The Nations of Canada
A narrative history podcast that chronicles the story of Canada, beginning with its earliest inhabitants and continuing through to the present day. Hosted by Greg Koabel, the show presents Canadian history in an engaging, story-driven format. Each episode explores key events, people, and developments that shaped the nation. It is produced independently and supported by listeners.
Episodes
Episode 1: Introduction
An introduction to the project - a history of CanadaBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 2: The Great Diversity
The last ice age ends, and humans follow the receding glaciers into Canada.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 3: Arctic Migrations
1000-1300. Inter-continental migrations from east and west meet in the far north of Canada.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 4: The Three Sisters
1350-1450. Agriculture comes to the Great Lakes region, sparking an economic, political, and social revolution.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 5: New Found Land
1490-1500. Fishermen out of Bristol follow cod across the Atlantic, and find an entire continent.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 6: Jacques Cartier
1534. Seeking a passage to the orient, a French explorer investigates reports of open sea to the west of Newfoundland.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 7: As False as Canadian Diamonds
1535-1542. Jacques Cartier returns to Canada, this time intent on building the first permanent European settlement since the Norse period.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 8: The Basques
While the French abandon their colonization effort on the St. Lawrence, Canada's Atlantic coast plays host to a meeting of cultures from either side of the Atlantic.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 9: An Alchemist Matter
England takes its turn attempting to colonize Canada, choosing as its destination the inhospitable arctic.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 10: Mystery on the St. Lawrence
Europeans are suddenly drawn to Canadian fur. Meanwhile, the Upper St. Lawrence undergoes a cataclysmic change.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 11: False Starts
1598-1603The French see an opportunity to settle a colony in Canada, but find that they have bitten off more than they can chew.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 12: The Royal Cartographer
1603Having failed twice to establish a colony in Canada, France turns to Samuel de Champlain to scout out an ideal location for a settlement.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 13: Acadia
1604-1607Frightened off by the winters on the St. Lawrence, French colonists seek out a more temperate home on the Atlantic coast.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 14: Where the River Narrows
1608-1609Champlain returns to the St. Lawrence, with one last chance to prove to the King that a Canadian colony is a viable proposition.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 15: Hudson's Passage
1609The Dutch hire an English explorer, Henry Hudson, to discover a way around Russia to the Orient. Instead, he finds an alternate access point to the Canadian fur trade.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 16: The Laurentian Coalition
1610-1611The chiefs of the Wendat Council travel to the St. Lawrence to formalize their alliance with the French, establishing a partnership that would define the next 40 years of Canadian history.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 17: Hudson's Passage 2.0
1610-1611After discovering a possible access point to the St. Lawrence trade network from the south, Henry Hudson searches for a way in from the north.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 18: Lies on the Ottawa
1612-1613Champlain finally gets to see what lies beyond the great rapids. But up the Ottawa River, he finds that he doesn't know who he can trust.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 19: Jesuit Acadia
1610-1613An uneasy partnership between settlers and missionaries attempts to revive France's colonial presence in Acadia.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 20: Mutual Misunderstandings
1615-1616Champlain spends a year among the Wendat, and comes to realize that he still has a lot to learn about indigenous politics and diplomacy.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 21: The Wendat World
1616-1620As the St. Lawrence fur trade (and interactions with the French) become common features of Wendat life, the Confederacy adapts itself to new economic, cultural, and social realities.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 22: Profit, Glory, and Honour
1616-1622After almost 20 years of turmoil, Champlain's project finally achieves a degree of stability in both Canada and France.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 23: Rivals
1613-1624A rival Indigenous/European alliance emerges to the south of the St. Lawrence, and threatens to divert the inland fur trade away from New France.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 24: Birth of an Empire
1624New leadership in France once again re-invents Canada as an imperial project, with missionaries among the Wendat Confederacy acting as the agents of a trans-Atlantic empire.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 25: The Canadian Theatre
1627War in Europe casts the presence of the English and Scottish in Atlantic Canada in a new light.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 26: The First Conquest of Quebec
1627-1632When war breaks out in Europe, English and Scottish entrepreneurs see an opportunity in a suddenly vulnerable French Canada.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 27: A New New France
1633-5The French reclaim Quebec, and Richelieu gets a clean slate to implement his vision of New France as far more than just a fur market.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 28: Soldiers of God
