I sing you five, O! Red fly the banners, O! What is your five, O? Five is the five is the Five Year Plan (Four is the four years taken...)

Deachman's piece is a fun read, and a reminder (to all sides) that immediate pre-COVID civil service work arrangements were never the only model. My favourite related anecdote: before WWI, Ottawa's streetcar handled 4 rush hours a day because.... (1/2) #cdnhist #ottawa #cdnpoli

Deachman's piece is a fun read, and a reminder (to all sides) that immediate pre-COVID civil service work arrangements were never the only model. My favourite related anecdote: before WWI, Ottawa's streetcar handled 4 rush hours a day because.... (1/2) #cdnhist #ottawa #cdnpoli

The memory of the Aroostook War lingered long. It was behind this (entirely serious and not-at-all-silly proposal from the BC Legislature in 1870 that Canada buy Maine (along with Alaska) #cdnhist #bchist tinyurl.com/2hdx6uwt (starting at p. 70)

And more often than not, that province is British Columbia... #bchist #cdnhist #cdnpoli (Photo: Premier W.A.C. "Wacky" Bennett prepares to set fire to a barge-load of provincial bonds in Lake Okanagan)

#cdnlit #bookhistory

Forgot me hashtag: Happy #AntarcticaDay

It’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy. Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd. Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...

Happy Antarctica Day to those celebrating! Consider toasting the day with a warm and comforting Fry's Cocoa - it worked for "Scott at the South Pole," right? (Credit: @library-archives.canada.ca, Misc Post- and Trade Card Collection)

Complete with Turkish flag (so you know it's the real deal!) #vexillology

"Hell" and "Playboy" I don't doubt, but I'm scratching my head about the reference to an Honourable Member. In any case, I'll be more careful in future to, errr, protect myself from condom-nation...

@profanity.accountant Do your worst!

An anniversary that surely calls for a celebratory libation - no one likes a Tito-taller... #vexillology #PunsWithImpunity

#heraldry #sigillography

@cmedmoore.bsky.social, thought you might appreciate my 10-year-old's choice of bedtime reading tonight (he comes by the the Mark Carney Halloween costume honestly)! #cdnhist

Happy to have been able to circle back to this research (@medievalpenguin.bsky.social will recognize it!) in the context of this summer's droughts and resulting dry wells. #cdnhist #envhist

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times Blue Rodeo The Arrogant Worms The National Arts Centre Orchestra Fred Penner James Keelaghan

Found while looking for something else: PM Pierre Elliot Trudeau smiling for the camera with a former Gov of Pennsylvania and a real estate developer and his wife at a Council of Churches of the City of New York prize gala in 1981. #cdnhist #cdnpoli (Source: @library-archives.canada.ca)

Found while looking for something else: PM Pierre Elliot Trudeau smiling for the camera with a former Gov of Pennsylvania and a real estate developer and his wife at a Council of Churches of the City of New York prize gala in 1981. #cdnhist #cdnpoli (Source: @library-archives.canada.ca)

Inspired by Lahontan's Voyages? #cdnhist

Latest #vexillology #ephemera find: a Jan 1965 magazine with the new Cdn flag on the cover. Or a version thereof, and a curious one: not quite Alan Beddoe's Oct 1964 model, but same as the flag used by Lib MPs to celebrate in Dec 1964. A flag-maker's error? More in alt-text. #cdnhist

In 1894, @governmentofbc.bsky.social asked the Cdn govt to buy Point Roberts, allegedly a haven for unregulated fishing. Spoiler alert: nothing came of the request. (Welcome to Canada, @rubberduckmuseum.bsky.social!) #cdnhist #bchist #cdnpoli (Images: @library-archives.canada.ca)

In 1894, @governmentofbc.bsky.social asked the Cdn govt to buy Point Roberts, allegedly a haven for unregulated fishing. Spoiler alert: nothing came of the request. (Welcome to Canada, @rubberduckmuseum.bsky.social!) #cdnhist #bchist #cdnpoli (Images: @library-archives.canada.ca)

Latest #vexillology #ephemera find: a Jan 1965 magazine with the new Cdn flag on the cover. Or a version thereof, and a curious one: not quite Alan Beddoe's Oct 1964 model, but same as the flag used by Lib MPs to celebrate in Dec 1964. A flag-maker's error? More in alt-text. #cdnhist

Attention Canadian teachers (high school through grad school) of Bsky! It would be great to get some keen young historians on this council: #cdnhist

Good, I guess, to have something to maybe, perhaps, tentatively celebrate today, now the International Procrastination Day has been postponed... again....

