How The American Civil War Made Canada
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Published 2023-09-20
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Part Two:
Clearly, there is an enormous amount missing from Part 1—a whole episode-worth! Expect Part 2 to dive into the figures who represented the darker side of Canada's Civil War story: Confederate sympathizers, spies, and soldiers.
However, this two-parter is the most ambitious project we've worked on so far, and we can't afford to have another delayed release. So there are shorter episodes before we get to Part 2. It's unfortunate, and we apologize, but it was either 'edit Part 1 or don't make these episodes at all.' It's the reality of having such a small team in post with episodes that are packed with animations.
In the meantime, stay tuned for some incredible 'shorter' stories from some of the most unique locations we've been for Season 3!
The first-known photograph of Niagara Falls:
The daguerreotype that Hugh Lee Pattinson took of the falls is actually also the oldest-surviving photograph of what is now Canada! The invention of photography crossed the Atlantic in the spring of 1839, and it was popularized in Canada before the USA. The first known photo taken in N.A. was a calotype of a sample of flora in Halifax. Once news of the technology made it into the local newspaper, a reader tried it for himself. Less than a year later, in April 1840, Pattinson took a handful of daguerreotypes of Niagara Falls—the photo we highlighted is labeled by archives as the first of the batch. The silhouette of a man in the image is probably Pattinson himself, since it took a while to expose. The photos were found relatively recently, too. By late 1840, full-fledged portrait studios began opening in Montreal and Quebec City.
‘Chatham’ Anderson:
Thousands of Black Americans immigrated to Canada prior to the Civil War. It’s a rich history we would like to return to in the future, specifically in regards to the Maritimes. Osborne Perry Anderson did so at the age of 20. So it may seem a little strange for us to call him a ‘Canadian.’ But the fact is that he spent the vast majority of his remaining 21 years in Canada, much of it in Chatham. He’s often referred to as both American and Canadian. He did eventually go back to the U.S. when Black supporters in Philadelphia took up a collection for him, but he died weeks later of tuberculosis. At times, he’s been somewhat forgotten, he doesn’t even have a gravesite. Here's his own description of the raid on Harpers Ferry: en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_voice_from_Harper%27s_Fer…
The Great Eastern:
Some of the images we show of the ship aren’t from the QC voyage. Those that are happen to be the lowest quality. We wanted to show-off the ship, so we pulled engravings and photos from other travels. Some depict the ship leaving Liverpool, some are from its earlier voyage to New York, and others come from the ship’s time as a cable-laying vessel—when the first Transatlantic cables were laid from the UK to Newfoundland.
The American Revolution:
A topic we'd like to come back to. The Revolution began due to the Quebec Act, which angered Americans for giving rights to the Canadien. Americans burned Montreal first and then laid siege on Quebec City from the Plains of Abraham, barely 20 years after the British did the same thing. They attacked during a blizzard on New Years Eve, which didn't go so well.
Research:
We combed over countless books, maps, and newspapers to put this episode together, including Robin W. Winks': ‘The Civil War Years.’
The Assassination of D’Arcy McGee:
Less than a year after Confederation, one of the country's founding fathers was shot dead on Sparks Street in Ottawa, and to this day the question remains: who killed D'Arcy McGee?
• The Assassination of D'Arcy McGee
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00:00 Intro
02:10 Chatham
03:52 John Brown
05:14 Harpers Ferry
07:52 Civil War Begins
08:53 Sarah Emma Edmonds
12:07 US vs CAN
14:28 Manifest Destiny
16:31 Great Eastern
18:03 Prepare for Invasion
19:14 Preview Part 2
19:44 Bonus Story
All Comments (21)
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It's been a while! This episode is wall-to-wall filled with animations, which took us ages to produce with such a tiny team. Part 2 will be no different! So there may be other 'shorter' episodes released on the channel before Part 2 and we apologize for that. We have no choice as we can't afford another massive delay between episodes. If you'd like to see Canadiana more consistent please consider checking out our Patreon, it's what keeps the series going. Thank you for watching and for your patience! Audio: We have noticed some variance in terms of the audio mix between different devices, if you have headphones, that is the best way to listen!
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As an American, who is a life-long Civil War history nerd, living in Buffalo NY; I found this a fascinating outside perspective. It is, indeed difficult to imagine Canada and the USA at war. -May it ever be so.
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I’m Taiwanese, I only learned the American Civil War at school, but didn’t know Canadians were involved in the war too. Thanks for expanding my knowledge on Canadian history.
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The entirety of this story would make for a fantastic HBO series. Thank you very much for all the effort the entire team went to in order to bring us this fascinating piece of history.
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I've learned more about Canadian history watching your channel than I did in all my years of grade school. Thanks for another great video- stoked for part 2!
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As an American, I’m very grateful for all of the support given to us by all of our northern siblings that helped in the fight against the great evil that was slavery (I also appreciate your humility in mentioning that there were Canadians that supported the Confederacy.)🇺🇸♥️🇨🇦!
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As an American, I found this extremely educational. I have a pretty good sense of history but I never new this. I'm looking forward to the next part. I grew up in Minnesota and as a border state, I always felt a connection to Canada. We even have a suburb of St. Paul called Little Canada.
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Thank you for bringing Canadian history to the world in the most entertaining way possible. Not many Canadians even know their own history
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I'm an old American and never knew this. I wonder what else I was taught in school that either isn't so, or is horribly incomplete. Thanks for this. I plan to watch all your stuff.
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As an American, this is an interesting perspective on history that I hadn’t been exposed to before. I like to think I’m fairly well educated on my country’s history but I had no idea there were battles between the USA and the Canadian colonies after the war of 1812. 14:01 I don’t remember hearing it described in my U.S. history classes as annexation. And I’ve never even heard of the Patriot War. It’s fascinating to hear the perspective of another country’s history
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At 55k subscribers this channel has the production value of one with a million subs! Blown away by the editing, effects, storytelling, and engaging host! Incredible work!
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To the Canadiana Team, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR AMAZING WORK. Very grateful and appreciative for all your time and labour put into this utterly gorgeous documentary.
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Enfin de l'histoire de Canada bien présentée et expliquée ! Plein de détails que la plus part de nous ignorons. Continuez!
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Another great video by you guys! My wife works for Parks (Conservation Unit) and worked on some of the Fenian artifacts. Canadian history is fascinating.
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This would be so awesome in IMAX.
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This is my first documentary of yours and it’s absolutely underrated. This documentary is excellent and I’ve learned many new things!
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Absolutely mind blowing. Not only the content, not only the perfect narration and story telling, not only the incredibly high video production quality and top notch editing... No, this is freaking genius. Each time I watch one of your videos I go thinking this can't get better than this, and you have me in the wrong each time. Wow!
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Superb program! Thanks for telling these little known histories of Canada and with such polished and first class production values.
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My sister is a history teacher in elementary school in Toronto..i showed her your channel..now every day she shows her students a video from your channel...i hope you grow beyond your dreams and continue to bring content to us and as many of our youth as possible...
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As an American I never knew any of this. I wish I was told about the effects of the American Civil War in Canada. This is super fascinating.
