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Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History) — 377 episodes
Concordia University at 50
History Has Made Us Friends
Unparliamentary: Tales from Canada’s Colourful Parliamentary Past
The Black Box: Lady Bessie Borden’s Family, 1863–1956
Louis J. Robichaud
Canada's Main Street
Habs Nation
Poutine Nation
ImagiNation: The Golden Age of Toronto Kids' TV
Democracy’s Second Act: Why Politics Needs the Public
Times of Transformation
Constitutional Challengers
Oceans of Fate
Political Culture in Louis XIV’s Canada
The Governors General
The Crisis of Canadian Democracy
The Prime Ministers: Canada's Leaders and the Nation They Shaped
My Life in the Law
The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King
McGill in History
Run Like A Girl: A Memoir of Ambition, Resilience, and Fighting for Change
The Higgs Years
He Did Not Conquer
Chrétien and the World
On the Wings of War and Peace: The RCAF during the Early Cold War
Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution
Ancillary Police Powers in Canada: A Critical Reassessment
Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign
The Coutts Diaries: Power, Politics, and Pierre Trudeau 1973-1981
Hockey Hall of Fame Timeline of the Game: 150 Years of Hockey Stories
Beyond the Rink: Behind the Images of Residential School Hockey
Scene: How the 1960s Transformed Canadian Art
A Biography of Robert Henry Winters
The Spiritualist Prime Minister: Volume 1: Mackenzie King and the New Revelation
Montreal After Dark: Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City
The Rise of the Neighbourhood in Canada, 1880s–2020s
Statecraft: Canadian Prime Ministers and Their Cabinets
Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
Heenan Blaikie: The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm
Terry & Me: Inside the Marathon of Hope
We Shall Persist: Women and the Vote in the Atlantic Provinces
Ice War Diplomat: Hockey Meets Cold War Politics
The Ambition and Vision of Joey Smallwood
The History of Equalization in Canada
The Origins of the Modern Canadian Healthcare System (2025 reissue)
How George Washington Killed 10 French Canadians and Started a World War (2025 reissue)
The Other 1968: Rene Levesque and the Founding of the Parti Quebecois
Canada's Khaki Election of December, 1917 (2025 reissue)
Founding Folks: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Folk Festival
Ballots and Brawls: The 1867 Canadian General Election
The Jesuit Relations
The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History
Transforming the Prairies: Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada
The Mind Mappers
The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1
Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining Scandal
Supervising a Peace that Never Was: Recollections of Canadian Diplomatic Personnel in Indochina, 1954–1973
Prairie Justice: The Hanging of Mike Hack
Canada and the Korean War: Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict
Picturing the Game: An Illustrated Story of Hockey
Punching Above Our Weight: The Canadian Military at War Since 1867
My Life in Politics
A History of Canadian Income Tax Volume II, 1948-71
Cultural Change among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century
Time Flies: A History of Prince Edward Island from the Air
How Story Made a People (Almost) Disappear
The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
Thresholds of Accusation: Law and Colonial Order in Canada
Building a Special Relationship: Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61
A Region of the Mind: U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies (2025 Reissue)
The American Century in Canada: Canadian-American Relations from 1945-1960 (2025 reissue)
Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life (2025 reissue)
John A. Macdonald and “The Crisis” of 1885 (2025 reissue)
Sir John A. Macdonald: And The Apocalyptic Year 1885
Tommy Douglas and the Quest for Medicare in Canada
The Prince
Boosters and Barkers: Financing Canada's Involvement in the First World War
An Accidental History of Canada
Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War
The Curious Passage of Richard Blanshard: First Governor of Vancouver Island
Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade
The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War
Heenan Blaikie: The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm
Shadows of Tyranny: Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship
J.B. McLachlan: A Biography, New Edition: The Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Coal Miners
The Possession of Barbe Hallay: Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada (2024 Reissue)
Folklife and Superstition: The Luck, Lore and Worldviews of Prairie Homesteaders
Squandered: Canada’s Potash Legacy
Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830–1960
Canada’s State Police: 150 years of the RCMP
Against the Tides: Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada’s Maritime Marshlands
