Stupid (wonderful) Canadian wolf bird.
L. Hyde, 1957 @library-archives.canada.ca tinyurl.com/2w3uk3f2 www.hww.ca/wildlife/bir...
Stupid (wonderful) Canadian wolf bird.
L. Hyde, 1957 @library-archives.canada.ca tinyurl.com/2w3uk3f2 www.hww.ca/wildlife/bir...
Teaching colonial history (as a Canadian in the United States) & bracing for a full year of 1776ishness. (Colonial Williamsburg, 1986.)
25.02.2026 19:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I mean, it was right there when I left
19.02.2026 19:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
/looks up from writing a report on the environmental history of Prescott House & Starrs Point
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #envhist #cdnhist
Hubbardston Nonsuch, Westfield Seek-no-further, Drap d’Or: apple varieties grown in Nova Scotia 150 years ago. Astonishing. (But the russets are the best.)
Proceedings of the American Pomological Society, 1875; USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection.
... or July.
Halifax, 21 July 2025.
Yes, it's winter, but the turn in light is beautiful.
Tom Thomson, "Open Water, Joe Creek" (1917) tinyurl.com/373bjbf8 @agotoronto.bsky.social
"Never mind, my dears, I have no doubt we shall get along very well without her." (ca. 1900) #cdnhist
@museemccordstewart.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzbwwbh
Snowstorm '26: We're going to need a bigger barrel.
James Duncan, "Carting snow at Montreal" (1847-50) @library-archives.canada.ca
Heading into the weekend's storm with this kind of enthusiasm.
M.F. Dyneley, "Sledge and Habitants in a snowstorm" (1848) tinyurl.com/3yc7fhh9 @library-archives.canada.ca
The Balloon Pilot, Ib Antoni, 1970
tinyurl.com/45natwur
Diplomacy by adults, àpropos of nothing.
@library-archives.canada.ca tinyurl.com/55z2a8fn tinyurl.com/2jt67huz
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to make a really good grilled cheese sandwich …
Pennsylvania Farm Show butter sculpture, 2026
tinyurl.com/2zy2ah3e
"...there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature.* Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
George Washington, first State of the Union address, 8 January 1790. tinyurl.com/3wznctej
*History, too, GW.
Elbows up, Kalaallit Nunaat.
(National Gallery of Greenland, natgal.gl#galleri)
Ten years ago today we flew to Hawaii. I'm always conflicted now about travel - but it was so lush, so beautiful, so ... not the northeast in January.
05.01.2026 14:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The National Gallery of Canada lit blue and purple on a winter night.
It can be freeze-your-face-cold, but winter nights are beautiful. @gallery.ca 🇨🇦
28.12.2025 23:42 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There was more than one moose present at the birth of Jesus? 🇨🇦 tinyurl.com/btteztsx tinyurl.com/4mxd5jew
23.12.2025 23:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Madonna of the Magnificat, Sandro Botticelli (c. 1483), or, "Working from home."
22.12.2025 17:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What I'd like to be reading ... What I am actually reading. #envhist @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
17.12.2025 15:32 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Manuscript map with '1637' written in the corner. Map of John Winthrop's property in Massachusetts near the Mystic River.
Proctoring the final exam for my Mapping History class & thinking probably none of us knew what we were getting into. Which is ... what it's always kind of like to study history? tinyurl.com/2sbwadkr @mhs1791.bsky.social #envhist
11.12.2025 22:02 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The little Jólakötturinn is less of a concern.
10.12.2025 15:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Learning about the Jólakötturinn has been the highlight of the season for me so far. If my son complains about getting socks at Christmas, I can say it's to protect him from being eaten by a giant cat. tinyurl.com/4266hvuz
10.12.2025 15:04 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Not the US or Europe, but not too far: www.ubcpress.ca/in-defence-o...
09.12.2025 21:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
6 December 1917: “There were a few helpless shouts. Then all movement and life about the ship were encompassed in a sound beyond hearing as the Mont Blanc opened up.”
~H. MacLennan, Barometer Rising (1941)
tinyurl.com/mwdjm66f #envhist #cdnhist
State Library of Massachusetts tinyurl.com/57w3xt8h
A student note that reads "Maybe one of those city maps (she likes maps)."
When you ask students to generate ideas for the final exam, and they share their unedited notes. (Yes, I DO like maps.) #envhist #cdnhist
04.12.2025 16:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Royal Mail" sled pulled across winter landscape in 19th century watercolour.
'Tis the season for mailing Christmas cards! (And supporting the postal service.)
Amelia Frederica Dyneley, "The Quebec Royal Mail, Canada East" (1848) @library-archives.canada.ca tinyurl.com/45b5drc6
Photo of Queen Anne's Lace at Miner's Marsh, Kentville, Nova Scotia.
When ... I all alone beweep my outcast state [in December, in Pennsylvania] ...
Haply I think on thee [the Annapolis Valley, in July] ...
(With apologies to M. Shakespeare, but I'm sure he would have liked the Valley in summer, too.)
Kid has now had pie for breakfast for the first time, as permitted by the unwritten rules of Thanksgiving/Christmas, and I sense there's no coming back from this.
28.11.2025 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Coming home from the farmers' market the day before (American) Thanksgiving ... unconvinced that the twelve-year-old will eat anything besides turkey and pie.
Christoph Suhr, 19thC @britishmuseum.bsky.social tinyurl.com/48adszfk