A public health crisis in Montreal spins out of control, the product of mistrust between the mostly Protestant, Anglophone municipal officials and the French Catholic population of the city.

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In the aftermath of the fighting, the meaning and legacy of 1885 is determined in a series of trials in Regina.

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The Canadian militia arrives in the northwest to suppress a Metis rebellion, but finds the situation there more complicated than anyone in the east imagined.

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While the Canadian government organizes a military response, and the Metis provisional government contemplates its next move, the initiative in the northwest passes to the Cree chiefs of Treaty Six territory, especially Poundmaker and Big Bear.

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The mounting tension in the Northwest is finally released, as violence breaks out between the Northwest Mounted Police and a group of Metis.

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With a crisis brewing on the Nile, the British Army turns to the most celebrated river pilots in the Empire - Canadian voyageurs. 

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On the one hundred year anniversary of the loyalist migrations, Canadians contemplate their historical identity, their place in the British Empire, and a possible expansion into the Caribbean.

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Facing famine, and a decade of unfulfilled promises, indigenous leaders on the prairies seek out new forms of political organization.

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Fifteen years after the bungled expansion to the Red River, Ottawa risks making the same mistake in the northwest - ignoring the reality of the peoples residing there. 

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John A. Macdonald finally meets his match, in Oliver Mowat, the Liberal Premier of Ontario.

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