The Crown was selling land and giving it away throughout the late 1700s, and some hearty settlers went beyond the Saint Laurence and Great Lakes, north of Kingston and west of Montreal.   Roger Stevens becomes the first settler in what wou...

United Empire Loyalists were on the move.  To England, to Florida and the Caribbean, but also northward to the Loyalist colonies of Nova Scotia and Quebec.  They were to come in such numbers that two new provinces would end up being i...

So... About 1776 and all that... We've all heard about the American Revolution, but what did that mean for those who didn't think it was such a great idea at the time?  Loyalist people and Loyalist colonies had different experiences than t...

This episode looks at the Quebec Act and the political administration of Peak Quebec, and why it became known as one of the "Intolerable Acts" that justified the American Revolutionary War.

This episode looks at the relationship between the Crown, the French subjects, the Anglo-American subjects, and the Indigenous nations of the newly expanded British holdings in North America