2017

S3.E1 ∙ The Rise of Piracy in Canada

Mon, Jun 27, 2022

When we think of swashbuckling tales of pirates and plunder, we think of Blackbeard, palm trees, and the sun-scorched shores of the Caribbean. Yet, some of the most ruthless men and women of the seven seas razed hell up North, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the jagged coasts of the Maritimes. Take to the lawless seas in search of treasure and tall tales in a veritable "who's who" of pirates and privateers on Canada's East Coast.

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S3.E2 ∙ The Fall of Piracy in Canada

Mon, Jul 25, 2022

Climb back aboard to witness the turbulent end of "The Golden Age of Piracy" in Canada. From the most notorious pirate to have sailed the seas of the North Atlantic, to the most infamous pirate trial in Halifax's history, we find out how East Coast piracy declined and...turned legitimate.

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S3.E3 ∙ The Toronto Forest that Brought Down Napoleon

Sat, Sep 10, 2022

A forest with a story that spans the Atlantic Ocean, pitting lumberjacks against an emperor, during one of the most pivotal moments in Europe's history. Napoleon, meet Toronto's Rouge Valley. Explore Canada's only Urban Park: Rouge National Urban Park.

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S3.E4 ∙ How the Cold War Started... in Ottawa!

Sat, Oct 08, 2022

Three days after the end of WWII, a relieved and exhausted Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was about to find out that post-war peace was to be short-lived. The RCMP had something to report to him: there were spies in Ottawa. Russian spies. A cipher clerk by the name of Igor Gouzenko had finally managed to turn himself in after 24 hours of panic, incompetence, and utter absurdity on the part of Canadian officials. His defection revealed a spy ring that shook the Western world - some refer to it as "the spark that ignited the Cold War."

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S3.E5 ∙ The Werewolf of Quebec

Sun, Nov 06, 2022

The stone walls of Quebec City have protected its residents from more than just invading armies. In the middle of the 1700s, the Gazette de Québec reported that a werewolf was on the loose. It was far from the first "loup-garou" to stalk the colony: stories of werewolves had accompanied French settlers to Canada ever since they began crossing the Atlantic. But this beast appeared at a particularly uneasy time: the first decade of British rule over New France. The werewolf was said to terrorize the colonists for years, hunted and feared, until he finally disappeared without a trace.

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S3.E6 ∙ When Americans Built a Road Across Canada

Wed, Jan 04, 2023

The story behind one of Canada's most famous highways...and how it was built by a foreign army. From the Rocky Mountain foothills, all the way to Alaska-we take a road trip finding clues to its origins: rusted old trucks, strange-looking buildings, and abandoned gravel roads. This is the tale of the largest American invasion into Canada since the Gold Rush. This is the Alaska Highway.

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S3.E7 ∙ The Extraordinary Adventures of the Newfoundland Dog

Sat, Mar 25, 2023

The story of the heroic Newfoundland dogs that helped shape Canada.

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S3.E8 ∙ How the American Civil War Made Canada

Tue, Sep 19, 2023

The Canadian story of the American Civil War (Part One). Through the eyes of the Canadians who helped start the war, to those who fought it, to the leaders influenced by it, we unravel one of the most pivotal events in the continent's history. From the pubs of Saint John to the docks of Halifax, from Southern Ontario battlefields to the battlements of Quebec City, find out which Canadians were on the right and wrong sides of history. This is the story of two nations facing each other down over a tenuous border for a century, and the war that changed everything.

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S3.E9 ∙ The Great Whale Robbery of Labrador

Tue, Feb 27, 2024

Basque whalers in the 1500s traveled to the very edge of their known universe in search of their gargantuan prey, and landed on the shores of a fog-shrouded bay in Labrador. In this unlikely setting, Canadiana revels in one of Canada's most absurd true crime stories: the tale of a Basque who stole from their rival, sparking a Spanish Supreme Court case that wouldn't be settled for nearly 20 years. Canadian and Spanish history collides in a tale that was forgotten for centuries.

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S3.E10 ∙ The Engineering Marvel Built to Defend Against Americans: The Grisly History of the Rideau Canal

Tue, Apr 30, 2024

Canadiana explores the grisly history of the Rideau Canal, a popular tourist attraction in Ottawa and marvel of human engineering from the early 1800s.

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