NEAR-EH, Halifax, July 10 and 11th. Be there. niche-canada.org/2026/03/03/c...

On the blog ... Claire Campbell discusses the recently shuttered Prescott House museum site, along with the cultivation of things not apple! acadiensis.wordpress...

What Tim Houston really said was that the arts matter less than military and industrial capital expenditure because Trump. Lest we forget the record tourism numbers of last year for the exact same reason, I guess.

Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum Call for Papers, Twelfth Annual Workshop Friday, July 10 and Saturday July 11, 2026 Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Deadline: April 24, 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/03/03/c... #envhist #cdnhist

Today I reactivated Atlantic Digital Scholarship, a project I began with Elizabeth Mancke in 2019 to support building research and community networks. I’m excited to bring the platform back, and to add new tools and databases including my ongoing work transcribing Saint John customs records!

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:

Event - On the Outside, Looking Out: Canada’s Rural Communities as Stewards of Landscape and the Land March 11 csn-rec.ca/news/83522-e...

Great short essay. I’ve been working on a transcription project for the Port of Saint John customs house, so seeing many parallels with NS. In 1788, 55 of the 88 non-British ships that sold cargo in SJ were from the US - all carrying foodstuffs.

CFP: Black 2026, part of the Still Here: Emancipation Celebration, 31 July-3 August 2026 See more at: acadiensis.wordpress...

"For both farmers and service industry workers, reliable winter transportation was paramount." - D. Bailey Clark niche-canada.org/2024/01/24/s... #envhist #cdnhist #winter #snow #PEI

REMINDER - Our open-access, peer-reviewed publication, Papers in Canadian History and Environment (PiCHE), is always accepting new abstract proposals. niche-canada.org/2026/02/20/c... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog

Between the NS Government closing certain museum locations for the sake of “modernization,” and the NB government considering significant reductions to support of heritage and tourism as part of its ongoing budget review - it’s been a rough month for Atlantic Canadian history!

The CHA's annual meeting program is now online! We are so excited, and hope to see you in Charlottetown in June. Stay tuned - registration opens next week. #cdnhist

Pleased to share that digitized copies of The Officers' Quarters are now available online. The OQ served as the official publication of the Fredericton Region Museum from 1985 to 2025, and offers short essays documenting the history of the city, region, and museum!

CFP Atlantic Canada Studies Conference From Harbour to Horizon: Recharting Atlantic Canada Studies Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from 3-5 June, 2026 The deadline for submission of proposals is December 19, 2025. csn-rec.ca/conferences-...

Happening tomorrow at the Fredericton Region Museum: Greg Sprague joins the FRM's speaker series to discuss how faculty at @discoverunb.bsky.social lead the institution and the country into the information age. All are welcome - admission by donation.

Historians that create personal database projects using only URL links to archival repositories and their online materials… import the reference information too. Internet URLs are not forever… Software becomes obsolete.

Lovely walk along the Nashwaak today with @richrray.bsky.social, fall colours are really coming in spectacularly.

Acadiensis is proud to announce a special forum on The Marshall Decision @ 25: Honouring the Future of Peace and Friendship Treaties. For more information click: acadiensis.wordpress...

I love the memories this post has generated in the comments. Did you grow up with dulce (edible seaweed) like I did? Thanks to @richrray.bsky.social for pulling some stories out of the archives for this fun piece!

New from me on @nichecanada.bsky.social: a very brief history of dulse in NB

We're Baaa-aack!! On the blog ... Michael Boudreau welcomes us to the 2025-2026 academic year with "'one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country': The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942":

Please check out the following Call for Contributors for The Oar: New Brunswick's Popular History Magazine.

First CfP for a new publication. Interested in writing New Brunswick history? Consider submitting a proposal for a short essay, and avoid the hell that is peer-review. Grad students highly encouraged! Please feel free to share.

Thanks @saraspike.bsky.social for sharing this incredible view with me today - a great place to chat about wildflowers, history, and dulse.

Job ad: history of healthcare and health equity, jointly at Dalhousie & University of King's College (tenure-stream, junior/mid-career): dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19481

From staying the blazes home to staying out of the woods in Nova Scotia. Also, accidental urn ban 😂

“Costume Magic” presents a runway of 1940s fashion - historic photographs from Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore come alive.

