Canadian History

Canadian history in this collection is told as a sequence of decisions about sovereignty, territory, and legitimacy. The episodes are in chronological order, moving from an era of contested borderlands into the political work of building a new federal state.

It begins in the early nineteenth century, when the Great Lakes region is a battleground of empires and expanding republics. War, alliance-making, and diplomacy shape what “sovereignty” even means on the ground, and whose claims are recognized when borders move.

From there, the collection shifts into the Confederation era, where national unity is not a slogan but a problem to solve. You hear how railways, elections, patronage, and scandal can threaten the credibility of a new political project, and how governments try to hold together a vast territory with limited tools and constant pressure.

It then narrows to moments when governance collides with rights and settlement. The story runs through provisional government and constitutional bargaining in the West, then into the policies aimed at consolidating the Dominion, including immigration strategy, law, and institutions that would shape relationships between the state and Indigenous peoples for generations.