From 1864 until 1871 a relatively secret organisation of Canadian police patrolled Canada’s border with the United States. What began as a mission to prevent increasing tension between Britian and the US evolved into a concerted effort to undermine a major threat to Canadian sovereignty. This threat came from the Irish Republican organization known as the Fenians. Through a complex array of informants and spies on both sides of the border the Canadian secret police (known as the Frontier Constabulary) played a central role in defining Canada’s response to the Fenian threat and became the country’s first ever secret police organisation.
Book recommendation: Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police by David A. Wilson published by McGill-Queens Press in 2022.
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S9E19 - Rum, Debt and Fur
S9E18 - Race and Racing: The Jerome Family
S9E17 - Lost in the Crowd: Acadians and the First World War
S9E16 - Sex in Canada: Getting Down in the Great White North
S9E15 - Alcohol in early North America
S9E14 Hockey: The Game as We Know it Today
S9E13 - Of Fugitives and Orators: The Characters Behind the RCMP’s Complicated History - a special Canadian Time Machine episode
S9E12 - The Canadian Masters of the Air
S9E11 - Canada, Maritime Power, and Africa
S9E10 The Beginning of the End: The 1758 Siege of Louisbourg
S9E9 - A Ballistic Decision: Canadian Intelligence Services and the Cancellation of the Avro Arrow
Holiday Reboot - The Upper Canadian Militia during the War of 1812
Holiday Reboot - S2E1 The Strangest Tale of WW2: The Battle for Castle Itter
S9E8 Confederates in Canada and the Canadian Connection to Lincoln's Assassination
S9E7 Big Men Fear Me - The Life and Times of George McCullagh
S9E6 The SS in Canada Part Two
S9E5 - The Partition of Palestine
S9E4 The SS in Canada Part One
S9E3 The Bombing of Air India Flight 182
S9E2 United the Salish! The Battle of Maple Bay
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