The Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 are finally over. Houses have burned; Governors General have come and gone; rebels have fled, been imprisoned, hanged and been exiled. And now we need to figure out what it all means. We step back in this episode to ask:what caused the rebellions? why did they fail? could they have succeeded? And then there is the most important historical question of all: so what?
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 18 - Double Majority
Episode 17 - The Metcalfe Crisis
Episode 16 - Reform Ascendant
Episode 15 - Bromance
Episode 14 - The Sydenham System
Episode 13 - Shotgun Marriage
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