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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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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I, too, hate it Wordpress lol only suggested because it is the default for low- or no-budget dynamic websites plus likely to have plugins that get you most of the way there
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
but then Wordpress has polylang, TranslatePress, etc., you’re spoiled for choice in some respects
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
much delayed - Hugo runs (like several other static site platforms) on markdown, and docx to md conversion is pretty trivial these days for simple documents. Comes down to how DIY you want it to be, for you!
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have been tinkering with Hugo (static) and they suggest Pagefind as an option. Nothing live yet so I can’t offer much of an opinion but you can probably implement this and stay static if you want. Does multilingual, sort filters, etc. pagefind.app
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Pagefind
Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure.
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Congrats, Dr. Rosch!
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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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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Small world! Much has changed I imagine, but Kingston remains a great place to spend a few years
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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
This is a dog whistle and I am more than happy to tell your class, organization, or media outlet why they should take statements like this seriously
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My hour has come
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Joan Sangster's "Invoking Experience as Evidence," Canadian Historical Review 92, no. 1 (2011): 135-61, is one important Canadian example discussing the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1967-70)
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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 the article I explore how Creighton’s collecting and the relocation were connected, and argue that, for her, ideas like race and folk culture were deeply entangled. The racism that underwrote the relocation also structures her collection, and this is one small attempt to redress that
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It’s also African Heritage Month in NS, and just today news broke that Eddie Carvery, who was present at the Seaview services I write about in the article, has passed away after protesting the Africville relocation and its aftermath for more than 50 years www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'He was a man on a mission': Eddie Carvery remembered for keeping memory of Africville alive | CBC News
Eddie Carvery, the activist who lived in a trailer on the site of the former town of Africville for over 50 years, has died. Carvery used his decades-long protest to call for reparations for the forme...
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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 · 31/01/2026
Leaves much to be desired, as a strategy
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Your own reports show that govt contribs to those budgets have been stagnant for decades. Of course at an institutional level the books must balance but where is this investment you mention above? Boosting STEM for years hasn’t altered that dramatically, will health?
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
bold to assume there is a left. But if that is true, why not more money for health, not this zero-sum game where it has to come from AHSS? They clearly have not even bothered to consider that as a possibility.
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I'm not seeing much evidence of it in the document. They're inducing demand in STEM programs if they shift resources away from AHSS, and we should perhaps set our horizons a little farther than what this Conservative government values
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
besides which there were apparently no data to back up these allocations, just feelings, and the rest of the document shows how hostile these admin are to various groups on campus (not least grad students)
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
That is only true of only half the of the scenarios. S&E resources are similar/marginally higher in one without the interdisciplinary faculty, and where that's not the case the difference goes to health, another science field, at the expense of social science primarily
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Based on this document, that scenario is looking less and less hypothetical
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
What would the future of #cdnhist look like if one of the most substantial doctoral programs in the country ceased to exist? How long before this is the story at U of T, York, UBC, etc.?
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
They also had participants identify areas where they should increase/decrease focus on flip charts. Under the Research heading, the only direct mention of graduate students was that Queen's should decrease "Funding PhD students after year 4/5"
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Consultants facilitated an exercise where participants were given ping pong balls and asked to reallocate university program resources. The result? Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences get axed almost in half in favour of Health, Science, and the nebulous "Interdisciplinary"
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
What are some of the conversations senior admin have been having at these planning tables? "Changing the role or getting rid of the current graduate school." "Pause all tenure decisions." "There is no housing crisis"
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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
"but instead leaves the identification of priority research and academic areas to subsequent work that will manifest through strategic plans and other operational frameworks" - yet who set the mandate for the group?
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Besides which it was set up to be ignored: "Due to its mandate, the AHSS working group provided recommendations that were focused on AHSS fields. Meanwhile, the Bicentennial Vision is a university-wide document that does not refer to specific fields, ..." (cont.) [also, same factual issue as above]
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"The Bicentennial Vision affirms the value of interdisciplinarity, comprehensive education, and societal impact, which implicitly include AHSS, but it deliberately avoids naming specific disciplines." - though "STEM" and "computing" are both mentioned
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Sometimes it's just factually incorrect: "The AHSS report positions AHSS as central to Queen’s mission, noting its contributions to critical thinking, cultural understanding, and democratic engagement ..." (cont.)
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Update: it gets worse. There is a document (linked) outlining "Alignment" between the Future of AHSS Group Report and the BV, but that doublespeak is undermined by the actual filename: "Vision vs AHSS report". It is only incidentally aligned and usually speaking at cross purposes.
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
cbc.ca
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
The opening message says "history should be our guide in this process" and that the aim is to be a "university worthy of its history and ready to face the challenges of its future," so history obviously counts for something. But what kind of vision of the future is this?
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Where we get a nod, it is as sober second thought to AI: e.g., "All academic programs will integrate digital literacy ... and responsible AI use so graduates can lead effectively in technologically complex environments by understanding how to use these tools thoughtfully, ethically, and creatively."
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
On the other hand, STEM programs are mentioned explicitly
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chris greencorn @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The closest we get is "acknowledged strengths in ... just futures and cultural expression," and "emerging strengths in Indigenous knowledges, creative technologies, the ethics of emerging technologies, and policy for sustainability, health, and Canada’s sovereign future"
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