_Joseph/other_poems/melville_island.html
Howe, Joseph. ‘My Father’, Weekly Chronicle, 1861. http://canadianpoetry.org/longPoems/Howe_Joseph/other_poems/my_father.html
Vincent, Tom. “Howe, Joseph.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Zenchick, S.G. “A Reading of Joseph Howe’s Acadia”, Canadian Poetry, Vol. 9, Summer 1981. http://canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol9/zenchuk.html

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In which we dig into the Patreon archives to give you wonderful listeners some holiday cheer with our very own Christmas Special! It starts as a wholesome discussion about Canadian pop icon Michael Bublé's Christmas album and turns into a talk about our holiday traditions and just general nonsense. See you in the new year!

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In which we talk about the evolution of treaties signed between Europeans and First Nations in Pre-Confederation Canada. You can find the treaties we discuss below in the sources!

Major Sources & Further Reading:

'A History of Treaty-Making in Canada.' Government of Canada, https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1314977704533/1544620451420
DePasquale, Paul W. 'Natives and Settlers Now and Then: Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land Claims in Canada', University of Alberta Press, 2007.
The Great Peace of Montreal (1701): https://en.wikisource.org/?curid=2266099
King, Thomas. 'The Inconvenient Indian', Anchor Canada, 2012.
Miller, J. R. "Indian treaties." 'The Oxford Companion to Canadian History'. Edited by Gerald Hallowell, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Miquelon, Dale. "Great Peace of Montreal, 1701." 'The Oxford Companion to Canadian History'. Edited by Gerald Hallowell, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Morin, Jean-Pierre. 'Solemn Words and Foundational Documents: An Annotated Discussion of Indigenous-Crown Treaties in Canada, 1752-1923', University of Toronto Press, 2018.
'Pre-Confederation Treaties', Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba. http://www.trcm.ca/treaties/pre-confederation-treaties/
Ray, Arthur J. "Aboriginal title and treaty rights." 'The Oxford Companion to Canadian History'. Edited by Gerald Hallowell, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Robinson Treaties, Text (1850): https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100028984/1581293724401
Robinson Treaties, Elaboration by the Government of Canada: https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1360945974712/1544619909155
Royal Proclamation (1763): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763
Treaty of Ghent (1815): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ghent

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In which we discuss migration to Upper Canada in the 1830s through the Petworth Emigration scheme, poetry by Alexander McLachlan, and letters from those who immigrated to the country! We even talk about superheroes and Thanos because... well... just listen and you'll see. We let our socialism loose against terrible British policy on this one!

Sources & Further Reading:

Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada : The Petworth Project, 1832-1837. Edited by Wendy Cameron and Mary Maude, McGill-Queens University Press, 2000, 354 p.
Bentley, D.M.R. "Alexander McLachlan: The Emigrant," Mimic Fires : Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada, McGill-Queens University Press, 1994, pp. 248-271.
English Immigrant Voices, Labourers' Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s. Edited by Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines, and Mary Maude, McGill-Queens University Press, 2009, 471 p.
Kamboureli, Smaro. “The Archeology of the Long Poem.” On the Edge of Genre, University of Toronto Pres, 1991.
McLachlan, Alexander. 'The Emigrant,' The Emigrant and Other Poems, 2012 (1861).
Malthusianism
Digital copy of the 1834 Poor Law Commission

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In which we give you a free taste of the fun we're having over on Patreon! What starts off as an overview of the world-famous Cirque du Soleil, ends up being a fascinating conversation about the future potential for the show and the philosophy of circus art! If you like what you hear in the episode, please consider subscribing for more of them, as well as some extras! You can also support through PayPal donations and by buying books through the recommended reading page.

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In which we power through some internet troubles to talk about Grosse Île Quarantine Station! We use poems by Margaret Atwood and Al Purdy to discuss more of the psychological effects of being in isolation in the 19th century than scientific medical practices. Still great fun though!

