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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦

@streetwriter.bsky.social
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Author/co-author of several bestselling books about Canadian military history. Currently writing a biography of Cdr Campbell Clouston and 'The Miracle of Dunkirk.' More at bio.link/jeffreystreet.

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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Randomly posting this just because I was reminded it's one of the best movies ever.
Movie poster for 'Tunes of Glory' starring Alec Guinness and John Mills.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You know who was at 9/11? Within an hour of the tower strike, Canadian firefighters were loading up gear to get to New York to help. In this photo: Ottawa crew - Brian Foley, Steve Carmichael, Gordie Thorpe and John Hamilton. You know who didn't show up? Donald Trump.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Late getting to this, but putting a Sharpie to a map of Lake Ontario and calling it 'Lake America'? How lame is that? He can call it whatever he wants, as long as he stays on his side of it. We're fed up with that orange hoser. America, when will you wake up and take back your beautiful country?
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An entertaining article. The best part is the glossary at the end. An excellent complement to 'Let's Talk Strine' by Afferbeck Lauder. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My son is hilarious. Today he intercepted a package from a local charity addressed to my wife. The charity made the mistake of leaving enough room on the address block for him to add a line. He copied the font perfectly. Hilarity ensued during dinner.
Writing on an envelope: "Joann, see enclosed for a Matching Gift Opportunity that could the impact of your support!" My son inserted the line,"Only truly bad people don't donate!"
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Interesting article re 'The Odyssey' in which a translator trashes the new film, citing Nolan's "usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality." Kinda like what he did with 'Dunkirk.' A cinematic experience, but mostly shallow and duff history. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
theguardian.com
‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Plus highways. And runways. And tearing down museums. As long as there are no speed cameras or bike lanes, he figures the problems are solved. Besides, nothing matters north of Etobicoke.
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🍁make it make sense @ocanadaeh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Just another summer evening in our nation's capital.
Screenshot of current weather in Ottawa, Canada, showing alerts for a possible severe thunderstorm, air quality (due to wildfires in Quebec), and heat, with a temperature of 31 C.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm reading a preview of this, and so far it's terrific. I think I need to order a copy. #histbookchat
Cover of the book 'A Mind at Sea: Henry Fry and the Glorious Era of Quebec's Sailing Ships,' by John Fry (Dundurn Press, 2013), showing a sailing ship and a portrait of the subject over the title.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Wild, wild thunderstorms in #Ottawa this afternoon and evening, cancelling all events. Just one more thing raining on our parade, as my wife said. But hey, Happy Canada Day!
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Sure enjoying this relaxing view while spending a few days in in the eastern gateway to the Thousand Islands.
Picture from a deck with patio furniture overlooking the St Lawrence River in Brockville, Ontario.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Did you know that a Canadian named James Campbell Clouston played a critical role in the 1940 Dunkirk evacuations? Read more in my latest Legion Magazine article, part two of an interview with biographer Brian Jeffrey Street. legionmagazine.com/biographer-b... 📸 Norman Wilkinson/IWM.
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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My latest Legion Magazine article - the first of two parts - is an interview with biographer Brian Jeffrey Street, discussing the life of Canadian James Campbell Clouston and his heroics in Dunkirk. legionmagazine.com/biographer-b... 📸 Courtesy Clouston family via Brian Jeffery Street
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
As always, #OTD I honour my great uncle, Pte Perry Archibald Massey, 116th Battalion CEF, KIA 25 May 1917 near Vimy, at age 21. Son of Elsie Massey of Hamilton, ON, and John Massey of Halifax. Now resting at Petit-Vimy British Cemetery.
Photograph of Petit-Vimy British Cemetery.Photograph of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone for Pte Perry Archibald Massey, 116th Battalion CEF, KIA 25 May 1917 near Vimy, at age 21.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
On the night of 14/15 May 1944, Major Colin Scott Dafoe — a Canadian surgeon in the #RAMC — parachuted into eastern Bosnia with two young British sergeants to establish a 200-bed hospital as part of a #SOE mission supporting Tito’s Partisans. Dafoe’s story is told in my book ‘The Parachute Ward.’