Not gonna lie: I read the title of this as "wok-ification" rather than "woke-ification," and the prospect of the classic CBC cooking show "Wok with Yan" being featured in museums struck me as much more interesting than the actual premise of the article. #cdnhist #publichistory #museums #glams

Well worth a read - a welcome addition to the small-but-growing literature on provincial flags and emblems in Canada! #cdnhist #vexillology

Not gonna lie: I read the title of this as "wok-ification" rather than "woke-ification," and the prospect of the classic CBC cooking show "Wok with Yan" being featured in museums struck me as much more interesting than the actual premise of the article. #cdnhist #publichistory #museums #glams

Tired: Lions and tigers and bears. Wired: Unicorns and beavers and bison! (With some lions and bears for good measure...) #heraldry #cdnhist

#OTD in 1921, King George V proclaimed the Coat of Arms of Canada. Tho' the debate over its design was tame compared to the Flag Debate 40 yrs later, there were a few "also-rans". Imagine your passport with one of these! A 🧵(All images: @library-archives.canada.ca) #heraldry #vexillology #cdnhist

Spot the AI stock image!

Your saucy prospector content for the day! #cdnhist #bchist

Happy Douglas Day to those who celebrate! First marked in the 1920s and officialized by the Douglas Day Act, 1959 (at 9 words, BC's shortest provincial statute), in 2025 the day marks 167 years since the proclamation of the colony. If nets are your thing, party like Century Sam! #cdnhist #bchist

Pommes de terre julienned, jus and fécule coulis, unripened cow's milk cheese en graines....

Reading this neat piece, I remembered seeing the front page of a Vancouver newspaper about a similar (copycat?) stunt. And a quick search turned up that @tomhawthorn.bsky.social wrote about it! #cdnhist #bchist montecristomagazine.com/community/th...

A striking design: Per pale Sable and Argent an eye irradiated counterchanged? Or maybe "in splendour" sounds less clinical than "irradiated"? #vexillology #heraldry

Very nice - the Dionne Quints (avid vexillophiles all) would have approved! #vexillology #cdnhist

And the original reference I had in mind, in a journal of a 1941 trip to Greenland by Naomi Jackson Groves (art historian and niece of Group of 7 member A.Y. Jackson). A party at Nuuk with the Cdn vice-consul. #cdnhist #cdnpoli Groves, "My Greenland Caper," Northward Journal 31 (1983), p. 27

"First" consulate in Greenland? When this news broke, I remembered encountering a reference to a Canadian Consulate in Greenland in the 1940s - and the 1946 Canada Year Book confirms it. Now to figure out when (and why) the first one closed! #cdnhist #cdnpoli Canada Year Book, 1946, p. 88:

These are my colleagues on our small but mighty Exhibitions team @library-archives.canada.ca - it's a pleasure and an honour to work with such clever and talented people! #cdnhist

Sensing a certain theme among the flags of the various Vancouvers... #vexillology (Left: City of Vancouver, BC; Right: District of North Vancouver, BC)

Remembering Able Seaman Anthony John Kishkan, Royal Canadian Navy, and Lance Sergeant Benjamin Pass, No. 7 Movement Control Group, Royal Engineers. Antifa then, Antifa now, Antifa always.

Remembering Able Seaman Anthony John Kishkan, Royal Canadian Navy, and Lance Sergeant Benjamin Pass, No. 7 Movement Control Group, Royal Engineers. Antifa then, Antifa now, Antifa always.

As a grad student, I pestered the poor guy who played cover songs at the UWO Grad Club until he added "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" to his rotation. Not sure if he still plays it - anyone, @westernupubhist.bsky.social, @westernuhistory.bsky.social? #cdnhist

Sam Slick the Salesman: "Arriving at the farmhouse of Deacon Flint, Sam decides to sell his last clock, which the Squire describes as 'a gawdy, highly varnished, trumpery-looking affair.'" Thanks Thomas Haliburton (1796-1865) for the mot juste. #cdnhist #nshist #canlit Illustration: C.W. Jefferys

Sam Slick the Salesman: "Arriving at the farmhouse of Deacon Flint, Sam decides to sell his last clock, which the Squire describes as 'a gawdy, highly varnished, trumpery-looking affair.'" Thanks Thomas Haliburton (1796-1865) for the mot juste. #cdnhist #nshist #canlit Illustration: C.W. Jefferys

On a dark desert highway Cold command in the sneer Vast and trunkless legs of stone Rising from the sand ne-e-ear.. Up ahead in the distance Saw a pedestal grey Words graven 'round the base Thought I saw them say Welcome to the Hotel Ozymandias Such a lovely place, such a shattered face...

Of course it is: it was designed by a Canadian 😉 ! #vexillology #cdnhist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace...