Episodes
Monday Sep 13, 2021
Monday Sep 13, 2021
The September 11th Attacks sent shockwaves across the world. It brought about a mix of horror, sorrow and anger still felt twenty years on. As the watershed moment of its generation, the consequences of the tragedy continue to cast a shadow to this day. In fact, it is still hard to find the right words to convey the impact it has caused.
Join Lyndsay and Jonah as they discuss the timeline leading up to the attacks, the subsequent invasion, and the consequences of the September 11th Attacks and the War in Afghanistan.
Music
Summit by Johnny Easton
Clips
9/11, the Naudet Brothers
Barack Obama Announces the death of Osama bin Ladin
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Tommy Douglas: The Greatest Canadian
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
It's the 1930s. The world is in the midst of the Great Depression. Stalin's grip on the Soviet Union has tightened, and fascism has come to power in Italy and Germany. The Stock Market Crash hit Canada particularly hard, as most of its trade was with the United States. This affected prices, and in some cases, halted exports completely as nobody could afford to buy. People were struggling with high unemployment, drought crippling agriculture, and lower wages for those who managed to keep their jobs. Discontent soared during this time, leading to calls for the Canadian government to take better care of its citizens instead of just the social elite. This growing sense of populism would ripple across the country with full force.
Enter Tommy Douglas, a middle-aged man working on his PhD. While studying in Chicago, he saw the transient camps which housed nearly 75,000 people, with various institutions doing little to nothing to help these impoverished people. Once wishing to become a Baptist minister, his witnessing of the devastation the crash had caused brought him on a different road. He found himself within the ranks of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a new democratic socialist movement foiunded with the aim of uniting farmers and labourers, as well as protect their rights and improve their working conditions. From there, Douglas would rise through the ranks of the party to lead the first socialist government in North America, and later begin the process of forming Canada's medicare program. His legacy remains today, and culminated in his naming as the Greatest Canadian in 2004.
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Monday Nov 16, 2020
"Je croîs sous la rose": The History of the Quebec Nationalist Movement
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Quebec has had a unique place in Canada: it is the location of the first successful European settlements, it is the largest province by area, and it is the only province whose official language is French. The Québecois have developed their own identity since the days the province was a French colony. Following transfer of sovereignty to the British, dissent amongst the population rose, culminating in the ill fated Lower Canada rebellion.
When the 20th Century rolled around, the national identity of the Québecois began to demand recognition, and soon calls for sovereignty became deafening. This resulted in two referendums, various controversial legislation proposals, and an armed resistance, resulting in the kidnapping of two government officials.
Music:
Gens de Pays
Monday Oct 19, 2020
A Jest Society: A History of Canadian Comedy
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Laughter is contagious. It is an action which brings joy in the hearts of people worldwide. Canada is no stranger to comedy. It has produced some of the most talented and famous comedians, clowns, filmmakers, theatre artists, and even musicians who have cause audiences everywhere to fall backwards in their seats. Join Pan Historia as they dive into a history of comedy from their home country of Canada.
Music:
Having an Average Weekend by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
I Like That Old Time RefOOOOOOORRRRMMMM by Don Ferguson (as Preston Manning)
Monday Sep 21, 2020
KKKanada: The KKK's Expansion into Canada
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
The Ku Klux Klan has imbedded itself in history as a destructive, poisonous organization. United under the common hatred of anything not white Anglo-Saxon protestant, the Klan has engaged in campaigns of terrorism, using intimidation, assault, murder, and even bombings in their crusade against equality. Their white robes bring about an image of fear to those who come across them. Today, they continue to march for many lost causes due to their refusal to accept they lost those wars long ago.
During the early to mid 20th century, the Klan began to expand internationally to Canada, with chapters popping up most predominately in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and the largest membership residing in Saskatchewan. However, further efforts to gain a significant following here resulted in a series of events which boiled down into a comedy of errors. It wouldn't be a coordinate police effort, nor a united antiracist front who would bring them down, but greed, lack of organization, and overall lack of interest/necessity which brought about the downfall of the Kanada Klan.