Sources & Further Reading:

Atwood, Margaret. “Disembarking at Quebec” & “Further Arrivals,” The Journals of Susanna Moodie, OUP, 1970.
Charbonneau, André and André Sévigny. '1847, Grosse Île: A Record of Daily Events', Canadian Heritage/Patrimoine Canadien, 1997.
Duffin, Jacalyn. "cholera." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Holmgren, Michele. “‘Stranger No Longer’: Recuperating Memories of Place from Present Amnesia in Al Purdy's ‘Grosse Isle.’” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 2015, pp. 142–161. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24635404.
Houston, Cecil J. "Grosse Île." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Purdy, Al. “Grosse Île, ” Beyond Remembering: the Poems of Al Purdy, Harbour Publishing, 2000.
Quigley, Michael. “Grosse Ile: Canada's Island Famine Memorial.” History Ireland, vol. 5, no. 2, 1997, pp. 22–26. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27724456

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In which we halt our narrative to talk about werewolves, ghost ships, and...flying canoes?! You can find images and brief overviews of the monsters right here.

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Major Sources:

Beaugrand, Honoré. 'Fantastic Tales,' La Bibliothèque électronique du Quebec (The English Collection), Volume 11.
Jolicoeur. Catherine. 'Le Vaisseau Fantôme: Légende Étiologique,' Presses Université Laval, 1970.
Le Quellec, Jean-Loïc. "La chasse-galerie: Du Poitou à l’Acadie," IRIS (Centre de Recheche sur l'Imaginaire, Université de Grenoble), 1999.
Podruchny, Carolyn. "Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition," Ethnohistory, Volume 51, Number 4, Fall 2004, pp. 677-700.
Ransom, Amy J. “The Changing Shape of a Shape-Shifter: The French-Canadian Loup-Garou.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 27, no. 2, May 2016, pp. 251–275.
Sceanders, Ian. "The Fiery Phantom That Sails Bay Chaleur," Maclean's, June 15, 1951.
"The Werewolf of Quebec City," Canadiana, March 8 2019.

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In which we begin an overview discussion about health and medicine in Canada from the First Nations to New France. Let's look at a pre-germ theory world with the help of Indigenous legends and some lame poetry!

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Major sources:

Arnason, T., R. J. Hebda, and T. Johns. "Use of plants for food and medicine by Native Peoples of eastern Canada." Canadian Journal of Botany, Vol. 59, 1981, pp. 2189-2325.
Copway, George. 'The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation'. C. Gilpin, 1850.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire. “Mance, Jeanne,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003.
Faillon, Étienne-Michel. Vie de mademoiselle Mance et histoire de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Ville-Marie, en Canada. Paris, Rusand, 1854.
Herrick, James W. Iroquois Medical Botany, Syracuse University Press, 1997. Gagan, David, and Rosemary Gagan. "Hospitals." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, edited by Gerald Hallowell, Oxford UP, 2004, pp. 293-4.
McPherson, Kathryn. "Nursing." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, edited by Gerald Hallowell, Oxford UP, 2004, pp. 458.
Turner, Nancy J. Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
Story of Last Calf and the cure for tuberculosis
Sproule, Dorothy. “Jeanne Mance: Founder of Hotel Dieu, Montreal.” Montreal in Verse: An Anthology of English Poetry by Montreal Poets. Ed. Writers of the Poetry Group. Montreal, Canadian Authors Association; 1942.

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In which we discuss the British investigation into the causes for the Rebellions... before they actually ended... and the controversial report by Lord Durham that resulted from it!

NOTE: Patrick refers to the report as "unofficial". It was considered official by the British and, for all intents and purposes, is. Patrick used that term because of the odd circumstances surrounding its creation, but that might not be clear for listeners. Also, Mackenzy swears a lot in this one (yes, I'm throwing him under the bus). Durham just brings out the worst in people!

