Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History)

Patrice Dutil discusses the ups and downs of Canada's presence on the United Nations Security Council since 1945 with Adam Chapnick, the author of Canada on the United Nations Security Council: A Small Power on a Large Stage (UBC Press). This podcast was produced by Michael Smith at the Allan Slaight Radio Institute of Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https:...

Patrice Dutil s’entretient avec Robert Calderisi, ancien fonctionnaire et expert conseil en affaires globales, sur la situation du Québec d’aujourd’hui à la lumière des résultats de la dernière campagne électorale. Il vient de faire paraitre Quebec in a Global Light: Reaching for the Common Ground (University of Toronto Press). Ce balado est une production de Michael Smith à Ryerson University, et...

Patrice Dutil interviews Robert Calderisi, former public servant and international policy advisor, on the situation of Quebec today in light of the 2019 federal election. His latest book is Quebec in a Global Light: Reaching for the Common Ground (University of Toronto Press). This podcast was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University, and is also available en français here: https://soundclo...

Greg Marchildon speaks with Dr Esyllt W. Jones about her Book Radical Medicine (ARP Books). Jones is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba. This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY . Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening ne...

Patrice Dutil talks with Donica Belisle about the role of wives in the writing of Canadian History, focusing particularly on Mary Quayle Innis and her influence on her spouse, Harold Innis. This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY . Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mi...

Patrice Dutil and Geoff Keelan (archivist at Library and Archives Canada) on Henri Bourassa and the First World War and his book “Duty to Dissent”: Henri Bourassa and the First World War, published by UBC Press.​ This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY . Your support contributes to the Champ...

Greg Marchildon interviews Steven High on the rise and fall of Sturgeon Falls in Northern Ontario. His book One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario explores the nature of the one-industry (or the one-resource) town that has been so much a part of Canadian history. This recording was produced by Hugh Bakhurst at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider suppo...

Patrice Dutil chats with Geoffrey Hayes about the state of Canada's army in the Second World War and his book Crerar’s Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45 (University of British Columbia Press). This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY . Your support contributes t...

Patrice Dutil interviews Michael Stevenson, Professor of History at Lakehead University, about “Free from all possibility of Historical Error”: Orillia’s Champlain Monument, French-English Relations, and Indigenous Representations and Misrepresentations in Commemorative Sculpture," his 2017 article in Ontario History. This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University. If you like...

Patrice Dutil speaks with Kevin Anderson, Professor of History at the University of Calgary about his book “Not Quite Us": Anti-Catholic Thought in English Canada Since 1900 (McGill-Queens University Press). This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY . Your support contributes to the Champlain...

Greg Marchildon speaks with Dr Esyllt W. Jones about the devastating 1918-1919 flu epidemic in Canada. Jones, Professor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba, is the author of Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg (University of Toronto Press, 2007). This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider sup...

Patrice Dutil talks with Brendan Kelly, junior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto about his book The Good Fight: Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy (University of British Columbia Press). This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support...

Patrice Dutil hosts Lawrence Leduc (Univ of Toronto) and the Hon. Peter Van Loan (PC, former member for York-Simcoe) in a spirited discussion on how the recent election compares with past electoral contests. This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY . Your support contributes to the Champlain...

The Great War Comes to Ontario Patrice Dutil interviews Jonathan Vance, Professor of History at Western University, about his book A Township at War (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) which has just won the Chalmers Award for Ontario History. That prize is administered by the Champlain Society. This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please conside...

Greg Marchildon interviews Dr. John Meehan, SJ, rector of the Gesù Church in Montreal, as well as the interim director of the Newman Centre at McGill University on the diplomatic history of Canada’s relationship with the Far East. Meehan’s books include ‘The Dominion and the Rising Sun’: Canada Encounters Japan, 1929-41 (UBC Press, 2004) and ‘Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai’: Canada’s Early Relatio...

Patrice Dutil talks with Robert Teigrob, Professor of History at Ryerson University, about the circumstances that brought Canada's prime minister to visit Berlin and King's meeting with leading Nazis. Teigrob is the author of "Four Days in Hitler’s Germany: Mackenzie King’s Mission to Avert a Second World War" (University of Toronto Press). This podcast was produced by Micheal Smith at the Allan S...

Greg Marchildon interviews Ronald Rudin of Concordia University, the author of Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park (University of Toronto Press, 2016). This national park was established in New Brunswick in a storm of controversy in 1969. The podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it:...

Greg Marchildon interviews David Wright of McGill University on his book SickKids: The History of The Hospital for Sick Children (University of Toronto Press) which won the Champlain Society’s Chalmers Award in 2016. This podcast was produced Hugh Bakhurst in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY . Y...

Greg Marchildon interviews J. Andrew Ross about his book Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League, 1917-1945 (University of Syracuse Press). This podcast was produced Hugh Bakhurst in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY . Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’...

O.D. Skelton was a key thinker in getting Canada out of the orbit of the British Empire after the First World War. Patrice Dutil speaks with Norman Hillmer, the editor of the 2013 volume of the Champlain Society: O.D. Skelton: The Work of the World, 1923-1941 (Volume LXXIV). This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work,...

Patrice Dutil speaks with Christo Aivalis about Pierre Trudeau's ideas and his new book The Constant Liberal: Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Social Democratic Left (University of British Columbia Press). This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/suppo...

Patrice Dutil interviews Prof. Jennifer Tunnicliffe of King's College/Western University about the surprising things she uncovered in the writing of her book Resisting Rights: Canada and the International Bill of Rights, 1947–76 (University of British Columbia Press). This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please...

Patrice Dutil talks with Robert Lewis, author of Power, Prime Ministers and the Press: The Battle for Truth on Parliament Hill (Dundurn) about how the complicated dance shared by governments and journalists over the past 150 years. This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit....

Patrice Dutil interviews Tarah Brookfield about what it took to finally convince the government and the people of Ontario to give the women the right to vote a hundred years ago. Tarah Brookfield is a Professor of History and Youth and Children's Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and the author of "Our Voices Must be Heard: Women and the Vote in Ontario" (University of British Columbia Press)....

Patrice Dutil speaks with Tom Mitchell, University Archivist (Emeritus) at Brandon University and co-author of "When the State Trembled – How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike" (University of Toronto Press) on the significance of this event that rocked the Western world. This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryer...