1867 & All That Podcast
1) 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 documents written by a woman to talk about the events o...Show More
2) 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 about McGee and his assassination. There's really n...Show More
3) 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 revolutionaries (who also happened to profoundly s...Show More
4) 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 the main events, talk way too much about federalis...Show More
5) 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 1866. The Canadians make the Maritimers wait for ...Show More
6) 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 New Brunswick steps up and makes things happen, obli...Show More
7) 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 secret societies and their plans to invade Canada. ...Show More
8) 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 Confederation and we have the highlights. Then we turn east a...Show More
9) 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 Confederation scheme that derail the Quebec Resolutio...Show More
10) 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 to take over a town in Vermont - just long enough ...Show More