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chris greencorn

@chrisgreencorn.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in history at Queen’s University, Kingston, working on race, gender, and Canadian folk culture collecting www.queensu.ca/history/people/green…

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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Huge shout out to the Antigonish (Nova Scotia) Heritage Museum for an ambitious newspaper digitization project! So far, issues of the Antigonish Casket from 1890 to 1987 are now available on their website: antigonishheritage.ca/search-the-d...
Screenshot of digital archives page showing six issues of the newspaper Antigonish Casket.
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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 21/07/2026
‘A disaster’ for access, expert says as cuts push Library and Archives to end proactive declassification work www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/21/a...
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‘A disaster’ for access, expert says as cuts push Library and Archives to end proactive declassification work - The Hill Times
'It's just another tragedy in the access story,' says historian Timothy Sayle of the decision to axe the three-year-old program, and part of a 'broader pattern of underfunding access to information…
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 31/05/2026
Province is spending $729M+ on 7 soccer games in Vancouver. When the Province proposed a new Provincial museum in Victoria for $780M the Premier was forced to cancel it.
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Really captures what makes this kind of work worth doing
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated: More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector $925 million for AI $81.8 billion over 5 years for military However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My latest in Active History: #cdnhist
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Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Good news for researchers: the Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario's collection of newspapers is beginning its migration onto the Internet Archive. This collection has been immensely helpful for my work. #cdnhistory #ontariohistory internetarchivecanada.org/2026/03/31/p...
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Preserving the Ethnic Press: Internet Archive Canada and the Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario Partner to Expand Access to Historical Newspapers – Internet Archive Canada
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Black Loyalists archive collection in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick has been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Canadian Memory of the World Register.
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Black Loyalist archive collection included in UNESCO Memory of the World program | CBC News
A collection of materials detailing the history of Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick has been added to the Canadian Memory of the World Register by UNESCO. The announcement took place a...
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I recently spoke with Grad Chat @cfrcradio.bsky.social about my dissertation research and what archives of folk culture can tell us about our past and present. Now available via CFRC’s podcast archive:
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Chris Greencorn (History) - Race and authenticity in Helen Creighton’s collection of Nova Scotian folk culture - CFRC Podcast Network
Join Chris Greencorn (History) for a discussion of his research on race and authenticity in Helen Creighton’s collection of Nova Scotian folk culture.
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“Stop worrying and love the bomb”
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 16/03/2026
“Perhaps the cruelty is the point. Afterall, we’re not talking about a lot of money. Let’s add up the Budget 2025 cuts…” buttondown.com/leftcoastdis...
Screenshot of text from Left Coast Dispatch. “…perhaps the cruelty is the point. Afterall, we’re not talking about a lot of money. Let’s add up the Budget 2025 cuts:

Documentary Heritage Communities Program: $1.5M annually

Reductions in Access to Information and Privacy at Library and Archives Canada: $13.6M annually

Parks Canada library and Canadian Register of Historic Places: ~$300,00  annually

Department of Public Safety library:  Unknown, presumably the same or less than Parks Canada’s library cuts: ~$300,000 (?)

