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

• Avrum Malus, Diane Allard and Maria Van Sundert. "Frank Oliver Call, Eastern Townships Poetry, and the Modernist Movement," Canadian Literature 107, 1985.

• Call, Frank Oliver. Acanthus & Wild Grape, McClelland & Stewart, 1920.

• Trehearne, Brian (editor). Canadian Poetry, 1920 to 1960, McClelland & Stewart, 2010.

• Beattie, Munro. "Poetry: 1920-1935." Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English (Second Edition) Volume II, edited by Alfred G. Bailey et al., University of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. 234–53.

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

In which Patrick talks alone in a microphone as Mack faces a cyclone! The show is going solo this week to talk a little about Japanese-Canadians and how Daphne Marlatt's Steveston interprets their history. --- 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

• Marlatt, Daphne. Steveston, Ronsdale Press, 2001 [1974].
• Szabo-Jones, Lisa. "Matters of Poetics and Resiliency in Daphne Marlatt's Steveston." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 25, no. 2, 2018, pp. 377–95
• Thompson, Paul. "Community History." Oral History, vol. 4, no. 2, 1976, pp. 98-101.

In which Patrick sits down with historian Dustin Galer to discuss his new book, Beryl, which explores the life and times of the famous Canadian disability activist.

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 unleash our anti-capitalist sides (again) to discuss how Marxism/communism was brought over into Canada, what it did and how it failed, as well as some lefty writers that sometimes are great and sometimes aren't.

Read some commie poems 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

• Doyle, James. Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002.
• Livesay, Dorothy. Day and Night, The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1944.
• McKay, Ian. Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920, Between the Lines, 2008.
• Naylor, James. The Fate of Labour Socialism: The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Dream of a Working-Class Future, University of Toronto Press, 2016.

Patrick sits down with playwright Meg Braem to discuss her play Flight Risk, "an empathetic exploration of grief, friendship, and hope, [which] asks what we lose when we ignore the knowledge of our elderly, challenges the way that we think about aging and death, and inspires a brighter, more compassionate future." Meg Braem is an Alberta-based playwright and dramaturg. Her plays have been nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award and have won the Alberta Literary Award for Drama, and the Alberta Playwriting Competition. 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 discuss the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike in relation to Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion (1987). We get unhinged as we discuss strike tactics, modernism/postmodernism, and Christmas. --- 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:

• 1919: 100 Years Later. CBC, 2019.
• Masters, Donald C. The Winnipeg General Strike, University of Toronto Press, 1950.
• Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion, Vintage, 1987.
• Spinks, Lee. "In the Skin of a Lion." Michael Ondaatje, Manchester University Press, 2009, pp. 137–70.

In which Patrick talks to Governor General's Award winner katherena vermette to discuss how she brought Métis history to life through her comic series A Girl Called Echo.

Find the omnibus at your local bookstore or here. --- 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 bring back Covid-19 pandemic memories by discussing the Spanish Flu in Canada with the help of Kevin Kerr's excellent 2002 play Unity (1918). Sorry for having posted so little in November - it was pure and simple a scheduling mistake. --- 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:

• Budgell, Anne. We All Expected to Die: Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918-1919, ISER, 2018.
• Darroch, Heidi Tiedemann. "The War at Home: Writing Influenza in Alice Munro's "Carried Away" and Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918)," Canadian Literature 245, 2021, pp. 90-104.
• Humphries, Mark Osborne. "Paths of Infection: The First World War and the Origins of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic." War in History, vol. 21, no. 1, 2014, pp. 55–81.
• Kerr, Kevin. Unity 1918, Talonbooks, 2002.

In which two tired & sick boys try to talk coherently about Timothy Findley's major literary achievement: a reckoning with the reality of World War One in his seminal 1977 work The Wars. --- 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

• Brydon, Diana. "'It could not be told': making meaning in Timothy Findley's The Wars," Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 21, no. 2, 1986.
• Findley, Timothy. The Wars, Penguin Modern Classics, 1977.
• McKay, Ian, and Jamie Swift. The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War, 2016.
• Novak, Dagmar. Dubious Glory: The Two World Wars and the Canadian Novel, New York: P. Lang, 2000.