Chapter 1: From The Beginning to the
Fall of New France (10,000 BCE - 1759 CE)
Chapter One Begins with the melting of the Wisconsin Glacier and the formation of the Champlain Sea. It introduces the Algonquin Anishinaabe people, and then the French coureurs des bois, colonial officers and missionaries. There is a two-part episode on the so-called Beaver-Wars, Mourning Wars, or French-Iroquois War, and culminates with the Fall of Quebec in 1759.
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Episode 1: The Champlain Sea
Before Parliament, before the canal, before the Coureurs des Bois or the Algonquin, there was the land itself. That land emerged out of the sea in the wake of the last ice age. Before the land was land, it was sea, and that sea has affected us in the fossils in the fields, the soil by the riverbanks, and the contours of the topography. You can listen to the podcast below or see some of images and references here. Release date 27 October, 2025.