Improving Upper Canada: Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791–1852
Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life
The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood
Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity
The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman
Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America
Before Canada: Northern North America in a Connected World
Muiwlanej kikamaqki – Honouring Our Ancestors
A Communist for the RCMP: The Uncovered Story of a Social Movement Informant
Toronto Mayors: A History of the City’s Leaders
Casa Loma: Millionaires, Medievalism, and Modernity in Toronto’s Gilded Age
Montreal's Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole
Eroding a Way of Life: Neoliberalism and the Family Farm
The Legacy of Louis Riel: Leader of the Métis People
Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability
Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada
Disciples of Antigonish: Catholics in Nova Scotia, 1880–1960
The History and Archaeology of the Iroquois du Nord
The Harris Legacy: Reflections on a Transformational Premier
Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia
Canadian Criminal Law in Ten Cases
The Avro Arrow: For the Record
Terry & Me: Inside the Marathon of Hope
We Shall Persist: Women and the Vote in the Atlantic Provinces
Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’s Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada’s West, 1813–1816
Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land
On Stony Ground: Russländer Mennonites and the Rebuilding of Community in Grunthal
Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XII: New Essays in Women's History
The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790
The Ontario Bond Scandal of 1924 Re-examined
Part of Life Itself: The War Diary of Lieutenant Leslie Howard Miller, CEF
The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada
King and Chaos: The 1935 Canadian General Election
For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt
In a ‘Land of Hope’: Documents on the Canadian Jewish Experience, 1627-1923
Statesmen, Strategists & Diplomats: Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy
A Cooperative Disagreement: Canada-United States Relations and Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–93
The Notorious Georges: Crime and Community in British Columbia’s Northern Interior, 1909-25
Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War
For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of the Canadian Copyright Law
Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice
A Night at the Gardens: Class, Gender, and Respectability in 1930s Toronto
Rough Justice: Policing, Crime, and the Origins of the Newfoundland Constabulary, 1729–1871
Ice War Diplomat: Hockey Meets Cold War Politics
Harvesting Labour: The Making of Canada's Agricultural Workforce
The Ku Klux Klan In Canada (2023 Reissue)
The history of the 1960s scoop of Indigenous children in Prairie Canada (2023 Reissue)
The History of Canadian Spying (2023 Reissue)
The Origins of the Security State (2023 Reissue)
Reconsidering the Legacy of Vimy (2023 Reissue)
The War Measures Act in Canada (2023 Reissue)
Mi'kmaq Life before the Europeans(2023 Reissue)
The Pre-History of Multiculturalism in Canada(2023 Reissue)
The Canada-US border: a history of a fluid and unstable boundary (2023 Reissue)
The Intrepid James Wolfe (2023 Reissue)
Lasting Legacy: The history of the warships of Point Frederick
The Life and Times of Henry Kelsey of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Indigenous Injustice and Canada’s Legal System: The Death of Colten Boushie
The American Century in Canada: Canadian-American Relations from 1945-1960
The Battle of Saratoga and the life of General John Burgoyne
Wires Crossed: How the Irving empire jeopardized free press in New Brunswick
The intersections of thought laid bare by postwar nudism in Canada
Four landmark cases in bankruptcy and insolvency law in Canada
How the Canadian Constitution structures economic relations
The 80th anniversary of the Battle of The Atlantic
Equality, Autonomy, and Dignity: Canadian Feminism over 100 Years
Success and Glamour: Steve Paikin’s Biography of Prime Minister John Turner
Able to Lead: The life and politics of radical class warrior E.T. Kingsley
Critical Reflection of Individual Lives: Biography and Canada
Unlearning Distorted Views of History: Residential Schools and Reconciliation
The Drink Question: The political history of liquor regulation in Canada
Unequal Communities: The Waywayseecappo Indian Reserve and the Town of Rossburn
On the Ground: A History of Tactical, Operational, and Strategic Canadian Military Intelligence
Becoming Canadian: Exploring Birth-based Citizenship
Interfering with Indigenous Law: Settler Colonial Invasion and Land Theft
Disaffected Loyalists and Passionate Patriots: Feelings in the Enlightenment Atlantic
Origin of Income Tax: War and the History of Canadian Income Tax
