Episodes

  • Episode 224: The Regina Trials

    Episode 224: The Regina Trials
    Dec 11 2024
    In the aftermath of the fighting, the meaning and legacy of 1885 is determined in a series of trials in Regina.

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    43 mins
  • Episode 223: A Human Hornet's Nest

    Episode 223: A Human Hornet's Nest
    Dec 4 2024
    The Canadian militia arrives in the northwest to suppress a Metis rebellion, but finds the situation there more complicated than anyone in the east imagined.

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    50 mins
  • Episode 222: They Have Taken My Name Away From Me

    Episode 222: They Have Taken My Name Away From Me
    Nov 27 2024
    While the Canadian government organizes a military response, and the Metis provisional government contemplates its next move, the initiative in the northwest passes to the Cree chiefs of Treaty Six territory, especially Poundmaker and Big Bear.

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    42 mins
  • Episode 221: Duck Lake

    Episode 221: Duck Lake
    Nov 20 2024
    The mounting tension in the Northwest is finally released, as violence breaks out between the Northwest Mounted Police and a group of Metis.

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    48 mins
  • Episode 220: The Land of the Pharaohs

    Episode 220: The Land of the Pharaohs
    Nov 13 2024
    With a crisis brewing on the Nile, the British Army turns to the most celebrated river pilots in the Empire - Canadian voyageurs.

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    34 mins
  • Episode 219: Heart and Memory

    Episode 219: Heart and Memory
    Nov 6 2024
    On the one hundred year anniversary of the loyalist migrations, Canadians contemplate their historical identity, their place in the British Empire, and a possible expansion into the Caribbean.

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    47 mins
  • Episode 218: The More Wretched They Will Become

    Episode 218: The More Wretched They Will Become
    Oct 30 2024
    Facing famine, and a decade of unfulfilled promises, indigenous leaders on the prairies seek out new forms of political organization.

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    39 mins
  • Episode 217: History Repeating Itself

    Episode 217: History Repeating Itself
    Oct 23 2024
    Fifteen years after the bungled expansion to the Red River, Ottawa risks making the same mistake in the northwest - ignoring the reality of the peoples residing there.

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    37 mins