Music:
Clip from Mississippi Burning (1988)
The KKK Took My Baby Away, The Ramones
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Always Get Their Man: The History of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Along with beavers, maple syrup, and asshole geese, the uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is a renowned national symbol. The Red Surge, beige stetson, blue pants, and riding boots are what make up the image of the Mountie. Their legendary status is now global, as they are the only police force to be municipal, provincial, and federal. The force was romanticized in early black and white films as those bringing law and order to the wild frontier of Canada's west. And as the famous saying goes, "They always get their man."
Unlike the films, their history wasn't black and white. When it began as the North-West Mounted Police, it was used as a cheap militia to colonize the newly annexed western territories. This resulted in conflict with the First Nations and Métis populations as they were rounded onto reserves towards the dawn of the new century. When the First World War concluded, they acted as strikebreakers during the growing labour movement, and later as intelligence services at the beginning of the Cold War. They were even the ones at the front of one of the largest manhunts in world history.
Their history is long and varied, but not many know the full story. Thus, Pan Historia is proud to sit down and tell the full history
Music:
Dudley Do-Right Theme
Indian Love Call from Rose Marie
Monday Jun 15, 2020
The Forgotten Pandemic: The 1918 Global Influenza Outbreak
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
In 1918, Death wandered on his horse through the barren grounds of the frontline trenches. The war was nearly over, but the dead continued to rise in numbers. The horrors of this war were unseen up to this point in history; people lost their sons, fathers, mothers, their homes, their everything. What nobody knew is a new horror was lurking, ready to spring up with devastating effect. This came from an unseen enemy, one humanity has faced since the dawn of our existence. Reports of illness sprang up in Kansas, then quickly to the trenches. Spain, uninvolved in the war, began reporting on a strange new type of influenza afflicting the population. Soon, the world referred to this silent killer as the Spanish Flu.
As the war in the trenches continued, a new war ignited, one which infected 500 million people worldwide in 9 months, and kill between 17 million and 50 million. Hospitals became overrun with infected patients, entire Indigenous communities were wiped out, and the bodies of the dead became too much for morgues to handle. At first, governments in Europe and the US denied the severity or even the illness's existence, continuing to hold their patriotic parades and liberty drives, leading to more becoming ill rapidly. A new horseman now walked the Earth on a sickly steed, a horseman named Pestilence. Soon, the horrors of war were accompanied by the horrors of disease.
Music
The Dance Macabre, Camille Saint-Saëns
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Two Historians and a Philosopher, and Other Nonsense
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Another season is done, and a new one is beginning. In this season closer/opener, the pair have a chat with Dr. Annie St. John Stark, assistant professor at Thompson River University and former professor of Lyndsay's. The three sit down and talk politics, philosophy, the hardship of marking papers, and other nonsense.
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Podcasting in the Time of Covid (Other Nonsense)
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
It has been a while since Lyndsay and Jonah have been around. Due to the outbreak of Coronavirus shutting much of the world down, they decided to take a small break from teaching history and discuss their thoughts on the situation, as well as update you all as to what's happening with Pan Historia in the near future.
Stay safe!
Music:
Billy Joel – You Might Be Right
Elton John – I'm Still Standing
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Monday Aug 19, 2019
The Silent Service: A History of Submarine Warfare
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Deep in the ocean stalks a hidden hunter, virtually undetected and silent. Within, its crew works away, cramped, having not seen the sun in weeks. The crew drives blind through the depths, with only a pinging sonar available to aid navigation. They lay down there, waiting for the possibility to strike.
Submarines have had a long history behind them, one which is seldom talked about except for blockbuster films from Das Boot to Hunt for Red October. Today, Pan Historia dives into a brief, but detailed history of Submarine Warfare.
Outro: In the Navy by The Village People