TRUE NORTH: The Whole Story of Canada | From the Ice Age to 2026

Описание: Most histories of Canada begin with a ship and a date. This one begins with the land: four-billion-year-old rock, ice three kilometres thick, and the nations who lived here long before any country did.

TRUE NORTH follows Canada's history from the Ice Age to October 2026. It is told on a real satellite globe, with the ice sheets melting back in the order geologists have mapped them, and it draws on the original wording of the documents that shaped the country. It treats Indigenous oral history and archaeology as two records of the same past. Where the records disagree, it says so.

Inside: Beringia and the coastal route; the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace; L'Anse aux Meadows (1021); Cartier and the word "kanata"; the Great Peace of Montreal (1701); Rupert's Land and the Hudson's Bay Company, set beside the East India Company; the Royal Proclamation and the Treaty of Niagara; slavery in New France and British North America; Lord Durham and Macaulay's Minute; Confederation; Red River, the Numbered Treaties and 1885; the Chinese head tax; the Indian Act and the residential schools; the Komagata Maru; two world wars; the High Arctic relocations; Section 35; Kanehsatà:ke; Nunavut; the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and Canada in 2026.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Opening
0:43 The Land
1:48 First Peoples
3:26 Nations
5:16 Contact
7:07 New France
8:35 The Company
9:29 Empire
11:49 Dominion
13:04 The West
16:03 The Schools
17:18 Wars and Walls
19:46 Remaking Canada
22:15 Reckoning
23:49 Canada Now
24:56 True North

SOURCES
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation; Statistics Canada; Indigenous Services Canada; Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada; Supreme Court of Canada; Parks Canada; Veterans Affairs Canada; Library and Archives Canada; The Canadian Encyclopedia; Dictionary of Canadian Biography; UNESCO; Elections Alberta; Kuitems et al., Nature (2021); Bourgeon et al., PLOS ONE (2017); James Daschuk, Clearing the Plains (2013); Marcel Trudel; W. T. Hornaday (1889).

Imagery: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation and NASA city lights; Natural Earth; ETOPO1 (NOAA). Ice-sheet history: Dyke, Moore & Robertson (2003), Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1574. Maps, routes and locations are simplified, and nation locations are approximate. Document excerpts are typeset from the original texts; the wampum belt is an illustration.