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

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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 relevance to today. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. To learn more about the Society and Canada’s history, subscribe to our newsletter at https://bit.ly/news_WTY.

Episode Date
The Harris Legacy: Reflections on a Transformational Premier
Apr 26, 2024
Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia
Apr 19, 2024
Canadian Criminal Law in Ten Cases
Apr 12, 2024
The Avro Arrow: For the Record
Apr 05, 2024
Terry & Me: Inside the Marathon of Hope
Apr 01, 2024
We Shall Persist: Women and the Vote in the Atlantic Provinces
Mar 25, 2024
Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’s Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada’s West, 1813–1816
Mar 15, 2024
Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land
Mar 08, 2024
On Stony Ground: Russländer Mennonites and the Rebuilding of Community in Grunthal
Mar 04, 2024
Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XII: New Essays in Women's History
Feb 23, 2024
The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790
Feb 16, 2024
The Ontario Bond Scandal of 1924 Re-examined
Feb 08, 2024
Part of Life Itself: The War Diary of Lieutenant Leslie Howard Miller, CEF
Feb 01, 2024
The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada
Jan 25, 2024
King and Chaos: The 1935 Canadian General Election
Jan 18, 2024
For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt
Jan 11, 2024
In a ‘Land of Hope’: Documents on the Canadian Jewish Experience, 1627-1923
Dec 07, 2023
Statesmen, Strategists & Diplomats: Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy
Dec 01, 2023
A Cooperative Disagreement: Canada-United States Relations and Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–93
Nov 23, 2023
The Notorious Georges: Crime and Community in British Columbia’s Northern Interior, 1909-25
Nov 16, 2023
Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War
Nov 09, 2023
For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of the Canadian Copyright Law
Nov 02, 2023
Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
Oct 30, 2023
Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice
Oct 19, 2023
A Night at the Gardens: Class, Gender, and Respectability in 1930s Toronto
Oct 12, 2023
Rough Justice: Policing, Crime, and the Origins of the Newfoundland Constabulary, 1729–1871
Oct 05, 2023
Ice War Diplomat: Hockey Meets Cold War Politics
Sep 28, 2023
Harvesting Labour: The Making of Canada's Agricultural Workforce
Sep 22, 2023
The Ku Klux Klan In Canada (2023 Reissue)
Sep 14, 2023
The history of the 1960s scoop of Indigenous children in Prairie Canada (2023 Reissue)
Sep 07, 2023
The History of Canadian Spying (2023 Reissue)
Aug 31, 2023
The Origins of the Security State (2023 Reissue)
Aug 24, 2023
Reconsidering the Legacy of Vimy (2023 Reissue)
Aug 17, 2023
The War Measures Act in Canada (2023 Reissue)
Aug 10, 2023
Mi'kmaq Life before the Europeans(2023 Reissue)
Aug 03, 2023
The Pre-History of Multiculturalism in Canada(2023 Reissue)
Jul 27, 2023
The Canada-US border: a history of a fluid and unstable boundary (2023 Reissue)
Jul 20, 2023
The Intrepid James Wolfe (2023 Reissue)
Jul 14, 2023
Lasting Legacy: The history of the warships of Point Frederick
Jul 06, 2023
The Life and Times of Henry Kelsey of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Jun 29, 2023
Indigenous Injustice and Canada’s Legal System: The Death of Colten Boushie
Jun 22, 2023
The American Century in Canada: Canadian-American Relations from 1945-1960
