Josh MacFadyen

Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

Crystal Fraser and I are co-editing a series on environmental histories of Indian residential and day schools for @nichecanada.bsky.social. We chose to launch the series on Orange Shirt Day, in part, to remind historians of their responsibilities to Survivors and intergenerational Survivors.

Consider submitting a piece to The Oar, an exciting new popular history magazine by some really excellent New Brunswick scholars!

Later sessions are open and some may be joined virtually so feel free to reach out by email if you’d like to join. Our hybrid sessions will begin tomorrow with our first keynote by Natasha Simon and Lyle Vicare “Where Tides Meet: The Signitog Isthmus as a Nokumi zone and Mi’kmaq place of belonging.”

It’s a beautiful day to kick it off with walking tours (including at Fort Folly First Nation) and a welcome session this evening.
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What’s at the other end of this bridge? Cape Jourimain, NB, the Chignecto Isthmus, and the second Gulf Ecologies conference: “Knowledge Beyond the Text,” to be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville.

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New article from UPEI MA (Island Studies) candidate and member of the GeoREACH Lab, Barbara Rousseau, using #hGIS #envhist and other methods to examine how Prince Edward Island’s coastal dunes – and people’s perceptions of them – have changed over time. #cdnhist journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Funded Master’s Position in the History of Food Systems in Canada Dr. Jamie Murton is looking for a graduate student to join his research team on the How Canadians Ate Project at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario. This is a funded position.

Funded Master’s Position in the History of Food Systems in Canada

@jamiemurton.bsky.social is looking for a graduate student to join his research team on the How Canadians Ate Project at Nipissing University

Start Dates: September 2025/September 2026

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#cdnhist

The knave.

By Muscle, Mast, and Motor: A Transportation History of Charlottetown, PEI - The GeoREACH Lab at UPEI The GeoREACH Lab is excited to share a digital mapping project created by the Director, Dr. Joshua MacFadyen and students in Applied Communications, Leadership & Culture 2090 a project-based course on...

For more on the Charlottetown site’s significance see historicplaces.ca and for this station’s role in the history of mobility see my Story Map with Barbara Rousseau, “By Muscle, Mast, and Motor: A Transportation History of Charlottetown, PEI.”
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The Sackville station was moved to Acadian Heritage Village in Caraquet where it has been beautifully restored. tantramarheritage.ca/archive/hist...

These chateauesque stations were designed for Irving in the early 1930s by Acadian architect (and another son of Bouctouche) Samuel Roy. Here's the Souris station in 1942. (Source: Earle's PEI History, Facebook)

It does this Islander/historian’s heart good to see the Euston St gas station en route to preservation and repurposing for the community in Charlottetown. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

But with DQ and Starbucks waiting for him it would have been worth the trek, amirite? Explains the bowel pain anyway.

Also, the train was to Pictou, yes?

I'm giving a series of talks this summer/fall in the Maritimes on the burncentennial of the 1825 Miramichi Fire.

Thx, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, for the swag (are bookmarks swag?) & for the MQ25 25% discount code. www.mqup.ca/miramichi-fi...

#envhist #cdnhist #wildfire #forestfire #fire

Formation of the Canada History Collective | Collectif Histoire Canada April 2025 marked the creation of the Canada History Collective | Collectif Histoire Canada, a pan-Canadian grouping of national, provincial and territorial historical societies.

Formation of the Canada History Collective | Collectif Histoire Canada

April 2025 marked the creation of the Canada History Collective | Collectif Histoire Canada, a pan-Canadian grouping of national, provincial and territorial historical societies.

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#cdnhist

Call for Papers - Ecologies, Knowledge, and Power in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Region, c. 1500-Present The central theme this year will be: Non-textual Sources for Understanding Ecologies, Knowledge, and Power in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Region, or “Knowledge Beyond the Text.”

Join us this summer at Mount Allison University in Sackville NB for the next meeting! See the CFP here (due 30 May) niche-canada.org/2025/05/02/c...

YouTube video by UPEI GeoREACH Lab Ecologies, Knowledge, and Power in the Gulf of St Lawrence Region: Project Launch and 2024 Meeting

New from the Ecologies, Knowledge, & Power in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Region project, a film on our first meeting and launch in 2024. Enjoy some aerial views of the Climate School in St Peters, the Morell River field trip, and the Basin Head beach and fisheries museum.
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Interesting. As I’m sure you’ve noticed there aren’t many potatoes in yet, here in 2025 times.

Lands and Fields was the greatest book.

This workshop would be amazing.

Potatoes are in! Any idea why he had JM plant them? As opposed to “the boy” or himself?

That rises to nearly a third if you include Quebec City and the Saguenay Fjord, and nearly half if you include the rest of Atlantic Canada (Bonavista NL and the Bay of Fundy). Nine out of 20 is a pretty good showing, considering less than 10% of Canadians live in or east of Quebec City.

Oh Canada! The Current's Travel Bucket List The Current is building a Canadian travel bucket list. Help us pick from these 20 locations.

I know Canadians love their coasts, but the Gulf of St. Lawrence really dominated this CBC list of Canada's favourite destinations. At least a fifth of the top-20 are in the Gulf (Basin Head PEI, Cape Breton NS, Gros Morne NL, and Kouchibouguac NB)... www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

YouTube video by CBC News NL - Newfoundland and Labrador Retro St. John's - The Newfoundland capital in 1967

Mayor Mews on place in NL: “you know down through the centuries fishermen have lived in these little houses perched upon the cliffs and they don't want to leave them. It was suggested that they [move to] the city but they want to be by the sea, and we all understand that.” youtu.be/pAiI_qT-5Kc?...

lol. Thanks! And that’s a great census entry!

Every now and then April produces a nice one around here…
I’ve missed the last month or ten, so maybe you’ve explained, but any idea who the “Boy sawing” is?

If you are a historian or other scholar who would like to write about the history of Toronto's waterfront in relation to current developments at Ontario Place, check out our Guidelines for Contributors and get in touch!

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#envhist #toronto #cdnhist

The University of Alberta is a great place to work. Looking for a teaching professor in Canadian and Indigenous history.

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GeoPEI: The Prince Edward Island Historical Map Viewer - The GeoREACH Lab at UPEI Click here to access GeoPEI: Prince Edward Island Historical Map Viewer GeoPEI is a web portal developed by Dr. MacFadyen and students in the GeoREACH Lab. Its purpose is to share maps, atlases, aeria...

Check out more maps/views of Georgetown and the rest of PEI over at www.upei.ca/geopei

The newly dredged shipyard and the slightly older trawler feet are visible at each end of Water Street in the 1968 images (see the red arrows), but the 1974 photo helps complete the story of development that occurred to house the new workers and their families.

I hope to add more years of imagery from the Province's collection. For instance, the 1974 air photos. Our postdoctoral fellow John Matchim was telling me about this new housing development at the north edge of Georgetown, built shortly after the Bathurst Marine Shipyard moved to town in 1965.