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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had a great time on this roundtable - thanks to everyone involved! Feeling jazzed and hopeful! @jaretthenderson.bsky.social @echenier.bsky.social @stevenmaynard.bsky.social

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Precisely. Be weary of anyone who renders an academic field in such simplistic terms. This binary has plagued #History’s public perception since the 1990s, and has been particularly destructive in an era when reading long form is in such decline. #cdnhist

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

the photo artist and documentarian michael de courcy has posted a series of videos on youtube, comprised of hundreds of street photography portraits he made of visitors to expo 86 in vancouver. here is one of them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9yb... #bchist #cdnhist #worldclasscity

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ONE in a MILLION: An anonymous documentary of visitors to Expo 86, Vancouver BC – Part 3 of 3

YouTube video by Michael de Courcy

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'm teaching a seminar on 2SLGBTQIA+ histories of North America this summer (a pedagogical #Pride season project) and I thought I'd share a bit about the course here, focusing on the readings as we move through them each week. #queerhist #cdnhist #ushist

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 25/05/2026

I have been working on this travelling exhibit for the last couple years - but it has its origins in my graduate studies. The exhibit begins with a 3 minute introductory video which you can watch below. It launches next week in Nanaimo, and coming to a Vancouver Island community near you #cdnhist

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Disappointed with how little attention has been given today to the 300th anniversary of the Mi’kmaw-British Peace & Friendship Treaties, the first treaties with the English in what became #Canada. The silence says it all in terms of the work needed for #TreatyEducation. #Cdnhist #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Your periodic reminder that the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social / @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series exists, that it's print/open-access, & that I'm always on the lookout for the next potential volume. Talk to me. press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Haha thanks so much, very belatedly, Tina - I have not been on here at all for (checks notes) almost a year, and forgot to share about this article!

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University of Manitoba Press @umanitobapress.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

One book to change the narrative. Championed by Shayla Stonechild, A TWO-SPIRIT JOURNEY by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer is the WINNER of Canada Reads 2025! Watch the thrilling final episode here: www.youtube.com/watc... #CanadaReads #CanadaReads2025 📷: Joanna Roselli/CBC

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

historians of education in canada: are there any good studies of ontario's separate school system in the post-1945 and especially post-1960s time period? or perhaps any royal commissions, moments of controversy, etc in that same time period? asking for a student #cdnhist #histed

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

you don’t mess with the cobra chicken like

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record) I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

A mostly blank page with the words Strong and Free, from the English version of the Canadian national anthem )
Below the fold of this newspaper sheet , in smaller type, news and editorial references to the trade war

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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Indigenous Speaker Series starts tomorrow! Open to the KPU community. Full details and to register: form.jotform.com/250496841196...

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

As I've been working on this land acknowledgements thing, a lot of people I've talked to have asked me why First Nations have overlapping territories. So I wrote a Substack post explaining it. open.substack.com/pub/rjago/p/...

This is a map of Europe centred on the Holy Roman Empire circa 1600. The map is filled with hundreds tiny and confusing borders and few large states.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Super excited for this dynamic, exciting program at BC Studies this May!

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Jess Dunkin @jdunkin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Last fall, Dr. Crystal Gail Fraser (@ualberta.bsky.social) and I launched How I Survived, a podcast about recreation at residential and day schools in the Canadian North that celebrates the strength, resilience, spirit, and creativity of former students and Survivors. www.howisurvived.ca

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

(toby ziegler voice) and it was elon, WHO NO ONE ELECTED

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"I became a textbook author for a few reasons, the most important being the reason we all write: the possibility of changing people’s minds." @alanmaceachern.bsky.social's essay is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...

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Confessions of a Textbook Author

Alan MacEachern Last year, an email informed me of a death. Two, actually. Top Hat would no longer publish Origins: Canadian History to Confederation or Destinies: Canadian History since Confederat…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

How to handle winter: by dressing like it's Quebec circa 1806. Library & Archives Canada tinyurl.com/5ykubcct vs. tinyurl.com/mph347e5 #envhist #cdnhist

A "French Canadian" woman circa 1806-1816, from John Lambert's "Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America"; and a woman wearing a comfy. They look similar - both long, hooded, pink, and with white underlay.

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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Today is Lincoln Alexander Day! Alexander was the first Black Canadian member of Parliament (1968), Cabinet minister (1979) and lieutenant-governor (Ontario, 1985). Alexander also served for five terms as chancellor of the University of Guelph. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/l...

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Lincoln Alexander

Lincoln MacCauley Alexander, CC, OOnt, QC, lieutenant-governor of Ontario 1985–91, member of Parliament 1968–80, lawyer, public servant (born 21 January 192...

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

every time i get to the end of a meeting i feel like I need to lie down for 10 days is this normal

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We've got a brand new NiCHE Series CFP! The first of 2025. Call for Contributors: The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry at 50 Please email pitches of 200 words in length to Mark Stoller by February 28th!! niche-canada.org/2025/01/21/c... #envhist #cdnhist #energyhistory #pipelines

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Call for Contributors: The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry at 50

NiCHE invites reflections on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry at 50, it’s historical significance and legacy, and its continuing importance today.

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