• 2000
  • 2h
Canada: A People's History

Summary A dramatized comprehensive survey of the history of Canada. View more details

  • 2000
  • 2h

Canada: A People's History

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Graham Greene Nigel Bennett Lorne Cardinal Maggie Huculak

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8.7

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Oct 21, 2000

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : CBC

Language : English French

Production companies : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio Canada CBC Documentary Unit

Summary A dramatized comprehensive survey of the history of Canada. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Oct 21, 2000

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : CBC

Language : English French

Production companies : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio Canada CBC Documentary Unit

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 21, 2000
When the World Began
The history of Canada between 15,0000 BC to 1,800 AD.
Episode 2 • Oct 27, 2000
Adventurers and Mystics
With the search for the Northwest Passage and the expansion of the Grand Banks fishery, the New World soon becomes a destination for permanent European colonies, in Newfoundland and along the St. Lawrence. Samuel de Champlain begins his legendary journeys, and the precarious beginnings of New France are established. It is an era of unprecedented alliances and devastating conflicts with native people, driven by the merchants' search for furs and the Jesuits' quest for souls. After a half-century of struggle, with the colony on the verge of extinction, Louis XIV takes personal control, sending French soldiers to defend the struggling outpost and eligible young women, the "filles du roi," to become their wives.
Episode 3 • Oct 30, 2000
Claiming the Wilderness
A small French settlement in New France builds a flourishing society and stakes a claim to a massive continent between 1660 and 1750. New France's populace includes shop keepers, artisans, farmers and landlords, as well as fur-trading expansionists like Governor Frontenac and his commercial partner, Robert Cavelier de La Salle, who build a network of Indian alliances and extend French trading posts to the Gulf of Mexico. But this fast-paced growth brings New France into ever more bitter conflict with the wealthier and more numerous - but less venturesome - British colonists to the south. The story culminates with the heartrending deportation of more than 10,000 French Catholic Acadians as the struggle to possess North America enters its final, decisive phase.
Episode 4 • Nov 04, 2000
Battle for a Continent
1754-1775: The British and the French fight over the New World. Who will win?
Episode 5 • Nov 11, 2000
A Question of Loyalties
1775-1815 With the dawn of a new country on the continent, Canadians try to protect their land. Loyalists escaping the American colonies arrive in Canada.
Episode 6 • Jan 06, 2001
The Pathfinders
The Canadian west is opened by the great fur-trading empires of the Hudson's Bay and Northwest Companies, the native people who were their indispensable allies, and bold explorers and map makers who ventured from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean and long-sought-for Pacific. Pierre Esprit Radisson defies a governor to take New France's trade far into the continent's interior and later, founds an English trading empire; Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la Vérendrye, spends a lifetime searching for the Western Sea and pays dearly for it. Tough Dene chief Matonabbee leads Samuel Hearne on a monumental trek into the Barren Lands; Alexander Mackenzie's dash to the Pacific makes him one of the most celebrated men of his age. And David Thompson comes to the forbidding shores of Hudson Bay as a 14-year-old apprentice and eventually unlocks the secrets of the West more than any other man. As the fur trader's day comes to an end, settlers on the prairies and gold miners in British Columbia begin to claim the west for themselves.
Episode 7 • Jan 13, 2001
Rebellion and Reform
By 1830, the struggle for democratic government in the colonies of British North America has reached fever pitch. As the colonies grow in wealth and population, a generation of charismatic reformers -- Joseph Howe in Nova Scotia, Louis-Joseph Papineau in Lower Canada and William Lyon Mackenzie in Upper Canada - confront the appointed governors and their local favorites with one demand: let the citizens' elected representatives run their own affairs. In the Canadas, the struggle leads to bloody rebellion and disastrous defeat for the rebels. Yet within 10 years, the prize of self-government is won, thanks in part to an unexpected alliance between the French and English-speaking forces of reform.
Episode 8 • Jan 20, 2001
The Great Enterprise
In a few short years, a handful of small and separate British colonies are transformed into a new nation that controls half the North American continent. The story of Confederation, its supporters and its bitter foes, is told against a backdrop of U.S. Civil War and Britain's growing determination to be rid of its expensive, ungrateful colonies. The dawn of the photographic era provides a vivid portrait of the diverse people who make up the new Dominion of Canada: the railway magnates, the unwed mothers of Montreal, the nuns who provide refuge for the destitute, the prosperous merchants of Halifax, the brave fugitives of the Underground Railroad, and the tide of Irish immigrants who flood into the cities.
Episode 9 • Jan 27, 2001
From Sea to Sea
Confederation is barely accomplished when the new dominion must face an enormous challenge: extending its reach into the vast prairies and beyond, to the Pacific Ocean. But Canada blunders catastrophically in seeking to take over the west without the consent of its inhabitants, especially the Métis of Red River and their leader, the charismatic, troubled Louis Riel. The resistance of 1869-70 lays the groundwork for Manitoba to join Canada, but it also sets the stage for decades of conflict over the rights of French and English, Catholic and Protestant in the new territories. Thanks to an audacious promise of a transcontinental railway in 10 years, the settlers of British Columbia are more easily convinced of the merits of union; by 1873 Prince Edward Island has joined as well, and Canada can boast a dominion that extends from sea to sea.
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