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.

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August 28, 2025 38 mins

*This episodes contains a detailed account of torture.

Champlain steps dramatically into a complex world of ancient kinship networks, complex diplomacy, and a long simmering war when he founds the city of Quebec in 1608. He finally meets the powerful Wendat people and assists them and their allies in a famous battle against the Haundenosaunee in the heart of Mohawk territory.


Sources:

Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer

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We take a look at the Beothuk people in this episode from their ancient beginnings on the island of Newfoundland to their demise through disease, starvation, and murder. It is a tragic story of the effects of colonization on a small population on an unforgiving land.


Sources


Books:

Beothuk: How Story Made a People (Almost) Disappear by Christopher Patrick Aylward

A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk by Ingeborg Marsh...

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July 31, 2025 37 mins

In this episode, we explore the early French attempts to settle in what would become Acadia, from Saint Croix to the more promising shores of Port-Royal. Who were the people who came? What were they hoping for? And how did they survive in a land already home to the Mi’kmaq? Join us as we discuss the story of one of the first European settlements in what is now Canada and the important relationship between those a settlers and the M...

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July 17, 2025 35 mins

There had been a few men with colonial ambitions from France but they had all ended in failure. Champlain starts his colonial career as an observer ready to learn some lessons from his predecessors.


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Sources:

Champlain's Dream by David Hacket Fischer

Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 vol.1 by Bryan D. Palmer

Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered by Bruce Trigger

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July 3, 2025 25 mins
Today's episode is a discussion of the violence in both the Wendat world and Europe. We will be talking about the Mourning Wars between the Wendat and Haudenosaunee and the scale of the violence of the wars waged in Europe.

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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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