There were some audio issues on Phil's end, but I think it's still listenable! Apologies. Patrick sits down with Phil Lind and Robert Brehl to discuss their new book Tales of an Unsung Sourdough: The Extraordinary Klondike Adventures of Johnny Lind.

Phil Lind is a recipient of the Order of Canada, and the vice-chair of Rogers Communications Inc. His co-author, Robert Brehl is an award-winning journalist and author of a previous collaboration with Lind, Right Hand Man.

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In which we discuss Hugh McLennan's pivotal 1941 book Barometer Rising and how it informs our understanding of World War 1 as it was experienced 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:

• Mac Donald, Laura M. Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917, Walker & Company, 2005.
• MacLennan, Hugh. Barometer Rising. McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
• Morton, Desmond. "First World War." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Woodcock, George. Introducing Hugh Maclennan's Barometer Rising: A Reader's Guide. ECW Press, 1989.

In which we discuss and rank Canada's first wartime PM, Sir Robert Laird Borden!

Find our ranking 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:

• 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, 1999.
• Cook, Tim. Warlords : Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada's World Wars, Toronto: Allen Lane, 2012.

Mack is away this week, so enjoy another interview! Patrick sits down with Winnipeg documentarian and writer, Robert Lower (After the Big One: Nuclear War on the Prairies; Shameless Propaganda) to discuss his new book Unsettled: Lord Selkirk's Scottish Colonists.

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In which Patrick has a long discussion with David Austin to discuss the re-release of Fear of a Black Nation. "Situating Canada within the Black radical tradition and its Caribbean radical counterpart, Fear of a Black Nation paints a history of Montreal and the Black activists who lived in, sojourned in, or visited the city and agitated for change. Drawing on Saidiya Hartman's conception of slavery's afterlife and what David Austin describes as biosexuality – a deeply embedded fear of Black self-organization and interracial solidarity – Fear of a Black Nation argues that the policing and surveillance of Black lives today is tied to the racial, including sexual, codes and practices and the discipline and punishment associated with slavery."

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In which we turn to a cornerstone of Quebec literature and talk about the pastoral! Written during the 1st World War, Maria Chapdelaine has become a must-read for Quebec literature students... but perhaps for the wrong reasons... --- 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

• Deschamps, Nicole. Le mythe de Maria Chapdelaine, Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1980.
• [English] Hémon, Louis. Maria Chapdelaine, trans. by Thoreau MacDonald, Toronto: Macmillian, 1916 [1986].
• Mezei, Kathy. "Quebec Fiction: In the Shadow of Maria Chapdelaine." College English, vol. 50, no. 8, 1988, pp. 896–903.

In which we discuss a milestone in Canadian realism, Woodsmen of the West (1908). What does it tell us about the early logging industry, workers' rights, and masculinity? A lot actually! --- 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:

• Dean, Misao. "The Construction of Masculinity in Martin Allerdale Grainger's Woodsmen of the West." Canadian Literature 149, 1996, pp. 74-87.

• Endicott, Stephen Lyon. "Woodsmen of the West." Raising the Workers' Flag: The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936, University of Toronto Press, 2012, pp. 244–62.

• Grainger, M. Allerdale, Woodsmen of the West, New Canadian Library, 1908 [1973].

• Tippett, Maria. "Butchering the Garden of Eden: Martin Allerdale Grainger." Made In British Columbia: Eight Ways Of Making Culture, Harbour Publishing, pp. 30-50.

In which we discuss legendary long-distance Indigenous runner Tom Longboat and try to simultaneously imagine what kind of cultural items could be made about him and his life! --- 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:

• Forsyth, Janice Evelyn. Reclaiming Tom Longboat: Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport. University of Regina Press, 2020.
• Hatfield, Philip J. "Colonialism's Gaze: Representing the First Peoples in Canada." Canada in the Frame: Copyright, Collections and the Image of Canada, 1895-1924, UCL Press, 2018, pp. 77–105.
• Kidd, Bruce. "In Defence of Tom Longboat," Sport History Review, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 34-63.
• Kidd, Bruce. Tom Longboat, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1980.

In which Patrick sits down with Kristin Schwartz to discuss the new book she co-wrote: We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action. Kristin grew up with the Toronto chapter of ARA from 1992-2003, contributing to the long struggle against white supremacy. She went on to work in community radio and has produced several audio documentaries including Women: the Oppressed Majority (2016) The Ravaging of Africa (2007). Her writing has been published in Our Times, Canadian Dimension, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor and Labour/Le Travail.

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In which we talk about the idea of the Canadian "Wild West", a contender for the Billy the Kid title of Manitoba, and Dennis Cooley's Bloody Jack - all in one episode! --- 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:

• Cooley, Dennis. Bloody Jack, University of Alberta Press, 2002 [1984].
• Gray, James. H. "On the Trail of Jack Krafchenko," A Boy From Winnipeg, Macmillan, 1970, pp 75-86.
• Stubbs, Andrew. "Accessing the Criminal Paradise in Dennis Cooley's Bloody Jack and Other Outlaw Fictions," Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem, ed. by Angela Robbeson and Frank Tierney, University of Ottawa Press, 1999, pp. 173-187.
• Zeilig, Martin. "The Story of "Bloody Jack" Krafchenko," Manitoba History 35, Spring 1998, pp. 15-20.