Cover of the book 'The Parachute Ward: A Canadian Surgeon's Wartime Adventures in Yugoslavia," showing a photograph of the book's subject, Colin Scott Dafoe.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Duffle or duffel coat? That came up today while editing my research note about a figure of the pier master of the east mole at Dunkirk in 1940. Both spellings are accepted, though "duffel" is closer to its origin, the Belgian town of Duffel. But the British seem to prefer “duffle.” Which is it?
Photograph of a painted pewter figure of a naval officer wearing a duffle (or duffel) coat and peaked cap while speaking into a loudhailer.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It is painful to be an historian these days.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#OTD 50 years ago, I flew solo (in a Piper Cherokee) for the first time. I had to side slip into my final approach after informed that an airliner was on path for the runway. (That's a Harvard in the background, while filming a documentary. I look a bit full of myself, but those were good times.)
Picture of me in a flight suit and jacket, wearing sunglasses, with a Harvard aircraft in the background.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
@nickhewitt4.bsky.social I learned today that the archive I downloaded before x'ing my X account does not include replies. All I have is my appeal for info about the type of loudhailer in a figure of the pier master at Dunkirk. You were on a thread in May 2022. Possibly a MIMCo?
Picture of a vintage loudhailer.Photo of a painted figure of a Royal Navy officer wearing a duffle coat and peaked cap while speaking into a loudhailer.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
@lmbd1418.bsky.social Lots of mule talk in this bio page for Charles Stadden, in case you haven't found it already (my interest in him relates to his commemorative figure of the pier master at Dunkirk in 1940): www.acstadden.co.uk/c-c-stadden
acstadden.co.uk
Chas C Stadden Military Artist Sculptor and Author
Chas C Stadden or Charles Stadden 1919-2002 the renowned oil and watercolour artist and sculptor specialised in the history of military uniform through the ages
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Our crazy weather in #Ottawa.
Environment Canada weather forecast for Ottawa, Ontario, 29 Mar to 4 Apr, 2026. A mix of warm and inclement weather with periods of rain, freezing rain, and possible flurries.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I wanted to watch One Battle After Another but read it's 2 hrs and 41 minutes long. Why does any movie need to be that long if it's not Lawrence of Arabia? I have to pee every 2 hrs and 40 minutes. I don't want to miss the ending.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I'm reading a post by @lockettwill.bsky.social about how AI will destroy the economy and the first thought that came to me was of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. Except we're the buffalo now.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A week ago tonight I had a lovely first meetup and dinner with @normagraham.bsky.social while she was in town for some research at the archives here. No pix taken to mark the occasion, but it was great to finally connect in person and waffle on about our history pursuits.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This is a shortsighted, unnecessary plan, based on this reporting. People make mistakes. They shouldn't necessarily be victims of one, as well. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Federal prisons to lose library technicians, employment co-ordinators in budget cuts | CBC News
Correctional Service Canada plans to cut library technicians and employment co-ordinator positions in federal penitentiaries, a move critics worry could affect inmate recidivism and reintegration.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@claremulley.bsky.social Apologies, I meant to copy you with this post. Also, they might have met in London rather than Scotland. From the FANY archive I know that she served as a driver and interpreter secretary with the Polish Welfare Unit.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Tried to post a review for a crap self-published book on Amazon but was informed I can’t do that probably because Amazon wants to sell books, not see garbage self-published titles trashed. So, duff history gets to stay rather than get a serious review of its many shortcomings. Money, evidently.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@silenceinpolish.bsky.social I'm hoping to learn more about Jozef Klepaczko's military service but don't know where to start. He and Janet Clouston met in Scotland while she was posted there as a FANY. They settled in Montreal after the war. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Obituary notice in the Montreal Gazette for Colonel Jozef Kelpaczko, who died on 22 April 1985.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Trump’s speech tonight will be about Trump and how he is right about everything and the state is the most perfect ever, people are saying, and Canada and Greenland should be states to make the union even more perfect, plus Putin is my hero. I'll check in the morning to see if I was right.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Not my car, but I can attest to this sentiment.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
That was one of the best hockey games I've seen, until it wasn't.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
For no good reason, I am reflecting tonight on some of my least treasured accomplishments. One that comes to mind is when I was unfairly maligned in the memoir of another writer, now passed. I shouldn't give it much thought, but I'm surprised by how often it bothers me. #drinkingscotchtogethertalk
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I wasn't aware of this organisation or its website and stylebook. But I'm glad I am now. Such a terrible story. We don't need to make it worse through uninformed reporting.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@libyaliberty.bsky.social Picking up on your vibe.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My first attempt at a poem. Fuck billionaires. Let all their spaceships crash, And their super yachts sink. Let their newspapers die, And their driverless cars crash. We don't need them. They are just wrecking everything. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Had a fender bender today, my first in more than 50 years. Amazing to me was a young lad who approached me after and said he had a dash cam video of it, which he emailed to me. It clearly shows the other driver crossing in front of me when I crashed at low speed into her. Still, what damage ensued!