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Sources & Further Reading:

Buckner, Phillip A. The Transition to Responsible Government: British Policy in British North America, 1815–1850. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Burroughs, Peter. The Canadian Crisis and British Colonial Policy, 1828–1841. Toronto: Edward Arnold, 1972.
Craig, G. M., ed. Lord Durham's Report. Ottawa, Ontario: Carleton University Press, 1992.
Lambton, George John (Lord Durham). Report on the affairs of British North America, 1839.
Martin, Ged. The Durham Report and British Policy: A Critical Essay. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

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In which we really end the discussion on the Rebellions with a long talk on those who were more active and violent in their actions against the British. The literature this week is the Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada and other such documents! It's a great way to start Season 2, let's goooo!

Major sources & further reading:

Find the poem we talked about at the end of the show here: https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2020/09/17/episode-21-extra-joseph-guillaume-barthe-poem-translated/

The Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada (1838): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_of_Lower_Canada

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In which an announcement allows you to preview Season 2 and mark your calendars for the return of your favorite humble podcast!

In which we conclude the main narrative of the Rebellions by talking about Lower Canada, Louis-Joseph Papineau, French-Canadian nationalism, very centrist poetry, and Star Wars! It all makes sense, okay? Kind of...

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In which a guest returns to talk about the Rebellions of 1837-8 in Upper Canada through their figurehead, William Lyon Mackenzie, and some poetry!

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In which we come to the end of our road to the Rebellions of 1837-8 and talk about the rise of the need for French-Canadians to distinguish themselves in British North America through things like the novel!

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In which we do something new on the show by bringing in a guest! Topics include reactions to progressive changes in Canada and imperialist satire. Using T.C. Haliburton's seminal comedy 'The Clockmaker', we explore the other side of the more liberal sentiments forming in the 1830s.

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In which, before covering some major shifts, we explore the political institutions that came, went, and remained from New France to British North America.

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In which John Richardson's 1832 novel 'Wacousta' helps us understand a fear of the unknown wilderness on the Canadian frontier - a fear solidified in the aftermath of Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763.

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In which Oliver Goldsmith's poem 'The Rising Village' is used to explore how the sons and daughters of the Loyalists saw their forefathers and their own place within Canada.

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In which we conclude our examination of the Scottish in Canada with a look at their influence on social justice and education. We even bring back some literature!

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In which the first wave of Scottish migration to British North America is discussed, with an emphasis on commerce and language!

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In which the War of 1812 is examined as a turning point in the Canadian identity and imagination despite its lack of any tangible impact.

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In which we turn back the clock and return to New France for a bit to discuss the roots of major elements of the French-Canadian identity.

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In which First Nations' history and storytelling is explored through their oral traditions and how writing changed a culture forever. A kind of follow up from Episode #8!

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In which the Inuit culture and oral mode of storytelling is explored, followed by an overview of how writing changed the approach to their myths and legends.

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In which Lawrence Hill's 2007 novel 'The Book of Negroes' (known as 'Someone Knows My Name' outside of Canada) is used to discuss Black Loyalists and slavery in the British Empire and Canada.

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In which we discuss 18th century English poetry from the Maritimes. Let's get into New England Planters, Loyalists, and a whole lot of misconceptions as to their role in the formation of Canada!

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In which the first poetry produced in what would become Canada is examined! How can Newfoundland's 17th and 18th century poets tell us about the very slowly emerging culture of Canada's last province?

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In which we cap off our examination of exploration literature with Alexander Mackenzie's recounting of his late-18th century travels from Montreal to the Arctic Ocean and to the Pacific Ocean! Bloody legend!

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In which we begin an examination of exploration literature through Samuel de Champlain and his writings about the adventures he went on (or did he...)! Find out how 400 years ago, Champlain helped set up many aspects of Canadian life that are still relevant today.

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In which a 1988 album by a Native American artist tells us about the forgotten or erased history of Indigenous populations in Canada and their initial contact with Europeans.

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In which Margaret Atwood's 1970 collection of poetry tells us about the major themes and subjects that will be central to Canadian culture and history.

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In which we find out what the show is about! Is that a rhyme? I feel it is...

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