Jun 15, 2023
The Battle of Saratoga and the life of General John Burgoyne
Jun 05, 2023
Wires Crossed: How the Irving empire jeopardized free press in New Brunswick
Jun 01, 2023
The intersections of thought laid bare by postwar nudism in Canada
May 25, 2023
Four landmark cases in bankruptcy and insolvency law in Canada
May 18, 2023
How the Canadian Constitution structures economic relations
May 12, 2023
The 80th anniversary of the Battle of The Atlantic
May 03, 2023
Equality, Autonomy, and Dignity: Canadian Feminism over 100 Years
Apr 27, 2023
Success and Glamour: Steve Paikin’s Biography of Prime Minister John Turner
Apr 19, 2023
Able to Lead: The life and politics of radical class warrior E.T. Kingsley
Apr 13, 2023
Critical Reflection of Individual Lives: Biography and Canada
Apr 05, 2023
Unlearning Distorted Views of History: Residential Schools and Reconciliation
Mar 30, 2023
The Drink Question: The political history of liquor regulation in Canada
Mar 23, 2023
Unequal Communities: The Waywayseecappo Indian Reserve and the Town of Rossburn
Mar 16, 2023
On the Ground: A History of Tactical, Operational, and Strategic Canadian Military Intelligence
Mar 09, 2023
Becoming Canadian: Exploring Birth-based Citizenship
Mar 02, 2023
Interfering with Indigenous Law: Settler Colonial Invasion and Land Theft
Feb 23, 2023
Disaffected Loyalists and Passionate Patriots: Feelings in the Enlightenment Atlantic
Feb 16, 2023
Origin of Income Tax: War and the History of Canadian Income Tax
Feb 09, 2023
The Joint Arctic Weather Stations: A collaborative program between Canada and the United States
Feb 02, 2023
A Canadian Coup: The Dramatic History of Canada’s Accidental Prime Minister, Mackenzie Bowell
Jan 26, 2023
National Security Measures and Political Trials: Canadian State Trials of 1939-1990
Jan 20, 2023
The Historical Massacre and Re-Establishment of Bison in the Great Plains
Jan 13, 2023
Confederation to World War I: A History of Law in Canada
Jan 09, 2023
Hudson Bay, Fur Trade: French-Indigenous Relations in New France
Dec 09, 2022
Brush, Floss, and Smile: A history of dental care, oral health, and social inequality
Dec 02, 2022
The Wolf’s Howl: A social history of wolves in Canada
Nov 28, 2022
Tuzo: Scientist, Geologist, and Unlikely Revolutionary
Nov 18, 2022
The Artist Soldier: A.Y. Jackson and the Origins of the Group of Seven
Nov 11, 2022
Canada in the 1950s: A Political History
Nov 04, 2022
Bewitchment, Possession, and the Diabolical Arts: Daily Life in New France
Oct 27, 2022
The Diefenbaker Revival: The Rise and Fall of the Diefenbaker Governments
Oct 20, 2022
No Booze and No Dogs: A History of Tourism in Prince Edward Island
Oct 13, 2022
The History of a First Nation: The Story of the Carry the Kettle Nakoda
Oct 07, 2022
What got missed in Medicare
Jun 30, 2022
John A. Macdonald’s Anti-Fenian Spy Ring
Jun 23, 2022
The Seismic Shift from Left to Right in Saskatchewan Politics
Jun 17, 2022
The Fight for Yonge Street
Jun 09, 2022
A history of the biggest mining boom in Canadian history
Jun 03, 2022
The Feminism of Mary Ellen Spear Smith
May 27, 2022
The Lives of Canada’s War Women
May 20, 2022
Canadian Nurses in China
May 13, 2022
The Thrashing of R.B. Bennett’s Conservatives in the Great Depression Election of 1935
May 06, 2022
Les quatres mousquetaires et le parti national
Apr 28, 2022
Quebec in the 1930s and the rise of the Parti national
Apr 28, 2022
Comparing libel law: Massachusetts and Nova Scotia in the early 19th century
Apr 21, 2022
The Forgotten Prime Ministers Who Succeeded John A. Macdonald
Apr 14, 2022
A Region Of The Mind U.S. Northern Plains And Canadian Prairies