Correctional Service Canada librarians: ~$1.5 to 2.5M, annually
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My hour has come
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CTV News Ottawa @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Library and Archives Canada to cut 56 positions
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Library and Archives Canada to cut 56 positions
Ninety-four employees at Library and Archives Canada have received notices that their jobs could be at risk, as part of the federal government’s plan to cut the size of the federal public service by 2029.
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
In time for Nova Scotia’s Heritage Day, my article on race in the Helen Creighton collection of NS folk culture is now open access: www.erudit.org/en/journals/... #cdnhist
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“I Doubt If They Were Unusual”: Race and Place in Helen Creighton’s 1967 African Nova Scotian Recording Project – MUSICultures
An article from MUSICultures, on Érudit.
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In light of recent news about federal cutbacks implicating history-focused organizations, CHA president Colin Coates has sent a letter to the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, the Hon. Marc Miller. #cdnhist
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CHA Letter to Minister Marc Miller | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada
In light of recent news about federal cutbacks implicating history-focused organizations, CHA president Colin Coates has sent a letter to the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, the Hon. Marc M...
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 06/02/2026
Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
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Documentary Heritage Communities Program - Canada.ca
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Queen's Journal just broke how, behind the scenes of its Bicentennial Vision process, Queen's admin have been working with external consultants planning massive restructuring for years. It's so bad. Worse than you think.
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Leaked consultant document details proposed restructuring at Queen’s - The Queen's Journal
As Queen’s unveiled its Bicentennial Vision for 2041, a leaked consultant document obtained by The Journal outlined specific structural changes on a similar timeline. Announced in the Queen’s Gazette ...
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Canada's history, war museums to slash dozens of positions | CBC News
The Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum will be cutting permanent staff levels by 18 per cent over the next three years due to cuts announced in the federal budget.
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Queen's has released its Bicentennial Vision document today, a strategy for what the university will be as it enters its third century in 2041. The terms "arts," "humanities," and "social science" do not appear anywhere in this document #cdnhist
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The vision for Queen’s in 2041 | Queen's Bicentennial Vision
By 2041, Queen’s will be a leading research-intensive university where excellence and values are inseparable. The Bicentennial Vision defines a future shaped by deep connection, focused impact, and a ...
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
signal boost for folks working on folklore and/or Newfoundland!
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
💿In Ethnomusicology Vol. 69, No. 3, @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social (@queenshistory.bsky.social) reviews "A Survey of Traditional Music from the North American Traditions Collection." cc: @sem-office.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/arti...
Cover of Ethnomusicology, Volume 69, Number 3, Fall 2025.
Dark red background with text reading "the society for ethnomusicology" repeating as a pattern.
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This is very prominent billing for a review (the dividend of being one of relatively few ethnos on bluesky?) but nonetheless, new publication alert!
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Excited to be sharing my research at Memorial next week!
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Federal and Provincial Own-Source Expenditures in Respect of PSE Institutions, Canada, in billions of $2023, 2007-08 to 2023-24 Can anyone see where the nasty Harper regime in Ottawa ended and the cuddly Trudeau one began? Anyone? Anyone?
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Recommended if you can make it to either this event in Guelph or the one in Montreal on Thursday - a fantastic contribution to Canadian music history, now available in English (and I produced the index!)
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Last week we published Taryn Goff's analysis of plants in the first five years of Folklore magazine. But did you know that @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social made the Folklore archive open access?! A rich and largely untapped source for Saskatchewan history! niche-canada.org/2020/04/27/f... #cdnhist
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Folklore Magazine: A Rich Primary Source Archive for Prairie History is now Online!
Folklore is an excellent resource for Canadian historians interested in daily life.
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"The cliché of judging people by the standards of their time, by working to exempt people in the past from the critical eye of the present, simultaneously obscures other historical figures who we might appraise more positively, especially knowing the context in which they were making their choices."
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Don't We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?
Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Very happy to share that I’ve been awarded the inaugural Herbert & Violetta Halpert Research Fellowship from @munfla-archive.bsky.social, to conduct dissertation research there this fall. Looking forward to a two-week deep dive into their folklore collections! www.mun.ca/munfla/news-...
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Current News | MUNFLA
The Memorial University Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA) Committee would like to congratulate Chris Greencorn, a doctoral candidate in History at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON), as the inaugu...
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My article on Nova Scotian folklorist Helen Creighton's collection in African NS communities - including Africville during its relocation - appears in this year's edition of MUSICultures, published this week. Read more (and available soon via Érudit): journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC...
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“I Doubt If They Were Unusual”: Race and Place in Helen Creighton’s 1967 African Nova Scotian Recording Project | MUSICultures
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