S5E3 The Buffalo Alliance – Poundmaker and Crowfoot

09/30/19 • 22 min

Two of the 19th century's most prominent leaders of the plains First Nations evolve from enemies into friends while faced with grave threats to their people and their way of life, both are thus forced to make hard choices in the tumultuous violent period of the late 19th century. Get add free content at Patreon!

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S5E2 The Pirate Queen of Canada – Maria Lindsay Cobham

In the early 18th century Maria Lindsay Cobham, her husband, and her crew of misfits prowled the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Cabot Strait, preying on unsuspecting merchant vessels. One of the few pirates to operate in the North Atlantic, Maria not only became captain of her crew but cemented herself in maritime legend as the Pirate Queen of Canada. Get add free content at Patreon!

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S5E4 Amherst’s VIP Prisoner: Trotsky in the Maritimes

While Leon Trotsky is largely known as a central figure in the Russian Revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union, a brief chapter in his life took him to Amherst, Nova Scotia as part of a British attempt to prevent the radical from returning to war-time Russia. Thus, Trotsky found himself a VIP guest of the British Empire, the Canadian state and the province of Nova Scotia. Get add free content at Patreon!

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