Monday, July 21, 2025

Summer listening: with me

Quite by accident I have discovered that on Friday the CanHist podcast "Witness to Yesterday" reposted my half-hour conversation with Patrice Dutil from 2018 entitled "How George Washington Killed 10 French Canadians and started a World War."

Reheard after seven years, it's quite a delight  -- you oughta listen.

"Witness To Yesterday" has evolved since 2018.  It's now pretty exclusively a CanHist book review podcast, with a new crew of host interviewers.  But there was a time when "How George Washington" was its top-ranked #1 listened-to episode.

Patrice and I have evolved too. He has become perhaps John A. Macdonald's most vigorous advocate as I have continued to express doubts about "the man who made us." And I was dropping a few criticisms of his recent book Ballots and Brawls into my review of it in the current Canada's History mag.  

So it was a particular pleasure to hear us together in full sync over obscure details of 18th century New France. Thanks, Patrice!

 

 
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