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.

One of my favorite things to consider is that the pigeons we see in cities are abandoned information infrastructure

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

"UBCIC holds in our hearts Le Estcwicwéy̓, the missing, whose lives were lost at Indian Residential Schools and their families who mourn them. We stand firmly with survivors" www.ubcic.bc.ca/4th_annivers...

Sandy Beach, Percé Charles Comfort 1977

#OtD 22 May 1968 footballers in Paris occupied the French Football Association headquarters declaring "Football to the Footballers." They issued a statement demanding the immediate dismissal of football "profiteers" and for football without profits shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Montreal After Dark by Matthieu Caron explores how control over the night remained a persistent obstacle to Montreal’s ambitions during the second half of the twentieth century. Out now! buff.ly/kJuFPKG

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

Super happy to see that John Gilmore's new oral history infused book is now out. John is a longtime community affiliate of COHDS and is a great jazz historian.

On #InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfRacialDiscrimination , we reaffirm our commitment to fighting systemic racism and supporting Indigenous rights. Together, we can build a future rooted in justice, equality, and respect for all #fightracism #IDERD

Please share widely! SFU Urban Studies @sfuurb.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!

Where Night Falls First Mike Fantuz 2024

Excited to present my research at UBC this May! Looking forward to sharing my work and learning from an incredible lineup of speakers.

En perte de vitesse il y a 15 ans, boîtes, clubs et bars parisiens, de plus en plus nombreux, ont su se réinventer pour faire de Paris le nouveau phare des fêtards en Europe. L'édito dans Libé ce week-end :

Hm. @apnews.com design flaw or perfection?

Maîtres chez nous (2025)

ICYMI: Ellen Gabriel was featured in a special episode of APTN’s Face to Face about our new book, When the Pine Needles Fall, what’s changed since the 1990 Mohawk Resistance, and Ellen’s continued love for the land and hope for the decolonial future: www.aptnnews.ca/facetoface/e...

New @sfucity.bsky.social Workshop "Indigenous City: Responsibility & Relationality in City Making" with Kamala Todd In this era of truth + reconciliation & UNDRIP, what can cities do & what are the policies + tools for this work Thurs May 8 + 15 | 1pm PST | Online | www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...

Montreal After Dark by Matthieu Caron looks at how control over the night remained a persistent obstacle to Montreal’s ambitions during the second half of the twentieth century. Out in May: https://buff.ly/40hEZVK Check out the rest of the bookies: https://buff.ly/3PYqwtf

A Clear Winter Arthur Lismer 1916

Our Spring/Summer 2025 catalogue has dropped! Check out our featured titles: https://buff.ly/3W6ShD1 Download the PDF: https://buff.ly/4fp82fx

Mike Davis in 1998: "Two kinds of Californians will continue to live with fire: those who can afford (with indirect public subsidies) to rebuild and those who can’t afford to live anywhere else." longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...

how does public health influence the creation of public landscapes? our latest blogpost recaps on the ideas and collections explored during the 2024 Friends of the Landscape Archive at Reading (FOLAR) conference, held here in November merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/01...

Excited to see my book inside the @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social Spring / Summer 2025 catalogue!

Voici un appel à communications pour un colloque organisé à l'occasion du 50e anniversaire de l'importante revue scientifique canadienne Labour / Le travail. Faites parvenir votre proposition ici: forms.gle/tBaf5uz6fzMo...

Quand certains auront fini de nous emberlificoter avec des considérations vaseuses sur les «wokes» et autres bonhomme Sept-Heures, au nom d’une guerre culturelle qui détourne l’attention de la guerre des classes, il faudrait bien se demander qui, en vérité, s’affaire à saigner nos sociétés

Frantz Fanon died on December 6, 1961, at the age of 36.

New paper with Ian Keay shows that taller Indigenous men in 19th century British Columbia were more likely to be incarcerated. This tendency, which strengthened over 1864-1913, is surprising b/c most historical studies find that shorter men were more likely to be imprisoned. doi.org/10.1016/j.eh...

The notorious fruit police in action, and the great @benbradleyca.bsky.social offering insight into the fruitlegging industry.