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Episode 7 - The Shiners
The Irish in Canada Podcast
English - November 10, 2022 04:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBEducation history irish canada irish-canadian canadian Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 6 - I Love a Man in Uniform
Next Episode: Episode 8 - The Gender, Migration & Madness Project
In another country, the dark legends about The Shiners might never have been forgotten. But in Canada? How many people today are aware that one of the most dangerous cities in North America used to be…Ottawa? Not many – and yet, it was. The Shiners – violent, intimidating, criminal Irish lumberjacks living along the Ottawa River in the 1830s – fly in the face of every image of Canada as ‘the peaceable kingdom’. That might be why they’ve been usually overlooked in Canadian history – until now.