Canada's Pirate Legends: The Fall of Piracy in Canada [Part 2]
Вставка
- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Climb back aboard to witness the turbulent end of “The Golden Age of Piracy” in Canada. From the most notorious pirate to have sailed the seas of the North Atlantic, to the most infamous pirate trial in Halifax’s history, we find out how East Coast piracy declined and…turned legitimate.
SUPPORT THE CHANNEL W/ PATREON: goo.gl/2tGNNp
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE: goo.gl/iZAYjf
DONATE ONCE W/ PAYPAL: www.paypal.me/thisiscanadiana
TWITTER: / thisiscanadiana
INSTAGRAM: / thisiscanadiana
FACEBOOK: / thisiscanadiana
WEBSITE: www.thisiscanadiana.com
MERCH: goo.gl/SPwzqn
Clarifications:
Ned Low arrived at St. John’s during his ill-fated pillaging attempt BEFORE he spent time raiding the ships around the Grand Banks-before word got out to Louisbourg’s governor. It was just simpler to relay the tale in the order we did.
The Fortress at Louisbourg was most assuredly not BUILT to defend against pirates alone-but it was armed to. Louisbourg was a fort that saw many ups and downs, multiple invasions, and its construction went through a variety of phases. It just so happens that the first real push toward its eventual power over the St. Lawrence was motivated by the threat of pirates like Ned.
The Miꞌkmaq flags that rise on ships are sideways, but typically the flag is vertical. It was just difficult to animate them vertically and through research we found that flying them in both directions are legitimate.
Extra Tidbits:
We never really had a chance to better explain what the Grand Banks were/are for those who don’t know. It’s an area of ocean, kilometres off the coast of NFLD, with a relatively shallow sea floor. This makes it perfect for cod fishing. At the same time, the Grand Banks are smack-dab in the middle of the main transatlantic sea passage. Spanish Treasure Ships regularly came north from the Caribbean and crossed the Atlantic in an arch that would have them pass right over its fertile waters. The Grand Banks was a perfect place for pirates to spend months pillaging.
Edward Jordan’s tale has recently seen a spike in interest. We unfortunately didn’t have the time to go through his story in great detail, so we've compiled a few things here.
Jordan was almost on his way with The Three Sisters when he was tracked down-his plan had nearly worked. At the time of his arrest, he and his wife were trying to collect crewmen for a sail back home to Ireland from Newfoundland. When he was captured, Jordans quoted as saying: “The Lord have mercy on me, what will my poor children do?” We would have loved to figure out where they eventually ended up, after the city of Halifax collected money for their passage back to Ireland.
Interestingly, tampering with a gibbet was a serious offence, so Jordan’s body sat in it for roughly 30 years (it’s difficult to find a precise count on that). Legend has it that the gibbet was only taken down (and buried) when the Lieutenant-Governor’s daughter came across the horrific sight, while on a leisurely ride around Point Pleasant Park. Jordan’s skull, still tightly bound in the rusted iron, was dug up in 1844 when a new piracy trial renewed interest in his sad tale. It was donated to the forerunner of the Nova Scotia Museum.
The skull is at the centre of a contemporary moral debate about museums displaying the remains of historic figures. The concept of publicly-owned remains, displayed for perceived entertainment, regardless of educational value, without the permission or guidance of descendants (whether or not they are traceable) is a discussion that’s not about to end any time soon. For the time being, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is understandably restricting access to Jordan’s skull-we were not allowed to film it.
If you're wondering what the meaning behind the Liverpool Packet's original name ('The Black Joke') was, well it's apparently a very common gaudy ship name from a raunchy old song. We'll leave it at that.
The War of 1812 is clearly a subject we need to tackle one day.
Privateering was abolished in 1856 with the Declaration of Paris. The vast majority of major international powers signed it...except for the United States. Legally, the American Government can still sign Letters of Marque if they ever want to get revenge for the Liverpool Packet.
We will definitely come back to stories of pirates one day!
For those wondering: yes, we all love (and listened to many times during shoots) Barrett's Privateers by Stan Rogers. • Stan Rogers intros & s...
