# Mackenzie King

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Summer Series 2025-6 Part 5: Dan Brettig, Teesta Prakash, Stewart Gill, & Tim Rowse

In this special summer series of the Afternoon Light podcast you can enjoy the presentations delivered at our November 2025 conference entitled ‘Menzies and the British Commonwealth of Nations’. This fifth episode features Dan Brettig's paper 'Menzies, Cricket, and the Cold War', Teesta Prakash's p…

My Father's Wartime Letters to My Mother (2)

In this epistolary episode, Wilf discusses daydreams, adultery, apocalyptic doom and eschatological doubt with Hélène, his fiancée. He is in Vancouver, six weeks from his demobilisation date, with no job prospects. Hélène is 3,000 miles away, in Halifax, writing front-page stories for the Chr…

161. Living in Beta, with One Stone's MacKenzie King

Listeners, Mackenzie King is not here as my guest to perform “student voice.” She’s here to show us what governance and leading by learning could be. Picture a real school board meeting, with fiduciary responsibility, hard decisions, and adult-level accountability, then picture the board chair sett…

Patrice Dutil on Mackenzie King and Conscription

In this episode Allan talks with Patrice Dutil, professor of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, about his edited volume The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King and what it reveals about one of Canada’s most puzzling political figures: how did someone with no obviou…

The Secret Occult Lives of Mondrian and the Beats

Hello Seekers! We've got a compilation podcast today which I think does a pretty decent job of covering some intriguing occult, esoteric and borderline paranormal topics, as well as, talking about some occultists/mystics and scientists that you may not have even known were occultists/ mystics and …

Donald Wright on the Canadian Historical Association and Donald Creighton

In Episode 26, recorded at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association in Charlottetown, Allan talks with Professor Donald Wright, past president of the Canadian Historical Association and professor at the University of New Brunswick, about his biography Donald Creighton: A Life in Hi…

A tribute to Canada - J.D.M. Stewart

Canada Day is more than flags and fireworks. It is a reminder that this country was not inevitable. It was imagined into being by people who chose union over drift and compromise over collapse. My guest is JDM Stewart, author of The Prime Ministers: Canada's Leaders and the Nation They Shaped. Ja…

Episode 30: Neville Thompson on Mackenzie King, Churchill and Roosevelt

Allan talks with Neville Thompson, emeritus professor of History at Western University, about Mackenzie King and his relationships with Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. In his book, The Third Man, based largely on King’s incredibly detailed personal diary, Thompson argues that King’s frie…

John English on writing about Canada’s prime ministers.

Allan welcomes historian John English, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo, to discuss his long career of teaching and writing about Canadian history, and his significant contributions to public service. English edited two volumes of essays about Mackenzie King, publishe…

Barbara Messamore on Canada's 1921 General Election

Allan welcomes historian Barbara Messamore, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley, to discuss her book Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election and the broader political landscape of post-WWI Canada. Messamore, who also serves as president of the In…