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

February 10, 2020 Quebec in a Global Light
Patrice Dutil interviews Robert Calderisi, former public servant and international policy advisor, on the situation of Quebec today in light of the 2019 federal election. His latest book is Quebec in a Global Light: Reaching for the Common Ground (University of Toronto Press). This podcast was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University, and is also available en français here: https://soundcloud.com/user-437943805/le-quebec-a-la-lumiere-du-monde.
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.
29 min
February 04, 2020 The Origins Of The Modern Canadian Healthcare System
Greg Marchildon speaks with Dr Esyllt W. Jones about her Book Radical Medicine (ARP Books). Jones is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba. This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University.
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.
24 min
January 23, 2020 Mary Quayle Innis and the Professor
Patrice Dutil talks with Donica Belisle about the role of wives in the writing of Canadian History, focusing particularly on Mary Quayle Innis and her influence on her spouse, Harold Innis. This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University.
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.
25 min
January 17, 2020 Henri Bourassa and the Great War
Patrice Dutil and Geoff Keelan (archivist at Library and Archives Canada) on Henri Bourassa and the First World War and his book “Duty to Dissent”: Henri Bourassa and the First World War, published by UBC Press. This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University.
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
December 24, 2019 The Rise and Fall of One-Industry Towns in Northern Canada
Greg Marchildon interviews Steven High on the rise and fall of Sturgeon Falls in Northern Ontario. His book One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario explores the nature of the one-industry (or the one-resource) town that has been so much a part of Canadian history. This recording was produced by Hugh Bakhurst at Ryerson University.
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.
34 min
December 18, 2019 Harry Crerar's Army
Patrice Dutil chats with Geoffrey Hayes about the state of Canada's army in the Second World War and his book Crerar’s Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45 (University of British Columbia Press). This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University.
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.
45 min
December 18, 2019 The Politics of the Champlain Monument in Orillia, Ontario
Patrice Dutil interviews Michael Stevenson, Professor of History at Lakehead University, about “Free from all possibility of Historical Error”: Orillia’s Champlain Monument, French-English Relations, and Indigenous Representations and Misrepresentations in Commemorative Sculpture," his 2017 article in Ontario History. This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University.
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
December 12, 2019 Hating the Catholics in Canada
Patrice Dutil speaks with Kevin Anderson, Professor of History at the University of Calgary about his book “Not Quite Us": Anti-Catholic Thought in English Canada Since 1900 (McGill-Queens University Press). This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University.
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.
35 min
December 05, 2019 The Devastating Flu Epidemic of 1918-19 in Canada
Greg Marchildon speaks with Dr Esyllt W. Jones about the devastating 1918-1919 flu epidemic in Canada. Jones, Professor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba, is the author of Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg (University of Toronto Press, 2007). This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University.
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
November 27, 2019 Marcel Cadieux and the Art of Diplomacy
Patrice Dutil talks with Brendan Kelly, junior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto about his book The Good Fight: Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy (University of British Columbia Press). This recording was produced by Michael Smith at Ryerson University.
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.
28 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…