Curious Canadian History
By David Borys
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Historian David Borys dives deep into the fascinating world of Canadian history in this bi-weekly podcast exploring everything from the wonderful to the weird to the downright dark. Get add free content at Patreon!
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S9E17 - Lost in the Crowd: Acadians and the First World War
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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S9E16 - Sex in Canada: Getting Down in the Great White North
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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S9E15 - Alcohol in early North America
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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S9E14 Hockey: The Game as We Know it Today
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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S9E13 - Of Fugitives and Orators: The Characters Behind the RCMP’s Complicated History - a special Canadian Time Machine episode
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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S9E12 - The Canadian Masters of the Air
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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S9E11 - Canada, Maritime Power, and Africa
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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S9E10 The Beginning of the End: The 1758 Siege of Louisbourg
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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S9E9 - A Ballistic Decision: Canadian Intelligence Services and the Cancellation of the Avro Arrow
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Holiday Reboot - The Upper Canadian Militia during the War of 1812
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Holiday Reboot - S2E1 The Strangest Tale of WW2: The Battle for Castle Itter
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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S9E8 Confederates in Canada and the Canadian Connection to Lincoln's Assassination
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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S9E7 Big Men Fear Me - The Life and Times of George McCullagh
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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S9E6 The SS in Canada Part Two
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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S9E5 - The Partition of Palestine
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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S9E4 The SS in Canada Part One
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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S9E3 The Bombing of Air India Flight 182
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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S9E2 United the Salish! The Battle of Maple Bay
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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S9E1 Henri Le Caron - The Victorian Super Spy
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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S8E21 A Global Collision - The North Pacific Fur Trade
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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S8E20 Thayendenagay aka Joseph Brant – the warrior-diplomat
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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S8E19 - D-Day, 6 June, 1944
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May 30, 2023 |
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S8E18 - Gordon Lightfoot - A National Treasure
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May 16, 2023 |
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S8E17 HMCS Uganda - The Ship that Voted to Leave the War
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May 02, 2023 |
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S8E16 Seize Wismar, Stop the Soviets!
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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S8E15 Columbus Who? The Norse in Newfoundland
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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S8E14 Strange Tales from Toronto
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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S8E13 The Little Island That Could: PEI and Confederation
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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S8E12 Montreal's Black Renaissance
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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S8E11 Clara Ford and the Parkdale Murder that Excited a Nation
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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S8E10 - Our Man in Toronto: Sam Carr and a Soviet Spy Ring in Canada
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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S8E9 The Trent Affair and the Defence of British North America
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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S8E8 I've Seen it, I've Done It - the Life of Paul Anka
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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S8E7 The Last Duel....in Canada
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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S8E6 Henri Bourassa and the Conscription Crisis
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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S8E5 Stanley Thompson and Golf in Canada
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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S8E4 A 17th Century River of Change - The Innu and the Algonquin along the St. Lawrence River
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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S8E3 The Honan Mission – First Generation Canadian Missionaries in China
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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S8E2 The Frontier Constabulary - Canada’s First Secret Police
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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S8E1 Kurt Meyer - A War Criminal in Canada
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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S7E21 - The Dakota War and British North America
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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S7E20 The Avro Arrow Part 2
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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S7E19 The Avro Arrow Part 1
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May 24, 2022 |
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S7E18 To Pass or Not to Pass - The Emergence (and Divergence) of North American Football
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May 10, 2022 |
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S7E17 A Thankless Task - Policing in New France
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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S7E16 The 1979 Binational Lesbian Conference
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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S7E15 Rise Republic Rise: The United Irish Uprising in Newfoundland
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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S7E14 The Guess Who
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Announcement - Name Change!
