Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦
@alanmaceachern.bsky.social
Researcher, writer, & teacher of stuff Canadian, historical, & environmental.
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Taught this in my #envhist class today & was reminded how superb it is not just on doing animal history, but on doing history, full stop. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
But I do wish they'd chosen this as the cover.
But I do wish they'd chosen this as the cover.
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Taught this in my #envhist class today & was reminded how superb it is not just on doing animal history, but on doing history, full stop. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
But I do wish they'd chosen this as the cover.
But I do wish they'd chosen this as the cover.
I can't decide whether adding this to my calendar today is a sign of positive thinking or despair.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I can't decide whether adding this to my calendar today is a sign of positive thinking or despair.
Receipts or it didn't happen.😀
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Receipts or it didn't happen.😀
Your annual reminder that 🍁 were whale blower-uppers well before 🗽 were. We just didn't get television until 1990, so couldn't go viral.
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Your annual reminder that 🍁 were whale blower-uppers well before 🗽 were. We just didn't get television until 1990, so couldn't go viral.
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
And you know what that means:
an update to the Canadian History & Environment series tower of power.
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #cdnhist
an update to the Canadian History & Environment series tower of power.
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #cdnhist
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
And you know what that means:
an update to the Canadian History & Environment series tower of power.
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #cdnhist
an update to the Canadian History & Environment series tower of power.
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #cdnhist
Informed, inspiring text. Beautiful, illuminating pix.
Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Informed, inspiring text. Beautiful, illuminating pix.
Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
Giving off some Normanne Bates of Green Gables energy handing out candy. The kids keep walking.
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Giving off some Normanne Bates of Green Gables energy handing out candy. The kids keep walking.
Ok, you don't want Ontario to quote that 1987 Reagan radio address? Fine. How about this 1988 one?
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Ok, you don't want Ontario to quote that 1987 Reagan radio address? Fine. How about this 1988 one?
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
Taking this break from grant writing to show Grant writing. Grant-writing, amirite? My mind's gone. There's just nothing. At this point, I'd give you $10,000 to give me $10,000.
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Taking this break from grant writing to show Grant writing. Grant-writing, amirite? My mind's gone. There's just nothing. At this point, I'd give you $10,000 to give me $10,000.
Remembering the last pitch that a Jays player faced in the World Series.
I was bartending at the Queen's Grad Club when Joe Carter hit his homer. There's no procedure for such bedlam. "Free beer for the house!" I may have shouted. All 3 floors. Later, I sheepishly phoned my manager.
I was bartending at the Queen's Grad Club when Joe Carter hit his homer. There's no procedure for such bedlam. "Free beer for the house!" I may have shouted. All 3 floors. Later, I sheepishly phoned my manager.
October 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Remembering the last pitch that a Jays player faced in the World Series.
I was bartending at the Queen's Grad Club when Joe Carter hit his homer. There's no procedure for such bedlam. "Free beer for the house!" I may have shouted. All 3 floors. Later, I sheepishly phoned my manager.
I was bartending at the Queen's Grad Club when Joe Carter hit his homer. There's no procedure for such bedlam. "Free beer for the house!" I may have shouted. All 3 floors. Later, I sheepishly phoned my manager.
🎂 I don’t feel old, but then I come across a picture of me from the 1930s.
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🎂 I don’t feel old, but then I come across a picture of me from the 1930s.
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.
From now on, it's all climate/meteorology history & Dad jokes.
October 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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.
From now on, it's all climate/meteorology history & Dad jokes.
Beautiful sunrise in Fredericton.
‘Course, as anyone in Fredericton can tell you, this pic is of sunset. Last night’s, actually. Sue me.
‘Course, as anyone in Fredericton can tell you, this pic is of sunset. Last night’s, actually. Sue me.
October 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Beautiful sunrise in Fredericton.
‘Course, as anyone in Fredericton can tell you, this pic is of sunset. Last night’s, actually. Sue me.
‘Course, as anyone in Fredericton can tell you, this pic is of sunset. Last night’s, actually. Sue me.
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.
October 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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.
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.
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.
September 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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.
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.
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
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
September 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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
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
Truer now than ever.
September 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Truer now than ever.
This 1913 local history article (left) identifies this as not just a grave site (fenced off even then), but the site of their death too.
The 1825 11 19 London Times (right) reports not just their death, but that of their son & daughter. 2/2
The 1825 11 19 London Times (right) reports not just their death, but that of their son & daughter. 2/2
August 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This 1913 local history article (left) identifies this as not just a grave site (fenced off even then), but the site of their death too.
The 1825 11 19 London Times (right) reports not just their death, but that of their son & daughter. 2/2
The 1825 11 19 London Times (right) reports not just their death, but that of their son & daughter. 2/2
I was in the Miramichi last weekend & was directed to this fenced grave memorializing 2 victims of the 1825 Miramichi Fire, along an ATV trail - off the Oldfield Road, which had itself burned this summer.
I wondered if the sign was accurate & how long it had been there. 1/2
#cdnhist
I wondered if the sign was accurate & how long it had been there. 1/2
#cdnhist
August 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I was in the Miramichi last weekend & was directed to this fenced grave memorializing 2 victims of the 1825 Miramichi Fire, along an ATV trail - off the Oldfield Road, which had itself burned this summer.
I wondered if the sign was accurate & how long it had been there. 1/2
#cdnhist
I wondered if the sign was accurate & how long it had been there. 1/2
#cdnhist
It was a pleasure to talk the 1825 Miramichi Fire not just in Miramichi, but in St Paul’s Anglican Church, which had survived the fire.
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It was a pleasure to talk the 1825 Miramichi Fire not just in Miramichi, but in St Paul’s Anglican Church, which had survived the fire.
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
Hot off the press!
PEI back-to-the-lander tells all. I read an early draft of this & it’s so good.
PEI back-to-the-lander tells all. I read an early draft of this & it’s so good.
August 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hot off the press!
PEI back-to-the-lander tells all. I read an early draft of this & it’s so good.
PEI back-to-the-lander tells all. I read an early draft of this & it’s so good.