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

Lester Pearson, Canada’s Minister of External Relations, sent a telegram to London in late July 1957 that outlined his early thinking on how this country could be involved in helping to defuse a potentially dangerous international crisis. Patrice Dutil discusses it with Antony Anderson, a Toronto filmmaker and author, who examined the issue in his The Diplomat: Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis (...

Patrice Dutil discusses the women diarists of the late nineteenth century with Gail Campbell, Professor Emerita of History, University of New Brunswick and the author of "I Wish to Keep a Record”: Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and their World (University of Toronto Press, 2017). The focus of the discussion is the work of Lucy Everett Morrison. This is the document being discussed...

Patrice Dutil s’entretient avec Danièle Caloz et Eric Brossard sur les récentes découvertes dans les archives française qui mettent en lumière la progression sociale d’Étienne Brûlé, le « truchement » de Champlain qui s’installa dans le pays des Huron-Ouendat en 1611. Le document en question est aussi examin&eacut...

Patrice Dutil and Greg Marchildon offer perspectives on their interests in History, Canada's past, and what "Witness to Yesterday/Témoin d'hier" is all about. They talk about books, documents and what makes for good history. Sabrina Bertsch, Cindy Long, Vincent Piette at the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University