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

Season 2 continues the introduction to the world into which Ottawa would be born.  This starts with the shift from French to English Imperialism, and the Crown finds itself in the middle of relations between Indigenous nations and American...

So far, New France has been at the heart of our narrative, but that came to an end with the Seven-Years War.  This episode discusses the war, the 1759 Fall of Quebec, and the 1763 Treaty of Paris that brought Nouvelle France to an end and ...

Also known as the French-Iroquois Wars, the Beaver Wars were fought across the Great-Lakes region and created a refugee crisis, spread plagues and reformed alliances from 1609-1701.  The future of the European-North American alliance syste...

Also known as the French-Iroquois Wars, the Beaver Wars were fought across the Great-Lakes region and created a refugee crisis, spread plagues and reformed alliances from 1609-1701.  The future of the European-North American alliance syste...

Alongside the Coureurs de Bois, the merchants and artisans of the colony, and the soldiers, missionaries were another important pillar of New France.  Recollect Missionaries accompanied many traders and explorers, and they recorded much of...

Samuel de Champlain was the famed military man, explorer extraordinaire, founder of Quebec City, and governor of New France in all but official title.  He navigated the Ottawa River, and was the first European to chronicle the experience, ...

Etienne Brule was the first coureur de bois, an independent fur trader operating in the Saint Laurence Basin.  He travelled up the Ottawa River in 1610, learnt to speak several Indigenous languages to communicate with Algonquin, Huron-Wend...

This episode introduces the Algonquin, an Anishinaabe people who've inhabited the Ottawa area for more than two thousand years.  It includes elements of their language (Anishinaabemowin), religion (Midewiwin), and relationships with other ...

Before Ottawa was Ottawa, it was a forest, and before it was a forest, it was under 80m of water as an extension of the Atlantic Ocean.  Whales, seals, walrus and other marine animals called it home.  This is what Ottawa was like 115,...

This is the introduction to the Ottawa History Hub Podcast.  I introduce the city and give some of the planned structure to the podcast going forward.