#OTD in 1701, the Great Peace of Montréal was signed by New France and 39 Indigenous nations, including the Five Nations Haudenosaunee. Negotiations involving some 1,300 Indigenous delegates concluded with a Haudenosaunee condolence ceremony. 📸 5013636

[repeated a thread from the other place] Five (ok, six) ways in which Nolan's Odyssey is Homeric. 1. Narrative structures: a thematic ring with multiple flashbacks and timelines that unfold and entwine. Hello Homer's Odyssey

Hello @nichecanada.bsky.social friends! I’m hoping to put together a panel on climate, weather, and the Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes at the annual meeting of the CHA. If you know anyone that might be interested, please let me know.

Want to write a peer-reviewed, Oxford Intersections article on the #EnvHist of disasters? Check out our call for papers! Oxford Intersections offers a quick, respected, high-impact publishing format - perfect for new research in environmental history. academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

“High-speed rail would reduce travel times between Kingston and Toronto to approximately 90 minutes while establishing Kingston as a key regional mobility hub, improving connections and placing up to 80% of residents between Peterborough and Ottawa within a 25-minute drive of a station.”

Release of Alto’s What We Heard Report and announcement of Kingston as a potential stop along the High-Speed Rail network

The report summarizes feedback gathered during the first phase of a comprehensive 100-day public consultation process, as well as through Indigenous consultation activities that were conducted from Oc...

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A few days behind in announcing but I am thrilled to be the 2026-2028 Kobrak Fellow with the Canadian Business History Association, working on a project on Cree economic and political diplomacy with the Hudson’s Bay Company. #Fellowship #IndigenousHistory #BusinessHistory

from "speak of the devil"

“Shoped the Fate of North America”

First CHA in the books!

Congrats to all our 2025-26 MA #PublicHistory students now hard at work at their internships!

Benjamin Rush is a super interesting fellow. I learned recently that Stockton Rush, the Titan submersible guy, was a descendant of Dr. Rush. If I had to guess, this portrait of Rush by Thomas Sully was probably part of Stockton's estate, and sold soon after his death in 2023.

AI psychosis? Try having delusions like a real man, such as when I convinced myself through the power of OCD that I caused the 2008 cyclone in Myanmar

Do you know about our thematic galleries? These special projects bring together many biographies within the context of a theme such as sports, the Acadians, the Fenians, Confederation, and many more. Today's highlighted theme is responsible government. www.biographi.ca/en/theme_gov...

Haul from the local used book store, Berry & Peterson

Does anyone out there have a digital copy of The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert G. Angevine?

Bio of the Day: Hortense Globensky (Prévost) (1804–73). For holding off a group of Patriotes who intended to attack her house, Hortense Globensky-Prévost was called Chevalière des Deux-Montagnes and Héroïne du Nord by newspapers at the time. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/globe...

First course in the works :)

The Department of History at Queen’s University is hiring for the Bader Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish History. www.queensu.ca/history/abou... Please help us circulate this advertisement widely in your networks.

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage? A NiCHE Series Abstract deadline: May 1, 2026 Edited by @ramya.bsky.social NiCHE invites submissions for a blog series asking if rivers can be heritage and if so, what kind of heritage. niche-canada.org/2026/04/08/c... #rivers #envhist #envhum #heritage

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage?

Can rivers be heritage? What is the place of rivers in our sense of place and/or self? What is the future of rivers? What lessons or parallels do rivers across the world have for Canada?

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The Brown Homestead, the oldest home in St. Catharines (c. 1796), is hiring for a YCW-funded Museum Educator and Program Assistant: thebrownhomestead.ca/careers It was a great pleasure to work at the Homestead in the summer of 2021. Friends in St. Catharines and Niagara, please circulate widely.

My partner’s family home in St. Catharines is near land granted to Richard Pierpoint, a Black Loyalist and early Niagara settler who served in the War of 1812.

@nichecanada.bsky.social

Canadian Museum of Health Care@museumofhealthcare.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are accepting proposals for a resident 16-week summer research fellowship, which will investigate a topic relevant to the history of health and health care. ⁠ ⁠⁠ Find the full application details here:https://www.museumofhealthcare.ca/fellowship #histmed #fellowship

We are accepting proposals for a resident 16-week summer research fellowship, which will investigate a topic relevant to the history of health and health care. ⁠ ⁠⁠ Find the full application details here:https://www.museumofhealthcare.ca/fellowship #histmed #fellowship

Delighted to learn that my PhD dissertation has received the 2026 Research Prize from the International Society for the Research and Promotion of Wind Music. The book version, Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars, is out early next year with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

2) "Cardboard Battlefields in 1812: The Invasion of Canada" by @jakebreadman.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/01/07/c... #cdnhist #envhist #boardgames

Cardboard Battlefields in 1812: The Invasion of Canada

Educational War of 1812 board game represents Indigenous allies but oversimplifies environmental factors and diverse Indigenous experiences, reflecting historiographical limits.

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Our most-read articles published in January! Links in the thread below. #envhist #cdnhist #urbanhistory

The tripling of Canadian military spending is coming at a huge cost to Canadian historical institutions, museums, archives, and heritage. Canada is going to be all elbows. What are we even protecting?

Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada@cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In light of recent federal and provincial budget cuts, CHA president Colin Coates has written a letter to CHA members and to the public. The letter can be read here. #cdnhist

On Saturday, July 17th, 1943, amidst a lot of other important news, my great-grandpa made front-page-news for winning a car after hanging up on the reporter!

Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.