DESCRIBED VIDEO VERSION: vimeo.com/748581849/212bea135d
00:00 Refresher
01:01 Louisbourg
01:53 Loathsome Ned Low
03:12 St. John's Attack
04:32 The Crackdown
05:26 Edward Jordan
07:41 The Privateers
08:15 Enos Collins
08:52 War of 1812
09:54 CIBC and Scotiabank
10:42 The End
11:55 Bonus Story
#pirates #canadianhistory #VC478S3E1
If you haven't seen Part 1 yet, please make sure to watch it before this one! Link: ua-cam.com/video/XnnObrS05jc/v-deo.html
We will be posting Adam's full Screech-in at some point on our Patreon page--it's a very lengthy ceremony! Check out the description for more pirate-related tidbits, and if you haven't checked out our social channels (@thisiscanadiana) we have been running 2 months of pirate history posts in the lead-up to these episodes. And much more to come! Next episode's location: Ottawa!
Piracy still exists bud. Our entire gov is based on corporations. That's why we don't have gov, just corporations. Corporations using maritime law to dictate land laws. The pirates are corporations. Stealing from the ppl to maintain their elitism. Stop producing false information.
I love your videos and i really wish CBC would pick up your content for a sunday segment
Not enough Indigenous, LGBTQ+ or BIPOC content for CBC to care.
This is informative and unbiased, CBC could never.
CBC is sadly a shadow of what it once was.
CBC hates Canadian culture, and history.
That was fantastic! I had no idea about the origins of CIBC or Scotiabank. Everyone let's do this channel a solid and post the video to social media.
It surprised us too! That would be much appreciated, thanks for watching!
@@Canadiana no problemo. This is good content and needs to be seen.
Ya, that was really cool... proud to be a CIBC customer now. Hahaha
this work is critically underwatched. seriously love, love, LOVE what y'all are doing and going to blast it on my socials. hopefully it pulls in a few views! thank you for doing what y'all do!
Thanks for watching! That's very kind of you, we appreciate any and all sharing. We hope you enjoy the rest of the season!
I wish I was shown stuff more like this when I was in school. Making a point for youth to garner excitement for learning that will surely spread to all the other cool Canadian history.
We couldn't agree more!
This is an excellent series. This should be shown in all schools in Canada.
hah! and have it lay bare how crappy the rest of the system is? good luck! you want a good education system, go to another country. or create your own. (that's what I'm going to do -with help, obviously)
Fantastic! As a Canadian history enthusiast, I love the content. The videography is great as well. I often watch British history documentaries which are so well done. We need more of that kind here in Canada.
Great job. Love it. I had never really thought of Canada when I thought about pirates. I do now.
I almost lost the eyesight in my right eye in a fist fight in that alley you showed at the end, right outside Lower Deck. It was the last outside cover band show they were doing that year, about 5 years back. Wild times. It's interesting to know that pirates used to beat those paths as well! Great video, thanks!
Great Canadian History. Thank You for your time! 🇨🇦🐢❤️🙌
This is possibly your best video I've watched so far and I can't believe it has 11k views. For some reason you are being shadow banned, I have been on this site for 15+ years and have never seen the dichotomy of quality to views to this extent. I even signed in to comment this as I thought it was that important. I hope you find out why you're not a national talking point. Excellent quality, something not just you and your 3 person team but Canada should be proud of the quality of this content.
So glad the algorithm delivered this content. Top notch
This channel is incredible. You've been around for years and I am Canadian and it wasn't until about a week ago that I knew you existed. Fantastic story telling!
This is a great education on Canada, a history that few know.
I can’t believe I have never seen this channel before. I enjoy it immensely. I liked to think I knew a fair bit of Canadian history, but I was wrong. Thank you so much.
Great job as usual
Canadiana has been so unfairly (almost) shadowbanned. This deserves millions of views. I've been subscribed to your amazing content, yet had to manually input your channel to see your new videos. 4 years ago I thought this channel would blow up. A Canadian Slavery Story is one of the most insightful videos on this website (personal opinion), and it's sitting at 55k as I'm writing. How does this happen? I really wish you guys the best.
We really appreciate this, thank you. It seems like no matter what we do, the UA-cam algorithm is a fickle beast for us. We sure were hoping to grow as a channel and be able to sustain ourselves 4 years ago, but we are back at it for another shot! Here's hoping the rest of Season 3 plays out better, because we are very excited to share what we've been working on for 2 years now.