Picture of a car with its front right wheel at an angle after an accident.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
As a published author of several books about military history and now older than most who attended, I thought the course was well-crafted, informative, refreshing, thought-provoking, and thoroughly engaging. Alex is very wise but also a hoot, and her presentations were excellent. Highly recommended!
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
@normagraham.bsky.social Did you see this post on FB?
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
#America is FUBAR now. How far will the contagion spread? It depends on how willing we are to prepare for and defend against it. This insanity must not cross our borders. Ready to sign up for my local resistance #BoomerBattalion.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
An unusual #NYE excursion today. My son organised a tour of the Royal Canadian Mint and a visit to the National Art Gallery for us. Lots of people had the same idea, as both venues were busy. Now helping to prep dinner and wishing everyone a Happy New Year.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Just finished reading the worst #SWW history book I’ve encountered, all 800+ pages because I had to “turn every page” (per Robert Caro). I won’t embarrass the author by naming or showing the cover. This is the self-published, conspiracy-loaded narrative summarised by everyone’s favourite meme.
Picture of a man in shirt and tie with his arms raised in front of a bulletin board covered with documents and lines connecting them — a popular meme.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This was a terrific celebration of a great Canadian historian now sadly missed. Worth watching.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
As Sherlock Holmes would say, "the game is afoot." I'm so close to chasing down a memoir written by a W/T operator who, with Basil Irwin et al, was part of British missions to the Partisans in Yugoslavia in the #SWW. One of the last pieces before revising my book about Major Colin Scott Dafoe.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Canada lost a legend. Colleen Jones was beloved in Nova Scotia and across Canada as a giant in the world of curling. She represented the best of Canadian sport and the Canadian spirit. My deepest sympathies to her family and colleagues. Go to the angels.
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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Best possible peace plan
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Each year #OTD I honour my great uncle, Pte Perry Archibald Massey, 116th Bn Cdn Inf, KIA 25.05.1917, now resting at Petit-Vimy Cemetery, and my cousin's maternal grandfather, Pte William Ernest Taylor MM, who carried forward a note re the end of hostilities at the 11th hour.
Pte P A Massey grave at Petit-Vimy British Cemetery.William E Taylor grave at Woodlawn Cemetery in Hamilton, Ontario.Copy of a handrwritten note carried by W E Taylor on 11.11.1918.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
#OTD I honour my great uncle, Pte Perry Archibald Massey, 116th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, KIA 25 May 1917 near Vimy, at age 21. Son of Elsie Massey of Hamilton, ON, and John Massey of Halifax, NS. Now resting at Petit-Vimy British Cemetery.
Petit-Vimy British Cemetery in France.The grave of Pte Perry Archibald Massey.
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I received a royalty cheque for C$28 today. Party time!
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Jeffrey Street 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @streetwriter.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Reading Alan Allport's terrific 'Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War,' one of the best books about the #SWW I've read in a while. Just brilliant. #histbookchat
Cover of the book 'Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War,' by Alan Allport
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