1634In re-establishing a mission within the Wendat Confederacy, the Jesuits find themselves at the centre of a complex diplomatic network.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 29: Pestilence and Witchcraft
1637Multiple waves of European infectious diseases sweep through the Great Lakes region, radically altering the societies there.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 30: Mourning War
1637Fueled by the destructive force of European diseases, the geo-political stability of the Great Lakes region breaks down, opening a period of sustained warfare.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 31: Ste Marie Among the Hurons
1637-8The Jesuits construct their own mission settlement within the Wendat Confederacy, re-shaping the social and political landscape of Huronia.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 32: Kinship of the Flesh
1640-1643Devastated by war and disease, Algonquins on the Ottawa and St. Lawrence attempt to construct a new community by re-shaping European religion for the Canadian context.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 33: This Country is But One Scene of Massacre
1644-1646With Iroquois warriors closing off the fur trade, governor Montmagny is forced to contemplate abandoning his indigenous allies.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 34: Fractured Communities
1644-1646In the face of a common Iroquois military threat, both New France and the Wendat Confederacy undergo dramatic social and political change.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 35: Bitter Resignation
1647-8When peace talks break down, Iroquois warriors strike into the heart of Huronia, threatening the very existence of the Laurentian coalition.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 36: The Remnants of This Ruined Nation
1649-1650After 200 years, the Wendat Confederacy suddenly collapses, upending the geo-political landscape of the Great Lakes regionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 37: We See Ourselves Dying
1650-4After seeking protection outside Quebec, refugees from the Wendat Confederacy remain vulnerable. But divisions within the Iroquois Confederacy present a diplomatic opportunity.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 38: The Acadian Civil War
1635-1654Multiple Frenchmen vie for control over Acadia, drawing on support from Quebec, Paris, and Boston.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 39: The Runners of the Woods
1654-1660Ottawa traders and French backwoodsmen combine to bring the old Wendat fur network back to life.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 40: Domestic Holiness
A distinct French Canadian religious identity begins to emerge out of the apocalyptical atmosphere on the St. Lawrence.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 41: The King's Colony
King Louis XIV determines that in order to preserve Canada, he'll have to step in and administer the colony directly.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 42: Seigneurs and Habitants
The relationship between aristocrat and peasant shifts as it crosses the Atlantic, creating a new category - the habitant.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 43: A Maritime Tour
Catching up on developments in the Maritime region - from a haven for English Catholics in Newfoundland, to life for Acadians under English rule.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 44: Peace
After a generation of war, the Iroquois Confederation and the French allied nations find themselves more integrated than ever before.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 45: The Bottom of the Bay
Two of New France's premier fur traders leave the colony in frustration, and seek English backers for a rival operation in the far north.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 46: The Manitous
Missionaries follow fur traders into the pays d'en haut west of New France, and find new societies emerging out of the chaos and migrations of the 1650s.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 47: Filles de Roi
The intendant of New France, Jean Talon, conducts and audit and finds that the colony lacks a crucial ingredient - women.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 48: Desire to Live Indifferent
A devastating war between English settlers and their Abenaki neighbours to the north creates a new geo-political environment for both Canada and Acadia.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 49: Mistress of My Own Body
Large scale peace-time migrations produce new hybrid communities on the St. Lawrence. Iroquois, Wendat, and Algonquin identities overlap, and new Christian adaptations emerge.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 50: The Middle Ground
Competition with the Iroquois Confederacy forces the French to develop new forms of economic and diplomatic power in the pays d'en haut.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 51: The Empire Humbled
The new governor of New France attempts to solve the colony's Iroquois problem by marching an army into the wilderness beyond the St. Lawrence.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 52: Canadian Warfare
Desperate for a victory, the new governor of New France sends a group of French marines and Canadian backwoodsmen to the English trading posts on Hudson Bay.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 53: Victory and Deceit
A new governor of New France makes a new set of mistakes, escalating the conflict with the Iroquois Confederacy.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 54: The Mouth of My Cannons
Governor Frontenac makes his triumphant return to New France, and celebrates by delivering a pithy one-liner to an invading army of English Americans.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 55: A Very Active Lad
