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The Secret Life of Canada

CBC Podcasts

The Secret Life of Canada is a history podcast about the country you know and the stories you don't.

Episodes

S3: The Mounties Always Get Their Land (Part 2)

Nov 11 2020 • 49 MIN

In 1919 almost half the working population of Winnipeg walked off the job in the largest strike in Canadian history. The events that followed led to the creation of a new police force called the RC...

S3: Crash Course on British Home Children

Oct 6 2020 • 17 MIN

Over 100,000 “home children” were sent from the U.K. to Canada to work as labourers, from 1869 through to the 1940s. We find out who they were and what happened once they arrived here. Plus, Alan D...

S3: The Mounties Always Get Their Land (Part 1)

Sep 16 2020 • 45 MIN

The Mountie is one Canada’s most enduring symbols. Found on souvenirs from keychains to dish towels, our national police force are icons to the rest of the world. Weird, right? In this episode, we ...

Introducing: Recall: How to Start a Revolution

Sep 8 2020 • 33 MIN

The 1950s & 60s saw a wave of radical movements. Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution. The Black Panthers. Quebec and Canada had the FLQ — a showdown that dissolved into crisis. By October 1970, th...

S3: Crash Course on L. M. Montgomery (a.k.a. Maud without an E)

Aug 19 2020 • 19 MIN

Today we look into the life of Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery, creator of iconic characters like Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon. The lesser-known story is that of the writer herself, who h...

Introducing: Ideas

Aug 8 2020 • 55 MIN

Hosted by award-winning veteran of foreign reporting, Nahlah Ayed, Ideas is a podcast that dives deep into contemporary thought and intellectual history - a meeting ground for anyone itching to und...