1867 & All That
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1867 & All That
The Canadian History Podcast. A narrative audio history of Canada from the 1830s to 1885. Season One covers the Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 and the fights over Responsible Government in the 1840s. Season Two recounts the tumultuous and divided history of the 1850s and 1860s leading up to Canadian co...
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S2 Interview 3 Anne McDonald on a Lady’s Diary of Confederation
This week Anne McDonald joins the pod to talk about her book Miss Confederation: The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles. The diary is one of the very few docum...
S2 Interview 2 David Wilson on the assassination of D’Arcy McGee
Late in the night on an Ottawa street someone snuck up behind Thomas D'Arcy McGee and shot him dead. We're back with David Wilson this week to talk ab...
S2 Interview1 David Wilson on the Fenians
This week we kick off our bonus interview episodes by welcoming University of Toronto professor David Wilson to talk about everyone's favourite Irish...
S2 Episode 24 What Does it all Mean?
The final episode of Season 2 answers all the big questions about Confederation: What just happened? Why? And - my favourite - so what? We rehash the...
S2 Episode 23 The Kingdom of Canada
It's time to get Confederation done - but only after completing our trilogy of constitutional conferences, this one in London just before Christmas of...
S2 Episode 22 A Common Enemy
The Fenians are back at it this week - threatening to raid New Brunswick and then (for real) attacking along the Niagara frontier. Arthur Gordon of Ne...
S2 Episode 21 The Fenians Are Coming
The radical Irish republicans are coming and they're going to scare British North Americans into a confederation. This week we learn all about Irish s...
S2 Episode 20 The Case for Canada
We time travel back one month earlier to February 1865 when everyone in Canada wanted to give a speech. And so they did. Canadians debated Confederati...
S2 Episode 19 It All Falls Apart
Early 1865 is a bad time for supporters of Confederation in British North America. Joseph Howe is back - and he is penning scathing attacks on the Con...
S2 Episode 18 The St. Alban’s Raid
This week we catch up on the activities of a posse of Confederate soldiers who decide that the best way to fight their war with the American Union is...
S2 Episode 17 The Quebec Conference
We are heading to Quebec this week to drink more champagne, dance the night away, and spend hour after hour in conference meetings. There will be plen...
S2 Episode 16 Charlottetown Here We Come
We're off on board the Canadian steamer Queen Victoria this week as the Canadians crash the Maritime Union party at Charlottetown. We'll drink a fair...
S2 Episode 15 The Maritime Prelude
Southern Confederate pirates bring the American civil war into Nova Scotian waters and we meet the pugnacious Charles Tupper who isn't afraid to use B...
S2 Episode 14 - The Confusing Case of New Brunswick
This week we begin in utter confusion - trying to figure out just exactly when New Brunswick achieved responsible government. There is, though, more f...
S2 Episode 13 - An Island With a Lottery Problem
A London lottery creates more than 100 years of grumbling conflict on Prince Edward Island. We meet William Cooper who comes up with a too clever-by-h...
S2 Episode 12 - Newfoundland at Last
We're in Newfoundland this week so we are of course talking cod - and seals. But we also have a violent election in 1861 that involved an interfering...
S2 Episode 11 - George Brown Falls in Love
George Brown takes a British holiday and falls in love. He comes back a changed man - sort of. In Canada, it's another round of wack-a-mole and govern...
S2 Episode 10 - Macdonald vs Macdonald
A drunken John A Macdonald and his government collapse over their plan to bolster Canadian defence in the midst of the American civil war. Then anothe...
S2 Episode 9 - War in America
The Americans decide to fight a civil war over slavery and Britain and British North America discover that this is going to shape their future too. Fo...
S2 Episode 8 - This Prince Ain’t For Walkin
Queen Victoria sends her teenage son (and aristocratic chaperone, the Duke of Newcastle) on a North American tour and the Canadians get a little over-...
S2 Episode 7 - Double Shuffle
In one of the quirkiest episodes of Canadian political history John A Macdonald and George Etienne Cartier perform a political two-step to avoid facin...
S2 Episode 6 - Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s Rather Eventful St. Patrick’s Day
John A Macdonald asks the Queen a favour. Thomas D'Arcy McGee arrives in the country, wonders which gang he should join, and then almost becomes a mar...
S2 Episode 5 - The Murder of Robert Corrigan
This week it's murder, mayhem, and controversy in the fallout from the murder of Robert Corrigan, an Irish Protestant tough guy who met a dark and pai...
S2 Episode 4 - Stoop To Conquer
The ornery and handsome George Brown is joined today by his nemesis - and later frenemy - John A Macdonald. The new Tory government gets things done a...
S2 Episode 3 - False Positions
This week we're introduced to the handsome George Brown, the fervent and ornery Reformer who inspired both love and hate. Two former friends - Francis...
S2 Episode 2 - The Reform Bromance Breaks Up
This week we revisit some old friends - William Lyon Mackenzie, Robert Baldwin, and Louis Lafontaine - and meet a new one - William McDougall. We lear...
S2 Episode 1 - A Riotous Beginning
We're back with Season Two of 1867 & All That and we're starting (where else?) with yet another riot. This time it's the controversial ex-priest and a...
Episode 24 - Making Sense of it all
This week we are at the end of Season One and we do our best to figure what just happened. What was responsible government? Why did it emerge when it...
Episode 23 - Rebellion Redux
Louis Lafontaine proposes the Rebellion Losses Bill into the Canadian parliament and things get ugly. A mob burns parliament; Montreal is turned insid...
Episode 22 - Disasters and Democracy
The potato blight arrives and disaster does too. It's time for coffin ships, disease, and economic strife as a new Governor General - Lord Elgin - arr...
Episode 21 - The Nova Scotia Breakthrough
Lord Sydenham takes a summer work-cation in Nova Scotia and leaves a political system. Joseph Howe joins a coalition government and then falls out wit...
Episode 20 - Joseph Howe's Non-Revolution
Fresh from his libel trial, Joseph Howe gets himself elected to the Nova Scotian Assembly. And then he makes himself even more famous by doing what al...
Episode 19 - Tribune of the People
We are in Nova Scotia this week (and for the next two weeks) so it's rewind time as we (briefly) catch up on things like the Acadian expulsion and the...
Episode 18 - Double Majority
Governor General Charles Metcalfe tries to keep a government going - fending off nice insults like 'Old Square Toes' - while Reformers try to embarras...
Episode 17 - The Metcalfe Crisis
The Canadas have a new Governor General and this one comes with a cancerous tumour that is going to - yet again - limit his time on this planet. But w...
Episode 16 - Reform Ascendant
The new Governor General Charles Bagot decides to ask for forgiveness and not permission. And this means we have a government - sort of - controlled b...
Episode 15 - Bromance
It all starts with a letter from Francis Hincks to Louis Lafontaine. But soon Robert Baldwin is getting in on the action and then the Reformer bromanc...
Episode 14 - The Sydenham System
It is early 1841 and the Canada's have been officially joined together. Now Lord Sydenham has to find someway of making the shotgun marriage actually...
Episode 13 - Shotgun Marriage
How did we go from loyalist victory in the rebellions to loyalist anger in the Rebellion Losses Bill mob riot in 1849? When did winning look so much l...
Episode 12 - What the !$#! Just Happened?
The Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 are finally over. Houses have burned; Governors General have come and gone; rebels have fled, been imprisoned, hanged...