Alisha Stranges and Elspeth H. Brown use oral testimonies to explore the September 2000 police raid of the Pussy Palace. Make sure to check out the entire Pussy Palace Oral History series!

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...

I’ll be presenting Montreal After Dark at the @utoronto.ca on March 11, 1-3 PM (Sidney Smith 2098). Then at @mcgill.ca on March 17, as noted here. Very much looking forward to the conversations.

Congratulations to Matthieu Caron for being named a Finalist for the 2025 Wilson Book Prize! Montreal After Dark examines how control over the night remained a persistent obstacle to Montreal’s ambitions during the second half of the twentieth century. buff.ly/RmRRqOq

On the blog we share an open letter from the board of the Nova Scotia Women's History Society re. the decision of the NS government to close 12 of 28 provincial museum sites:

Nova Scotia is closing almost half of its museums. 12 museums - gone. This is your heritage being abandoned. Write to your MLA - and warn about the immeasurable harm this creates. Do something! www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

⚫ Le tromboniste, compositeur et chanteur new-yorkais d’origine portoricaine Willie Colón est mort à l’âge de 75 ans. Admiré par Bad Bunny, il a su mêler avec brio l’esprit de la fête et la critique politico-sociale.

Bio of the Day: Joseph Seraphim Fortes (1863–1922), shoeblack, bartender, porter, swimming instructor, and lifeguard. He came to #Vancouver in 1885 and was most famous for his work as a swimming instructor and lifeguard. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/forte...

Chronique | La ville gèle tandis que les finances brûlent.

Armoiries et autres énormités politiques : lp.ca/dok68Q?shari...

✨ Découvrez l’exposition 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 2 à la Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy jusqu’au 15 février. Elle met en valeur une sélection d’œuvres créées par Francine Saillant (CELAT) et Camille Courier, initialement présentées dans l’exposition 𝘝𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦́𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 (Paris, 2025). ℹ️ tinyurl.com/5n7we2vj

Concord Stalls Plan to Fill Its Hole in Vancouver's Heart via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Earliest known photograph of a snowman, ca. 1854, taken by Mary Dillwyn (most likely in Wales). The first image in our post collecting photographs of snowmen through history (1854–1950) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-snowmen/

Just released - the preliminary program for @deindustrialpol.bsky.social's June 18-20 conference in Montreal on "(Un)Just Transitions? Deindustrialization and the Environment." Check it out! deindustrialization.org/depot2025con...

I wrote a short piece for The Conversation on how nighttime governance converged with the expansion of police funding and powers in Montreal.

Québec exhorté à garder le cap sur l’ambition climatique. L’État québécois doit baser ses décisions sur les constats de «la science», dit le comité consultatif du gouvernement. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

« Ces maisons ont été des tremplins pour faire connaître et reconnaître qu’elles étaient des femmes articulées », des femmes de lettres, de cœur et de tête. »

Forgotten Toronto: How the city’s so-called morality police once waged war for ‘Toronto the Good’

Rappel : c’est cette semaine !

La nuit, tous les loups sont gris - Chronique de la Commission de toponymie du Québec toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/salle-de-...

ANALYSE | La constitution proposée par la CQ vient affaiblir la capacité des groupes minoritaires et marginalisés à invoquer la Charte des droits et libertés pour se défendre contre les abus des gouvernements. Un article de Francis Hébert-Bernier. pivot.quebec/2025/10... #polqc #polcan

Hâte de prendre part au colloque Streetstories | Histoires de rue (7–8 nov.), où j’aurai le plaisir de donner la conférence d’honneur. Un bel événement sur la ville, ses usages et ses imaginaires.

Raoul Peck vient de lancer un nouveau film: «Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5». Il faut le voir. Le titre est une référence à un passage de 1984, le célèbre livre de George Orwell. Ce film témoigne d’une intelligence rare du monde qui prend appui sur les écrits d’Orwell www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...

Some excellent evening listening: Matthieu Caron interviewed on the Witness to Yesterday podcast about Montreal After Dark: Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City.

We are thrilled to announce our new colloboration with The Metropole - @urbanhistorya.bsky.social - Urban and Environmental Dialogues Send us your proposals for this new urban #envhist series by 24 October! niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/c... #urbanhistory #urbanstudies #urban #envhum

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

Expo 86 trivia time. The U.S. pavilion focused on their space program, but the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded less than four months before Expo began The USSR's pavilion celebrated their nuclear industry, but the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred less than a week before Expo began.

