To the Canadian reader "d'un certain age," this sounds a lot like a tired old man living inside a broken mainframe computer, subsisting on jar after jar of blackberry jam. IYKYK. #canlit www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Forrest Pass
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Historian, curator, heraldist, vexillologist, collector of arcane and eclectic Canadiana. All opinions my own. Likes, reskeets =/= endorsement.
Ummm... I hate to be a party-pooper, but it's been hiding in plain sight in rural Eastern Ontario for centuries (or at least decades...)
will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 6h agonewspapers: “BRISTOL HISTORIAN REDISCOVERS LOST LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA” bluesky users: “ugh come on, it was on an online catalogue, way to erase the work of librarians and archivists”
Is this Granite City near Princeton? If so, no abandoned trail necessary: it's easily accessible on a well-maintained gravel road off the highway to Tulameen - turn off at Coalmont (another nearly-ghost-town). Tho' I'll grant that it would be creepy at night 😉 #bchist #cdnhist
That Which Remains (iDGi) 🇨🇦@idgi1.bsky.social · 7d agoIf you discovered an abandoned trail leading to Granite, would you follow it? #inspiration #GameDev #indiegames #indiehorror #GhostTown #BritishColumbia #GoldRush #AbandonedPlaces #CanadianHistory #UrbanExploration #ForgottenPlaces #CreepyCanada #IndieHorror #HorrorGaming #GamingCommunity
A starred review in @quillandquire.bsky.social for my Mum's latest! (PS: You should read it - your local indy bookstore can hook you up) #canlit #booksky
Theresa Kishkan@fishgottaswim.bsky.social · last wk.This was lovely to wake up to! #quillandquire #thornapplepress quillandquire.com/review/the-a...
Perfect album from the 90s.* *1989 is part of the "Long 1990s," right?
Michael DeMoor@michaeldemoor.bsky.social · last wk.Perfect album from the 90’s.
#vexillology (My latest substitution for an American product is Maltese corn startch, which, I am disappointed to report, has neither a falcon nor a terrier on the label).
Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 2w agoWe updated the column with some fun graphics
And a nice @library-archives.canada.ca shout-out! #cdnhist Img: A Canadian (i.e. BC) Salmon Cannery, from the Empire Marketing Board collection.
Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 2w agoIn this week's column, I agree that Canada needs to weild more economic weight with one objective in mind: Beating Trump. (Featuring a @jamellebouie.net shout-out) Gift link in next skeet. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Calling all #BookHistory, #GLAM & #speccolls friends---help this post get to 100 likes! (Unless you don't want to see some of the coolest books in @edunilibraries.bsky.social's Heritage Collections...) library.ed.ac.uk/heritage-col... #booksky 📚📜🗃️
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society@edibibsoc.bsky.social · 2w agoGetting ready for our upcoming workshop! 📜🤫 If this gets 100 likes, we'll drop a thread of our absolute favourite books from the University of Edinburgh Heritage Collection.
To paraphrase Augustine Birrell, any book worth its salt will be in the history section one day!
Christopher Moore@cmedmoore.bsky.social · 2w agoHey, what's wrong with the history section? Be honored!
I think The Beaverton really ought to footnote @tomhawthorn.bsky.social from two days ago (tho' I'm sure many had the same thought!)
The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · 3w agoU.S. Treasury unveils its Loony coin design
Reminds me of the Corner Gas episode in which Oscar is annoyed at having to "call before you dig," eh, @brentbutt.bsky.social?
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 3w agoMAGA cultist Eric Metaxas was outraged by seeing an air quality alert triggered by the Canadian wildfires that suggested people limit outdoor activity: "How dare they say that. Who has the right to tell me or you or anyone anything? It's a free country. I can do whatever I want."
"While flags have become symbols in the separation debate ... according to Elections Alberta's bulletin they do not count as referendum advertising, as 'the display of a flag alone does not promote or oppose a question in a referendum.'" Flags are (and have always been) flexible! #vexillology
Alberta separatists 'frustrated and flummoxed' over fundraising tallies from pro-Canada group | CBC News
Some separatist groups are “frustrated and flummoxed” over Elections Alberta’s third-party advertising rules ahead of the Oct. 19 referendum.
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Dress for the job you want, not that job you have - and that goes for your ride as well! (Big thank-you to @joeplanta.bsky.social for this delightful addition to my eclectic #vexillology collection!)
Sounds like a great issue, but curious flag use on the animated cover: a US jack at the bow (correct), ship/house flag in the middle (also correct), Union Jack aft (odd - maybe a courtesy flag), no ensign. Is it based on a historical image? I've seen some odd flag use in 19c/20c photos! #vexillology
Steamship Historical Society@shiphistory.bsky.social · 3w agoPowerShips summer issue #338 is being mailed to our members now! Be sure you're a member & don't miss this great issue. Join us now and we'll send out the new issue FREE, with 4 quarterly issues to follow. Join or renew at shiphistory.org/join/. #MaritimeHistory
Bonne Fête nationale française #14juillet (Image: Drapeau de la France libre, Caen, 11 juillet 1944. Photo: Ken Bell/Ministère de la Défense nationale, @library-archives.canada.ca, a16566) #vexillology / #vexillologie
My sister's job (collections manager at a major museum) is similar enough to my own that I could probably muddle through. But I would suck big time at my brother's job (professor of mathematics).
Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w agoThought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?
A rare shout-out to Thomas Robert MacInnes! My favourite TRM anecdote is that he once introduced a bill to make Irish one of Canada's official languages. And his son was a poet who also built the streetcar system in Guangzhou. Who says #cdnhist (or #canpoli) is dull? tinyurl.com/4zzckh89
It's extremely rare, but Carney isn't the first to shuffle an opposition MP to the Senate | CBC News
Former Conservative MP Richard Martel joins a unique club of senators who have been plucked directly from the House of Commons floor on the recommendation of a prime minister of a different political ...
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There's a solution to this, California: provincehood! #canpoli
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 4w agoCanada's boycott of California wine is causing devastating harm to winegrowers. I'm urging the Canadian government to recognize that California doesn’t agree with these tariff wars, to lift these restrictions, and increase consumer options to strengthen both our economies.
Cycling is four times more efficient than walking and one hundred times more fun.
The exercise at least four times more efficient than walking
Cycling represents one of the most energy-efficient forms of transport ever invented
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Any ideas what book this might be? I wonder if it's an alternative title for Alan Sullivan's "The Rapids" (1922), perhaps from an American pirate publisher. #cdnhist #canlit
Algonquin Park Ranger Mark Robinson@rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social · 4w ago#OTD (Thu, Jul. 9) 1925 on medical leave in #Barrie: "I went out and read 'St. Mary’s Rapids: A Story of the Soo'." @csnrec.bsky.social
Japan's Shinto emperor would like a word...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"
File under "Coincidence? I think not..." I may just have submitted a manuscript that makes reference to the Spice Girls, because I'm hip wit' the pop music of three decades ago. (And no suprise, the context is #vexillology)
Sarah Primate@langurlover.bsky.social · 4w ago1996: The British pop band the Spice Girls released their debut single, Wannabe, which helped make them an international sensation.
#ThriftingTuesday! Teen snags Wilt Chamberlain's ... www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
Teen snags Wilt Chamberlain's L.A. Lakers jacket at Goodwill for $4. He could make $335K | CBC Radio
When Quinn Brown, 19, found a Wilt Chamberlain L.A. Lakers warmup jacket at a Goodwill in Portland, Ore., he figured he could sell it for a couple hundred bucks. Turns out, it's worth as much as $250,...
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