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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S7E13 Gravenhurst: The Gateway City
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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S7E12 Nic Power - The Bad Detective
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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S7E11 To the Winner Goes the Spoils: The Origins of Lord Stanley's Cup
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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S7E10 More than Just Beads and Bannock: First Nations Women and the Fur Trade
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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S7E9 Viola Desmond: The Woman on the 10 Dollar Bill
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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S7E8 Ring the Alarm – The Japanese Attack on Canada’s West Coast
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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S7E7 – Gahoendoe and the loss of Wendake
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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S7E6 – Forgotten Battle: The Battle for the Scheldt – a conversation with Mark Zuehlke
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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S7E5 – The Forgotten Fourth Arm – The Merchant Navy’s Fight for Recognition
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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S7E4 We Notorious! Canadian Hip Hop in the 20th Century
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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S7E3 – Africville
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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S7E2 – Welcome! Welcome! A History of Halifax’s Pier 21
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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S7E1 – The Longest War: A Brief History of Canada in Afghanistan
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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*Special Episode* – Dr. Crystal Fraser and Residential Schools in Canada
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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S6E19 Canadian Audiences and The Birth of a Nation
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May 31, 2021 |
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S6E18 The Seaborn Missions to North Vietnam
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May 17, 2021 |
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S6E17 The Fruit Machine
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May 03, 2021 |
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S6E16 The Canal That Never Was
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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S6E15 Canada’s First Spree Killer
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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S6E14 Bill Miner – The Gentleman Robber Part 2
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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S6E13 Bill Miner – The Gentleman Robber – Part One
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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S6E12 The Mystery of Capreol’s Mass Grave
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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S6E11 Laying Down the Law – Canadian Civil Affairs and the Belgian Resistance
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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S6E10 Give Peace a Chance – John and Yoko Come to Canada
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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S6E9 A Nation of Our Own – The Six Nations Appeal to the League of Nations
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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S6E8 The Famous Five and the Persons Case
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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S6E7 The Fight for History with Dr. Tim Cook
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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S6E6 Whose Side Are You On Anyways? The Canadian Response to the Suez Crisis
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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S6E5 John Labatt’s and the Windy City
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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S6E4 Bert and Ernie Eh? The Canadianization of Sesame Street
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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S6E3 A Century of Service: The Life of Nova Scotian Provo Wallis, Admiral of the Fleet
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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S6E2 Clio’s Treats: Culinary Connections to Canadian History
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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S6E1 Chaos in the Cariboo Sky: The Crash of Canadian Pacific Flight 21
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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S5E20 The Underground Railroad
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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S5E19 A Lost Cause? Canada’s Diplomatic Involvement in the Vietnam War
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May 25, 2020 |
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S5E18 Nuns on the Frontier – The Ursulines of Quebec
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May 11, 2020 |
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S5E17 The Dutch Food Crisis and Operation Faust
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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S5E16 The Wabanaki Confederacy
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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S5E15 The Coloured Corps and the War of 1812
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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S5E14 – Un-Canadian Content? Bryan Adams and the Waking up the Neighbours Controversy
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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S5E13 Leo Major – A French-Canadian Rambo
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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S5E12 Kicking in the Door – Canada Invades Nazi Germany
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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S5E11 The Mad Trapper of Rat River
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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S5E10 An Uphill Skate – The Women of the Hockey Hall of Fame
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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1867 & All That
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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S5E9 Cougar Annie – The Wild Woman of Vancouver Island
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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S5E8 Little Stalingrad – The Battle for Ortona, December 1943
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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S5E7 Tricky Bob and the 1917 Federal Election
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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S5E6 Optical Aleutians – The Liberation of Kiska Island
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Nov 10, 2019 |
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S5E5 A Murder in the Desert – The Canadian Airborne Regiment and the Somalia Scandal
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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S5E4 Amherst’s VIP Prisoner: Trotsky in the Maritimes
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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S5E3 The Buffalo Alliance – Poundmaker and Crowfoot
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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S5E2 The Pirate Queen of Canada – Maria Lindsay Cobham
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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S5E1 Canada’s Forgotten Battle – The Battle of the Medak Pocket
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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*Special Bonus Episode* The Voices of D-Day
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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*Special Episode* D-Day 75
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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S4E17 Subordinate No More! Canada’s Inter-War Move to Independence
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May 26, 2019 |
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S4E16 The Chatham Coloured All-Stars
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May 13, 2019 |
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S4E15 Separate Spheres Turned Upside Down – French Women and the Survival of New France
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Apr 14, 2019 |
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S4E14 A Search for Asylum – Sitting Bull in Canada
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Mar 31, 2019 |
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S4E12 “The Riot Heard ‘Round the World” – Vancouver’s 1907 Anti-Asian Riot
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Mar 03, 2019 |
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S4E11 Thérèse Casgrain
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Feb 17, 2019 |
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S4E10 Eugenics in Alberta
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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S4E9 ‘Kill the Indian, Save the Child’ – Residential Schools in Canada
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Jan 20, 2019 |
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S4E8 Montreal’s Poet Laureate: The Life and Music of Leonard Cohen
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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S4E7 The Assassination of D’Arcy McGee
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Dec 09, 2018 |
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S4E6 Canadians on the Bridge Part Two: James Doohan
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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S4E5 The First World War Remembered
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Nov 11, 2018 |
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S4E4 Canadians on the Bridge Part 1 – William Shatner
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Oct 28, 2018 |
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S4E3 The Mohawk Nurse
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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S4E2 The Pig War of 1859
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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S4E1 The 100 Days Campaign
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Sep 16, 2018 |
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*Special Episode* A Black Day for the German Army – The Battle of Amiens 8 August 1918
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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S3E20 Hockey, Canadian Identity and the Summit Series of 1972
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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S3E19 Who Won the War of 1812?
