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In the thrilling conclusion to the Red River Crisis, Ottawa agrees to several of the provisional government's demands, creating hte province of Manitoba, but more ominously, also despatches a military expedition into the northwest.
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Ottawa's plans for expansion in the northwest meet resistance on the Red River.
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Canada begins its first great national project - a settlement frontier in the northwest.
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Wary Newfoundlanders contemplate an invitation to join the Canadian confederation.
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In the first year of its existence, Canada faces a province seeking to leave the union, and the assassination of one of its leading politicians.
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The podcast takes a pause in the narrative to field questions from listeners.
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Two and a half years after the Quebec Conference, and after bitter debates, dead-ends, political pressure of dubious constitutionality from London, two elections in New Brunswick, and an invasion or two, confederation finally comes into effect.
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After several false alarms British North America undergoes two Fenian invasions in a matter of weeks, creating the greatest security crisis in a generation.
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The end of the Civil War in the United States creates a military threat to British North America, though not the one many Canadians feared.
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As the Maritime delegates return home from the Quebec conference, they discover that the voting public does not necessarily approve of their work.
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When all conventional political solutions to Prince Edward Island's intractable Land Question fail (including union with Canada), the farmers of the colony take matters into their own hands.
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Attempting to stave off defeat, an increasingly desperate Confederacy turns to an espionage campaign in Canada, perched on the Union's unprotected northern flank.
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Canadian delegates crash a conference on Maritime Union, and present a much more ambitious confederation of British North American possessions.
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With Canada facing crippling railway debts, political paralysis and dysfunction, and a looming security threat, George Brown proposes major constitutional change.
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While the Civil War rages in the east, the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia face their own conflicts.
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The American Civil War comes to the Maritime colonies, as a network of Confederate agents develops in Halifax.
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The outbreak of the Civil War in the United States creates both threats and opportunities for British North Americans.
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The Canadian government formalizes its assimilationist Indian policy in statute, sparking a new round of resistance and political organization among indigenous communities.
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The Prince of Wales visits Canada, and discovers that some of his mother's subjects there are a bit too loyal to the Crown.
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Canadian politics enters a state of paralysis as trans-national coalition governments become ever more difficult to maintain. The only answer appears to be dramatic constitutional reform.
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