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Occasional director of archives. Blogger. Historian. Quebec expat in the land of—wait, liberty? That can't be right. Stay safe out there kiddos. EN|FR
"[T]he Association Canado-Américaine awarded her its Prix littéraire for her Laurentian Heritage, an overview of life in nineteenth-century Quebec."
A glimpse of a then well-known, now little-remembered author who also advocated for people with disabilities.
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Could Biddeford be the birthplace of clickbait? Or... whatever this is. Letterbait?
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On nativism and Franco-Americans in the interwar period:
06.02.2026 22:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bookstores rule.
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More Franco-American history on
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Apparently we should be boycotting 'Melania' not b/c it is propaganda, but b/c it's just bad—rated 1.3 on IMDb (or below 'Gigli'). Best synopsis: "She wears heels and has conversations." But props to the person who gave it a 10 and claimed that Melania "work[s] tirelessly for the American people."
02.02.2026 11:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0RED ALERT
Monty Python's Meaning of Life is now on Netflix. I repeat, the best Monty Python movie is now on Netflix.
Also, I guess this is a good moment to apologize to folks to whom I have been sending Mr. Creosote GIFs for almost 20 years.
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“There are shows and booths here of all sorts and descriptions,” one observer explained, “from the ‘greatest curiosity of the world’ to a ‘penny peep;’ and, as may naturally be supposed, there is a perfect Babel of tongues.”
✨ NEW ✨ on QTP:
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Oh boy, PSPP sera pas content!
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You know you've moved to a bad neighborhood when
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From London's Daily Telegraph, June 25, 1859, p. 3:
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Friends, neighbours, ProQuest users, lend me your eyes:
Is there a way of using Proquest "e-books" (as the kids call them) such as to show the original (non e-book) pagination?
Or will I have to use the on-line page numbers + use the virtual citation suggested by ProQuest?
Glimpse of a new series, Franco-American Facts, from Query the Past Industries. Follow the QTP page on Facebook for more.
16.01.2026 17:28 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I expect history to be kind to antifascists for I intend to write it.
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Glimpse of a new series, Franco-American Facts, from Query the Past Industries. Follow the QTP page on Facebook for more.
16.01.2026 17:28 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The attorney general reminded the jury of the violence of the French Revolution, whose consequences were “indelibly recorded for the horror and execration of posterity in the blood of their lawful Sovereign, in the blood of their nobility, in the blood of their clergy, in the blood of thousands...”
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In 1797, the French Revolution came to Lower Canada.
Or did it?
The actual jury decided promptly. The historical jury is still out.
A new blog post from QTP.
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It's too much even for those of us in the U.S.
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Big news out of Quebec today and... what, STOCKWELL?!?
14.01.2026 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anytime!
11.01.2026 22:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Campbell's article appears in two parts here:
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From @cmedmoore.bsky.social: "It starts with defending the statue of some old white guy from the nineteenth century, but soon it's pushing residential school denialism and defending the glories of colonialism."
#Canada #colonialism #history
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« Au cours du dix-neuvième siècle, l’américanité de cette identité hybride ne sera pas vécue collectivement par voie de peuple nouveau, mais plutôt, en raison de l’exode de centaines de milliers de gens... »
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