In Hindsight: Half a Century of Research Discoveries in Canadian History

In Hindsight: Half a Century of Research Discoveries in Canadian History

Following the model of old‐fashioned radio, Dr. Donald B. Smith, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Calgary, will present a series of 20 weekly broadcasts on different Indigenous and non‐Indigenous personalities in 19th and 20th century Canadian history.

Episodes

Episode 21: Ontario Made Me. Calgary Adopted Me.

October 24, 2023 • 40 mins
Final Episode: A reflection on the ways in which the research and writing in Canadian history have changed in our lifetimes.
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Episode 20: Olive Dickason

June 20, 2023 • 19 mins
An extraordinary scholar’s contribution to our knowledge of Canadian history. Introducing how historical writing has been altered in the digital age.
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Episode 19: Chief Gary Potts and The Temagami Land Claim

June 13, 2023 • 36 mins
The Temagami Land Claim Conference, Bear Island, Lake Temagami, July 1982. As one participant (Mary Black Rogers) later recalled, it was “like an Agatha Christie—all the guests arriving from distant points, meeting in an isolated spot.”
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Episode 18: Lester Pearson

June 6, 2023 • 34 mins
Lester Pearson and Indigenous Canada, a world barely visible to the mid-20th century prime minister (1963-1968).
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Episode 17: Duncan Campbell Scott

May 30, 2023 • 36 mins
The intriguing context surrounding the address of assimilationist Duncan Campbell Scott, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, at the Victoria College chapel, Toronto, in 1925.
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Episode 16: Onondeyoh / Fred Loft

May 23, 2023 • 24 mins
The Mohawk founder of the cross-Canada League of Indians of Canada, 1918.
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Episode 15: Hugh Dempsey

May 16, 2023 • 30 mins
The contributions over two-thirds of a century of Hugh Dempsey, Dean of Alberta Historians, to the history of his province.
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Episode 14: Annie Glen Broder

May 9, 2023 • 27 mins
Calgary’s extraordinary Grande Dame of music in the early 20th century.
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Episode 13: Fred and Evelyn Albright

May 2, 2023 • 32 mins
The tragic story of a remarkable Ontario couple in Alberta, 1910s, told through their surviving rich correspondence of over 550 letters.
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Episode 12: Elizabeth Barrett and Shahwahnegezhik / Henry Bird Steinhauer

April 25, 2023 • 29 mins
Shahwahnegezhik’s sons and their dedicated Ontario teacher, Elizabeth Barrett, who made a difference.
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Episode 11: Will Jackson, Later Honoré Jaxon

April 18, 2023 • 30 mins
Louis Riel’s secretary in 1884/85. A significant historical figure?
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Episode 10: John A. Macdonald

March 28, 2023 • 26 mins
Canada’s first prime minister’s influence on the development of Canada’s Indian Policy, 1844-1876, and the First Nations.
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Episode 9: Lord Bury

March 21, 2023 • 27 mins
One of the last British Superintendent Generals of Indian Affairs in the Canadas, 1855.
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Episode 8: Nahnebahwequay

March 14, 2023 • 38 mins
The extraordinary Mississauga woman who had an audience with Queen Victoria, 1860.
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Episode 7 Part Two: Egerton Ryerson

March 7, 2023 • 26 mins
Sir Augustus d'Este and Egerton Ryerson, two non-Indigenous friends of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
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Episode 7 Part One: Sir Augustus d’Este

March 7, 2023 • 28 mins
Sir Augustus d'Este and Egerton Ryerson, two non-Indigenous friends of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
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Episode 6: The Mississauga and David Ramsay

February 28, 2023 • 31 mins
More on the Mississauga, and the gruesome tale of David Ramsay, "Indian Killer."
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Episode 5: Peter Jones and Eliza Field

February 20, 2023 • 26 mins
The Mississauga Chief Kahkewaquonaby (Sacred Feathers), known in English as Peter Jones, and his English bride, Eliza Field. Portrait of a marriage.
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Episode 4: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance

February 14, 2023 • 29 mins
The Glorious Imposter. The famous writer of the 1920s, author of Long Lance (1928). Indigenous or Non-Indigenous? Or both?
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Episode 3: Grey Owl

February 7, 2023 • 23 mins
Archie Belaney in England, Grey Owl in Canada. On 14 April 1938, the day after his death, the Toronto Globe and Mail referred to Grey Owl, one of Canada’s first environmentalists, as the “most famous of Canadian Indians.” Who really was he?
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