The Joint Arctic Weather Stations: A collaborative program between Canada and the United States
A Canadian Coup: The Dramatic History of Canada’s Accidental Prime Minister, Mackenzie Bowell
National Security Measures and Political Trials: Canadian State Trials of 1939-1990
The Historical Massacre and Re-Establishment of Bison in the Great Plains
Confederation to World War I: A History of Law in Canada
Hudson Bay, Fur Trade: French-Indigenous Relations in New France
Brush, Floss, and Smile: A history of dental care, oral health, and social inequality
The Wolf’s Howl: A social history of wolves in Canada
Tuzo: Scientist, Geologist, and Unlikely Revolutionary
The Artist Soldier: A.Y. Jackson and the Origins of the Group of Seven
Canada in the 1950s: A Political History
Bewitchment, Possession, and the Diabolical Arts: Daily Life in New France
The Diefenbaker Revival: The Rise and Fall of the Diefenbaker Governments
No Booze and No Dogs: A History of Tourism in Prince Edward Island
The History of a First Nation: The Story of the Carry the Kettle Nakoda
What got missed in Medicare
John A. Macdonald’s Anti-Fenian Spy Ring
The Seismic Shift from Left to Right in Saskatchewan Politics
The Fight for Yonge Street
A history of the biggest mining boom in Canadian history
The Feminism of Mary Ellen Spear Smith
The Lives of Canada’s War Women
Canadian Nurses in China
The Thrashing of R.B. Bennett’s Conservatives in the Great Depression Election of 1935
Les quatres mousquetaires et le parti national
Quebec in the 1930s and the rise of the Parti national
Comparing libel law: Massachusetts and Nova Scotia in the early 19th century
The Forgotten Prime Ministers Who Succeeded John A. Macdonald
A Region Of The Mind U.S. Northern Plains And Canadian Prairies
The Liberal Party in Defeat and Victory
The Politicization of Canadian Foreign Policy under the Harper Government
Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism
F.R. Scott’s journal on the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
Lord Stanley and the Enduring Cultural Importance of his Trophy
Thirty Years of Political and Constitutional Upheaval in Canada
The New History of Black Peoples in Canada
Canadian Witnesses to the Horrors of the Holocaust
Thomas McKay, Scottish Businessman And The Creation Of Ottawa
The Cataclysmic Collapse of Abitibi Power & Paper
La Loi des mesures de guerre au Canada
The War Measures Act in Canada
The Psychedelic world of Hollywood Hospital
Mackenzie King and the Three Amigos
The Canada-US border: a history of a fluid and unstable boundary
The Iconic Massey Hall in Toronto
The Ambition and Vision of Joey Smallwood
The 1921 Election, 100 years later
The Pre-History of Multiculturalism in Canada
The Canadian Army and Civilians in Europe 1944-45
The History of the Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Reshaping of Canadian Federalism
Good Homes for Toronto Workers
Open Federalism in the Harper Era and its Historical Legacy?
The Intrepid James Wolfe
Canadians as a Cigarette Nation, 1930 to 1975
What a Toronto Election in 2014 Reveals About Democracy in Canada
The Women who Transformed the National Gallery of Canada
The Many Lives of Frank Prewett
The Military on the University of Toronto Campus
The Winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards
Ida Martin and Saint John’s Working Class
Surviving natural resource development and environmental degradation
Women and the history of the Iraqi diaspora in Canada
A cultural history of Icelandic immigration to Canada
A History of the Idea of Inequality in Canada
A history of place and family in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
A History of the Métis Nation
The History and Impact of the New Left in Toronto
A History of Immigrant Arrivals through Pier 21 in Halifax
Decoding Indigenous Governance in the First Centuries of Contact
Women and the History of the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
The historical geography of Canada as a bounded land
How First Nations became marginalized in the Canadian Prairies
Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity
John Lennon in Canada
A History of Law in Canada from the beginning until Confederation
The Black Loyalists of New Brunswick
The Enigmatic W.P.M. Kennedy: the history of a Canadian academic
The history of the 1960s scoop of Indigenous children in Prairie Canada
The Ku Klux Klan in Canada
Historic Sites in Prairie Canada
A New Perspective on The 1870 Red River Expedition
Jennifer Brown on the history and ethnography of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian Northwest
Viscount Haldane: The Unknown Father of Confederation
Tax, Order and Good Government: Historical views on tax fairness in Canada
Blindness to Indigenous Realities
The History of Political Parties in Canada
New Perspectives on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese-Canadians
The History of Equalization in Canada
Comment les partis politiques ont imposé une discipline totale au Canada
