I'm cited in this piece in the Toronto Star today about the spread of generative AI, the challenges it poses for historians & history education, and the need for digital literacy. www.thestar.com/news/how-fak...

Join Rural History Roundtable on Weds Nov 19 from 330-5pm EST for a double-billing of new research. Bram Fookes and Lydia Kinasewich examine military and public health projects in 20th-century Canada. For info on how to attend in person and via Zoom: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/r... #cdnhist #aghist

canadian science and technology history association conference! pt1 #cdnhist

bookmarking and closing all your open but unread or partially read browser tabs about AI and teaching is a great start to the weekend

minivans were about getting rad in the early 80s...

looking for bird courses?

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

very pleased to learn from the latest "friends of the bc archives" newsletter that my ba thesis supervisor jack little was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university of new brunswick (@discoverunb.bsky.social) a couple weeks ago! #cdnhist

i had no idea that bc's history of goat-themed roadside attractions extends back to the interwar years and the "el bar ranch" on the pacific highway in surrey. oppositethecity.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/a... searcharchives.vancouver.ca/el-bar-ranch... #bchist #cdnhist @jmcelroy.bsky.social 🚙🐐📷

playing baseball in nakusp bc, 1930s. #cdnhist

anything trending in canadian regional news?

halloween was a riot in north vancouver bc in 1967.

This early 20th c. pulp pamphlet promises so much: Vampires! Deathly Cars! Lady Grifters! Ferrets! Spoiler alert: it doesn't really deliver. The story is about charity fraud. #bookhistory #halloween

halloween was a riot in north vancouver bc in 1967.

"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞 Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps. #envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...

Video: BC Hydro removes power line crossing Jervis Inlet (Sunshine Coast)

downtown telkwa bc and the bulkley river in summer 1915, a bit more than 110 years ago. #bchist #cdnhist

i was oh so excited to have (seemingly) landed a long-sought-after bella coola bc pennant yesterday evening... only to have it snatched away today! alas, woe, etc. i suppose at least i know they exist now.

“If a safe and inviting public realm filled with arts and culture is essential for Victoria – as city councillors claim that it is – I find it curious that there’s no appetite to compel a negligent landlord to take action and breathe life back into Bastion Square.” buttondown.com/leftcoastdis...

2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School is going to Prince Edward Island!! The theme of CHESS 2026 is Climate & History. Keynotes by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social & Liza Piper. Apply to attend the PREMIER Canadian #EnvHist Event by 30 November 2025. niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...

a mystery related to lost crown jewels, eh? anyone going to (re)watch sherlock holmes and "the musgrave ritual" this evening? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYt9...

This month in our long-running Place Detective series: @tyolsen.bsky.social takes a look at a millionaire prospector's 'doomsday' mansion in the mountains near Lillooet. For this story, Tyler talked to a 91-year-old resident who has memories of visiting the property. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

Join us on Weds Oct 29 from 330-5pm for the second Rural History Roundtable presentation of Fall 2025. Marcel Martel and Alex Gagné will give a talk titled "Drinking Ontario Wine: A Dream?" All are welcome, both in-person and via Zoom. For more info: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/r... #aghist #cdnhist

I had an idea, and I don't know if it's necessarily a good idea or not, that I'd do a thread of my favorite 10 landslides from the database. But why not? I'll probably do it next week when I'm back in the office.

look at all those fruit stands

Company/staff magazines are a useful source, especially when company archives have been discarded or destroyed. David Michelson uses ”Telephone Talk” to chart the history of the North-West Telephone Company (of British Columbia, Canada) #shot2025

Library and Archives Canada has entered the chat! 🍁 As the continuing memory of the federal government, we safeguard Canada’s distant past and recent history for generations to come. Immerse yourself in a journey of discovery! #Libraries #Archives #History #CanadaSky

just ordered my copy from book city!

