Making of Canada
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Making of Canada

An Epic History in Twenty Extraordinary Lives

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Moving beyond the familiar names of Champlain and Macdonald, historian Greg Koabel, creator of the popular Nations of Canada podcast, shines a spotlight on lesser-known figures such as William Weston, the risk-taking merchant who gambled on Atlantic exploration, and Shingwaukonse, the visionary Ojibwe chief who pioneered resource-sharing negotiations with Canada’s government.

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Greg Koabel

Greg Koabel holds a PhD from Nottingham Trent University in the field of early modern English history, and has taught European history and European politics at the University of Regina. He currently produces history podcasts, including Early Stuart England, a narrative history of England in the first half of the seventeenth century, and the Nations of Canada, an ongoing history of Canada from its beginnings. Greg lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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In this introduction, Koabel challenges the familiar narrative of Canadian Confederation by spotlighting overlooked figures across the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
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In this chapter, Koabel traces the late-fifteenth-century voyages of John Cabot and William Weston from Bristol to Newfoundland.
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In this chapter, Koabel traces how Samuel de Champlain built a permanent French presence along the St. Lawrence River in the early 1600s, anchored in the fur trade and Indigenous diplomacy.
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In this chapter, Koabel traces the transformation of the St. Lawrence valley and Great Lakes region after 1613, when European contact reshaped Indigenous nations through warfare, disease, and …
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In this chapter,Koabel examines how brothers Paul and Pierre Le Moyne led small Canadian parties on raids against English trading posts in James Bay and the settlement of Schenectady between 1686 …
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In this chapter, Koabel examines how the Great Peace of Montreal, held in the summer of 1701, reshaped diplomatic relations across North America.
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In this chapter, Koabel examines New France’s evolution from a fur-trading post into a settled agricultural colony along the St. Lawrence River between the early 1600s and the 1730s.
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In this chapter, Koabel examines the fraught relationship between the colonial British ruling class and the Catholic Acadians during the 1740s.
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In this chapter, Koabel traces General James Murray’s governance of New France from the 1759 British conquest through the mid-1760s constitutional debates.
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In this chapter, Koabel examines the partnership between Chipewyan trader Matonabbee and British explorer Samuel Hearne.
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In this chapter, Koabel traces the experiences of Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia between 1783 and 1792, following the American Revolution.
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In this chapter, Koabel examines the Battle of Châteauguay in October 1813, when Charles-Michel d’Irumberry de Salaberry led French-Canadian and Indigenous militia to repel an American …
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In this chapter, Koabel traces the rivalry between the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company in the Red River region during 1811 to 1816, centring on Cuthbert Grant’s …
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In this chapter, Koabel traces Newfoundland’s transformation from a seasonal cod fishery governed by English captains into a permanent colony demanding self-rule in the early nineteenth century.
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In this chapter, Koabel examines the Upper Canadian rebellions of 1837 and 1838, centring on Ogle Gowan and the Orange Order’s role in escalating sectarian conflict.
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In this chapter, Koabel traces the political and economic struggle between the Red River Métis and the Hudson’s Bay Company during the 1840s.
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In this chapter, Koabel examines the 1849 struggle of Ojibwe leader Shingwaukonse to secure mining royalties for his people on the shores of Lake Superior.
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In this chapter, Koabel focuses on Mary Ann Shadd, examining mid-nineteenth-century Black migration to Canada’s West.
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In this chapter, Koabel traces James Douglas’s navigation of the Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858, when a wave of American prospectors threatened the Pacific Northwest colonies.
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In this chapter, Koabel examines George Taylor Denison’s role in Canadian identity and anti-American sentiment during the American Civil War era.
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In this chapter, Koabel traces how sectarian violence in Toronto and Fenian Brotherhood plotting, spanning the 1840s through 1867, accelerated Confederation.
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In this concluding chapter, Koabel traces four centuries of Canadian history, from early colonial encounters through the British North America Act of 1867.
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This "chapter" is a biblography and index.
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