How Political Parties Imposed Total Discipline in Canada
Newfoundland’s long and winding road to Confederation
The Portuguese in Canada
Immigrant Doctors in the History of Canadian Medicare
Multicultural Policy 50 Years Later
The Mysterious Louis St-Laurent
The State of Canada in 1945
Wrestling and the Sporting Culture in the Prairies
Les référendums de 1980 et 1995 en perspective
Quebec Referenda 25 and 40 years later
A very short introduction to Canadian history
The Hockey Story in Canada
Montreal’s “Le Devoir” and the Jews
2020 Remembrance Day Special: Canada at War with Jack Granatstein
Mi'kmaq Life before the Europeans
The Genius of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
CBC Television’s Interpretation of Canadian History
Pierre Laporte: Martyre de la Crise d’Octobre
Pierre Laporte: Martyr of the 1970 October Crisis
The Making of Louis Riel
Canada, 1919
The Tragedy of Almighty Voice
Harold Innis on Peter Pond and the Art of Biography
The Labatt’s Saga
Canadian History through the eyes of the Canadian Canoe Museum
Canada in Afghanistan
Reinventing Canada after 1945
Acadian Fire
The Bank of Montreal's Success Since 1945
Thomas Chapais, Historien Loyaliste
Thomas Chapais, Tory Historian
The Bank of Montreal's Influence to the end of the Second World War
How Canada Nearly Forgot the Second World War
The History Of Canada’s Car Industry
James Teit and the First Nations on the Pacific Coast
The Place of Race in Canada's International History
Teyoninhokarawen: A Mohawk in the War of 1812
Edward Cecil-Smith, Canadian Communist
Canada’s Scottish Refugees
Canada on the UN Security Council
Le Québec à la lumière du monde
Quebec in a Global Light
The Origins Of The Modern Canadian Healthcare System
Mary Quayle Innis and the Professor
Henri Bourassa and the Great War
The Rise and Fall of One-Industry Towns in Northern Canada
Harry Crerar's Army
The Politics of the Champlain Monument in Orillia, Ontario
Hating the Catholics in Canada
The Devastating Flu Epidemic of 1918-19 in Canada
Marcel Cadieux and the Art of Diplomacy
The 2019 Election in a Historical Context: A Roundtable
Remembrance Day Special, 2019: the War Comes to Ontario
Canada and the Far East
Mackenzie King meets Hitler, June 1937
The Lives and Times of Kouchibouguac
The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
The Business of the Early NHL
The Drama of Oscar Skelton
Pierre E. Trudeau was not a Socialist!
Canada's Uneasiness with International Human rights
Prime Ministers and the Press
The Campaign for Women's Vote in Ontario
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 one Hundred Years Later
The 1979 Election in Canada forty years later
Canada at the Versailles Treaty, 1919
The FLQ Bombings 50 Years Later
The American Obsession with the 1837-38 Rebellions
L'obsessoin américaine avec les rebellions de 1837-38
How George Washington Killed 10 French Canadians and Started a World War
The Impact of Freak Shows in Canada
"Making Multiculturalism" The History of A Toronto School
The History of Gay Life on the Prairies
The Secrets of Banking History in Canada
The Importance of the Eaton's Santa Claus Parade
Armistice Day Special
Canada's Cyclist Soldiers of The First World War
"L'autre 1968" René Lévesque et la fondation du Parti québécois
The "Other 1968": René Lévesque and the Founding of the the Parti Québécois
The Enigmatic Donald Creighton
The Fascinating Career of Mackenzie King's Diary
Canada’s Writers confront the Vietnam War
The Making of Obesity in Canada
Elizabeth Hale and The Two Solitudes, 200 years Ago
Canada Day Special: Canada’s Incomplete Conquests
The Origins of the Security State
The Power of Prime Ministers in the First 50 Years of Confederation
The Teaching of History in Canada’s High Schools
Lawyers, Families and Canadian Business
L’enseignement de l’histoire au Québec
The Teaching of History in Quebec’s Schools
The History of Indian hospitals
Teaching How to Think Historically in Canadian Schools
The History of Canadian Spying
Hudson’s Bay Company Governor James Knight, 1714–1717
The History of Psychiatric Care and Mental Hospitals in Canada
Pierre Trudeau, Trudeaumania 50 years later
The Universe of John Plaskett, Astronomer
Native American Church and the religious use of peyote in Canada
St. Patrick’s Day Special: The Canadian Irish and the First World War
Rediscovering the Explorer Philip Turnor
Reconsidering the Legacy of Vimy
Battling for The Maritimes, 1690-1763
The Unknown Northwest Passage
Canada at the Winter Olympics
The strange birth of the NHL in December 1917
Beaverbrook: A Canadian in the David Lloyd George Cabinet, February 1918
Canada's Khaki Election of December, 1917
The Hundred Days Campaign in the First World War
The Telegram that launched Canada’s Involvement in the Suez Crisis
La crise de la conscription, 1917
La Confédération et Henri Bourassa
The Conscription Crisis, 1917
John A Macdonald and “the crisis” of 1885
Henri Bourassa and Confederation
The Diary of Lucy Everett Morrison
La carrière fulgurante d’Étienne Brûlé
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