#JamesBarryDiary 23/12/1875 Soft this morning and all day and some rain. Went to Pictou today in the waggon and we bought a lot of things. I bought Cunningham a bottle of rum and paid $0.30 for his [Presbyterian] Record and one for myself. I also paid $1.25 for the [Halifax] Citizen all for 1876.

Some great job postings at Dalhousie University -Tier 2 CRC in Indigenous Prosperity -Program Specialist - Francophone, The Black Health Education Collaborative -Postdoc: Black [Queer] Health Studies -Canada Impact+ Research Chair // Emerging Leader -CRC, VPRI Office csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

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The Stillness of Winter Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2025

Study of a Hare in Winter Clarence Gagnon 1922

Winter Lights Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian 2024

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#JamesBarryDiary 22/12/1875 It blew and all last night heavy indeed and rained a heavy shower also. Cunningham was attending mill and kiln, but there was not much to do only 2 grists of Oats and 1 of wheat and a little barley came in. I was in the shop repairing some old books. All middling well.

Detail from the Art Nouveau gesso panels by Glasgow School artist Margaret Macdonald, c.1907 #WomensArt ❄️ hunterian.blog/margaret-mac...

#OTD (Sat, Dec 22) 1917 on holidays in #Barrie, ON: "Trains were crowded with school marms, etc., returning for holidays. I went down this evening & met Col. MacLaren, late O.C., 157 Batt’n, returning from overseas. He looked much aged by his experiences in France & England." @csnrec.bsky.social

Anthropologica Vol. 67 No. 2 (2025) An Anthropological Lens on End-of-life Transitions and Liminality published!! cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an... @alexandrinebf.bsky.social

Anthropologica Le volume 67, no. 2 est publié!! Transitions et liminalité en fin de vie : Perspectives anthropologiques cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an... @alexandrinebf.bsky.social

If anyone out there wants to explore this avalanche database and write a blog post about it! Let us know! Our Guidelines for Contributors: niche-canada.org/guidelines-f... #envhist #cdnhist

Today’s post, by Ella Prisco, is the first of a two part series exploring working women and the Winnipeg General Strike.

Aaron Boyes and Sean Graham offer their ‘two cents’ on 1925 for their annual Year in Review (100 Years Later) series!

Call for Papers - Comparative Borders Student Conference (formerly Crossing Borders) - Brock University, March 2026 Deadline for Abstracts – February 17, 2026 csn-rec.ca/conferences-... @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social

#JamesBarryDiary 21/12/1875 A pretty cold night last, and this day was milder than yesterday but still cold. I was grinding most of the forenoon; and doing some things at the bookbindery in the afternoon. Geo. Graham was here for dinner. Johnny McLeod's boys hawled me 18 bushel of coal this evening.

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#OTD (Mon, Dec 19) 1921 in #AlgonquinPark: "Afternoon, I met trains & went to Brûlé Lake on train. Attended the Brûlé Lake Xmas tree filling the role as Santa Claus. A most enjoyable evening was spent. I am glad I went." @nichecanada.bsky.social @csnrec.bsky.social

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#OTD (Mon, Dec 18) 1922 - Acting Sup't at #AlgonquinPark HQ: "Ranger James Shields had a narrow escape from drowning, having went through the ice when following up poachers. I sent Ranger Holmberg to Whitney on a late train to follow up the poachers." @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

#JamesBarryDiary 17/12/1875 Snowed a little last night and a little today. The doctor's books away to Glasgow today. Binding came to $20. The “animal” went to the Salt Springs store for some things today with the “cratur” – David Ritchie's wife [i.e. Barbara, Barry's former housekeeper].

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#OTD (Fri, Dec 18) 1908 at #JoeLake, #AlgonquinPark: "At shelter house cooking, making bullets, etc., preparing to go home to see the dear ones. Toward evening, I decided to go home on evening train." @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

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Revelation Tracey Metallic ~ Mi'kmaq 2018

Blue Ice Lake Wonish Anne Savage 1935

The Red Sleigh Sarah Robertson c. 1924

#JamesBarryDiary 16/12/1875 Froze pretty hard last night and freezing a little all day. Some few blinks of sun now and then. It was indeed a wintery looking day. Cunningham attending mill and kiln and myself in the bookbindery, binding old books for some folks here and there. All pretty well. Amen.

More epic-scale snow drawing created by artist Sonja Hinrichsen #womensart #ArtAdvent

This is such a good idea, especially for walkers & cyclists, who also take the bus when the weather goes south.

Some great jobs posted on the University of Alberta career page this week: csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

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#OTD (Wed, Dec 16) 1917 at #JoeLake, #AlgonquinPark: "36° below zero [-38°C] this morning. ...I baked bread. This isn’t the rule…& was done so as not to be out on Monday." @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

Today we have "On Drought, Dowsing, and Deep Drilling: Thinking About Groundwater History in an Age of Climate Emergency" by @forrestpass.bsky.social “When European settlers arrived in the region in the nineteenth century, they found the groundwater perplexing.” niche-canada.org/2025/11/28/o...

« Pour rendre ces terres cultivables, les Acadiens créèrent un réseau élaboré de digues dont la caractéristique particulière était ces canaux appelés aboiteaux. » - Ronald Rudin niche-canada.org/2015/03/30/l... #envhist #cdnhist #wetlands #coastalhistory

#JamesBarryDiary 15/12/1875 Somewhat wintery but not frosty to any extent. Very little snow on the ground and there is good sleighing here. Ian Ross sold his land today here to one David Munro, for $190. Tom horn, Esq’r, auctioneer. Cunningham attending mill and kiln and myself in the bindery.

#JamesBarryDiary 12/12/1875 Another beautiful soft day. The ice is going off fast indeed, still there is sledding here away still. I was in the Bookbindery, working at Dr Fraser's (Downie) medical books. I gave Fred $5.00. All middling well. I have some of the cold still.

#OTD (Wed, Dec 12) 1917 at #JoeLake, #AlgonquinPark: "25° below zero [-32°C] this morning. Had a letter from my bro., Wesley, from Halifax. He reports himself as safe & well. -28° [F] at 10 p.m." NOTE: Wesley was shipboard during explosion. @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

Carol F. Lee explores the life of her mother, Mary Quan, and her experience of dual Canadian and Chinese identity.

"The Land Kept Teaching: Climate, Survivance, & Residential Schooling in Inuuvik, Northwest Territories" by Crystal Gail Fraser is the latest in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education, edited by Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/09/t...

The Wild Pigs of Canada - A Rapidly Expanding Invasive Species with a Big Impact www.youtube.com/watch?v=23vJ... #envhist #aghist #animalhistory #saskatchewan

Such a great review that covers and critiques my entire book. The insights are worth reflecting on for current and future histories of the Cold War sciences in Canada and beyond. Thanks very much for the platform @nichecanada.bsky.social and the review @tinaadcock.bsky.social

#JamesBarryDiary 12/12/1875 Still mild and warm and nice, and calm. Some little grains of snow falling in the evening. All well, God be forever blessed.

Call for Book Chapter: WOMEN & BODY by Maurer Press Abstract submission deadline: 30 January 2025 csn-rec.ca/conferences-...

"I am the light of happiness and I am a dancing owl" Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuk artist #womensart

Call for Papers: Cultures of Waste: Military and Corporate Complexes, Oxford Intersections csn-rec.ca/conferences-...

TransCanadian Networks Online Seminar Series: Amanda Ricci: "At the Heart of the City: A History of the Garment Industry in Montreal in the 1930s" Thursday, December 11th csn-rec.ca/news/81437-t... @robartscentre.bsky.social