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Episode Guide

OMNIEpisodes 1 & 2:
"When the World Began..."
15,000 BC > 1800 AD

  • First occupants
  • Native oral history
  • First contact
  • Jacques Cartier

OMNIEpisodes 3 & 4:
"Adventures and Mystics"
1540 AD > 1670

  • Northwest Passage
  • Fur trade
  • Indian Alliances
  • The Jesuits

OMNIEpisodes 5:
"Claiming the Wilderness"
1670 > 1755

  • New France expansion
  • The Acadians
  • The Great Peace
  • British Colonists

OMNIEpisodes 6 & 7:
"Battle for a Continent"
1754 > 1775

  • Seven Years' War
  • General James Wolfe
  • Plains of Abraham
  • British control of Quebec

OMNIEpisodes 8 & 9:
"A Question of Loyalties"
1775 > 1815

  • The Propaganda War
  • Freedom and a Farm
  • Upper and Lower Canada
  • Tecumseh

OMNIEpisodes 10 & 11:
"The Pathfinders"
1670 > 1850

  • The Business of Fur
  • Canadian west
  • Mapping a Continent
  • The Gold Rush

OMNIEpisodes 12 & 13:
"Rebellion and Reform"
1815 > 1850

  • Struggle for democracy
  • The Reformer's Protest
  • The Rebellion
  • The Union of Upper & Lower Canada

OMNIEpisodes 14 & 15:
"The Great Enterprise"
1850 > 1867

  • Prosperity, Poverty and New Settlements
  • Father's of Confederation
  • Road to Union
  • Canada is Born

OMNIEpisodes 16:
"From Sea to Sea"
1867 > 1873

  • John A. Macdonald's Canada
  • Metis Resistance
  • The West joins Confederation
  • Railway Scandal

OMNIEpisodes 17 & 18:
"Taking the West"
1873 > 1896

  • Pioneers head West
  • The North West Rebellion
  • Louis Riel
  • Manitoba School Crisis

OMNIEpisodes 19 & 20:
"The Great Transformation"
1896 > 1915

  • Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier
  • Massive immigration
  • Prairie Boom
  • industrialization

OMNIEpisodes 21 & 22:
"Ordeal by Fire"
1915 > 1929

  • World War I
  • Conscription crisis
  • English-French relations
  • Canadian Women

OMNIEpisodes 23 & 24:
"Hard Times"
1929 > 1940

  • The Great Depression
  • Dust Bowl
  • Rise of Fascism

OMNIEpisodes 25 & 26:
"The Crucible"
1940 > 1946

  • World War II
  • Women in the work force
  • Canada's wartime economy
  • Mackenzie King

OMNIEpisodes 27 & 28:
"Comfort and Fear"
1946 > 1964

  • Baby Boom
  • The Canadian Dream "the suburbs"
  • Newfoundland Joins Cananda
  • Medicare

OMNIEpisodes 29 & 30:
"Year's of Hope and Anger"
1964 > 1976

  • Quebec's Quiet Revolution
  • Challenging the Status Quo
  • A new flag
  • 1970 FLQ/War Measures Act crisis
  • Trudeaumania

OMNIEpisodes 31 & 32:
"In an Uncertain World"
1976 > 1990

  • Free Trade
  • Rise of Feminism
  • 1980 Quebec sovereignty referendum
  • Meech Lake

 

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