#JamesBarryDiary 28/9/1875 Rained considerable last night. There was just water enough to keep Mill going all day. I was grinding Buckwheat and drying Oats. Robert Elliott top dressed my field, north of the house and sewed some grass and Clover seed on it, and nearly finished the Harrowing.

28/9/1755 for want of Vessels am Greatly Mortifyed that we Loose Time. I have advise from Capt Lewis of the 25th Instant, that the Inhabitants of Cobequid have Entierly Deserted that Country and that he began to Burn and lay waste on the 23rd and Intended to Finish as This Day. #Winslow

#JamesBarryDiary 27/9/1875 Extremely windy last night and all this day. Robert Elliott and John Mackay was quarrying stones on John McKay's field near the mill for to be put into the Wharf by a frolic soon. A fearful quantity of stuff came into the mill today - Buckwheat, Oats, and Wheat.

26/9/1755 ... to beg your assistance that in Case any more men Should be wanting to Provide Cattle for the advancement of our Lunenburgh Settlements that what Ever you Should be Pleased to afford Mr. Joseph Gray at Pizequid, has Directions fully to reward them that you Think Proper. #Winslow

Canada was ‘instrumental’ in moving the High Seas Treaty forward, but hasn’t ratified the agreement. Until it does, the country with the longest coastline in the world will have limited opportunities to participate in treaty processes to protect international waters thenarwhal.ca/canada-high-...

#JamesBarryDiary 26/9/1875 Beautiful again. Somewhat cool in the evening, and some little wind. Still dry, and the water consequently is very low indeed. The “animal” is out to preaching to Salt Springs, and so is Dick. All well. God be praised.

#JamesBarryDiary 25/9/1875 Most beautiful day indeed. I and Josephine bought a lot of things: 1 barrel of sugar; 2 gallons rum; 1 grindstone; one keg of nails, some books and a vast variety of groceries and curiosities. We all got home about dark or so.

Bookstore Antiquariat Hatry mit Robeson.

#JamesBarryDiary 24/9/1875 Another very dry day and very windy in the evening. Water very low indeed. Great pile of buckwheat came in today. Received $9.60 from Alex’r Campbell, and $3 from John Creighton. Amen.

25/9/1755 Every moment. we have Some French Straglers from Chignecto up the old River Habitant, and Places adjatient, .... am Determind to Ship a Number More of the Inhabitants this Day .... am Exstreamly weak in men & Some of the French Say they will be Prisoners but a Little Longer #Winslow

Canadian-based The Metals Company (@themetalsco.bsky.social) is pushing to mine the deep sea. Canada must double-down to #StopDeepSeaMining and oppose the Mining Code that would open oceans to irreversible damage. @greenpeaceca.bsky.social Add your name: act.gp/3ZyPjcx

1/2 These lessons from educators targeted by right wing activists in the USA will be all too pertinent here if the media continues to air Reform’s propaganda so relentlessly. www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

#JamesBarryDiary 23/9/1875 Another beautiful day, sunny and complete. Very busy drawing and grinding as far as the water will permit – something over ½ a day.

23/9/1755 Incumbered with Many things I Steal a Moment to Let you Know, that Now have a Party at Halifax, a whale Boat at Chignecto, 50 men at Cobequid, 30 at Forte Edward, am Exstreamly weak in men, hope your Circumstances will admit of the return of the Party with you. #Winslow

#JamesBarryDiary 22/9/1875 Somewhat variable: cloudy, sunshine and rain. David Munro, Kenneth Ennis and Dan Sutherland here today and they moved my little house at the back of the kiln round to the front. Busy grinding. McIntyre's son and daughter called here today from the West Branch, River John.

22/9/1755 Camp at Grand Pre, Septembr 22nd 1755. Orders of the Day. Parole Boston. #Winslow

#JamesBarryDiary 21/9/1875 Beautiful day indeed, but fall-like. I was busy drying and grinding – lots of oats coming. Water low again. Can only grind about half a day. The “animal” was up about Roger’s Hill all night. Amen.

