Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History)

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Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History) episodes

May 27, 2022 The Feminism of Mary Ellen Spear Smith
Patrice Dutil talks to Veronica Strong-Boag about her book A Liberal-Labour Lady: The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith (UBC Press). Together, they examine the life and ideas of Spear-Smith (1861-1933) and her impact on British Columbia politics. Mary Ellen Spear Smith emigrated from Britain in the early 1890s and soon established herself, along with her husband Ralph Smith, on the British Columbia political scene. Following Ralph’s death in 1917, she ran for his seat in the British Columbia legislature and won it for the Liberal Paryt. She had an immediate impact, but soon grew exasperated by party affairs.
This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
46 min
May 20, 2022 The Lives of Canada’s War Women
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Stacey Barker and Krista Cooke on the lives of Canadian women and their involvement in the two world wars of the 20th century. They along with co-author Molly McCullough wrote Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914-1945 published by the University of Ottawa Press in 2021 as part of the Canadian Museum of History’s Mercury Series. This book provides short biographies of selected women who served as military nurses, volunteers and workers or who suffered great loss during the two wars. Stacey Barker is an historian in Arts and Military History at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa while Krista Cooke is a Parks Canada curator with two decades of experience in archives and museums.
This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
21 min
May 13, 2022 Canadian Nurses in China
Patrice Dutil talks to Sonya Grypma about her book Nursing Shifts in Sichuan: Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937-1951 (UBC Press). In this podcast, they discuss the impact of the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) when it sought refuge in the West China Union University’s (WCUU) nursing school in Sichuan, which was managed by Canadians. China was in the middle of its war with Japan at the time and the nursing school at the PUMC desperately needed a new home. The podcast examines the Canadian presence on the Chinese nursing scene, the impact of key people such as Dr. Omar Kilborn, who helped establish the WCUU and Nie Yuchan, the intrepid dean of the PUMC nursing school. Dutil and Grypma also explore what nursing education reveals about the intercontinental transfer of ideas, the impact of American institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation and Canada’s contributon to the professionalization of the profession.
This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
43 min
May 06, 2022 The Thrashing of R.B. Bennett’s Conservatives in the Great Depression Election of 1935
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Bruce Maxwell, the author of Failed Promise: Five Reasons why R.B. Bennett Lost the 1935 Canadian Federal Election published by Amazon Books in 2022. For twenty years, Maxwell researched the reasons for the Conservatives’ momentous loss to the Liberals in the 1935 general election in the midst of the Great Depression. His historical analysis pinpoints five reasons for the defeat, each of which is explored in depth in a separate chapter. Maxwell is an independent historian and educator currently working at Selwyn House School in Montreal.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
27 min
April 28, 2022 Les quatres mousquetaires et le parti national
Patrice Dutil discute de la politique du Parti libéral et de l'Union nationale de Maurice Duplessis au Québec dans les années 1930 avec Alexandre Dumas, professeur d'histoire à l'Université du Québec et auteur de Les Quatre mousquetaires de Québec, publié aux éditions Septentrion. Ce balado a été produit par Jessica Schmidt. Il est également disponible en version anglaise sur Witness to Yesterday.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
31 min
April 28, 2022 Quebec in the 1930s and the rise of the Parti national
Patrice Dutil discusses the politics of the Liberal Party and Maurice Duplessis’s Union Nationale in Quebec in the 1930s with Alexandre Dumas, the author of Les quatre mousquetaires de Québec, published by Septentrion. The conversation focuses on four politicians (René Chaloult, Oscar Drouin, Ernest Grégoire and Philippe Hamel) as they join forces with Conservative Party leader Maurice Duplessis to form the Union Nationale Party and win the elections of 1936. All four men quickly fall out of favour, however, prompting them to launch a rival party in 1937. The discussion examines the politics of these men, bringing to light the conservative progressivism of their ideas. It also situates them in the evolution of political thought in Quebec during the 20th century. This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt. This podcast is also available in a French version on Témoin d’hier.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
37 min
April 21, 2022 Comparing libel law: Massachusetts and Nova Scotia in the early 19th century
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Lyndsay Campbell, the author of Truth and Privilege: Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2022, this is the first book ever to be co-sponsored by the American Soceity for Legal History and the Osgood Society for Canadian Legal History. A transnational history, Truth and Privilege illustrates the power of applying the comparative method to legal history. Lyndsay Campbell is an Associate Professor in Law and History as well as the Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. She has previously published work comparing Canadian and American approaches to law and 19th century constitutionalism.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
32 min
April 14, 2022 The Forgotten Prime Ministers Who Succeeded John A. Macdonald
Patrice Dutil talks to Michael Hill about his book The Lost Prime Ministers: Macdonald’s Successors Abbott, Thompson, Bowell and Tupper, published by Dundurn Press. In this podcast, Michael Hill describes the background and the accomplishments of the four men who served as Canadian prime minister between 1891 and 1896. John J. Abbott, for instance, mostly served to complete the unfinished legislative work left by Macdonald. John Thompson, the first Catholic to serve as PM, was energetic and ambitious, but cut down prematurely by a fatal heart attack. Mackenzie Bowell served from the Senate, and was felled by a caucus revolt. Finally, Sir Charles Tupper rose to the top of the proverbial greasy pole, but was defeated by the Wilfrid Laurier Liberals in 1896. This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
43 min
April 08, 2022 A Region Of The Mind U.S. Northern Plains And Canadian Prairies
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Molly P. Rozum, the author of Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. This book was jointly published by the University of Nebraska Press and the University of Manitoba Press in 2021. Molly Rozum is currently the Ronald R. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota History at the University of South Dakota. She received her PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has worked on the history of this transnational region throughout her career. Although she grew up and was educated in the United States, she has spent time in Canada as a visiting professor and researcher. In this book, Rozum explores how the northern grasslands in North America were perceived by second and third generations of those who settled in the region to live, work, farm and ranch, including their relationship with the Indigenous peoples.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
36 min
April 01, 2022 The Liberal Party in Defeat and Victory
Patrice Dutil considers the fates of the Liberal Party of Canada since 2006 with Brooke Jeffrey, professor of Political Science at Concordia University and the author of Road to Redemption: The Liberal Party of Canada 2006-2019, published by the University of Toronto Press. They examine the special challenges of the Liberal Party as it adapted under the leadership of Stéphane Dion, Michael Ignatieff, Bob Ray, Bill Graham and Justin Trudeau. Many of the factors that have undermined the party since the 1980s are discussed as well as the search for the right mix of values that eventually led to the Liberal victory in 2015. This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
46 min

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Immerse yourself in Canada’s history! Witness to Yesterday episodes take listeners on a journey to document a time in Canada’s past and explore the people behind it, its significance, and its…