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

did i delete one or more posts / reposts in order to achieve this pleasant aesthetic effect? maybe.

The 2025-26 Rural History Roundtable begins on Tues Sept 23rd, when @alanmaceachern.bsky.social presents "Becoming Green Gables: The Making of a Famous Farmhouse." His talk is from 330-5pm at @uofglibrary.bsky.social, room 246B. For info on how to attend via Zoom: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/r...

very much looking forward to reading this new "urban history review" theme issue about vancouver, edited by @belshaw.bsky.social! utppublishing.com/toc/uhr/53/2 #bchist #cdnhist #urbanhist

Check out this brilliant fall line-up for @uguelphhist.bsky.social's Rural History Roundtable series! First one is next week with @alanmaceachern.bsky.social! niche-canada.org/2025/09/15/h... #envhist #cdnhist #rural

a bit embarrassed to still have an academia.edu account. regardless, the new terms of use suggest the company will soon "use and leverage" content shared there in order to "generate adaptations ... in various media formats." take a close look and decide whether to delete or retain your account.

In February last year, BC’s Ministry of Forests wrote a letter telling CN rail it believed the company played a role in the fire that destroyed Lytton. It intended to seek costs. Six weeks later, it reversed course and closed its file. My latest for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

old hudson bay company fort at langley, bc (whether city or township of is unclear) in the 1900s or 1910s. #bchist #cdnhist @jmcelroy.bsky.social

Join our editor @saraspike.bsky.social on the @transcanadatrail.bsky.social to remember the Blueberry Express! niche-canada.org/2025/09/09/s... #envhist #cdnhist #trails #novascotia

Looking for info on the existence of archives/fonds of Canadian Scottish Associations or clubs, and other "national" associations (English, Irish). Want to have information on the survival of these types of records, particularly from the 19th and early 20th century. Thank you!

One month until publication for _Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels_. Tom Rogers and I lay out the linked history of the US and Brazilian ethanol programs and explain why they matter for energy, climate, and politics. Pre-orders available now! www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Evening, Howe Sound W.P. Weston 1928

The Faculty of Arts at UWaterloo is pushing through a 'reorganization' plan that will - administratively, at least - collapse a number of its departments into 'schools'. Problems abound with both the process and the plan. A long thread... 1/n

The latest issue includes several exciting research articles. Our cover article is "The Specter of Waste: Incarcerated Bodies, “Healthy” Labor, and the Production of Recreational Forests" by Anaïs Lefèvre Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our new membership year begins October 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... #cdnstudies

this really shouldve been a @uwapress.bsky.social title... press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

no cats in the room, but still listening to the multi-hour harp music said to be calming for cats...

It's time to look into what's happening with the Rural History Roundtable at @uofguelph.bsky.social. Fall '25 has three hybrid sessions, including a November double billing. All are welcome to attend! More info on @alanmaceachern.bsky.social's Sept 23 talk coming soon. #aghist #cdnhist #ruralhist

Yuppies has a cover! And a release date! Out May 12 with @harvardpress.bsky.social.

Information about the Fall 2025 Rural History Roundtable speaker series will be available soon. In the meantime, Archival and Special Collections items displayed on the main floor of @uofglibrary.bsky.social hint at the topic of the first presentation, which will be on Sept 23rd. #cdnhist #aghist

this is terrible news. practically every canadian who went vegetarian, or at least gave it a try, since the mid 1990s made heavy use of yves veggie products. i especially liked the veggie breakfast sausages and the veggie "ground beef"...

canada's most famous 🚩🚩🚩 photo?

30 years ago, BC Mounties launched an investigation into abuse at every residential school in the province. It was the first—and last—probe on this scale. The task force's final report was buried in the RCMP archives, until it popped up in @theijf.org's databases. theijf.org/residential-...

am i the only one who figures this type of thing is behind the very recent rise of alberta separatism? (helped along by a certain premier too, of course.)

UK 🇬🇧 Implosion dynamitage de la tour CN à Londres en 2001

26 Aug 1697 (O.S.) // 46-gun HMS Hampshire, escorting two Hudson's Bay Company ships, was sunk with heavy loss of life by the French ship Pélican after a lengthy battle off York Factory trading post in Hudson's Bay. The Pélican, badly damaged, sank shortly afterwards. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

"later, we toasted our adventure with canadian club at the sailor's pub, ontario place." jet skiing on the toronto waterfront, 1975-style. #cdnhist #envhist @thestar.com

Archaeologists from UofG are inviting you to help excavate memories of Kelvin Wheelies skatepark, Scotland’s first skatepark. Share stories, photos & videos using #KelvinWheelies or visit the dig at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park on 25–29 Aug. Learn more 🛹👇 @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

This article, by Carleton PhD student Alexander Rudolph, should be on the front page of every Canadian newspaper. It highlights how the US can access all data on the government and military’s Microsoft servers, Canadian laws be damned. www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...

Today we are highlighting the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection, digitized by the University of British Columbia (UBC) Digitization Centre and made available through UBC Open Collections, which contains over 3,000 items. niche-canada.org/2025/08/21/t... #envhist #cdnhist #mininghistory

needed: a cultural history of automobile commuting, commuters, and the figure of the commuter as "everyman" or "citizen/taxpayer" in the post 1960 period.

maybe i missed this forthcoming title in a @uoftpress.bsky.social catalogue at #chashc2025, but i bet it will be flying off the shelves at #chashc2026 in charlottetown... #cdnhist #envhist 🦞

STORY: The behaviour of coastal BC fires is changing. They remain rare. Locals over-react b/c of an unfamiliarity with fire. But there's real reason to worry. Coastal fire season won't be like that of BC's Interior. But it could be like western Washington, which is scary thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

The call for papers for the CHA’s 2026 annual meeting is now online! Please consider submitting a proposal and joining us in PEI this coming June. #cdnhist #CHA2026 #UPEI #Charlottetown

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Burnaby, British Columbia, November 5, 1976: About 35 volunteers (called “irate mothers” by the Vancouver Sun) blocked the busy intersection of Canada Way and Douglas Road. The protest followed a third injury to a child in two months. ...

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Meet Helen Gale.

first day in weeks when the windows can be open during the day, and its an absolute symphony of leaf blowers, lawn edgers, and brick saws out there...

A Look At The Now Abandoned Ocean Falls, BC Before It Fully Emptied In 1981 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDT... #cdnhist #bchistory #envhist

NEW! For the Toronto Star, I penned an op-ed about Halton Region's decision to shut down its heritage services division, which is incredibly short-sighted for any number of reasons. #cdnhistory #history #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

i had no idea that club monaco was canadian

Petition to Halton Region to reverse their decision to dismantle Heritage services www.change.org/p/reverse-th....

explosive revelations in this excellent piece of railway, park, commemoration, and northern bc history! #bchist #cdnhist

I delved into the history of the mysteriously named Dead Man’s Island for @thetyee.ca. Who would have thought that the biggest controversy would be the park’s size? thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...