100 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Part 1!
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. F...
5 Elo 20241h 13min
99 - P.M. Arthur Meighen: Smart A**
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 nobody cared and his ideas were outdated.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...
22 Heinä 20241h
98 - Modernism & The Montreal Group
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! ...
17 Kesä 20241h 2min
97 - Realism Comes to Town: Wild Geese & Settlers of the Marsh
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 publis...
3 Kesä 20241h 7min
96 - On Early Radio Broadcasting
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....
20 Touko 202431min
95 - Grey Owl: Conservationist, Activist, Imposter
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://ww...
6 Touko 20241h 6min
94 - Eugenics & Social Darwinism
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)...
22 Huhti 20241h 7min
93 - Canada Vibing
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 ep...
8 Huhti 20241h 14min
