Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History) Podcast
1) Heenan Blaikie: The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm
In 1973, three young lawyers founded Heenan Blaikie in Montreal, which grew to be a prominent Canadian law firm with notable members, including former political leaders. Despite its close-knit atmosph...Show More
2) Terry & Me: Inside the Marathon of Hope
A twenty-two-year-old cancer survivor and amputee, Terry set out from St. John’s Newfoundland in April 1980, aiming to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. His first months on the roa...Show More
3) We Shall Persist: Women and the Vote in the Atlantic Provinces
We Shall Persist captures both the long campaign and the years of disappointment. Suffrage victories across Atlantic Canada were steps in an unfinished and contentious march toward gender, race, and c...Show More
4) Ice War Diplomat: Hockey Meets Cold War Politics
In Ice War Diplomat, Canadian diplomat Gary J. Smith gives his behind-the-scenes insight into the 1972 Summit Series at the height of tension during the Cold War. Caught between capitalism and communi...Show More
5) The Ambition and Vision of Joey Smallwood
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Peter Neary. He is the co-author, with Melvin Baker, of Joseph Roberts Smallwood: Masthead Newfoundlander, 1900-1949, published by McGill-Queen’s Un...Show More
6) The History of Equalization in Canada
In her book The Art of Sharing: The Richer versus the Poorer Provinces since Confederation, Mary Janigan explores the history of equalization – one of Canada’s most important yet least understood soci...Show More
7) The Origins of the Modern Canadian Healthcare System (2025 reissue)
Greg Marchildon speaks with Dr Esyllt W. Jones about her Book Radical Medicine (ARP Books). Jones is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba. This recording was produced b...Show More
8) How George Washington Killed 10 French Canadians and Started a World War (2025 reissue)
Patrice Dutil speaks with Christopher Moore about the infamous massacre that took place in May 1754 that sparked the Seven-Year War. Christopher Moore writes “History News”, a very popular blog on Can...Show More
9) The Other 1968: Rene Levesque and the Founding of the Parti Quebecois
Patrice Dutil discusses the significance of the founding of the Parti québécois by René Lévesque on 11 October 1968 with Xavier Gélinas, a specialist on the Québec "Quiet Revolution" and curator of Po...Show More
10) Re-run: Canada's Khaki Election of December, 1917
Greg Marchildon discusses the significance of this event of a hundred years ago with Patrice Dutil and David MacKenzie, authors of "Embattled Nation: Canada's Wartime Election of 1917" (Dundurn Press)...Show More