The obsessive quest to find a sea route through the Arctic to the riches of China and India claimed the lives of hundreds of European mariners. Best-selling historical author Ken McGoogan discusses the bold and gruesome search for the Northwest Passage with Kate Jaimet, senior editor of Canada’s History.
From Vancouver’s nineteenth-century opium dens, to the 1970s hashish trade through Montreal’s French Connection, drug use and abuse has created subcultures with their own personalities and rituals.
A stress point in current global tensions, the border on the 38th Parallel is a seventy-year-old legacy of the Korean War. Seventy years after the 1953 armistice, Canadian War Museum historian Andrew Burtch and Chief of the Defence Staff General Wayne Eyre discuss Canada’s involvement on the Korean Peninsula, from wartime to the present day.
More than 200 years ago, the British monarchy promised the Mi'kmaw people the right to hunt and fish on the island forever. But what happened to those treaties when PEI joined Canada in 1873?
Many of the same British aristocrats wielded power in both India and Canada. A podcast with international relations scholar Madhuparna Gupta, historical non-fiction author Stephen Bown and senior editor Kate Jaimet.Winner of the 2023 Canadian Ethnic Media Award for Podcast Feature.
John Rae is not as well known as some of the other famous names of northern exploration — people like Sir John Franklin, for instance. But Ken McGoogan argues that Rae deserves greater recognition than he has received to date because of what he accomplished.
