Over the last three seasons, we've explored just how much Irish immigrants and their descendants have shaped Canada over the past 250 years, in so many ways. In this concluding episode to the podcast, Jane looks back at some of her favourite moments from

Ah, Emily Murphy... where do we begin?! Maybe with the salient fact that this first female magistrate in the British Empire and driving force behind the Persons' Case of 1929 was also the grand-daughter of Ogle Gowan, the founder and Grand Master of the

Nellie McClung was a provocative woman, stirring up controversies and column inches in her own lifetime and in all the years since she died. Arguably Canadas most famous first-wave feminist, her efforts guaranteed that Manitobas women won the provincia

Considering everything she did in her life as a teacher, an author, a political activist, an archivist, private secretary to the premier of Alberta, and a journalist we should be much more familiar with the name of Katherine Hughes. Most people, howe

So far, weve talked about famous and infamous people in Irish Canadian history. But, what about those who werent so extraordinary? What was it like to be one of them? Today, were following one Irish family from Co. Limerick to Canada as they lived t

Who was the most important Irish person in Canadian history? Or perhaps the most frustrating? In todays episode, Jane makes a case for Sir Guy Carleton as a serious contender for both titles. Born to an Ulster Protestant military family, Carleton was

In the summer of 1847, over 100,000 refugees from the Great Irish Famine poured into Canada, making their way up the St Lawrence River to Grosse le, Qubec, Montral, and Toronto. Others arrived at Partridge Island, the quarantine station just outside t

When the Brock Monument exploded at Queenston Heights on 17 April 1840, the colonial authorities quickly decided upon the identity of the guilty culprit: the notorious Irishman, Benjamin Lett. A follower of William Lyon Mackenzie, Ben Lett unleashed a ca

To end our second season, Jane is revealing some of her exclusive research from the Gender, Migration & Madness Project: the mystery surrounding the death of Mary Boyd. Mary was an Irish Quebecer who found work as a young maid in a Toronto doctors h

Few people in Canadian history have created more division than Louis Riel. At the time of his death in 1885, he had been found guilty of high treason, but even the jury who condemned him agreed that something else in Riels past was why he was killed: th