GETTING CURIOUS | What Was Canada Up To During The American Revolution? with Professor Jeffers Lennox

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week on Getting Curious, things are looking up: to Canada! Professor Jeffers Lennox joins Jonathan to discuss early Canadian history, including British, French, and Indigenous relations in northeastern North America; Canada’s role in the American Revolution; Canada’s confederation story; and what the deal actually was with Benedict Arnold. Jeffers Lennox is an associate professor of History at Wesleyan University. His current book project is North of America: British Provinces, the Revolution, and Creating the United States (under contract, Yale University Press). You can follow Jeffers on Twitter @jefferslennox, and keep up with his work at www.jefferslennox.com. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:09.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by Professor Jeffers Lennox, where I ask him,
0:14.0	what's the deal with Canada's origin story?
0:19.0	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:21.0	This is a major episode.
0:22.6	I'm so excited and it's a long time coming.
0:24.4	Our guest is someone who has an incredibly cool name.
0:28.2	He is Jeffers Lennox, who is an associate professor of history
0:32.3	at Wesleyan University.
0:33.7	He studies early North America from the 17th to early 19th century.
0:38.0	His specific areas of interest include the British, French, and indigenous relations in
0:43.3	Northeastern North America and the impact that Canada had on the American
0:48.2	Revolution and the creation of the United States. Welcome Jeffers!
0:53.0	Thank you so much for having me. This is a real thrill.
0:56.0	This is where the origin story of my curiosity for this episode came from. I need you to know.
1:01.0	I was minding my own business, learning about what a day in the life of
1:04.1	like Philadelphia was in 1775 when I learned from this historian that Canada
1:10.0	was also like a colony like you know the 13 colonies honey they were like we want to break away
1:16.3	and Canada was like honey this is too problematic for us and other than like not
1:21.2	just in Thoreau but just in Trudeau being very attractive.
1:27.0	I don't know enough about my origin story of, it's not mine,
1:30.0	I don't know enough about the origin story of Canada and that's where you come in.
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