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May 27, 2018 |
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S3E18 The Graveyard of the Pacific
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May 13, 2018 |
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S3E17 Camp X – Canada’s Secret WW2 Spy Camp
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Apr 29, 2018 |
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S3E16 Chloe Cooley and Slavery in Canada
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Apr 15, 2018 |
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S3E15 James Howlett aka Logan aka Wolverine
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Apr 01, 2018 |
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S3E14 The 1701 Great Peace of Montreal
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Mar 18, 2018 |
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S3E13 Nils Gustav Von Schoultz and the Upper Canadian Rebellion
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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S3E12 The Bride Ships of British Columbia
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Feb 18, 2018 |
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S3E11 Francis ‘Peggy’ Pegahmagabow: WW1 Sniper and Indigenous Activist
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Feb 03, 2018 |
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S3E10 First Nations Soldiers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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S3E9 Behind Barbed Wire: Ukrainian Internment during the First World War
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Jan 07, 2018 |
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S3E8 Frostbitten and Forgotten – The Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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S3E7 Canadian Comics and the Second World War Effort
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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S3E6 The Pemmican War – The Rivalry for the Northwest Territories
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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S3E5 Mona Parsons – The Wolfville Resister
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Nov 05, 2017 |
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S3E4 The Battle of Passchendaele
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Oct 28, 2017 |
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*Repeat Episode* Canada’s House Band: The History of the Tragically Hip
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Oct 22, 2017 |
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S3E3 A Constitution in Question – The King-Byng Affair of 1926
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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S3E2 Behold the Golden Harp! The Fenian Invasions
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Sep 24, 2017 |
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S3E1 The Last of the Mohicans in Canadian History
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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*Special Episode* Bite and Hold: The Battle for Hill 70 and Lens August 1917
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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*Special Episode* Canada 150
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Jul 01, 2017 |
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S2E18 A Bold and Audacious Plan – The Battle for Assoro
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May 29, 2017 |
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S2E17 La Famille Verendrye and the Exploration of the West
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May 13, 2017 |
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S2E16 A Grim Day Indeed: The Halifax Explosion
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May 01, 2017 |
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S2E15 Vimy Ridge Part 2
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Apr 16, 2017 |
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S2E14 Vimy Ridge Part 1
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Apr 01, 2017 |
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S2E13 The Komagata Maru
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Mar 19, 2017 |
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S2E12 A Doukhobor Whodunnit: The Mysterious Death of Peter Verigin
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Mar 05, 2017 |
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S2E11 William K. Lore – Canada’s first Chinese-Canadian Naval Officer
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Feb 19, 2017 |
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S2E10 The Fall of Hong Kong, December 1941
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Feb 06, 2017 |
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S2E9 The October Crisis of 1970
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Jan 22, 2017 |
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S2E8 Canada’s House Band: A History of the Tragically Hip
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Jan 07, 2017 |
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S2E7 Feminists or Feared Revolutionaries? The VWC and the Abortion Caravan of 1970
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Dec 04, 2016 |
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S2E6 – The Missing Militia: Upper Canadian Militia during the War of 1812
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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S2E4 A Rebellious Last Stand: The Battle of Batoche May 1885
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Oct 22, 2016 |
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S2E2 René Lévesque – The Father of Quebec Separatism
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Sep 25, 2016 |
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S2E1 The Strangest Tale of the Second World War: The Battle for Castle Itter
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Sep 11, 2016 |