This is When Walls Come Tumbling Down, the podcast about mysterious objects tumbling to earth, the people who hid them, and the secret ritual in which they were used. In our first episode, we tell the story of the demolition of an old storage barn which brought artefacts a century old crashing into a quiet Canadian town.  

Reading List:  

Seamus Heaney, North (Faber and Faber, 1975).  

Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth, The Sash Canada wore: A historical geography of the Orange Order in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1980).

S. Karly Kehoe, Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850 (University of Toronto Press, 2022).

Joseph Webster, The Religion of Orange Politics: Protestantism and Fraternity in contemporary Scotland (Manchester University Press, 2020).  

David A. Wilson ed., The Orange Order in Canada (Four Courts Press, 2007).

Photos of the objects, including the cover image, are available at: http://timbrennan.ca/orange .

Credits:

When Walls Come Tumbling Down was written by Christian Cowper and Naomi Kent for St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The narrator was Naomi Kent; the studio engineer was Christian Cowper, and the editor was Christian Cowper. The theme music is 'Order' by ComaStudio.