A Cultural History of Canada

In which we talk about Quebec's 'grande noirceur' period (1939-1959) through its figurehead, Maurice Duplessis, and classic author Félix-Antoine Savard. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana) --- Sources/Further Reading Jones, Richard. Duplessis and the union nationale administration , 1983. Savard, Félix-Antoine...

In which Patrick talks to Andrea Currie (Métis) about her new book  Finding Otipemisiwak : The People Who Own Themselves , a narrative that extends from Andrea's experience of being a Sixties Scoop survivor. Find the book here or at your local bookstore! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading...

In which Patrick talks to Thomas F. Pedersen (professor emeritus at the University of Victoria) about his new book The Carbon Tax Question: Clarifying Canada's Most Consequential Policy Debate . --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading ( https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)

In which Patrick sits down with Carolyn Roberts to discuss her new book on decolonial education practices and what exactly it means to 're-story' education. Find more about the book here or at your local bookstore! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading ( https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.c...

In which Patrick talks about Wayson Choy's beautiful novel The Jade Peony and how it portrays the lives of Chinese Canadians of the 1930s. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading ( https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony, Douglas...

In which we discuss the time the Canadian government asked itself: 'wait... are [white] women people?' For real though... We compare that event to two P.K. Page poems. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading ( https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading Brandt,...

In which Patrick talks to filmmaker and writer Chase Joynt ( Framing Agnes ) about his new book,  Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir , which you can find here or at your local bookstore. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading ( https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)  

In which we discuss the Prime Minister during the opening years of the Depression, and how he mostly struggled to keep things running... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading ( https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading Bowering, George. Egotists & Autocrats:...

In which we discuss some of anti-capitalist responses to the Depression, like the creation of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the On-To-Ottawa Trek. Discussed caricatures/images: On-To-Ottawa ; "unemployement relief camps" --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiac...

In which we channel our inner feelings and talk about The Great Depression, with the help of Jack Winter's play  Ten Lost Years (1974). --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.faceb...

Patrick sits down with activist Ellen Gabriel (Kanien'kehá:ka, Wakeniáhton) and historian Sean Carleton (University of Manitoba) to discuss their excellent new book  When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance (released on Sept. 24). --- Find the book   here   or at your local bookstore. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/...

In which we talk about a Looney Toons episode happening in the Arctic - and a bit on another Rudy Wiebe novel! *Sorry about Patrick's mic quality - he didn't notice it was recording on a different device* --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/)...

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. Find our ranking of the P.M.s so far here! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://his...

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.M.s so far here! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress...

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! FYI: We're in a new Top 5! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana....

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 published in 1925. --- Support: Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana);  Paypal ( https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana);  recommended reading ( https://historiacanadiana.wordpress...

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.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana);  recommended reading ( https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact:  historiacanadiana@gmail.com ; Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/CanLit...

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://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana);  Paypal ( https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana);  recommended reading ( https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@g...

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); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook ( https://www.face...

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 episode!

In which Patrick talks with wildlife biologist Wayne McCrory about the beautiful - and surprisingly controversial - wild horses of the Chilcotin region.   In this compelling book, McCrory draws upon two decades of research to make a case for considering these wonderful creatures, called q i y u s in traditional Tŝilhqot'in culture, a resilient part of the area's balanced prey-predator ecosystem. M...

In which we discuss the paintings and philosophy of the most famous group of painters in Canada's history -- with a short story by Margaret Atwood for good measure. Patrick also rants in the wake of Brian Mulroney's death, be warned... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiac...

In which Pat and Mack discuss who was once one of the most influential and powerful women in Hollywood history - an actress from Toronto! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.fac...

In which Patrick lectures by himself about a poet whose work, Acanthus & Wild Grape , actively tried to bring Canadian poetry into the realm of modern sensibilities. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.co...

In which Pop Canada returns to discuss Brendan Fraser, who has become one of the most acclaimed actors of the 21st century - and played in  Encino Man , the  greatest movie of all time. Find the full episode (and more) on Patreon! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadi...