The Open Door
The Open Door is about looking for ways to create a better future - by exploring the past. Host Andrew Humeniuk speaks with guests about historical issues that relate directly to our changing world, while sharing the journey to transform his ancestral homestead into a vital community space for today.
Podcasting since 2021 • 24 episodes
The Open Door
Latest Episodes
Foreword Crossover: Preserving History at The Brown Homestead
When a historic building is preserved, the stories embedded into its walls and floorboards are also preserved. On this special crossover episode with Brock University’s Foreword, we take The Tattooed Historian YouTuber and pod...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:27:34
The Humours of Whisky
A history of whisky in Niagara offers a flavourful glimpse into Loyalist agricultural industry and trade in Upper Canada, the social nature of tavern culture, and the unexpected outcome of the temperance movement. Ajay Bhardwaj, Canada’s fir...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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39:57
Enduring Oka
The Kanesatake Resistance, or Oka Crisis, was a defining historic moment with an enduring legacy in Canada’s challenged relationships with Indigenous peoples. Mohawk writer and director Tracey Deer speaks to her experience as a twelve-year o...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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37:48
A Christmas Memory
In celebration of the holiday season, we are happy to offer Jennifer Humeniuk’s reading of Truman Capote’s classic tale, A Christmas Memory.
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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37:31
The Sad Ending of the Author’s Last Trip
Is E.A. Brown Dead? In 1894, Charles McCain published a History of the SS Beaver containing a chapter recounting the events of the night that Edward Brown disappeared. Does it contain clues to what really happened or an answer to the mystery...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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34:34