The Hudson's Bay Company sends young Henry Kelsey into the unknown interior of North America, to find out how their business actually works.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 56: Nothing But Destruction
The war in North America concludes, but not before the devastation of communities from Newfoundland to the Great Lakes.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 57: A Mountain of Beaver
As the fur trade enters a crisis, the French are forced to recognize that the institution has diplomatic and political dimensions beyond its failing economics.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 58: We Made a Bridge of All Those Bodies
As diplomats in Europe left the job half-done, indigenous and Canadian leaders gather at Montreal to establish a peace (and a new diplomatic system) that will persist for a generation.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 59: Captivity
After a brief pause, war once again breaks out between the English and French, re-opening a thriving war captive economy on the New England frontier.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 60: Detroit
The French experiment with a settlement in the heart of the pays d'en haut, but soo find that the politics of the upper country work very different from the inside.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 61: The Slave Colony
As enslaved labour becomes more common in New France, owners call on the Crown to explicitly enshrine in law their right to own human property.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 62: The Dunkirk of America
While Canada is protected by geography and Iroquois neutrality, Acadia becomes the target of American fury.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 63: A Figment of European Imaginations
From Acadia to the pays d'en haut, actors on the ground scramble to translate the Treaty of Utrecht into reality as it crossed the Atlantic.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 64: So Many Enemies in Our Bosom
In the post-Utrecht Maritimes, both the British and the French construct new colonies, once again leaving Acadians stuck in the middle.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 65: Citizens of the Bay
Now the unchallenged masters of the north, the Hudson's Bay Company slides into a comfortable complacency.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 66: An Uncomfortable Peace
The French, British, and Iroquois jockey for position in the new political and economic order of the pays d'en haut.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 67: Nova Scotia and the Mi'kmaq
Having secured Nova Scotia through the Treaty of Utrecht, the British discover that the Mi'kmaq, who possess the majority of the territory, see no reason to respect an agreement they did not participate in.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 68: A Free Fishery
A base for a profitable fishery, a training ground for the sailors of the Royal Navy...Newfoundland would have been the perfect imperial possession. That is, if it weren't for the inconvenient existence of Newfoundlanders.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 69: Made in Canada
As Canada emerges as a distinct society from that of France, Canadians also begin to carve out a distinct colonial economy - at times, in opposition to policy-makers at Versailles.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 70: Good Goods and Kind Usage
The Hudson's Bay Company is forced out of its complacency by French competition in the interior, and anti-monopolist agitators back in Britain.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 71: The Golden Age
Despite continued instability in the government at Annapolis Royal (or perhaps because of it) Acadian society enjoys a golden age of peace and prosperity.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 72: To What Test Have We Not Submitted
A new war erupts between Britain and France, and the question of Acadian loyalties takes on a violent urgency.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 73: The Ohio Country
As Britain and France formalize their new peace in Europe, the seeds of a new conflict are planted on the North American frontier.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 74: This Beautiful River
Imperial rivals clash amid a complex geo-political ecosystem in the Ohio Country.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 75: That Place Belongs to Me
The British construct a new naval base in Nova Scotia (Halifax), but quickly discover that old territorial disputes with the Mi'kmaq and French alive and well.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 76: They Have the Advantage of Us
For the first time in more than 60 years the Hudson's Bay Company sends an employee (Anthony Henday) inland, where he discovers the full extent of the Company's supply chains, and a rapidly changing social and political world.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 77: You Are Not Yet Dead, My Father
Britain sends an army across the Atlantic to confront the French interlopers in the Ohio Country. It does not go well.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 78: A Disagreeable Business
After 40 years of failed negotiation and accommodation the colonial government of Nova Scotia solves its Acadian problem through mass deportations.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 79: An Abominable Way to Make War
A new French general arrives in North America seeking glory, but is disturbed to find that his Canadian and indigenous allies have a very different definition of honour.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
Episode 80: A Dreadful Vengeance
Thanks to a new crop of energetic young officers, the British finally score a victory in North America.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.
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