YIKES! Wow, life was cheap and old time Haligonians could really hold a grudge. This Halifax is the setting for Stan Rogers lament Barrett's Privateers ("We'd cruise the seas for American gold...").
If we could afford the rights we definitely would have used some Barrett's Privateers. A favourite of the team!
lol, my thoughts exactly! As I was listening to the narration, my mind couldn't help but think about Stan's lyrics. Love that song, and this channel!
You should see some old dolls get uptight when I would mention CIBC was founded by a privateer. His bank was the biggest fish in the tank in the mergers. Halifax was a haven for pirates from as far back as my families presence in Halifax in the 1600's. Then came American prohibition. That was another payday for us Maritimers. All those bottles of Seagram's washing up on Enoch Thompsons beaches in New Jersey didn't fall out of the sky from Toronto...lol.
I used to wonder where all those old mansions in little fishing villages came from - invariably the answer would be, "It was built by a sea-captain" ... !
Terrific video! Love that you're shedding some light on this little known part of Canadian history. Excellent work!
Just stumbled on this channel. Great Stuff. So much fascinating history happened on the east-coast. The scale of it makes following those involved almost intimate because of information availabe, scales of action and numbers involved . . . Impossible with European wars.
Thank you for making these
So well done! Thank you👍
Just fantastic. Thank you to everyone involved!
Quality Canadian history content. I look forward to more.
You guys outdid yourselves with this one!!
One of my favorite channels
awesome, thanks for the hard work to put it all together...
Awesome video, thank you!
Love the music choice for the ending! The shakers sounds like the rattling of doubloons.
I am astounded at the production value here! I am legitimately going to spread the word on this channel.
I was Screehed in in Codroy Valley. They gave me a framed, "Diploma", if you will. In my garage.
Love your stuff. I subscribed today. Greetings from Nova Scotia!
One of the best Documentaries I've ever seen on uTube. Excellent Excellent. Please dont ever stop.
Thank you so much! That is high praise! We're going to keep going as long as we can!
i've watched several of your vids and i just want to say: congratulations! you have just become my favourite online canadian historian.
"So, you have a movie for me?"
"Yes sir I do, it's called 'Pirates of the Canada'"
Amazing series. Like this channel. Never heard about Canada in school. I'm catching up now.. great country with rich history.
Wow just wow, incredible story about pirates and very well told by Adam and his crew !!! Thank you !!
This came up in my feed this morning. What a great day! I have watched three of these fantastic episodes. Very well done. Am signing up as a Patreon supporter. I wish they taught this history in school, it would make it a lot more interesting and hopefully spark more interest in our varied and fantastic Canadian history.
Thank you so much for the support and vindication! We hope you enjoy the rest of the season!
How does this channel only have 33K subs. It's fantastic.
You guys do some REALLY COOL historical stories. A Canadian history that we don't ever get to hear. Maybe we have, I'm just now at an age that I pay attention? Awesome stuff. I think I need to be a Patreon so you guys keep it up. And I too have posted links on my Facebook page to help it catch on. Some awesome stuff, I spent the last few mornings watching (episodes).
Just amazing.
Thank you !!
So cool! I was there not long ago!! I went to a pub in those warehouses!
Thanks!
Thank you!
can't wait for more
Another good episode.
Hey at least Ned low seasoned the ears. Great video as always thanks Canadiana
Seasoning does nothing. Ears are cartilage with a thin layer of skin. You'd need need to brind them like they do with pig ears in china to make them atleast chewable.
🎵With a yo-ho-ho and a tricky lah-tee do
Canadian pirates we!🎶
awesome channel y'all
Love Love Love ever need an ol roadie that travels and works cheap let me know... what an adventure history is... especially Canadiana... My Ancestory is Irish from Famine.. Southern QC to born in 68 Ottawa....
Commenting to make this more popular!
I love That can we get some episode about french pirate and privateers and église privateers in Québec and New brunswick
AWESOME
I just returned from Halifax. Saw lots of history, not much about pirates . Loathsome Ned Lowe needs to be remembered.....
Thanks
Omg dude, I already liked you because of this channel and the work you put into it, but you going to Christian's for your Screech-in tops the cake. There is only ever one pub I recommend for Screech-ins, and that is Christian's. And if your ceremony was officiated by Keith Vokey, you scored an absolute 100%. Is you a Newfoundlander, me son?
