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About Greg Marchildon

Gregory P. Marchildon is the Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design with the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

NBN Episodes hosted by Greg:

Canadian Studies February 22, 2023

The Business of the Early NHL

A Discussion with Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews J. Andrew Ross about his book Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League, 1917-1945 (University of Syracuse Press). This podcast was produced Hugh Bakhurst …
Canadian Studies February 21, 2023

The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto

A Discussion with David Wright

David Wright

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews David Wright of McGill University on his book Sick Kids: The History of The Hospital for Sick Children (University of Toronto Press) which won the Champlain Society’s …
Canadian Studies February 20, 2023

Reinventing Canada after 1945

A Discussion with Dimitry Anastakis

Dimitry Anastakis

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon talks about the evolution of Canada after the Second World War with Dimitry Anastakis, L.R. Wilson/R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History at the Rotman School of Management …
Canadian Studies February 19, 2023

A Very Short Introduction to Canadian History

A Discussion with Donald Wright

Donald Wright

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Donald Wright on his history of Canada, the only book on Canada included in Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introduction series which boasts 650 books. Wright describes …
Canadian Studies February 18, 2023

A History of the Métis Nation

Discussion with Jean Teillet

Jean Teillet

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Indigenous rights litigator Jean Teillet on her book The Northwest is our Mother: The story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation published …
Canadian Studies February 17, 2023

Women and the History of the Vote in the Prairie Provinces

A Discussion with Sarah Carter

Sarah Carter

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Sarah Carter on her book Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces published by the …
Canadian Studies February 16, 2023

A History of Immigrant Arrivals through Pier 21 in Halifax

A Discussion with Steven Schwinghamer

Steven Schwinghamer

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Steve Schwinghamer, the co-author along with Jan Raska of Pier 21: A History published by the University of Ottawa Press as part of …
Canadian Studies February 15, 2023

Bewitchment, Possession, and the Diabolical Arts: Daily Life in New France

A Discussion with Mairi Cowan

Mairi Cowan

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Mairi Cowan, the author of The Possession of Barbe Hallay: Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada, a microhistory of bewitchment and …
Canadian Studies February 14, 2023

The Lives of Canada’s War Women

A Discussion with Stacey J. Barker and Krista Cooke

Stacey J. Barker and Krista Cooke

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Stacey Barker and Krista Cooke on the lives of Canadian women and their involvement in the two world wars of the 20th century …
Canadian Studies February 13, 2023

Canadian Witnesses to the Horrors of the Holocaust

A Discussion with Mark Celinscak

Mark Celinscak

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Mark Celinscak, the author of Kingdom of Night: Witnesses to the Holocaust published by the University of Toronto Press in 2022. Although liberated …
Canadian Studies October 7, 2022

A History of the Biggest Mining Boom in Canadian History

A Discussion with Charlie Angus

Charlie Angus

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Charlie Angus, the author of Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower (House of Anansi P, 2022). The book explores the silver mining …
Canadian Studies October 6, 2022

A Region of the Mind: U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies

A Discussion with Molly P. Rozum

Molly P. Rozum

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Molly P. Rozum, the author of Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies (U of Nebraska P & U of Manitoba P …
Canadian Studies October 5, 2022

F. R. Scott’s Journal of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism

A Discussion with Graham Fraser

Graham Fraser

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Graham Fraser who edited F. R. Scott’s journal that he kept while he was a member of the Royal Commission on Bilinguiism and Biculturalism–the famous Bi and …
Canadian Studies October 4, 2022

The Cataclysmic Collapse of Abitibi Power and Paper

A Discussion with Barry E. C. Boothman

Barry E. C. Boothman

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews the author of Corporate Cataclysm: Abitibi Power & Paper and the Collapse of the Newsprint Industry, 1912–1946 (U of Toronto P, 2020). This …
Canadian Studies October 3, 2022

The Psychedelic World of Hollywood Hospital

A Discussion with Erika Dyck

Erika Dyck

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Erika Dyck on the book she co-authored with Jesse Donaldson on an unusual chapter in Canada’s medical history. Entitled The Acid Room: The …
Canadian Studies September 30, 2022

The Canada-US Border: A History of a Fluid and Unstable Boundary

A Discussion with Benjamin Hoy

Benjamin Hoy

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Benjamin Hoy, author of A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands (Oxford UP, 2021). Hoy’s book is a history of …
Canadian Studies September 29, 2022

The Ambition and Vision of Joey Smallwood

A Discussion with Peter Neary

Peter Neary

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Peter Neary. He is the co-author, with Melvin Baker, of Joseph Roberts Smallwood: Masthead Newfoundlander, 1900-1949 (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2021). This meticulously researched biography covers Joey Smallwood’s life …
Canadian Studies September 28, 2022

The Women Who Transformed the National Gallery of Canada

A Discussion with Diana Nemiroff

Diana Nemiroff

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Diana Nemiroff. As a former curator of contemporary and modern art at the National Gallery of Canada and former director of the Carleton University Art Gallery, and …
Canadian Studies September 27, 2022

The History and Ethnography of Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Northwest

A Discussion with Jennifer Brown

Jennifer Brown

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews historian and ethnographer Jennifer Brown on her two most recent books. The first, Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in …
Canadian Studies September 26, 2022

Canadian History through the Eyes of the Canadian Canoe Museum

A Discussion with Jeremy Ward

Jeremy Ward

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Jeremy Ward, the curator of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario, about the role of the canoe in the history of the portion of North America …