Curious Canadian History

01/10/2024

The newest episode is out! This week we dive into Canadian Content regulations (CANCON) and Canadian music

All around the world today there are people who listen to music made by Canadians. Most of us are familiar with Drake and Justin Bieber but long before those tw

24/09/2024

Release day! My newest book is officially out! Punching Above Our Weight: The Canadian Military at War Since 1867 is an easy-to-read, photograph-rich, single volume history or the Canadian Armed Forces at war since 1867. Examining both the battlefront and the homefront this book takes readers on a journey right up until the modern day. You can order this book right now via Amazon, Indigo, Dundurn Press, IndieBookstores.ca and almost all your local book stores.

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06/06/2024

Today marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day - back in Season 8 we did an episode covering the actions of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division as they stormed Juno Beach on 6 June 1944 - check out the episode below!

‎Show Curious Canadian History, Ep S8E19 - D-Day, 6 June, 1944 - May 30, 2023

28/05/2024

New CCH just dropped! In this episode we look back on how alcohol played a role in allowing Europeans to impose a credit/debt system within the fur trade, and the effects that this system had on European-Indigenous relationships. As well, how was alcohol used at the sharp end, where Europeans and Indigenous traders interacted? And was this all simply a European imposed system or did Indigenous traders act and react, resist and accept or outright reject these European tactics, tools and techniques of trade? Check the new episode out today!

‎Show Curious Canadian History, Ep S9E19 - Rum, Debt and Fur - May 28, 2024

30/04/2024

The newest episode is out! In S9E17 we look at the untold story of Acadian participation in the First World War. For this, we have brought on Professor Greg Kennedy from Brandon University. While much of the country at the time railed against the perceived lack of participation of French Canadians, Kennedy’s work shows that Acadians did indeed enlist at very similar rates to Anglophone Maritimers. The contributions of Acadians formalized into the raising of the 165th battalion, an all-Acadian regiment. The story of the 165th and other Acadian soldiers sheds new light on the varying experiences of Canadian soldiers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

‎Show Curious Canadian History, Ep S9E17 - Lost in the Crowd: Acadians and the First World War - Apr 30, 2024

04/04/2024

The newest episode of CCH is only a couple days old and this time we explore the history of alcohol in pre-confederation Canada!

‎Show Curious Canadian History, Ep S9E15 - Alcohol in early North America - Apr 2, 2024

19/03/2024

In the newest episode we take a deep dive into the various aspects of professional hockey in Canada!

‎Show Curious Canadian History, Ep S9E14 Hockey: The Game as We Know it Today - Mar 19, 2024

05/03/2024

This week we let our friends at The Walrus take the reins !

‎Show Curious Canadian History, Ep S9E13 - Of Fugitives and Orators: The Characters Behind the RCMP’s Complicated History - a special Canadian Time Machine episode - Mar 5, 2024

20/02/2024

The newest episode is out! This week we have on Alex Fitzgerald-Black of the Centre Juno Beach / Juno Beach Centre to discuss the Canadian "Masters of the Air"

‎Show Curious Canadian History, Ep S9E12 - The Canadian Masters of the Air - Feb 20, 2024

06/02/2024

The newest episode is out!

Listen to S9E11 - Canada, Maritime Power, and Africa from Curious Canadian History. The Houthis are a non-state Shia Islamist politically and military movement, and they have controlled key parts of western Yemen since the Yemenis Civil War broke out in 2014. In response to the recent Israeli attack...

24/01/2024

The newest episode is out!

‎Show Curious Canadian History, Ep S9E10 The Beginning of the End: The 1758 Siege of Louisbourg - Jan 23, 2024

09/01/2024

And we're back! In our first episode of 2024 we dive deep into the relationship between the early Canadian intelligence services and the cancellation of the Avro Arrow!

‎Show Curious Canadian History, Ep S9E9 - A Ballistic Decision: Canadian Intelligence Services and the Cancellation of the Avro Arrow - Jan 9, 2024

31/10/2023

The newest episode is out!

Listen to S9E5 - The Partition of Palestine from Curious Canadian History. The relationship between Israel and Palestine is a complex and chaotic situation which is not only fraught with acrimonious debate but continual violence. When we ask why this situation is so far from ever being solved, part....

17/10/2023

The newest episode is out! The first in a two-part series looking at the controversy surrounding Waffen-SS veterans in Canada with special guest, historian Per Anders Rudling

Listen to S9E4 The SS in Canada Part One from Curious Canadian History. In September 2023 the Canadian parliament gave a standing ovation to 98 year old Yaroslav Hunka, who at the time was being applauded for his role in fighting the Soviets during WW2. This soon became a national and international....

03/10/2023

The newest episode is out! Recent Canadian news has once again put a spotlight on this terrible and tragic terrorist attack

Listen to S9E3 The Bombing of Air India Flight 182 from Curious Canadian History. In recent weeks a diplomatic row between Canada and India erupted as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau publicly accused India of being behind the assassination of Sikh separatist and Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar.....

05/09/2023

We are back! Season 9 starts today with the story about super spy Henri Le Caron!

Listen to S9E1 Henri Le Caron - The Victorian Super Spy from Curious Canadian History. Welcome everyone to the first episode of Season 9! In the late 1860s a man named Henri Le Caron was rising within the innermost circles of the Fenian Brotherhood. He had served alongside Fenian leader John O’Nei...

27/06/2023

The final episode for Season 8 is out! We will see you all in September with the start of Season 9 :)

Listen to S8E21 A Global Collision - The North Pacific Fur Trade from Curious Canadian History. In the 1770s the realization that sea otter pelts from the pacific northwest were fetching high prices in China led to an absolute bonanza of trading expeditions into the largely unexplored region. For ma...

13/06/2023

The newest episode is out! The warrior-diplomat that was Joseph Brant

Listen to S8E20 Thayendenagay aka Joseph Brant – the warrior-diplomat from Curious Canadian History. Thayendenagay was a Mohawk war chief, British soldier, tireless advocate and an accomplished diplomat who straddled two very different worlds that were colliding in the latter half of the 18th cent...

30/05/2023

The newest episode is out!!

Listen to S8E19 - D-Day, 6 June, 1944 from Curious Canadian History. Many Canadians know of the incredible bravery and courage that Canadian soldiers showed on 6 June 1944 when the men of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division seized Juno Beach as part of the largest combined-arms operation in the history o...

16/05/2023

So excited for the newest CCH episode - a dive into the life and times of Gord Lightfoot

Listen to S8E18 - Gordon Lightfoot - A National Treasure from Curious Canadian History. The recent passing of Gordon Lightfoot is the loss of one of the most important Canadian singer-songwriters in the history of North American popular music. Not only has he released dozens of albums, including ove...

03/05/2023

The newest episode is out!

Listen to S8E17 HMCS Uganda - The Ship that Voted to Leave the War from Curious Canadian History. The words mutiny and cowardice are some of the most vile recriminations one could make against a ship and its crew. For years, these words were veiled behind the story of HMCS Uganda, Canada’s only na...

18/04/2023

The newest episode is out!!

Listen to S8E16 Seize Wismar, Stop the Soviets! from Curious Canadian History. While the official start of the Cold War is still debated by historians, many agree that it began at some point in the late 1940s. Yet, it was clear by 1945 that the final battle lines drawn when the war in Europe ended w...

04/04/2023

The newest episode is out!!

Listen to S8E15 Columbus Who? The Norse in Newfoundland from Curious Canadian History. The legendary sagas of the Vikings have always spoken of perilous, seaborne adventures to lands so far to the west as to literally drop off the edge of the known European universe. While some of these lands eventu...

21/03/2023

The newest episode is out! 'Strange Tales from Toronto' with guest historian Adam Bunch

‎Show Curious Canadian History, Ep S8E14 Strange Tales from Toronto - Mar 21, 2023

08/03/2023

The newest episode is out! A deep dive into how PEI ended up joining Canada!

Listen to S8E13 The Little Island That Could: PEI and Confederation from Curious Canadian History. Prince Edward Island is one of the most beautiful provinces in Canada. It’s wind-swept beaches are stunning, it’s people are some of the friendliest in the country. It has beautiful golf courses, s...