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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 4h

Micah, you’ve made my day!! 🤣

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 5h

Empteaness? Desteatution? Discupfort? Oolonging?

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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 6h

Is there a word for that feeling when you pick up a satisfying cup of tea for another drink ... only to realize you've already finished it? 🫖

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CSN-RÉC @csnrec.bsky.social · 8h

emploi - Université de Moncton

Histoire de l'Atlantique français à l'epoque coloniale - Professeure ou professeur

Fermeture du concours : Le 5 janvier 2026

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

@cndhistassoc.bsky.social #cdnhist #etudescanadiennes #francophonie

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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 7h

Heh heh, happy birthday, young fella!

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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 7h

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

No parties, only men voting and no secret ballot. New Brunswick did elections differently in 1785. | CBC News

When it comes to democracy, New Brunswick's first ride was more than a little bumpy. It was 240 years ago this week that politicians first hit the campaign trail in the newly established British colon...

www.cbc.ca

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d

October, La Cloche Country
Franklin Carmichael
1939

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 23h

Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book, coming with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2026! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/

The Global Age of Revolutions

Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of RevolutionsIn 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched AgeofRevolutions.com

www.upress.virginia.edu

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 23h

Draft Pick
Kenneth Lochhead
1993

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 22h

A male Wood Duck giving good looks of his beautiful blue feathers.

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 1d

I am really looking forward to being in Mi’kmaw & Penobscot Territory in about a week’s time to talk about #treaties & The Slow Rush of Colonization at this conference as well as at @mountallison.bsky.social, UNBSJ & @umaine.bsky.social! #cdnhist

Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 1d

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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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 1d

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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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Conference, October 24-25, in Moncton, co-hosted by the Université de Moncton and Crandall University. Please feel welcome to check out this great line-up of papers and join us for the conversations! Program and registration info: amemg.digitalearlymodern.com.

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 3d

I knew Thanksgiving Sunday took quite a while to be established in Canada, but TIL that the October date was legislated nationally only in 1957!

Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 3d

Even less important in Quebec. Thanksgiving has its origin in a British empire celebration (shared by some Quebecers, but not a Catholic liturgical feast)

Part of the abstract of an article by Joseph Hardwick in the Canadian historical review, volume 98 number 4 Pages 675 to 703 in 2017. Essentially, local harvest festivals shifted in the telegraph world of the 1880s to an Empire wide Day of prayer. The article discusses why days of fasting, humiliation, and Thanksgiving were such an enduring aspect of 19th century anglo-canadian life. The answer has to do with Protestant churchmen and civil officials valuing their community - building potential

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading, watching, and listening to from September!

niche-canada.org/2025/10/11/e...

#envhist

#EnvHist Worth Reading: September 2025

Find historical ecology, a chicken tax, and living rivers in the September list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.

niche-canada.org

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

Ben Loman by the Sea
Maud Lewis
c. 1962

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 12d

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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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 4d

Friday laugh! 😂

Mark Nenadov @mark-nenadov.bsky.social · 4d

A classic moment in Blue Jays history. What a master stroke by Lloyd Moseby!! #bluejays

youtu.be/YSLJu2tgOPc?...

Lloyd Moseby 'steals' second twice... on same play

YouTube video by MLB

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 4d

Late afternoon sun in wild #Halifax

A granite whaleback pointing to a granite boulder. A strip of bright blue sky. Greens and reds in the surrounding plants

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 5d

The #BlueJays are off to the ALCS

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 7d

Fall At My Place
Christopher Pratt
2004

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 7d

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Peter L. Twohig @ptwohig.bsky.social · 7d

Happy to announce the latest edition of Acadiensis is available:
acadiensis.wordpress.com/.../acadiens...
If you are working on topics of interest, shoot me an email.

acadiensis.wordpress.com

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 7d

Call For Contributors: Join the Active History Project This Fall!

Interested? Click here for more information: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/10...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 8d

Fall Asters
Molly Lamb Bobak
n.d.

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