Canada, a people's history. Volume 4 /
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Canada, a people's history. Volume 4 /
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The first episode covers 1670 to 1850. It was an age of great daring and enterprise; of fur traders and trailblazers who opened up a continent. Flamboyant Pierre Esprit Radisson defies a governor to take New France's fur trade into the interior and later founds an English trading empire; tough Dene chief Matonabbee leads Samuel Hearne on a monumental trek into the Barren Lands; Alexander Mackenzie's dash to the Pacific makes him one of the most celebrated men of his age; and David Thompson, who comes to the forbidding shores of Hudson Bay as a 14-year-old apprentice, eventually unlocks the secrets of the West more than any other man. The second episode covers 1815 to 1850. Fired with a passion for justice and liberty, Canadian reformers take on their colonial masters. Through their partisan newspapers, three charismatic reformers lead the charge. Joseph Howe in Nova Scotia, Louis-Joseph Papineau in Lower Canada and William Lyon Mackenzie in Upper Canada openly mock the privileged and become magnets for the disgruntled. The rising discontent leads to bloody rebellion and disastrous defeat for the rebels, but in 10 short years, the long and arduous struggle for self-government is achieved.
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