The ENTIRE History of Canada in 22 Minutes

At 2 a.m. on New Year's Eve 1775, in a blizzard, an American army attacked Quebec City to make Canada the fourteenth colony. The city had been conquered by Britain just 16 years earlier, and it fought for Britain anyway. Almost 250 years later, the same offer is coming from the same direction. This is the whole story of Canada in one sitting. It starts with the Bluefish Caves bones that may be 24,000 years old and a Viking camp dated to the exact year 1021 by a storm on the sun. It covers the Iroquoian village whose word, kanata, became a country's name, and the Hudson's Bay Company charter that turned a river basin into a property line. Then come Franklin's lost ships and the Inuit testimony Victorian Britain refused to believe, the railway that bought British Columbia at the cost of Chinese workers' lives, and the residential schools. It ends in 2026, with a 50 percent tariff wall, a Parti Québécois government and an Alberta vote on separation, all explained by the oldest fact in Canadian history: a canoe route running east to west across a continent that pulls south. Chapters: 00:00 The Blizzard at Quebec, 1775 00:56 A Canoe Route with a Country Strung Along It 02:22 Bluefish Caves: 24,000 Years? 03:54 The Vikings and the Year 1021 04:59 Cartier and the Word Kanata 06:00 The Vanished Towns of the St. Lawrence 06:24 Rupert's Land and the Beaver 07:45 Why Quebec Fought for Its Conqueror 08:41 Article XI: America's Standing Invitation 09:01 Franklin's Lost Expedition 09:49 Confederation and a Fur Company's Map 11:01 The Railway and the Last Spike 12:06 The Residential Schools 13:03 1931 to 2025: The Fast Forward 13:59 Canada in 2026: Tariffs and Separatists 15:31 The Same Offer, from the Same Direction This documentary is based on archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed research and primary historical sources, and it stays faithful to the historical record. Which country or city should we cover next? Tell us in the comments.