Venez me voir la semaine prochaine ! Je serai à Montréal pour parler de Montreal After Dark. 16 sept. à 15h : Leacock 738, McGill University (en anglais) 18 sept. à 17h30 : Le Port de tête (Lancement & causerie avec Frédéric Mercure Jolette) 20 sept. à 14h : Salle Kondiaronk, Pointe-à-Callière

Les femmes et les communautés seront honorées sur le futur tronçon de la ligne bleue. montreal.ca/communiques-...

Imaginez pour un instant que votre quotidien vous amène à travailler dans des chambres fortes souterraines sécurisées. C'est le cas pour l'équipe des Archives centrales de la Ville de Montréal! Consultez le catalogue des archives et les documents numérisés sur archivesdemontreal.com

Join Matthieu Caron for a talk on his book, Montreal after Dark at McGill University on Tuesday 16 September at 3 PM! More details: buff.ly/wFpCjY6 Learn more about the event: buff.ly/heeSoIw

Over 50 years has gone by since Bruce Stewart took these photos of False Creek. Not much is recognizable now. Story and photos: evelazarus.com/false-creek-...

Connu comme l’un des principaux spécialistes de l’histoire intellectuelle du Québec francophone, Yvan Lamonde est décédé mardi à l’âge de 81 ans.

Hear that? It’s 2 a.m. You’re in bed. The sun hasn’t risen, but the robin has. It is 🎶-ing at an unnatural hour, waking you. If this has happened to you, you’re not alone. Artificial light is prompting birds to tweet for nearly an extra hour a day on average. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Read the rest here: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/mont... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Siege of Kanehsatà:ke: July 11, 1990. Check out this poster that Ellen Gabriel and did (featuring Ellen's original art work) that became the basis for our book When the Pine Needles Fall: graphichistorycollective.com/project/post...

#OtD 10 Jul 1985 the French intelligence service blew up the @Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, in a Aotearoa/NZ, killing Fernando Pereira, a photographer. The ship was headed to protest against French nuclear testing stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8208...

On this day in 1793, the Act Against Slavery was passed in Upper Canada. Originally meant to abolish slavery, it was watered down by slave-holding politicians. In the end, it just banned the importation of enslaved individuals and freed enslaved children when they turned 25.

I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: [email protected]

Moins de sorties ? La pandémie, l’économie et la santé redessinent les nuits de la génération Z. ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

3) The Ontario Science Centre was born in an era when provincial governments believed in providing facilities to awaken a sense of curiosity and wonder in children of all ages - a sense that our current government utterly lacks. www.tvo.org/article/plea...

Who needs Rome when you've got the Colosseum of books right outside your window. #VancouverPublicLibrary

Mort de Pierre Nora : «Il n’y a pas de grandes histoires sans grands éditeurs» Pour l’historien Romain Bertrand, l’académicien a surtout accompli un formidable travail chez Gallimard, symbole d’une époque faste pour les sciences sociales. Interview :

#OtD 3 Jun 1906 bisexual Black French resistance activist and performing artist Josephine Baker was born in St. Louis, MS. During WW2 she worked for the resistance, carrying messages and hiding weapons and Jews. Learn more in our new book, preorder here www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...

Athabasca Valley, Jasper Lawren Harris 1926

Le long métrage documentaire «Le pouvoir des archives» (2022), coréalisé par Hayley Gray et Elad Tzadok, met en lumière les archives des communautés de la Colombie-Britannique afin de révéler certains passages qui ont été gommés des dossiers officiels. www.onf.ca/film/le-pouv...

Mustaches get all the glory in old photos, but what about eyebrows? Feast your eyes on North Vancouver Councillor William Griffin—an unchallenged heavyweight in the history of bold brows.

Want to see just how chaotic the Gastown riot really was? This clip from the City of Vancouver Archives captures the brutality on the ground: 🔗 searcharchives.vancouver.ca/gastown-riot-2

Réinventer Montréal retrace les idées et les actions de trois urbanistes ayant œuvré à repenser le développement de Montréal dans les années 1960, à partir d’un examen de leurs archives personnelles et des plans et des documents d’urbanisme qu’ils ont réalisés. buff.ly/QoO4SH0