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

Patrice Dutil s’entretient avec Marc-André Ethier, Professeur dans la faculté d’Éducation de l’Université de Montréal au sujet de l’évolution de l’enseignement de l’histoire québécoise et canadienne dans les écoles de la province. Ce podcast fut réalisé par Sumeet Dhami et Pernia Jamshed dans les studios Allan Slaight Institute à Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting...

Patrice Dutil talks with Marc-André Ethier, Professor in the Faculty of Education at the Université de Montréal, about the teaching of Quebec and Canadian History in Quebec schools. This podcast was produced by Sumeet Dhami and Pernia Jamshed 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 co...

Greg Marchildon talks with Maureen Lux, Professor of History, Brock University, on the history of Indian hospitals based on her recent book Separate Beds: A History of Indians Hospitals in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2016). This podcast was produced by Sumeet Dhami and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporti...

Patrice Dutil talks with Carla Peck, Professor in the Faculty of Education of the University of Alberta, about the teaching of Canadian History in Canadian elementary schools. This podcast was produced by Sumeet Dhami and Naomi Katz 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...

Greg Marchildon talks with Greg Kealey (professor of history emeritus, University of New Brunswick) on the history of Canadian Spying (RCMP) before CSIS and his book Spying on Canadians: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War (University of Toronto Press, 2017). This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio...

Patrice Dutil talks with Arthur J. Ray about the upcoming Champlain Society book "Life and Death by the Frozen Sea": The York Fort Journals of Hudson’s Bay Company Governor James Knight, 1714–1717. This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY...

Greg Marchildon talks with Erika Dyck about her book Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada (University of Manitoba Press, 2017). This podcast was produced by Sumeet Dhami and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY . Your suppor...

Patrice Dutil talks with Paul Litt (Carleton University) about his book “Trudeaumania” (UBC Press) on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Pierre E. Trudeau’s first day as prime minister, 20 April 1968. This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_W...

Patrice Dutil talks with Peter Broughton about John Stanley Plaskett, Canada’s pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the 20th century. Broughton is the author of Northern Star: J.S. Plaskett (University of Toronto Press, 2017). This podcast was produced by Sumeet Dhami and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider support...

Greg Marchildon talks with Erika Dyck (University of Saskatchewan) about her book A Culture’s Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada (University of Manitoba Press, 2016). This podcast was produced by Sumeet Dhami and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://b...

Patrice Dutil talks with Mark McGowan (University of Toronto) about his book “The Imperial Irish: Canada’s Irish Catholics Fight the Great War, 1914-18” (McGill-Queens Univ. Press, 2017). This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY . Your sup...

Greg Marchildon talks with Barbara Mitchell (Trent University) about her book Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert’s Land in the Age of Enlightenment (University of Regina Press, 2017). This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst and Pernia Jamshed 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...

Greg Marchildon talks with Ian McKay (Wilson Institute for Canadian History) about his book (with Jamie Swift) The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War (Between the Lines, 2016). This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.l...

Patrice Dutil talks with Jeffers Lennox (Wesleyan University) on his book Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690-1763 (University of Toronto Press). This podcast was produced by Sumeet Dhami and Hugh Bakhurst in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider suppo...

Greg Marchildon talks with Ken McGoogan on his book Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage (HarperCollins, 2017). This podcast was produced by Hugh Bakhurst and Pernia Jamshed 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’s missi...

The Champlain Society goes to the Olympics! In this episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Bruce Kidd, noted sports historian and former Olympian, to discuss the history of the Winter Olympics and the phenomenal progress in Canada's performance at these events. Bruce Kidd is the Principal of the University of Toronto Scarborough and the author of many books including "The Struggle for Canadian Sport"...

Patrice Dutil talks with hockey historian Andrew Holman (Bridgewater State University) about the bizarre circumstances that gave birth to the NHL in the fall of 1917. This podcast was produced by Sumeet Dhami and Hugh Backhurst 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 th...

Patrice Dutil discusses the circumstances around Max Aitken's (Lord Beaverbrook) entry in the Wartime British Cabinet with Greg Marchildon, author of "Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance" (University of Toronto Press). This podcast was produced by Sumeet Dhami and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, p...

Greg Marchildon discusses the significance of this event of a hundred years ago with Patrice Dutil and David MacKenzie, authors of "Embattled Nation: Canada's Wartime Election of 1917" (Dundurn Press). This podcast was produced by Sumeet Dhami and Pernia Jamshed in the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_W...

What was Canada’s greatest accomplishment on the battle field in the First World War? Greg Marchildon and Kenna Turcotte discuss a contrarian view with historian Jack Granatstein, author of The Greatest Victory: Canada's One Hundred Days, 1918 (Oxford University Press, 2014). The documents referred to in this podcasts are described in this “Finding”. http://www.champlainsociety.ca/fighting-in-the-...

Patrice Dutil discusses with Pierre Anctil, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, the life and work of Henri Bourassa. The founder and editor of Le Devoir was arguably one of the most influential political thinkers in Canada over the past 150. The editorial being discussed was entitled “Canada: Should it be French or English?”. It is drawn from the 2017 Champlain Society volume “Do wha...

How did Macdonald manipulate the rebellion in the Northwest to his advantage? Greg Marchildon discusses the question with Bill Waiser, Professor Emeritus at the University of Regina. The documents in question were discussed by Waiser in this Champlain Society Finding/Trouvaille: http://www.champlainsociety.ca/for-our-own-purposes-prime-minister-macdonald-deliberately-portrayed-indians-as-rebels-in...

The losses during Battle of Vimy triggered in Canada a demand for conscription that ultimately tore the country apart. Patrice Dutil discusses the reaction against conscription with Pierre Anctil, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, focusing in particular on an editorial in Le Devoir by Henri Bourassa. It is drawn from the 2017 Champlain Society volume “Do what you Must”: Selected Ed...

Patrice Dutil s’entretien avec Pierre Anctil, professeur d'histoire à l'Université d'Ottawa, la vie et le travail d'Henri Bourassa. Le fondateur et rédacteur en chef du journal Le Devoir était sans doute l'un des penseurs politiques les plus influents au Canada au cours des 150 derniers. Ici, on discute de la perspective de Bourassa envers la Confédération tel qu’élaborée dans un éditorial signé p...

Les pertes au cours de la bataille de Vimy ont déclenché au Canada une demande de conscription qui a finalement déchiré le pays. Patrice Dutil discute de la réaction contre la conscription avec Pierre Anctil, professeur d'histoire à l'Université d'Ottawa, en se concentrant notamment sur un éditorial du Devoir d'Henri Bourassa. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/sup...