canadian history

This week we’re going up the Canadian coastline to tell the story of The Expulsion of the Acadians. French immigrants to the Americas just wanted to live their lives, be friends with the natives, and stay with their families (that’s oversimplifying it, but you get it). Of course, religion and the government decided to ruin the party for everyone, and A LOT of people died. 

Join us for this week’s historical tragedy, it’s quite sad.  

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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland: Faragher, John Mack: 9780393328271

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Frizz and Bob pour a totally rad new Cali whiskey and dig into Alanis Morissette's badass 90s breakthrough album, Jagged Little Pill. We're here to remind you of all the real details behind Uncle Joey in a theatre, unveil the realities for many young women in the music industry, stress the importance of friend-care and vulnerability... and most likely get banned by Taylor Swift, the Oxford Dictionary, and The London Times after this episode. Isn't it ironic?

In this episode we discuss the life of Mary Ann Shadd, a teacher, activist, and journalist in the mid-1800s. She was a freeborn black woman who was exposed to the abolitionist movement from a young age, which inspired her to spend her life fighting for the rights of black people in Canada and the United States. While one would think the abolitionist community would welcome any support, Mary Ann's tenacity and drive rubbed many abolitionst leaders the wrong way. She was a woman who never let the circumstance of race or gender stop her from establishing schools, a newspaper, and touring lecture circuits to earn support for the movement. 

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In this episode we discuss a possession in New France, when a young women named Barbe Hallay was tormented by demons. This is a story of colonization in the 17th century, a land that is trying to keep it's colonial population Catholic in the face of hardships, and a nun who desperately wants sainthood. Was Barbe really possessed? Was it her way of maintining bodily autonomy in a way that was fixable by the church? Are any of these questions actually answered? You'll have to listen to find out!

Check out "The Possession of Barbe Hally" by Mairi Cowan.

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In this last episode of the season, I chat with Dr. Donald Wright. Don is a Canadian historian at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, a small city in Atlantic Canada. His research interests include Canadian political, intellectual, and cultural history. For this episode, Don and I will be talking about his book Canada: A Very Short Introduction , which is a book he published as part of Oxford University Press's Very Short Introduction series.

His research interests include Canadian political, intellectual, and cultural history. His first book, The Professionalization of History in English Canada, looks at the transition from amateur historians working outside the university in the nineteenth century to professional historians, with advanced degrees, working inside the university. His second book was a biography of Donald Creighton, English Canada’s leading historian. Working with two colleagues, he next published an edited volume called Symbols of Canada which includes essays on, among other symbols, the beaver, hockey, and maple syrup and how these symbols have been used and how they have changed over time. He is now working on a book about the Canadian historian Ramsay Cook, 1931-2016, although like everyone else, he has been slowed by the pandemic.

An award-winning teacher, Don teaches courses in Canadian and American history and in the politics of climate change.

When he isn’t at his desk or in the classroom, Don likes to trail run with his black lab named Bruce and listen to podcasts on history, politics, and climate change.

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Bio: 

https://www.unb.ca/faculty-staff/directory/arts-fr-political-science/wright-donald.html

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The famous Massey Foundation (established in 1896) was the first charitable trust of its kind in Canada. It is often referred to as the first charity in Canada, but it would be a mistake to think this is where charity in Canada started.

This week, host Nick Bridges is joined by Know History’s Sara Wilmshurst. With her unique background in fundraising management, Sara is the perfect person to guide us through the history of charity in Canada.

How did British common law influence our definition of charity?  What effect did World War I have on charities in Canadian culture? What led to our ability to write off charitable donation on our taxes? And, what in the world is The Federation Fundraising Movement?

For these answers and more, join Nick and Sara as they notice the history of charity in Canada.

Notice History is the official podcast of Know History, a historical research company based in Ottawa. Visit our website at knowhistory.ca/podcast, or follow us on Twitter and Instagram @NoticeHistory.

This is the start of a long series of conversations, as it very well should be, since it entails both United States and Canadian “his story”. Our guest is “GM”, a Canadian by birth, but a citizen yet in good standing with his humanity. In other words, he cares about the well-being of everyone, enough to place telling of the … Read more about this episode...