Canada - A People's History (2000)

Episode 1 When the World Began… 15,000 BC–1800 AD

* First Nations and Inuit history
* First European contact
* John Cabot
* Jacques Cartier
* James Cook
* Chief Donnacona
* Henry Hudson
* Maquinna


Episode 2 Adventurers and Mystics 1540–1670

* European exploration
* Hunt for Northwest Passage
* Founding of New France
* Start of fur trade
* Jean de Brébeuf
* Étienne Brûlé
* Martin Frobisher
* Samuel de Champlain
* Jean Talon


Episode 3 Claiming the Wilderness 1670–1755

* Expansion of New France and its fur trade
* Conflict with British colonies
* Acadian deportation
* Louis de Buade de Frontenac
* Robert de LaSalle
* Charles Lawrence
* William Shirley


Episode 4 Battle for a Continent 1754–1775

* Period around the Seven Years' War
* Battle of Louisbourg
* Taking of Quebec City at the Plains of Abraham
* Guy Carleton
* Benjamin Franklin
* Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
* James Wolfe


Episode 5 A Question of Loyalties 1775–1815

* The effects of the American Revolution on Canada
* Attempted invasion
* Loyalist migration
* The War of 1812
* Benedict Arnold
* Joseph Brant
* Isaac Brock
* Guy Carleton
* Richard Montgomery
* Charles-Michel de Salaberry
* Tecumseh


Episode 6 The Pathfinders 1670–1850

* The Northwest is opened by the fur-trading Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company
* Explorers and adventurers discover the layout of Canada's interior.
* Alexander Mackenzie
* Pierre-Esprit Radisson
* David Thompson
* Pierre Gaultier de Varennes


Episode 7 Rebellion and Reform 1815–1850

* Advocates of democracy clash with colonial governors
* Bloody rebellions are squashed
* The goal of self-government is realized
* Robert Baldwin
* Joseph Howe
* William Lyon Mackenzie
* Louis-Joseph Papineau


Episode 8 The Great Enterprise 1850–1867

* The story of Confederation
* Advocates of nationhood struggle to create a new dominion
* The American Civil War rages
* George Brown
* George-Étienne Cartier
* Agnes Macdonald
* John A. Macdonald
* Harriet Tubman


Episode 9 From Sea to Sea 1867–1873

* Canada's fledgling dominion tries to spread west
* The Red River Rebellion
* British Columbia joins Confederation
* George-Étienne Cartier
* John A. Macdonald
* Thomas D'Arcy McGee
* Louis Riel


Episode 10 Taking the West 1873–1896

* The Macdonald government faces economic trouble
* The fate of Riel
* The Manitoba Schools Question
* The CPR is completed
* Big Bear
* Crowfoot
* John A. Macdonald
* Alexander Mackenzie
* Louis Riel


Episode 11 The Great Transformation 1896–1915

* The immigration boom and prairie settlement bring sweeping change
* Political movements and intolerances arise
* The First World War looms
* Robert Borden
* Henri Bourassa
* Won Alexander Cumyow
* Wilfrid Laurier
* Guglielmo Marconi
* Nellie McClung
* John McCrae
* Clifford Sifton
* J.S. Woodsworth


Episode 12 Ordeal by Fire 1915–1929

* World War I bears a heavy toll in Europe and at home
* Conscription is a divisive issue
* Labour unrest follows war's end
* Robert Borden
* Lionel Groulx
* Sam Hughes
* Wilfrid Laurier
* Nellie McClung
* Arthur Meighen


Episode 13 Hard Times 1929–1940

* The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl bring suffering and crisis
* International turmoil leads to the next war
* William Aberhart
* Richard Bedford Bennett
* Maurice Duplessis
* Mitchell Hepburn
* Adolf Hitler
* William Lyon Mackenzie King
* Cairine Wilson


Episode 14 The Crucible 1940–1946

* The Second World War is Canada's coming of age
* Bravery and anguish at home and abroad
* Winston Churchill
* Tommy Douglas
* Adolf Hitler
* William Lyon Mackenzie King
* Andrew McNaughton
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Episode 15 Comfort and Fear 1946–1964

* The baby boom and the age of television bring prosperity
* The Cold War looms large
* John Diefenbaker
* Tommy Douglas
* Maurice Duplessis
* René Lévesque
* Lester Pearson
* Joey Smallwood
* Louis St. Laurent


Episode 16 Years of Hope and Anger 1964–1976

* The 60s and 70s bring change
* The Quiet Revolution
* EXPO 67
* A new flag
* The FLQ crisis
* The rise of Trudeau.
* Doris Anderson
* Robert Bourassa
* Jean Lesage
* René Lévesque
* Patrick Moore
* Lester Pearson
* Pierre Trudeau

Episode 17 In an Uncertain World 1976–1990

* Economic and political uncertainty rise
* The 1980 Quebec referendum
* Constitutional reforms are followed by the dawn of free trade.
* Robert Bourassa
* Jean Chrétien
* René Lévesque
* Peter Lougheed
* Brian Mulroney
* Pierre Trudeau
* John Turner