Governor General Charles Metcalfe tries to keep a government going - fending off nice insults like 'Old Square Toes' - while Reformers try to embarrass his government into submission. And vying ideas of how to govern the Canadas face off in an as-yet-undecided mid 1840s contest: it's responsible government vs 'double majority'. And we have more duels, a bench-clearing parliamentary brawl, and a club-wielding civil servant bent on clearing his name.
S2 Episode 7 - Double Shuffle
S2 Episode 6 - Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s Rather Eventful St. Patrick’s Day
S2 Episode 5 - The Murder of Robert Corrigan
S2 Episode 4 - Stoop To Conquer
S2 Episode 3 - False Positions
S2 Episode 2 - The Reform Bromance Breaks Up
S2 Episode 1 - A Riotous Beginning
Episode 24 - Making Sense of it all
Episode 23 - Rebellion Redux
Episode 22 - Disasters and Democracy
Episode 21 - The Nova Scotia Breakthrough
Episode 20 - Joseph Howe's Non-Revolution
Episode 19 - Tribune of the People
Episode 17 - The Metcalfe Crisis
Episode 16 - Reform Ascendant
Episode 15 - Bromance
Episode 14 - The Sydenham System
Episode 13 - Shotgun Marriage
Episode 12 - What the !$#! Just Happened?
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