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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 3h

#JamesBarryDiary 15/10/1875 Dark most of the day (I do not remember much about, being so bad with the cold). Cunningham attending mill and myself doing many things. I am commencing to clear out the pictures out of my old kitchen in order to take it down. Annabella is here still.

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 10h

Probably not in English, but in German you might find Enttäuschungüberfertigstellung. 😎

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 13h

For Barry, a frolic was the work activity - the party afterwards was a spree. The later arrival of "the girls" indicates there was a spree but his interest was repairing the storm damage. And 70 people was an impressive number, and a clear indication of how much work "the household folks" undertook.

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, he used numerous such binaries (unfailingly gendered, often misogynistic), but this is the only time "individual" differentiated men.

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 1d

... hauling and cutting slabs for the house and for the kiln and putting manure on the fields and gathering stones off them. Alexander McKenzie, George Graham and Johnny McLeod fiddlers; Dan Sutherland and Dan McGilvray pipers. /2

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 1d

#JamesBarryDiary 14/10/1875 Great frolic here today; 44 individuals here all day and 25 girls here this night, making 69 besides the household folks. The work consisted in hauling stones; building them with the Wharf and in the wall before the mill door ... /1

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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 2d

The keynote public lecture for the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Conference will be offered by Dr. Tom Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social on the topic, "What is a Treaty?" Friday, October 24, 7:00 pm, at Université de Moncton, Bibliothèque Champlain. Open to the public; no registration required.

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 2d

filling the race with gravel and stones, and doing various other mischief. Annabella here. Seen a photograph of the big girl all the way from California! Looks as usual. /3

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 2d

... than usual in order to ask W Simpson and his son, George, to the frolic that I am to have to repair the damage that the freshet done; which was cutting away the bank at the kiln and mill door and overturning the stonewall; tearing down the bridge at the mill door ... /2

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 2d

#JamesBarryDiary 13/10/1875 A terrible looking morning: dark and gloomy and snowing some and blowing heavily. I was readying up the places about the mill for the frolic; John McKay's boy was with me for the most of the afternoon. Fred Cunningham went home this evening somewhat earlier ... /1

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 2d

Six years ago today, my son and I went hiking in the forest south of Middle River, Cape Breton - gorgeous forest walk of about 3 km, then climbed down to this gorgeous waterfall. Amazing day.

Short video clip of a waterfall, about 3-4 metres high, coming out of a fall-coloured forest into a small stream.

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 2d

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 3d

... the stuff about the race, but we soon had to give it up; and we went into the new house and prepared it for the frolic. We took out the brick oven, and a damnation of a job it was: the lime was so dry and dusty that it near choked us. However we accomplished the business completely. /2

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 3d

#JamesBarryDiary 12Commenced to rain this morning and continued the whole blessed day, and it still continues, but not just a very heavy rain. Raised the water some. The ground is very well soaked now, at any rate. Cunningham in the mills; and building McKay and myself commenced to rig up ... /1

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 3d

Hurricane (no. 5) that reached Nova Scotia dated 10 October 1875 - but it was downgraded to cyclone. Hurricane 6, a few days later: "Early October 16, the storm made landfall near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, with winds of 60 mph (95 km/h), shortly before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone

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Christy Kelly-Bisson @garlicbreath644.bsky.social · 11d

“The people will stay here like the stars are stuck in the sky; they are not going to move as they shouldn’t, because our treaties say so. We should be unhindered, we should be unmolested and free to roam in our territories and our homelands” - Michelle Paul
#Mikmaki #Unimaki #NSpoli #LandBack

Mi'kmaw land protectors vow to stand their ground as Nova Scotia law passes

Nova Scotia has passed the Protecting Nova Scotians Act which allows police to move in and remove land protectors from Hunters Mountain.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 4d

The damage done so far as heard from is on this brook: the Beatty’s bridge; Ritchie's bridge and Gordon’s bridge clean swept away. Samuel McDonald, at Lippincott’s, his damn and the bank gave away about 60 feet wide of the rock. 3/

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 4d

... even my spouts on the road three feet above the wasteway height. There was also a tremendous wind at the end of the rain – somewhere between 1:00 and 3:00. Mr. [Wm?] Cunningham came here today to work in the grist mill. 2/

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 4d

#JamesBarryDiary 11/10/1875 Oh! What a fearful rain there was last night and, consequently, the most tremendous freshet that ever came, accepting Old Noah's big flood. It knocked down my bridge at the mill door, and a lot of the wall overflowing and sweeping away everything movable ... 1/

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 13d

Check out this Q&A with Rutgers History prof Jack Bouchard about his forthcoming book, “Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World” (@yalepress, 2025) #Rutgers

history.rutgers.edu/news-events/...

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 5d

#JamesBarryDiary 10/10/1875 Raining most of the day, but not very heavy most of the time. Raised the water a considerable. Very few moving about today. All well. God be praised for this and all other mercies bestow it upon us, as the Grace Sayers say. Amen.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 5d

What’s happening in Nova Scotia?

Mi’kmaq land protectors have held their ground for over a month. But a new law could change everything.

APTN’s Angel Moore reports from Hunters Mountain and Veldon Coburn explains what’s at stake for Indigenous rights.

Listen to the latest APTN News InFocus:

InFocus: On the ground in Unama'ki: Land protectors sound alarm over Indigenous rights in Canada

On this edition of APTN News InFocus, host Cierra Bettens looks at a new law in Nova Scotia that could threaten Mi’kmaq treaty rights. Land protectors at Hunters Mountain in Unama’ki have preve...

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Noovo Info @noovo.info · 5d

Le plus grand requin blanc de l'Atlantique refait surface près des côtes canadiennes. 🦈
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Le plus grand requin blanc de l'Atlantique refait surface près des côtes canadiennes

Un grand requin blanc adulte de près de 14 pieds, le plus grand mâle jamais marqué dans l'océan Atlantique, a été enregistré la semaine dernière dans les zones septentrionales du golfe du Saint-Lauren...

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 6d

#JamesBarryDiary 9/10/1875 1875 Beautiful day; sunny and nice and calm. I was fearful busy about the mill and kiln today. I ground 2 grists of Oats and 2 of Barley and 1 of Buckwheat and ground 12 Bushels of wheat, and dried 2 grist's of Oats; and now I am writing this about one hour after dark.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 6d

"The decision of what trees to plant on streets was a response to utility poles, and regulations managing utility poles were a response to street trees." - @mfeagan.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2020/07/16/e...

#envhist #urbanhistory #energyhistory

Electric Trees: The Constructed Nature of Utility Poles and Street Trees

Telephone poles and street trees overlapped in nineteenth-century cities, contested between aesthetics, technology, and regulation, blurring natural and built environments.

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