I, too, enjoy deep dives into history. Podcasts such as The Rest is History, Conflicted and Behind the Bastards (evil covered with humour) are among my favourites. You are right that Canadian history is far more interesting than how so many of us have been taught. I look forward to listening to your series.
Thank you for highlighting Donald Smith as the archetype of the "silent partner" that embodies Canadian imperialism. Ser John Eh? knew a railway would save his vision of imperial dominion and Smith realized that vision was a licence to print money. I wonder if he set a special freight rate for George Simpson AND made sure his wife rode for free.
When are you going to discuss Ser John Eh's intervention against the Upper Canada Rebellion and his official agency as British representative to the Confederate States of America? This is my favourite part of our founding genocider's history. The guy wasn't interested in an independent country: he wanted to keep British North America in the British Empire by any means necessary, even if it meant opposition to home rule, support for slavery and complete ignorance of how railways work for the railway owners and practically no one else.
Ahh these are absolutely fascinating parts of Macdonald's biography that we unfortunately don't get into in this series. British North America's support of the CSA is something I've always been interested in. I thought the Apple TV show 'Manhunt' did a good job demonstrating the free hand that Confederate terrorists were given to operate in Canada. But we plan to keep doing deep dives into our history, so I'm certain we'll cover a lot of these issues in the future.
"The whole early history of our country and how it came to be has been resistance to the United States and fear of being taken over by the United States." Yeah, Stephen Bown, but not the resistance of a people like a national liberation struggle and the fear of oppression... but the resistance of a property mogul avoiding being bought out by an even bigger mogul and the fear of humiliation at the country club. COMMONS was full of stories of robber barons and their fiefdoms, slavery finance and resource extraction schemes and scams past, present and future, that are the vital fibres of Canada's nation-building. I'm so glad THE HATCHET is sticking to those stories of how a handful of fraudsters, greedheads and colonizers conned hundreds and thousands of Indigenous people and settlers from all over the world out of their land, labour and lives.
You're absolutely right, so much of 19th and early 20th century history is driven by the fear of humiliation at the social club. And of course, all of the evils you're mentioning are the focus of the next two episodes. Despite how much we like to celebrate all of this, it's a dark, ugly story at the end of the day.
I, too, enjoy deep dives into history. Podcasts such as The Rest is History, Conflicted and Behind the Bastards (evil covered with humour) are among my favourites. You are right that Canadian history is far more interesting than how so many of us have been taught. I look forward to listening to your series.
Thank you for highlighting Donald Smith as the archetype of the "silent partner" that embodies Canadian imperialism. Ser John Eh? knew a railway would save his vision of imperial dominion and Smith realized that vision was a licence to print money. I wonder if he set a special freight rate for George Simpson AND made sure his wife rode for free.
When are you going to discuss Ser John Eh's intervention against the Upper Canada Rebellion and his official agency as British representative to the Confederate States of America? This is my favourite part of our founding genocider's history. The guy wasn't interested in an independent country: he wanted to keep British North America in the British Empire by any means necessary, even if it meant opposition to home rule, support for slavery and complete ignorance of how railways work for the railway owners and practically no one else.
Ahh these are absolutely fascinating parts of Macdonald's biography that we unfortunately don't get into in this series. British North America's support of the CSA is something I've always been interested in. I thought the Apple TV show 'Manhunt' did a good job demonstrating the free hand that Confederate terrorists were given to operate in Canada. But we plan to keep doing deep dives into our history, so I'm certain we'll cover a lot of these issues in the future.
Genocide?? You are an idiot!
Don't be a baby
"The whole early history of our country and how it came to be has been resistance to the United States and fear of being taken over by the United States." Yeah, Stephen Bown, but not the resistance of a people like a national liberation struggle and the fear of oppression... but the resistance of a property mogul avoiding being bought out by an even bigger mogul and the fear of humiliation at the country club. COMMONS was full of stories of robber barons and their fiefdoms, slavery finance and resource extraction schemes and scams past, present and future, that are the vital fibres of Canada's nation-building. I'm so glad THE HATCHET is sticking to those stories of how a handful of fraudsters, greedheads and colonizers conned hundreds and thousands of Indigenous people and settlers from all over the world out of their land, labour and lives.
You're absolutely right, so much of 19th and early 20th century history is driven by the fear of humiliation at the social club. And of course, all of the evils you're mentioning are the focus of the next two episodes. Despite how much we like to celebrate all of this, it's a dark, ugly story at the end of the day.