Apr 08, 2022
The Liberal Party in Defeat and Victory
Apr 01, 2022
The Politicization of Canadian Foreign Policy under the Harper Government
Mar 25, 2022
Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism
Mar 18, 2022
F.R. Scott’s journal on the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
Mar 10, 2022
Lord Stanley and the Enduring Cultural Importance of his Trophy
Feb 25, 2022
Thirty Years of Political and Constitutional Upheaval in Canada
Feb 24, 2022
The New History of Black Peoples in Canada
Feb 17, 2022
Canadian Witnesses to the Horrors of the Holocaust
Feb 11, 2022
Thomas McKay, Scottish Businessman And The Creation Of Ottawa
Feb 03, 2022
The Cataclysmic Collapse of Abitibi Power & Paper
Jan 27, 2022
La Loi des mesures de guerre au Canada
Jan 20, 2022
The War Measures Act in Canada
Jan 20, 2022
The Psychedelic world of Hollywood Hospital
Jan 13, 2022
Mackenzie King and the Three Amigos
Dec 16, 2021
The Canada-US border: a history of a fluid and unstable boundary
Dec 16, 2021
The Iconic Massey Hall in Toronto
Dec 09, 2021
The Ambition and Vision of Joey Smallwood
Dec 02, 2021
The 1921 Election, 100 years later
Nov 26, 2021
The Pre-History of Multiculturalism in Canada
Nov 18, 2021
The Canadian Army and Civilians in Europe 1944-45
Nov 10, 2021
The History of the Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Reshaping of Canadian Federalism
Nov 04, 2021
Good Homes for Toronto Workers
Oct 29, 2021
Open Federalism in the Harper Era and its Historical Legacy?
Oct 22, 2021
The Intrepid James Wolfe
Oct 14, 2021
Canadians as a Cigarette Nation, 1930 to 1975
Oct 07, 2021
What a Toronto Election in 2014 Reveals About Democracy in Canada
Sep 30, 2021
The Women who Transformed the National Gallery of Canada
Sep 23, 2021
The Many Lives of Frank Prewett
Sep 17, 2021
The Military on the University of Toronto Campus
Sep 09, 2021
The Winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards
Aug 31, 2021
Ida Martin and Saint John’s Working Class
Aug 27, 2021
Surviving natural resource development and environmental degradation
Aug 20, 2021
Women and the history of the Iraqi diaspora in Canada
Aug 12, 2021
A cultural history of Icelandic immigration to Canada
Aug 06, 2021
A History of the Idea of Inequality in Canada
Jul 29, 2021
A history of place and family in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Jul 23, 2021
A History of the Métis Nation
Jul 14, 2021
The History and Impact of the New Left in Toronto
Jul 09, 2021
A History of Immigrant Arrivals through Pier 21 in Halifax
Jul 02, 2021
Decoding Indigenous Governance in the First Centuries of Contact
Jun 25, 2021
Women and the History of the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
Jun 18, 2021
The historical geography of Canada as a bounded land
Jun 11, 2021
How First Nations became marginalized in the Canadian Prairies
Jun 03, 2021
Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity
May 27, 2021
John Lennon in Canada
May 20, 2021
A History of Law in Canada from the beginning until Confederation
May 14, 2021
The Black Loyalists of New Brunswick
May 06, 2021
The Enigmatic W.P.M. Kennedy: the history of a Canadian academic
Apr 27, 2021
The history of the 1960s scoop of Indigenous children in Prairie Canada
Apr 21, 2021
The Ku Klux Klan in Canada
Apr 15, 2021
Historic Sites in Prairie Canada
Apr 08, 2021
A New Perspective on The 1870 Red River Expedition
Apr 01, 2021
Jennifer Brown on the history and ethnography of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian Northwest
Mar 25, 2021
Viscount Haldane: The Unknown Father of Confederation
