Claire Campbell

When the keeper's clearing has to go to the next level.🇨🇦 ⚽❤️
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"On the crown of a hill, for all to see, God planted a scarlet maple tree." ~ Bliss Carman

What a glorious time of year.

Aislin (Montreal Gazette) cartoon, two doors to 'Canada-US Free Trade Talks,' closed with a sign hanging on the doorknob reading 'Do not disturb. Getting drunk.'

Look, as a history professor, I'm just chuffed to see someone bringing the archival receipts. tinyurl.com/56ktcp8n [CBC]

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@museemccordstewart.bsky.social

Philip Reinagle, The Blue Jay (late 18thC) tinyurl.com/yw3kfyux

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"From the United States we await with some degree of earnestness the event of the Presidential election, as we think that if a person of mischievous character were seated in the Chair of Washington, he might, and probably would be inclined to lead that nation into a war with Great Britain, and into an attack upon her Northern Colonies." ~ The Acadian Recorder, 1 January 1825

200 years ago, though we may have escalated from 'mischievous.' The Acadian Recorder, 1 January 1825.

A screencap from a publishing order form that says "United States" but is not recognized, with the message "Please select a valid country."

Cough cough cough

Another deliciously autumnal postcard from PA: the rasp of a chill breeze through a ghostly field of cornstalks.

Goldenrod tipped with frost

A photograph of milkweed and grasses covered in frost

First frost, central Pennsylvania, 2025. It’s beautiful.

Blue, blue lake water, Canadian Shield, and autumn colours on the far shore.

My dad took this photo in the fall of 1969 (I'm pretty sure) off the dock of Camp Hurontario, in the Georgian Bay. I've been hearing the water lapping all morning.

Try this instead.
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Postcard from Duluth, MN of the Leif Erikson statue and replica ship in Leif Erikson Park.

In 1964 Congress declared October 9 Leif Erikson Day. He never came here. Good job, America.

Happy Sea Ice Birthday Day to all who celebrate. @whoi.edu
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Peter Rindisbacher, "Discovery of the first Ice in the neighbourhood of Greenland, June 26, 1821" @library-archives.bsky.social tinyurl.com/b5d8dkrt #envhist #cdnhist

It does, of course, put one in mind of another moosified Canadian character. tinyurl.com/2kbvrdtd

As a Canadian, and a mother of a goalkeeper, I endorse this.

Maple the Moose, Canada's FIFA mascot.
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Scrolling through autumnal Canadian art is officially the best part of my day. Tom Thomson, "The Lake, Bright Day" (1916)
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History is an act of imagination, etc., so how to convey the literally-breath-taking experience of Quebec in winter without stuffing the class in a freezer. #envhist #cdnhist

Caroline Bucknall-Estocourt, "Winter scene on the St. Lawrence at Quebec," 1844, LAC tinyurl.com/9f7ejdsm

Apparently, the best thing you can do to boost your immune system is to reduce long-term or chronic stress.

<looks around>

Well, that’s hilarious.

We'll just put in some happy little trees.

18thC manuscript map of Halifax/Dartmouth harbour showing houses/fortifications/waterfront installations.

Because you could be grading, or you could be looking at something like this.

« Plan de la rade, baye et port de Chibouctou ou d'Halifax» 18thC #envhist #cdnhist @labnf.bsky.social rb.gy/qbsqv8

Today I'm teaching about the 17th-century Chesapeake, & the 1619 Project. This is for my son, who couldn't do a project on family history last year because he can't fully know where his ancestors on his father's side came from.

I learn a lot from him.

(He did a project on Sierra Leone instead.)

We can do it - at least for now. Thanks, science.

Sunflowers in central Pennsylvania

Yes, everything is <waves hands>, but I get to teach about these this week. So there's that.
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Water Resources is a unique class at Bucknell because engineers learn a little history, too. Today we talked about unintended consequences, & why dropping beavers by parachute isn't a great idea. tinyurl.com/5nj9c9mj

Suffice to say none of the students were expecting this. #envhist

Picture shows eleven-year-old goalkeeper playing the ball with his feet with a look of intense concentration.

When your eleven-year-old says, "Tackle football, or real football?" - you know you're raising him right.

The Bill of Rights: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the enrolled original of the Joint Resolution of Congress proposing the Bill of Rights, which is on permanent display in the Rotunda at the National Arch...

Then again, they clearly need some education about the historical context and actual language of the Bill of Rights. (tinyurl.com/ufu2mp3e)

When you go to middle-school orientation, and see a set of parents wearing matching T-shirts, with images of automatic rifles, that read, "I plead the second."

At. A. School.

I will never understand this place.

This summer a groundhog moved into our backyard; our vegetable garden, to be exact. He’s doing very well, thank you for asking.

@bplmaps.bsky.social [A map of the east coast of America from Newfoundland to the Bay of Honduras] 1686, detail showing Terra Nova through Nova Francia, Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston

I teach at a small university in Pennsylvania, and I'm teaching the "Early America" survey for the first time this fall. They'll be expecting John Smith &c. &c.

Surprise! 🇨🇦

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