A Cultural History of Canada

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: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Further Reading

Winter, Jack. Ten Lost Years, Talonbooks, 2013.

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/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected] & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory)

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/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Further Reading

• Wiebe, Rudy. The Mad Trapper, Calgary: Red Deer Press, 1980.

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://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading

• Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin Books, 2000.
• Dawson, R. MacGregor. William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography. University of Toronto, 1958.
• Scott, F. R. “W.L.M.K.” The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott, McClelland & Stewart, 1981, pp. 78–79.
• Stacey, C.P. A Very Double Life: The Personal World of Mackenzie King, Macmillan, 1977

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.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading

• Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin Books, 2000.
• Cartoon #1 - Conscription
• Cartoon #2 - Wheat Board

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.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading

• Irvine, Dean. The Canadian Modernists Meet, University of Ottawa Press, 2005.
• Norris, Ken. The little magazine in Canada, 1925–80, 1984.
• New Provinces: Poems by Several Authors, Macmillan, 1936.

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.com/books/) --- Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading:

• Grove, Frederick Philip. Settlers of the Marsh, McClelland and Stewart, 1925.
• Ostenso, Martha. Wild Geese, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1925.

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: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading:

• Shea, Albert Aber. Broadcasting the Canadian Way, Harvest House, 1963.
• Weir, E. Austin. The Struggle for National Broadcasting in Canada, McClelland and Stewart, 1965.

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: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading:

• Belaney, Archibald [Grey Owl], Grey Owl: Three Complete and Unabridged Canadian Classics, Firefly Books, 2001.
• Dickson, Lovat. Wilderness man: the strange story of Grey Owl, Abacus, 1976.
• Ruffo, Armand Garnet. Grey Owl: the mystery of Archie Belaney, Regina: Coteau Books, 1996.
• Smith, Donald B. From the land of shadows: the making of Grey Owl, Western Producer Prairie Books, 1990.

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: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) ---Sources/Further Reading:

• Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973.
• Dodd, Dianne. "eugenics." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Ludolph, Rebekah. “Exposing the Eugenic Reader: Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed and Settler Self-Education,” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 44, no. 2, 2019, pp. 101–120.
• McLaren, Angus. Our Own Master Race: Eugenics In Canada, 1885-1945, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990.
• Stote, Karen. An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women, Fernwood Publishing, 2015.