Mar 17, 2021
Tax, Order and Good Government: Historical views on tax fairness in Canada
Mar 11, 2021
Blindness to Indigenous Realities
Mar 03, 2021
The History of Political Parties in Canada
Feb 26, 2021
New Perspectives on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese-Canadians
Feb 18, 2021
The History of Equalization in Canada
Feb 11, 2021
Comment les partis politiques ont imposé une discipline totale au Canada
Feb 05, 2021
How Political Parties Imposed Total Discipline in Canada
Feb 05, 2021
Newfoundland’s long and winding road to Confederation
Jan 27, 2021
The Portuguese in Canada
Jan 20, 2021
Immigrant Doctors in the History of Canadian Medicare
Jan 15, 2021
Multicultural Policy 50 Years Later
Jan 07, 2021
The Mysterious Louis St-Laurent
Dec 23, 2020
The State of Canada in 1945
Dec 17, 2020
Wrestling and the Sporting Culture in the Prairies
Dec 11, 2020
Les référendums de 1980 et 1995 en perspective
Dec 03, 2020
Quebec Referenda 25 and 40 years later
Dec 03, 2020
A very short introduction to Canadian history
Nov 26, 2020
The Hockey Story in Canada
Nov 19, 2020
Montreal’s “Le Devoir” and the Jews
Nov 13, 2020
2020 Remembrance Day Special: Canada at War with Jack Granatstein
Nov 05, 2020
Mi'kmaq Life before the Europeans
Nov 02, 2020
The Genius of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Oct 16, 2020
CBC Television’s Interpretation of Canadian History
Oct 16, 2020
Pierre Laporte: Martyre de la Crise d’Octobre
Oct 07, 2020
Pierre Laporte: Martyr of the 1970 October Crisis
Oct 07, 2020
The Making of Louis Riel
Sep 22, 2020
Canada, 1919
Sep 18, 2020
The Tragedy of Almighty Voice
Sep 14, 2020
Harold Innis on Peter Pond and the Art of Biography
Aug 31, 2020
The Labatt’s Saga
Aug 21, 2020
Canadian History through the eyes of the Canadian Canoe Museum
Aug 10, 2020
Canada in Afghanistan
Jun 19, 2020
Reinventing Canada after 1945
Jun 10, 2020
Acadian Fire
Jun 01, 2020
The Bank of Montreal's Success Since 1945
May 20, 2020
Thomas Chapais, Historien Loyaliste
May 11, 2020
Thomas Chapais, Tory Historian
May 11, 2020
The Bank of Montreal's Influence to the end of the Second World War
Apr 27, 2020
How Canada Nearly Forgot the Second World War
Apr 17, 2020
The History Of Canada’s Car Industry
Apr 09, 2020
James Teit and the First Nations on the Pacific Coast
Mar 27, 2020
The Place of Race in Canada's International History
Mar 19, 2020
Teyoninhokarawen: A Mohawk in the War of 1812
Mar 10, 2020
Edward Cecil-Smith, Canadian Communist
Mar 05, 2020
Canada’s Scottish Refugees
Feb 24, 2020
Canada on the UN Security Council
Feb 20, 2020
Le Québec à la lumière du monde
Feb 10, 2020
Quebec in a Global Light
Feb 10, 2020
The Origins Of The Modern Canadian Healthcare System
Feb 04, 2020
Mary Quayle Innis and the Professor
Jan 23, 2020
Henri Bourassa and the Great War
Jan 17, 2020
The Rise and Fall of One-Industry Towns in Northern Canada
Dec 24, 2019
Harry Crerar's Army
Dec 18, 2019
The Politics of the Champlain Monument in Orillia, Ontario
Dec 18, 2019
Hating the Catholics in Canada
Dec 12, 2019
The Devastating Flu Epidemic of 1918-19 in Canada
Dec 05, 2019
Marcel Cadieux and the Art of Diplomacy
Nov 27, 2019
The 2019 Election in a Historical Context: A Roundtable
Nov 21, 2019
Remembrance Day Special, 2019: the War Comes to Ontario
Nov 08, 2019
Canada and the Far East
Nov 07, 2019
Mackenzie King meets Hitler, June 1937
Oct 30, 2019
The Lives and Times of Kouchibouguac
Oct 23, 2019
The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
Oct 18, 2019
The Business of the Early NHL
Oct 09, 2019
The Drama of Oscar Skelton
Jun 26, 2019
Pierre E. Trudeau was not a Socialist!
