Maple History: A Canadian History Podcast

Maple History: A Canadian History Podcast

A Canadian history podcast where the host, Christina Austin, invites friends to revisit what they may have learned in history class by giving a fuller picture of Canadian history beginning with the earliest human inhabitation until the years after the World Wars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

June 5, 2025 33 mins
Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval's story of being marooned on an island off of Newfoundland in 1542 is something that amazes everyone who hears it but she keeps getting shunted to a footnote in the story of the early colonization of Canada.

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Between when Cartier and Champlain arrived in North America, the St. Lawrence Iroquois ‘disappeared’. Where did they go and why did they go? Maybe we should ask the Basques.

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All but one of Cartier's kidnapped Stadaconans have died but he's ready to make his third voyage back to Canada. This time he's second in command to Roberval and, let's just say, they don't make a great team.


Further reading:

Jacques Cartier, The Voyages of Jacques Cartier, edited by Ramsay Cook (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993). In particular the introduction is very helpful - "Donnacona Discovers Europe: Rereading Ja...

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April 28, 2025 54 mins
A fateful meeting between two worlds where some bold kidnapping starts off this relationship between Donnacona and Cartier.

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An exploration of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy including a close look at the Sky Woman story and The Great Law of Peace.

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March 27, 2025 55 mins

A closer look at the spirituality, cultural norms, The Feast of the Dead burial ritual, and overall society of the Wendat Confederacy. Be warned that there is some discussion of torture and somewhat graphic descriptions of how death rituals were carried out.


For further reading:

Dispersed But Not Destroyed by Kathryn Magee Labelle

If you really want to go deep into the history of the Wendat people, you can read The Children...

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A cross country tour of the historical Indigenous nations in what is now Canada.

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February 27, 2025 24 mins
An exploration of the connections forged between the Indigenous people across what is now Canada and parts of the United States.

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An examination of the old and new theories of how humans came to North America and became the ancient ancestors of the Indigenous people on the continent.


Further reading:

The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere by Paulette F.C. Steeves

1491 by Charles C. Mann


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February 14, 2025 1 min
This is just a quick introduction for the Canadian history podcast that will cover as much of our history as I can manage.

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