Canada: A People's History

The complete landmark 17-episode, 32-hour series follows events from Canadian pre-history to 1990.

The opening episode of this series ranges across the continent, looking back more than 15,000 years to recount the varied history of the first occupants of the territory that would become Canada.

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Time Span: 1540 To 1670. This second episode in the Canada: A People's History series looks at developments in the New World as it becomes a destination for permanent European colonies.

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Time Span: 1670 To 1755. In the third episode of the Canada: A People's History series, a small French settlement in New France builds a flourishing society and stakes a claim to a massive continent.

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Time Span: 1754 To 1775. The fourth episode of the Canada: A People's History series covers a period of a little more than two decades in the mid-18th century that changed the destiny of North America.

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Time Span: 1775 To 1815. This fifth episode of the Canada: A People's History series begins with the American Revolution in 1775, when American rebels invade Canada.

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Time Span: 1670 To 1850. In the sixth episode of the Canada: A People's History series, the Canadian west is opened by the great fur-trading empires and the Native people who were their indispensable allies.

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Time Span: 1815 To 1850. The seventh episode of the Canada: A People's History series begins in 1830 as the struggle for democratic government in the colonies of British North America has reached fever pitch.

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Time Span: 1850 To 1867. This episode of the Canada: A People's History series looks at how a handful of small and separate British colonies are transformed into a new nation that controls half the North American continent.

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Time Span: 1867 To 1873. In this episode of Canada: A People's History, the new dominion faces an enormous challenge: extending its reach into the vast prairies and beyond, to the Pacific Ocean.

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The first nine episodes of the landmark 17-episode Canada: A People's History series follows events from Pre-History to 1873.

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Time Span: 1873 To 1896. This episode of Canada: A People's History follows a time of trial for the young Dominion of Canada, including the Northwest Rebellion and hanging of Louis Riel.

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Time Span: 1896 To 1915. The 11th episode of Canada: A People's History explores the massive waves of immigration, economic boom on the prairies and urban industry that transformed Canada at the turn of the century.

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Time Span: 1915 To 1929. The 12th episode of Canada: A People's History looks at how Canada's heavy military role in World War I transforms its society, its politics and its place in the world.

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Time Span: 1929 To 1940. The 13th episode of Canada: A People's History looks at the collapse of Canada's economy during the 1930s and the prolonged political and social crisis that ensued.

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Time Span: 1940 To 1946. In the 14th episode of Canada: A People's History, Canada comes of age in the anguish of World War II.

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Time Span: 1946 To 1964. The 15th episode of Canada: A People's History looks at how the end of World War II ushers in the post-war baby boom and unprecedented prosperity for Canadian communities.

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Time Span: 1964 To 1976. The 16th episode of Canada: A People's History delves into the Sixties and Seventies, an era of ferment that brings Quebec's Quiet Revolution, Trudeaumania and the FLQ Crisis.

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Time Span: 1976 To 1990. The final episode of Canada: A People's History looks at the unravelling of the world order and economic boom that had taken shape after World War II.

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The second half (eight episodes) of the landmark Canada: A People's History series follows events from 1873 to 1990.

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The guide provides 120 pages of lesson plans for Grades 5 to 9, developed by practicing Canadian educators and designed to support the Canada: A People's History video series.

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The guide provides 120 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans for Grades 10 to 12, all developed by practicing Canadian educators, and designed to support the Canada: A People's History series.

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