Jun 21, 2019
Canada's Uneasiness with International Human rights
Jun 17, 2019
Prime Ministers and the Press
Jun 07, 2019
The Campaign for Women's Vote in Ontario
May 31, 2019
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 one Hundred Years Later
May 24, 2019
The 1979 Election in Canada forty years later
May 17, 2019
Canada at the Versailles Treaty, 1919
May 09, 2019
The FLQ Bombings 50 Years Later
Mar 15, 2019
The American Obsession with the 1837-38 Rebellions
Mar 08, 2019
L'obsessoin américaine avec les rebellions de 1837-38
Mar 08, 2019
How George Washington Killed 10 French Canadians and Started a World War
Mar 01, 2019
The Impact of Freak Shows in Canada
Feb 22, 2019
"Making Multiculturalism" The History of A Toronto School
Feb 15, 2019
The History of Gay Life on the Prairies
Jan 31, 2019
The Secrets of Banking History in Canada
Jan 24, 2019
The Importance of the Eaton's Santa Claus Parade
Dec 18, 2018
Armistice Day Special
Nov 08, 2018
Canada's Cyclist Soldiers of The First World War
Nov 02, 2018
"L'autre 1968" René Lévesque et la fondation du Parti québécois
Oct 19, 2018
The "Other 1968": René Lévesque and the Founding of the the Parti Québécois
Oct 19, 2018
The Enigmatic Donald Creighton
Sep 27, 2018
The Fascinating Career of Mackenzie King's Diary
Sep 20, 2018
Canada’s Writers confront the Vietnam War
Jul 18, 2018
The Making of Obesity in Canada
Jul 12, 2018
Elizabeth Hale and The Two Solitudes, 200 years Ago
Jul 04, 2018
Canada Day Special: Canada’s Incomplete Conquests
Jun 27, 2018
The Origins of the Security State
Jun 22, 2018
The Power of Prime Ministers in the First 50 Years of Confederation
Jun 13, 2018
The Teaching of History in Canada’s High Schools
Jun 07, 2018
Lawyers, Families and Canadian Business
May 30, 2018
L’enseignement de l’histoire au Québec
May 25, 2018
The Teaching of History in Quebec’s Schools
May 25, 2018
The History of Indian hospitals
May 17, 2018
Teaching How to Think Historically in Canadian Schools
May 11, 2018
The History of Canadian Spying
May 02, 2018
Hudson’s Bay Company Governor James Knight, 1714–1717
Apr 26, 2018
The History of Psychiatric Care and Mental Hospitals in Canada
Apr 18, 2018
Pierre Trudeau, Trudeaumania 50 years later
Apr 11, 2018
The Universe of John Plaskett, Astronomer
Apr 02, 2018
Native American Church and the religious use of peyote in Canada
Mar 22, 2018
St. Patrick’s Day Special: The Canadian Irish and the First World War
Mar 15, 2018
Rediscovering the Explorer Philip Turnor
Mar 05, 2018
Reconsidering the Legacy of Vimy
Mar 01, 2018
Battling for The Maritimes, 1690-1763
Feb 21, 2018
The Unknown Northwest Passage
Feb 15, 2018
Canada at the Winter Olympics
Feb 07, 2018
The strange birth of the NHL in December 1917
Jan 26, 2018
Beaverbrook: A Canadian in the David Lloyd George Cabinet, February 1918
Dec 21, 2017
Canada's Khaki Election of December, 1917
Dec 21, 2017
The Hundred Days Campaign in the First World War
Nov 05, 2017
Henri Bourassa and Confederation
Nov 04, 2017
John A Macdonald and “the crisis” of 1885
Nov 04, 2017
The Conscription Crisis, 1917
Nov 04, 2017
La Confédération et Henri Bourassa
Nov 04, 2017
La crise de la conscription, 1917
Nov 04, 2017
The Telegram that launched Canada’s Involvement in the Suez Crisis
Nov 04, 2017
The Diary of Lucy Everett Morrison
Nov 03, 2017
La carrière fulgurante d’Étienne Brûlé
Oct 31, 2017
What is this Podcast About?
Sep 30, 2017