Canada a peoples history torrent

User reviews 6 Review. Top review. Canada: A Peoples' History is a Fascinating Documentary for everyone, but particularly Americans and the other English-speaking countries. As a History educator, this is one of the resources I use regularly in my classroom. It holds the attention of the students, even through the parts that aren't about conflict and war. As a former broadcaster and film production professional, I confirm that the production values are excellent.

Huculak over-enunciates, pronouncing each "t" as an Englishman might, instead of as most Canadians do, which is to pronounce the "t" sound in very much the same way as Americans do. Huculak's delivery, overall, is very good, but slightly over-dramatic in places where there is no need for such emphasis.

Despite these minor criticisms, the series is one of the best studies ever done on the development of Canada from British Colony to American Parallel society, and will especially aid Americans in understanding how Canada's story dove-tails with that of the United States. Details Edit. Release date October 22, Canada.

English French. Le canada: Une histoire populaire. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 2 hours. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap. Episode 3 Claiming the Wilderness Time Span: To A small French settlement in New France builds a flourishing society and stakes a claim to a massive continent between and New France's populace includes shop keepers, artisans, farmers and landlords, as well as fur-trading expansionists like Governor Frontenac and his commercial partner, Robert Cavelier de La Salle, who build a network of Indian alliances and extend French trading posts to the Gulf of Mexico.

But this fast-paced growth brings New France into ever more bitter conflict with the wealthier and more numerous - but less venturesome - British colonists to the south. The story culminates with the heartrending deportation of more than 10, French Catholic Acadians as the struggle to possess North America enters its final, decisive phase.

Episode 4 Battle for a Continent Time Span: To A period of a little more than two decades in the midth century changes the destiny of North America. England and France battle each other in the Seven Years' War, a conflict that begins as a clash between les Canadiens and land-hungry American settlers in the Ohio Valley and becomes a world war that engulfs the continent. Fortress Louisbourg, symbol of the French empire, is the target of 27, soldiers and sailors in the greatest naval invasion in North America's history.

In , General James Wolfe leads the assault against Quebec but the citadel withstands a devastating siege and bombardment. With winter soon arriving, Wolfe forces the commander of the French troops, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, into one last desperate encounter. The battle for North America unfolds on an abandoned farmer's field, the Plains of Abraham, just outside the city's walls. When war ends in , 70, French colonists come under British rule, setting in motion the ever-evolving French-English dynamic in Canada.

Episode 5 A Question of Loyalties Time Span: To At the beginning of the American Revolution in , American rebels invade Canada but despite the efforts of rebel spies to entice Quebec to join the revolution, les Canadiens refuse to take up arms against British rule, and the invasion ultimately fails. The mass migration of Loyalists that follows - more than 40, people in all - creates an English-speaking Canada virtually overnight. Over the next 30 years, the colony continues to develop.

When the next American invaders arrive in , they are fought to a stand-still at the battles of Queenston Heights, Chateauguay and Lundy's Lane, setting boundaries that remain today. Episode 6 The Pathfinders Time Span: To The Canadian west is opened by the great fur-trading empires of the Hudson's Bay and Northwest Companies, the native people who were their indispensable allies, and bold explorers and map makers who ventured from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean and long-sought-for Pacific.

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 comes to the forbidding shores of Hudson Bay as a year-old apprentice and eventually unlocks the secrets of the West more than any other man. As the fur trader's day comes to an end, settlers on the prairies and gold miners in British Columbia begin to claim the west for themselves.

Episode 7 Rebellion and Reform Time Span: To By , the struggle for democratic government in the colonies of British North America has reached fever pitch. As the colonies grow in wealth and population, a generation of charismatic reformers -- Joseph Howe in Nova Scotia, Louis-Joseph Papineau in Lower Canada and William Lyon Mackenzie in Upper Canada - confront the appointed governors and their local favourites with one demand: let the citizens' elected representatives run their own affairs.

In the Canadas, the struggle leads to bloody rebellion and disastrous defeat for the rebels. Yet within 10 years, the prize of self-government is won, thanks in part to an unexpected alliance between the French and English-speaking forces of reform. Episode 8 The Great Enterprise Time Span: To In a few short years, a handful of small and separate British colonies are transformed into a new nation that controls half the North American continent.

The story of Confederation, its supporters and its bitter foes, is told against a backdrop of U. Civil War and Britain's growing determination to be rid of its expensive, ungrateful colonies. The dawn of the photographic era provides a vivid portrait of the diverse people who make up the new Dominion of Canada: the railway magnates, the unwed mothers of Montreal, the nuns who provide refuge for the destitute, the prosperous merchants of Halifax, the brave fugitives of the Underground Railroad, and the tide of Irish immigrants who flood into the cities.

Episode 9 From Sea to Sea Time Span: To Confederation is barely accomplished when the new dominion must face an enormous challenge: extending its reach into the vast prairies and beyond, to the Pacific Ocean.

The resistance of lays the groundwork for Manitoba to join Canada, but it also sets the stage for decades of conflict over the rights of French and English, Catholic and Protestant in the new territories. Part 1 covers events from the last decade of the 20th century. Gays and lesbians achieve equality; Indigenous people seek redress over past abuse; the country once again stands on the brink of The opening episode of this series ranges across the continent, looking back more than 15, years to recount the varied history of the first occupants of the territory that would become Canada.

From the rich resource of native oral history and archeology come the stories of the land's first people — how With the search for the Northwest Passage and the expansion of the Grand Banks fishery, the New World soon becomes a destination for permanent European colonies, in Newfoundland and along the St. Samuel de Champlain begins his legendary journeys, and the precarious beginnings of New France are established.

It is an era of unprecedented A small French settlement in New France builds a flourishing society and stakes a claim to a massive continent. New France's populace includes shopkeepers, artisans, farmers and landlords, as well as fur-trading expansionists like Governor Frontenac and his commercial partner, Robert Cavelier de La Salle, who build a network of Indian alliances and extend A period of a little more than two decades in the midthcentury changes the destiny of North America.

England and France battle each other in the Seven Years' War, a conflict that begins as a clash between les Canadiens and land-hungry American settlers in the Ohio Valley and becomes a world war that engulfs the continent. At the beginning of the American Revolution in , American rebels invade Canada, but despite the efforts of rebel spies to entice Quebec to join the revolution, les Canadiens refuse to take up arms against British rule, and the invasion ultimately fails.

The mass migration of Loyalists that follows - more than 40, people in all