The Nations of Canada

Kahnawake becomes a testing ground for a new form of indigenous government crafted in Ottawa.

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Having completed its treaty-making campaign on the prairies, the federal government finds that treaty implementation is as challenging as treaty negotiations. 

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John A. Macdonald makes his triumphant return to power on the back of an ambitious plan to save the Canadian economy through tariffs and rapid railroad construction.

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Infused with national confidence after rejecting confederation, the government at St. John's seeks, for the first time, to exert its influence across all of Newfoundland. 

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As Canadian negotiators seek to complete their treaty-making campaign on the prairies, they find the Blackfoot intent on coming to a different kind of settlement than their neighbours to the east.

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A group of Icelanders repeat the voyage of their ancestors almost 900 years earlier, and once again establish a colony in Canada - this time in Manitoba.

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The Canadian treaty campaign in the northwest begins its most important negotiations yet - for the surrender of Cree lands along the fertile belt of the North Saskatchewan River.

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A dentist from Montreal seeks to turn an indigenous game into a marker of Canadian national identity.

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After a generation of playing second fiddle to conservatives, liberals re-emerge in Quebec thanks to a new generation of leaders.

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A new education act in New Brunswick sets off protests within the province's Catholic minority, and sparks a resurgence in Acadian nationalism.

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