When I was a kid in the 70s that skull was on display in the museum on Citadel Hill. It was the scariest but my favorite part of the military history. It was in a small glass window diorama with a background painting of the gibet at Black Rock. The museum no longer has any sign of the pirate era. Sad.
Yes, I remember that. Disappointed now to learn that he wasn't really much of a 'pirate' ....
Thank you.
...this has 12k views...i think youtube's algorithm is having issues with decimal places, i've watched quite a few of these and they're absolutely exceptional
What about Barrett's privateers? I was told they cruise the seas for American gold they'd fire no guns, shed no tears, but now the last of them is a broken man on a Halifax pier.
Interesting video. One of the American pirates who was the bane of Canada was Dixie Bull.
a privateer becoming a banker. i am so not surprised actually.
🇨🇦 now I understand Canadian banking fees! 🇨🇦
As most of the time the loot they got was not heaps of gold and silver, but rather marketable goods. the pirates needed a shore based partner to dispose of such goods. Said partner would of course be an upstanding " honest" and well respected member of his community. Basically this is how many of the old money families got their start.
That was EPIC. I think it's the right word.
This should have been what we learned in high school, but we never did. You could do a video about what happened to all these fortunes, I'm sure not all of them founded banks.
AWESOME ❤🤍
From Halifax and I did not know anything about the Halifax Banking Co.
In hindsight 'Loathsome' actually seems like a bit of a generous title for the guy
Bologna got nuttin to do with being screeched in,that's just cause u was hungry...😂
I have a bottle of screech in my cupboard. Must try it
I always wondered what types of characters were hung on gibbits hill in St. John’s near signal hill. I guess they may have been pirates as well.
Whew, that ending. Beautiful. It all makes me wonder if their was ever piracy on the west coast too. Perhaps some privateers? Though perhaps even that period was too early for the west coast.
See 'The Sea Wolf' by Jack London, its anti-hero based on a Cape Breton captain in the Pacific.
There's plenty of oppourtunity to make a movie out of any of the documentaries that you make, and I think they would do very well.
This is so awesome! Do you have a link to Part 1? Did you make this yourself?
Edit: Just found it!
Sorry about that! We linked to Part 1 in a pinned comment. Our first time doing a two-parter! The series is produced by a team of 3 people (4 when we can afford the extra help). Thanks for watching!
now that is some neat history, im surprise we dont tell people about lol
I'm off to open an account with the pirate-founded bank now, have a good one :D
1) 9:08 "their wretched schooner" - why "wretched"?; 2) It would be worth mentioning that the Louisbourg we see now is a reconstruction.
Because of recent developments with Ukraine and the allied Nato forces. It's interesting to see a Canadian history of war and national defense. I'm from Kingston myself. A lot of what's going on makes me wonder how we would hypothetically defend our northern boarders if the Russian's keep advancing on our waters. I know that Fort henry was considered the most powerful naval base in the world at one point. But I always felt like my hometown had a very sad history to it. It really kind of stands in the shadow of Ottawa.
Kissing the cod is way better than the Sourtoe Cocktail in the Yukon.
We've been fortunate to do both and could not choose between the two! Both are extremely unique and great fun.
@@Canadiana well sure...but it's harder to swallow the cod...
Very cool. It's funny how much of Our OWN History, Canadians have no idea about. More of this, should be taught in School.
I got screeched in at the same place
What about d Iberville
In the Black Sails TV series, they seem to relate that Ned Low was beheaded in Nassau by Charles Vane in a brothel/bar with many witnesses. I don't know if that's the truth or if they used the fact that no one knows what happened to him to make up his death.
The Government sure doesnt like competition...
OHmigosh! CIBC!
👍
The Dread Pirate Roberts?
Louisbourg had a huge fault, the boys used seawater to mix the mortar the walls didn’t hold up well against the artillery of the day.
a city building gold baron he was,,, a battle to control all the gold it was. Truly evil times, just like today.
What is the name of the music you use?
Had the same question! Is there any way we can get the credits on who made the music used in this? Loved the video
@therealjeo well, if you have the shazam app on your phone ( if you are using your phone) you might have some luck. I Haven't tried that yet
I would like to have something on women pirate in Canada like Maria Lindsey Cobham. Too, I think that french canadian pirates could be great like Robert Chevalier !
