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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 3d

Great graph — but 231?

Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 5d

Well, that's a wrap. With the anniversary of the Miramichi Fire passed, these books that defined the 1st 1/2 of my 2020s are now well & put to bed. I promise never to post about them again.

From now on, it's all climate/meteorology history & Dad jokes.

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful sunrise in Fredericton.

‘Course, as anyone in Fredericton can tell you, this pic is of sunset. Last night’s, actually. Sue me.

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 7d

I'm in Fredericton tomorrow, talking the Miramichi Fire. 🔥🔥Catch me on CBC Fred @ 6:40am, CBC Moncton @ 7:40am, or CBC online.

#NewBrunswick @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.mqup.ca/miramichi-fi...

Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 12d

The Miramichi Fire was not the 1st #wildfire, of course, but it's usually the 1st in Canadian, North American, & even global lists of fires. With its bicentennial on 7 Oct, we'll have had 2 centuries of thinking, worrying, & writing about #forestfire.

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 9d

I communicated w/ Innis Dagg in 1994, asking about her father. When I read her memoir years later, I'd wished I'd asked her about herself.

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lyndalukasik.bsky.social @lyndalukasik.bsky.social · Sep 11

“We estimate that 5,400 (3,400–7,400) acute deaths in North America and 64,300 (37,800–90,900) chronic deaths in North America and Europe were attributable to PM2.5 exposure to the 2023 Canadian wildfires.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires - Nature

A modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human h...

www.nature.com

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 12d

The Miramichi Fire was not the 1st #wildfire, of course, but it's usually the 1st in Canadian, North American, & even global lists of fires. With its bicentennial on 7 Oct, we'll have had 2 centuries of thinking, worrying, & writing about #forestfire.

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 13d

"The Old-Sage Home"?
"This Is Emeritus"?

With the tagline, "They still have their faculties."

I think we need to workshop this.

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18d

I give up.

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks, Becky & Ben for the invitation & for the great day.

Beausaert, Bradley, Souchen, McCorkindale, Luby - it's so encouraging to see the degree to which @uguelphhist.bsky.social has invested in new, productive #cdnhist faculty.

Rebecca Beausaert (she/her) @rebeccabeau.bsky.social · 18d

A great kick-off to this year’s Rural History Roundtable series @uguelphhist.bsky.social @benbradleyca.bsky.social. A fascinating discussion about the Webb farmhouse & #GreenGables #PEI with @alanmaceachern.bsky.social. Next RHRT coming up October 29 on the history of Ontario’s wine industry.

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 20d

My quiet protest won, I will renew use of my neighbour’s Disney+.

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UGuelph History Department @uguelphhist.bsky.social · 24d

The 2025-26 Rural History Roundtable begins on Tues Sept 23rd, when @alanmaceachern.bsky.social presents "Becoming Green Gables: The Making of a Famous Farmhouse."

His talk is from 330-5pm at @uofglibrary.bsky.social, room 246B. For info on how to attend via Zoom: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/r...

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 24d

Just dropped! The Champlain Society's "Witness to Yesterday" podcast convo between @nobyrne.bsky.social & me about "Becoming Green Gables."

champlainsociety.utppublishing.com/digital-cont...

www.mqup.ca/becoming-gre...

#cdnhist #greengables @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse - Champlain Society

Nicole O'Byrne speaks with Alan MacEachern about his book Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse.

champlainsociety.utppublishing.com

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 24d

Sick burn.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 25d

Call for Nominations: 2026 NiCHE Book Prize

Books published in 2024 and 2025 are eligible!

Submit your nominations by December 31st!

niche-canada.org/2025/09/16/c...

#envhist #cdnhist

Call for Nominations: 2026 NiCHE Book Prize

The Network in Canadian History and Environment is soliciting nominations for its 2026 NiCHE Prize for Best Book. This prize is awarded every other year for meritorious publications that make importan...

niche-canada.org

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 26d

Love that you're working on 2001. At 1 point that fall, I was going to write (never did) on how major newspapers & news sites maintained significantly different timelines about the planes crashing - 5-7minute differences, if I recall - on their sites, until slowly the timelines consolidated, agreed.

Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 26d

In a few years, the exact timing of AI's rise to ubiquity will be forgotten & it'll just be assumed that the books I laboured to research & write in the early 2020s involved AI. 🙄

So save this: they didn't!

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27d

Graphing #envhist in Canada?

Number of new books published in @ubcpress.bsky.social Nature/History/Society series, 2005-on, & the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series, 2011-on.

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 29d

If you're in Guelph or on Zoom on the 23rd, come hear me talk #GreenGables & rural history.

#annewithane

UGuelph History Department @uguelphhist.bsky.social · Sep 2

It's time to look into what's happening with the Rural History Roundtable at @uofguelph.bsky.social.

Fall '25 has three hybrid sessions, including a November double billing. All are welcome to attend!

More info on @alanmaceachern.bsky.social's Sept 23 talk coming soon.

#aghist #cdnhist #ruralhist

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 29d

Looking forward to "Mountain Voices" taking its place atop the Canadian History & Environment tower of power.

And we're always looking for more books for the series. If interested in developing an #envhist / #cdnhist collection, drop a line.

@ucalgarypress.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · Sep 12

With contributions from Chic Scott to Liza Piper to Bruce Cockburn (!) to …dozens & dozens more, this is a fantastic, monumental (mountainous?) work. Cheers to Eric & all.

And great to have it in @nichecanada.bsky.social / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series.

Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Sep 12

Very happy to announce the book, Mountain Voices, will be published in early November by @ucalgarypress.bsky.social. Fifty authors explore their love of Canadian mountains through interpreting photographs from @mountainlegacy.bsky.social. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... Order early!

Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada

Discover Canada’s mountains as you’ve never seen them before with gorgeous photography from the Mountain Legacy Project accompanied by gripping essays from mountaineers, artists, and mountain research...

press.ucalgary.ca

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Really thrilled to announce that our new book on the history of the #MohawkInstitute is now available in #OpenAccess format. You can pay for the physical book, but you can also read a digital copy for free. This was a very important choice for us: press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... #cdnhist #cdnpoli