Pull Up a Chair.
The history they didn’t teach us. The decisions that shaped our world, and the extraordinary fuckwhittery we inherited.
Welcome to the Madness
Wait. They did WHAT?
History is full of decisions so outrageous they sound made up.
They aren’t.
Unbelievable True History.
Empires drew borders. Governments flooded villages. Ordinary people lived with the consequences.
Fuckwhittery follows the forgotten stories, questionable decisions and extraordinary events that shaped our world.
Real history. Connected stories. Plenty of reasons to shake your head.
The Rabbit Holes History gets stranger the deeper you dig.
The Water. The Schools. And Everything Else We Don’t Talk About.
WHat the Fuck? Canada flooded Indigenous homelands, allowed industrial pollution to poison traditional food sources, separated children from their families and transferred promised land to […]
Napoleon Sold Louisiana. So Why Are We Still Arguing About Alberta 223 Years Later?
WHat the Fuck? In 1803, Napoleon sold land he hadn’t properly mapped, Britain and America drew borders through Indigenous territories, and 223 years later Alberta […]
Elsie MacGill: How the FUCK Do We Not Know Her Name?
The Children Canada Ordered From Britain
In June 1913, a ten-year-old girl from Sunderland, England, boarded the SS Corinthian bound for Canada. She was travelling with her older sister, 12, and […]
The Liberties Taken in Liberty Village
There is a story about the name Liberty Village in Toronto. The neighbourhood takes its name from Liberty Street. According to local tradition, that was […]
The Town They Tidied Into Oblivion
I was watching the 2006 horror film Silent Hill when the burning town began to seem a little overdone. Smoke rising from the streets. Fire […]
WHY WE'RE HERE Because Someone Thought This Was a Good Idea.
The Decisions
Move a village. Redirect a river. Draw a border across land you’ve never visited. Invade another country because the last attempt went so spectacularly well.
History is full of grand plans made with extraordinary confidence and remarkably little consideration for what might go wrong.
The Consequences
Behind those decisions were ordinary people. Families displaced, communities divided, traditions disrupted and generations left to deal with consequences they never chose.
Some stories are absurd enough to make us laugh. Others deserve considerably more reflection.
The Stories Worth Remembering
Fuckwhittery explores unbelievable true history, forgotten events and the extraordinary decisions that shaped Canada and the wider world. We follow the evidence, connect the stories and question the familiar versions of history we were taught.
Because history isn’t just what happened. It’s how we got here.