I was asked to write about my local section of the Trans Canada Trail. Here is my short essay called "Remembering the Blueberry Express," about rail to trail along the coast of Nova Scotia tctrail.ca/stories/reme... #envhist #cdnhist @transcanadatrail.bsky.social

You can’t spell “Charlottetown” without “CHA”! The CHA is thrilled to announce that its next Annual Meeting will be held June 1-3, 2026, in Charlottetown, PEI. We hope to see you there! Click the link for the full announcement. #cdnhist #CHA2026 #UPEI #Charlottetown

Busy “writing.”

ICYMI: @itsmayana.bsky.social wins the 2025 NiCHE Prize for her article “The Bare Island Bird Sanctuary and the Myth of Indigenous Consent: Land Theft and Conservation in British Columbia, 1912–16” in The Canadian Historical Review. niche-canada.org/2025/06/04/2... #envhist #cdnhist #bchistory

Delighted to announce that yesterday was publication day for *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North* 🥳 It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃 Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon... #cdnhist #envhist

I am so pleased to announce that the Elizabeth Mancke Fond is now available at the UNB archive. This collection does not yet contain her digital files, as we are still waiting for UNB School of Arts to provide those records, but all textual records are here: 7067.sydneyplus.com/archive/fina...

US military museums, often pet projects of the ultra-wealthy, purport to provide accurate depictions of war. But even the most clear-eyed exhibits are problematic, even deadly. “They put these things on an altar, like they’re sanctified. These are not toys, they are weapons."

And as various spring deadlines approach I find myself asking “have I perhaps over-committed?” A question past me apparently never foresaw 🤷🏻‍♂️

Collage Night at the Museum of Natural History! Explore botanical specimens & create art on May 28 from 6-9 pm with curators Sean Haughian & Brenna Frasier. #halisky naturalhistory.novascotia.ca/event/natura...

Things I will look forward to this week: 1) talking about plants and 2) talking to plants. Conferencing and gardening in a nutshell.

So excited to announce our conference on Gardens & Empires, with @englishheritage.bsky.social and the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June 2025, in person/online. Fantastic global speakers and panellists. Do come! Tickets £15-£40 in person; £5-£15 online. events.bl.uk/events/garde...

On the blog, Nicole Gilhuis revisits two 1726 piracy trials: acadiensis.wordpress...

Join us for the #Halifax launch of "Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement," by Dr. @clarkkazak.bsky.social of @uottawa.bsky.social. April 8, 4-6 pm in SH 324 and online: loom.ly/tbCgWNw. Hosted by #SMUSociology #SMUPoliticalScience and #SMUGlobalDevelopmentStudies.

On the blog, an excerpt from Anthony Dickinson and Chesley Sanger's piece about whaling, mink farming, and rural economic development in Newfoundland: acadiensis.wordpress...

The real difference between this stock market crash and the last few stock market crashes is our ability to experience it all together collectively online and I think that's beautiful.

The corrosive idea that research excellence resides mainly in the US Ivy League schools, while Canadian researchers are "good enough" drives me mad. Canadian universities produce world-class PhDs. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

The Gorsebrook Research Institute (GRI) for Atlantic Canada Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Gregory Kennedy for a public talk at SMU: “Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Solders of Canada’s First World War” For more info on how to attend, click the link: acadiensis.wordpress...

Just a quick trip home to the north side of Fredericton

There is no higher compliment I can think of for something I’ve written, I can assure you 🏴‍☠️⚓️

"[New Brunswick] recovered part of the costs by placing higher tariffs on American goods and wharfage fees for American ships." - @richrray.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2020/09/24/f... #envhist #cdnhist #coastalhistory

Zellers going under twice is a special kind of Canadian vibe.

"Fogs Love This Shore: Living with Fog in Atlantic Canada". That's the topic for Dr. Sara Spike's talk today at SMU for the GRI Lecture Series, presented by the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies. 2-4 pm in MN 219 and online; find the Zoom link at loom.ly/0RdpKms.