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Joseph Gagné, Ph. D.

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Historien, Archiviste aux Archives nationales à Québec #7YearsWar #18thcentury #FrenchColonial #NewFrance #NouvelleFrance #VastEarlyAmerica #WillHistoryForFood Opinions = miennes. https://novafrancia.wordpress.com/ Instagram: @josgagne

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[EN IMAGES] L’Halloween au Québec racontée par les archives Par Joseph Gagné, archiviste aux Archives nationales à Québec, BAnQ.

Histoire de l'Halloween au Québec: www.journaldequebec.com/2023/10/29/l...

#Halloween #Québec #Canada #Quebec #Citrouilles #Écossais

30.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Quote Origin: Some Cause Happiness Wherever They Go; Others Whenever They Go – Quote Investigator®

That sent me down an interesting rabbit hole: quoteinvestigator.com/2019/08/09/go/

04.09.2025 18:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"Les manchettes d'aujourd'hui sont n'importe quoi. Dans le bon vieux temps, on parlait des vraies affaires"

Les manchettes du bon vieux temps:

03.09.2025 14:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Question for anyone into #Culloden ( @jennscott1485.bsky.social or otherwise): If I'm a visiting historian in Edinburg, what's a good recommendation on how to visit Culloden? Tour group? Bus? I want to visit the visitor center and not just rush.

17.08.2025 22:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Q. Why does Marie Antoinette look a bit grim-faced?

A. Because it's Bastille Day. Holiday in France today to commemorate the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 in the French Revolution.

14.07.2025 18:21 — 👍 307    🔁 32    💬 18    📌 0
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a man in a superman costume says true ALT: a man in a superman costume says true

In a moviescape poisoned by rampant cynicism, the new Superman is a breath of fresh air. The hopeful legacy of the Reeves' version is back!

12.07.2025 23:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And yet, I'd trade it all to be back in my highschool computer lab, marvelling at how I could reach beyond my tiny isolated hometown and chat freely with people also interested in aquarium fish, monsters, movies... We used to flee reality online. Now we use reality to flee the Internet.

08.07.2025 12:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jesus I feel you so hard.
I'm also tired of being told to be grateful. For what? No one handed me anything. I worked my ass off for what little I got back. Still do. We deserve every scrap the last generation left us.

05.07.2025 01:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can't get enough of his little dance.

12.06.2025 22:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fullbright maybe?

08.06.2025 01:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Programme Québec–États-Unis de bourses universitaires Programme de subvention destiné aux universités et aux collèges américains afin de promouvoir et de développer les études sur le Québec aux États-Unis.

This too: www.quebec.ca/education/un...

08.06.2025 01:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Programme de soutien à la recherche | FBAnQ

Only thing I found: www.fondation.banq.qc.ca/programme-de...

08.06.2025 01:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He did produce it... But poor Richard Donner being left behind by journalists...

02.06.2025 18:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a man with a beard is making a funny face and the words i 'm dumb are above him ALT: a man with a beard is making a funny face and the words i 'm dumb are above him

Making new business cards.

Thank god for my last minute proofreading: apparently you CAN misspell Ph. D.

(for the curious: I wrote Phd. D.)

25.05.2025 20:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a cartoon character named stitch is smiling and standing in front of a fire ALT: a cartoon character named stitch is smiling and standing in front of a fire

My Lilo & Stitch review

Original L&S animated movie > L&S Remake > All the other Disney remakes.

Now, can Disney finally get back to original programming?

25.05.2025 00:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Quand je dis que l'i.a. nous abrutis, c'est pas des farces.

20.05.2025 18:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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À quoi ressemblent mes étudiants quand je les oblige d'aller à la bibliothèque et de lâcher l'internet deux secondes en consultant "des antiquités"...

19.05.2025 14:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE DOOR.

18.05.2025 20:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Reminds me of this:

18.05.2025 01:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a # mafs logo ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a # mafs logo

I have the much more ambitious goal of stalking senior academics to drink free wine post-conference.

17.05.2025 16:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sounds like the conference will rhyme with fun ;)

15.05.2025 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
F for Fake - Orson Welles, Chartres Cathedral
YouTube video by Peter Menard F for Fake - Orson Welles, Chartres Cathedral

I never tire of the dignified poetry of Welle's observations on mankind.

"Go on singing. Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much."

youtu.be/p67d9F9nW2Y?...

14.05.2025 00:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@stephpettigrew.bsky.social you're such a bad influence.

13.05.2025 02:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The Office Theme from the Movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam
YouTube video by Pangea DX The Office Theme from the Movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam

Help.
I have the theme from Brazil stuck in my head.
What does it mean.

youtu.be/BEhPQBMxLfA?...

13.05.2025 00:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jackie Smith de nouveau candidate à la mairie de Québec: «crinquée comme jamais» pour la mobilité et l’environnement La cheffe de Transition Québec, Jackie Smith, se lance de nouveau à la mairie de Québec avec en ligne de mire la mobilité et le logement.

Jackie Smith de nouveau candidate à la mairie de Québec: «crinquée comme jamais» pour la mobilité et l’environnement (@vdesbiensjdq.bsky.social)

10.05.2025 23:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

so basically all copyrights and patents in the US are void because whatever comes out of that AI will be infringing on anything and everything that has ever been sent

10.05.2025 23:51 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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a crayfish is holding a pen and writing the number 12 on a piece of paper ALT: a crayfish is holding a pen and writing the number 12 on a piece of paper

I thought the goal of all my years spent mastering paleography was to teach students how to read old writing, not to help me read theirs... #gradingtime

10.05.2025 19:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a drawing of a liopleurodon laying on the grass ALT: a drawing of a liopleurodon laying on the grass

I am severely disappointed.

I was having lunch with a paleontologist friend.
She goes on and on about mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.

I leaned in, eyes narrowed, and asked: "BUT have you found a magical liopleurodon?"

"No." she replied most seriously.

Feels like I wasted a kidney.

10.05.2025 02:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Call the Pope!

09.05.2025 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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