In which we discuss Canada's seventh prime minister and first French-Canadian PM! We look at some caricatures that were made of the man and some of the major decisions that came up during his career! ---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). --- Caricatures:

• Manitoba Schools Question: One and Two
• Transcontinental Railway
• Creating new provinces
• Reciprocity

  Sources & Further Reading:

• Bélanger, Réal. “Laurier, Wilfrid.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Bliss, Michael. Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney, Toronto: HarperCollins, 1994.
• Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Minister of Canada. Penguin, 2000.
• Laurier, Wilfrid. “Speech on Political Liberalism,” June 26, 1877.

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Note: Patrick had to record in his kitchen, so there's a slight echo, but everything is clear. In which we talk about how the average person in Canada would have seen the Boer War in South Africa (hint: big questions were asked about why). We talk about a Robert Service poem and Stephen Leacock's famous Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. ---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). --- Sources/Further Reading:

• Berger, Carl. The Sense of Power, University of Toronto Press, 1970.
• Brown, Brigitte. “The South African War (1899-1902) and the Transperipheral Production of Canadian Literatures,” Carleton University, 2020.
• Leacock, Stephen. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Broadview Press, 1912 [2002].
• Robinet, Alicia C., ““The seal set on our nationhood”: Canadian Literary Responses to the South African War (1899-1902)”, The University of Western Ontario, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository, 2021.
• Service, Robert W. “The March of the Dead,” Songs of a Sourdough. William Briggs, 1907, pp. 62-65.

In which Patrick talks to Katherine Palmer Gordon to discuss her new release This Place Is Who We Are. We discuss the central theme of the book, how Indigenous communities in BC are reconnecting to their lands and waters, what it means to write about Indigenous peoples as a settler scholar, and much more!

Katherine Palmer Gordon is the author of five books of non-fiction, including several BC Bestsellers: The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley, The Garden That You Are, and Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia, for which she was awarded the 2007 BC Haig-Brown prize. She is also an award-winning freelance journalist and lives on Gabriola Island, BC. ---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], Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory).

In which our heroes discuss the famous Cree chief and Rudy Wiebe's 1973 novelization of his life. ---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). --- Sources & Further Reading:

• Grace, Sherrill E. “Western Myth And Northern History: The Plains Indians Of Berger And Wiebe.” Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1983, pp. 146–56.
• Wiebe, Rudy. The Temptations of Big Bear, Knopf Canada, 2010 [1973].
• van Toorn, Penny. “Dialogizing The Scriptures: A Bakhtinian Reading Of The Novels Of Rudy Wiebe.” Literature and Theology, vol. 9, no. 4, 1995, pp. 439–48.

In which, in honour of May being Asian Heritage Month, Patrick talks to Vancouver-based artist Henry Tsang about the anti-Asian riots that took place in British Columbia in 1907. Find out about Henry's work, how he adapted the event into virtual art, and edited a book around the event: White Riot.

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*SORRY FOR THE AUDIO, WE DID OUR BEST - IT WILL GET BETTER* In which Patrick presents the watershed Quebecois poet, Émile Nelligan, to his co-host who never even heard of him!

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• Brissette, Pascal. Nelligan dans tous ses états: Un mythe national, Montréal: Fides, 1998.
• Dole, Robert. Émile Nelligan’s Homosexuality and Schizophrenia, Journal of Literature and Art Studies, April 2020, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 304-306.
• Hamish. “The First Poets, Part 1: “Gaydar Moments””, The Drummer’s Revenge, 2009.
• Nelligan, Émile. The complete poems of Emile Nelligan, Harvest House, 1983.
• Michon, Jacques. “Nelligan, Émile.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1998.

In which Patrick sits down with acclaimed literary scholar J. Edward Chamberlin (Officer of the Order of Canada and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto) to talk about his new book Storylines: How Words Shape Our World.

For more information about the book go to: https://douglas-mcintyre.com/products/9781771623513 ---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], Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory).

In which our heroes discuss Jewish communities in Canada, and how they impacted late 19th/early 20th century life! ---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], Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources & Further Reading:

• Abella, Irving M. A Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada, Key Porter Books, 1990.
• Segal, Y.Y. “Late Autumn in Montreal.” (trans. Miriam Waddington) Canadian Literature 42, pp. 41, 1969.
• Smith, Goldwin. “The Jewish Question.” Essays on Questions of the Day. London: Macmillan & Co., 1881, pp. 221–260.
• Soprano Pauline DONALDA: Two Songs (1908)
• Tulchinsky, Gerald. Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community, Lester Publishing, 1992.

In which we are joined by long-time background guest and feminist extraordinaire, Camille Houle-Eichel, to talk about the early suffrage movements that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries! We talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of those movements, stopping just short of the actual achievement of provincial or federal suffrage. ---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], Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---Sources/Further Reading:

• Cleverdon, Catherine. The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1950.
• Crawford, Isabella Valancy. “Malcolm’s Katie”. "Old Spookses' Pass," "Malcolm's Katie" and other Poems, Toronto: James Bain and Son, 1884.
• McClung, Nellie. “Speaking to Women”. Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts. Vol 1. Ed. Cynthia Suggars and Laura Moss. Toronto: Pearson, 2009, pp. 533–39 
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• Dorland, Michael, and Maurice R. Charland, “’Impious Civility’: Woman’s Suffrage and the Refiguration of Civil Culture, 1885-1929,” Law, Rhetoric and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture, 2002.
• Strong-Boag, Veronica. “Women's suffrage movement.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.