We definitely aren't done with pirates by any means! We have an entire episode planned (next season) about a different Pirate Queen from Maria Cobham (from the Thousand Islands area). And we'd love to make an episode about francophone pirates.
We actually originally conceived this episode as being entirely about Maria Cobham. However, through researching her tale, it became evident that the current outlook from historians is that she may not have existed, or at least that all of the tales about her and her partner were myths formed many years after they were supposed to have sailed the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Cobhams fell into the same realm as the pirate ghosts, so we turned our attention elsewhere.
Thanks for watching!
Who where these mikmaq pirates? And during which years were they active?
Great question. They probably should have elaborated on that point with a citation. I don't doubt that it has one, but I want to know it.
Perhaps they will add an annotation citation, or reply here with it.
We will elaborate within a day or two on this point. We are currently on the road filming another episode so do not have access to our sources/research at the moment. We will edit this reply with further information and further reading options! And we will cram a note in the video's description when home.
Sorry for the delay. Looking back over our notes, the time period we researched on this point was the Golden Age of Piracy (about 1650-1730). We assume Mi'kmaq raiding wasn't contained to just that time period.
This is a summary straight from our notes:
Essentially they were pirates, but not for riches: for defense and bargaining power. Mi’kmaq tended to use the smaller sloops they stole and would raid, capture, and ransom to protect their territory. It got to the point that Mi’kmaq were ruling the seas where they lived in large numbers, confining British and French settlements to specific zones. They used raids to limit Euro expansion, redress grievances, and reinforce treaty demands. They captured 80 ships from Massachusetts to Newfoundland prior to 1760. They easily mastered Euro tech and really liked the single masted Shallops. They waged all-out war against New Englanders at times, since they had tried to conquer their territory. Apparently they’d trick them into thinking they were a small fishing boat and then come abroad shouting “Strike English dogs, and come aboard, for you are all prisoners" (we attempted depicting this in that map animation.) Europeans claimed Mi’kmaq attacks were barbarous and violent, but they were not unusual from typical buccaneers. One time, in 1715, a British ship was captured, a captain ransomed, and he came back saying “The Indians say ye lands are theirs and they can make war and peace when they please.” They were so effective at limiting Euro expansion that the governor of Nova Scotia couldn’t even complete a survey of potential expansion lands because his survey sloop was always being used to fight the Mi’kmaq. A lasting peace was achieved with British in 1760. Mi’kmaq “pirates” were always punished more severely than Euro ones.
A lot of that information comes from the works of Dan Conlin, the pre-eminent North Atlantic historian. He's written multiple books on the Pirate Age, and we followed along with his Further Reading recommendations as well.
@@Canadiana Did they attack Acadians?
@@Game_Hero I'm afraid we haven't covered enough of that relationship in our researching to make anything but a semi-educated guess. A future episode includes a closer look at Acadian history (though we hope to one day make a massive episode specifically about the subject and people--a very ambitious one). Our loose guess, having not properly researched it, is that Mi'kmaq 'raiders' focused their attention on the English colonial powers for the most part, but could have directed their attacks towards French colonial forces to deal with the grievances which came when the French authorities weren't recognizing their territorial sovereignty (it sounds as though taking colonial ships was a bargaining chip at times). Whether common Acadians were in the crossfire, we have no idea, but it seems sort-of doubtful considering their alliances with them. We went down many paths when putting these two episodes together, but would like to go farther down this one in the future.
Ohhhh.... The year was 1778..
It's lame that you didn't mention New Brunswick at all.
We apologize, this is not our last pirate-focused episode. There are too many stories to cover. Consider it a foundation. However, you can expect to find New Brunswick front-and-centre in a future couple of episodes this season!
When I was made a honourary Newf, I had tonwear the fish around my neck for a day. Drink a glass of cod liver oil. Then finish off a whole bottle of Screech!
:o that's wild!
C M
Britain won the war?? Really? Sure it wasn't a stalemate - ending in an agreement to just forget it ever happened and go back to the pre-war status quo?? Hmmmm
Oh the year was 1778…
Wouldn't really say "helped to WIN the war", it was a draw.
The British didnt win the war of 1812 it ended in a stalemate