Join the CSN! Our new membership year started Oct. 1, why not join us - receive interesting job/CFP/awards opportunities info & support our prize dossiers and other activities? We would love to welcome you as a member of the CSN! csn-rec.ca/membership-d... csn-rec.ca/membership-d... #cdnstudies

kicking horse river and canadian pacific railway mainline, in the kicking horse canyon between golden and the west gate of yoho national park, as viewed by motorists from the kicking horse trail. late 1920s? #bchist #cdnhist

Good afternoon to everyone, but especially to all the raccoons, for today is their special day! This woodcut of a raccoon was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg. 📷 Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio #InternationalRaccoonAppreciationDay #RareBooks

green light for competitive butter tarts

On Tuesday Sept 30 there's going to be a showing of "Cold Journey" (1975) at the Revue Cinema on Roncesvalles Ave, followed by a Q&A session about residential schools, the NFB, and Indigenous film-making in 1960s and 1970s Canada. #cdnhist revuecinema.ca/films/stompb...

interested in the history of mining, smelting, heavy industry, workplace health & safety, or company magazines in canada?the trail bc museum and bcrdh.ca have just digitized a complete run of "cominco magazine." bcrdh.ca/islandora/ob... thanks to @kellyblack.ca for the tip! #bchist #cdnhist #envhist

As a child of the 80s, I read this incorrectly...

On Tuesday Sept 30 there's going to be a showing of "Cold Journey" (1975) at the Revue Cinema on Roncesvalles Ave, followed by a Q&A session about residential schools, the NFB, and Indigenous film-making in 1960s and 1970s Canada. #cdnhist revuecinema.ca/films/stompb...

In 1885, Montreal was ravaged by smallpox. To stem the spread of the disease that had killed thousands so far, public health officials enforced vaccinations. Those that mistrusted the vaccine rioted in the streets. This is the story of the Montreal Smallpox Riots. 🧵 1/10

UBCM delegates just endorsed a resolution calling on the province to boost core funding for libraries by $30M It was amended to add a call for the province to review the funding model for libraries No con speakers, this passed with significant support #bcpoli

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

marking some handwritten student assignments and really liking one student's move of switching between printing and cursive in order to imitate (?) italics for book and journal titles!

Meet Pee Gee Junior, also known as the “Son of Mr. Pee Gee,” but often mistaken for Mrs. PG. Back in 1970, BC Telephone Company created this quirky 12-foot-tall phone booth and presented it to the Prince George Chamber of Commerce.

Canadians fought for walkable roads. Windsor, Ontario: On May 10, 1965, in Sandwich East, Diane Paton, age 5, was walking on Grand Marais Road when she was killed by a driver. She died in front of the home of Aimee Soulliere. ...

I was among those who drove the precipitous road into Bella Coola only to look up ferry schedules in search of an alternate route home. 🙋‍♀️ Once there, I was fascinated to learn about the community effort to build the road in the 1950s. My latest for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

"There's too much cultural relevance, it was too important to the community to remove it..." A log-acy, perhaps? #bchist #cdnhist #envhist www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The War-driven Environmental Destruction in Ukraine: Naming, Understanding, Witnessing Part of the international series “Rethinking Ukraine’s Environment: War, Ecocide, and Beyond” Thursday – 9 October 2025 – Zoom niche-canada.org/2025/09/23/o... #envhist #envhum #ukraine #ecocide

#MSH45 | May 18, 1980 | 8:33 a.m. As Mount St. Helens disintegrates beneath, Dorothy and Keith Stoffel’s lives hang in the balance. Behind the controls, Cessna pilot Bruce Judson makes a split-second choice that ultimately leads to safety. Years later, the couple recalls their brush with death.

sinclair canyon and the banff-windermere highway in kootenay national park. probably mid or late 1910s at left, and 1920s (after the highway's grand opening in 1923) at right. #bchist #cdnhist #envhist

downtown aschroft bc, probably in the 1910s when the town was at its apex due to a railway construction and freighting boom. i believe that is elephant hill looming at right, and that the thompson river is just out of view between the town and the bluffs behind. #bchist #cdnhist