With such a Canada-sized swathe of history to cover we unfortunately had to leave out a great deal. We mostly focused on the French and English in the episode, but I wanted to follow up by asking you to talk about how First Nations and Métis people. Where do they fit into the idea of forming a common Canadian identity?

400-Rabbits, if it were up to me, every episode of the AskHistorians podcast would be as long as an episode of Hardcore history. Don't split them up.

Catching up on my podcasts after the holidays, and I just got around to listening to this one. First, thank you to the /u/400-Rabbits for his ongoing, excellent work with the podcast. I enjoy each one more than the previous one, and I think the series is just getting better and better.

/u/CanadianHistorian , thanks for doing this one. I’m extremely interested in the history of cultural and especially the formations of identity, and I had no idea how rich a resource Canadian history is on subjects like this. Thanks for taking the time to put together such a great interview and podcast, I’ve listened to it twice and enjoyed every minute of it. I’ll never see Canada or Canadians the same way again. Well done!

Half-way through the episode and so far only English, French, Indigenous, and Metis-Canadian identities have been explored. I'm curious if there were any other cross-cutting identities. In America, of course, religious identities were very important to early American identities. Did Anglophone Catholics make common cause with Francophone Catholics? I'm thinking particularly, but not exclusively, of Irish-Canadians. In the 1837 Lower Canada Rebellion, I've been told that the green, white, and red tricolor flag of Les Patriotes stood for the Irish, Canadien, and English peoples within Canada (among other things). How do non-English Anglophone fit into early Canadian history, if at all?

ping: /u/canadianhistorian

I know this episode was released a month ago, but I just listened to it for the first time a few days ago while traveling. I have a few questions and thoughts, though.

I see you already addressed First Nations and Metis below, so instead I want to ask about cultural productions as aspects of Canadian identity:

Your episode focuses a lot on the political developments, but less on cultural markers of Canadian identity.

• When do we see the emergence of one or more distinctly Canadian literary or musical cultures? When I think of a distinctively Canadian literature, I think of Margaret Atwood and Mordecai Richler, but they both largely conducted their writing and analysis towards the end of the period you examine.

• Are there earlier distinctly Canadian literary forms? Did the musical cultures of Canada break as sharply along regional and linguistic lines as the political cultures?

• During to period before the quiet revolution, did Quebec have it's own Francophone literature distinct from that of metropolitan France?

Just listened to this one the other day. Awesome - thanks /u/CanadianHistorian! (although, as British Columbian, and I suppose a citizen of "Trudeau's Canada", there was too much back-East stuff and not enough BC in there, haha!)

Anyway, aside from thanks, wanted to say: the length was not too long (could've been longer!); do not break it up. When I can't listen to to a full pod in one shot (I play them while commuting), I prefer to pause and pick it up at my next opportunity, than have to look up a separate "part II" pod.

I know this is an old podcast at this point, /u/400-Rabbits, but I would absolutely LOVE a podcast just like this one on Mexican identity and the development of the modern Mexican state.