@1/9/1755 [with] the Storme Comeing on ... I Should be Glad Strict Enquiery might be made for those Persons that assisted the French women on shore which hapened in the First of the Evening before you went of, one of the women being now under the Doctrs hands, and her Life Precarious. #Winslow

#JamesBarryDiary 20/9/1875 Considerable of a fine day, but cloudy most of the time. I was very busy drying and grinding. Nothing new. Amen.*

20/9/1875 I Would Inform you that we have at this Place upwards of 300 Now in Custody. 230 of which have been Embarked this Ten Days they and Families amounting to full 2000 People Exclusive of Cobequid & Piziquid to the 1st of which Place we have sent a Party to Bring in the People ... #Winslow 1/

#JamesBarryDiary 19/9/1875 Dark and dull all day, but no rain. Raining some last night. Water something better this morning. Sacrament at Gairloch, and “animal” is off this morning to it, but by what means I do not know. All well. Amen. Amen.

19/9/1875 Should have been pleasd to have reced Some Provissions as I am Incumbered with many Trantient Parties, besides my own Core and have upwards of Five Hundred French men which with their Familys amount to 2000 Persons. #Winslow /1

Had fun yesterday exploring a Facebook post that claims 18th-century Bay of Fundy millers utilised the tides to power their mills. It's hard to overstate how silly this is, but here we are.

Today @richrray.bsky.social shares a brief history of dulce in in New Brunswick. "Dark Harbour ... emerged as the dulse capital of the world, an industry likewise made possible by its unique geography and the Fundy tides." niche-canada.org/2025/09/18/t... #envhist #coastalhistory #cdnhist

The Marshall Decision, 25 years on: a discussion in @acadiensis.bsky.social

A Palestinian film about a little boy won an award and Israel cut off the funds immediately. Meanwhile we are subjected to whiny articles about how unfair it is to boycott Israeli films, academics, artists. This is about standing up to genocide. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

#JamesBarryDiary 18/9/1875 Some little sunshine and some little rain in the evening, and after dark with a big blow of wind from the West. I was busy in the mill most of the day and after nightfall. John Heron plowing my west field today – cost $2.50. All well. God be praised forevermore. Amen.

18/9/1755 Persuant to your orders We have Examined the within named Thomas Moor and have found him Guilty of the Crime alledged and Sentence the sd Moor to Set upon the wooden horse Three Quarters of an Hour. Sentence Confirmed & Orderd to be put in Execution at the Relief of the Gaurds. #Winslow

Come see me this Fall! I'll be around the HRM! - Book Launch w/ @benjaminwrites.bsky.social & @kingsbookstore.bsky.social - Booktober @writersfedofns.bsky.social - Book signings at the HSC Coles & Chapters Dartmouth - Tuesday Talk @ the Maritime Museum @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social #halifax

#JamesBarryDiary 17/9/1875 1875 Dark all day and a small quantity of rain in the evening. I can only grind ½ a day. A large quantity of Buckwheat and other stuff came in today. No one here to work but myself, and I am bully.

17/09/1755. They were Greatly Struck at this Determination, thoh I believe they did not then Nor to this Day do Imagine that they are Actually to be removed. where Verry Disierous to have a Small number to remain as Hostages for the rest, which I informed them I Could Not Grante, #Winslow 1/

University of New Brunswick - Department of Historical Studies MA Fellowship Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time The application deadline is December 15, 2025. csn-rec.ca/student-zone... #cdnhist @acsc-unb.bsky.social @robartscentre.bsky.social

Yesterday, presented to Mannheim University Historisches Institut some early findings on Acadian and Mi'kmaq resource use in 18th-century Isle Saint-Jean. Suggestive evidence on mobility, the nature of the resources, settlement patterns, and continued use all suggest on-going negotiation of space.

Acadiensis - “one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country”: The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942 csn-rec.ca/news/80136-a... @acadiensis.bsky.social #cdnhist

#JamesBarryDiary 16/9/1875 Fine all the forenoon, but the afternoon was dark and threatening rain, and likely it will rain tonight. I was grinding some most of the forenoon and the most of the afternoon I was putting in a new gate and bulkhead in the grist mill floom. I was all [rotten].

16/9/1755 In obedience to the within warrant Subscribers have assembled and Sent for the Prisoners, upon Examanation do Finde Simon Blood & Ephraim Parker to be Guilty of the Crime aledged against them, and do award them Thirty Lashes apiece well Lade on. Finde Jonathan Gould Not Guilty. #Winslow

#JamesBarryDiary 15/9/1875 Another most beautiful day – sunny and complete. I was drying and grinding. Water somewhat low – can only grind half a day. I was also doing some bookbinding. All well. God be praised.

15/9/1875 A Court Martial to be held this Morning for the Tryal of Simon Bloode of Lievt Colo Winslows Company & Ephraim Parker of Capt Hobbs Company for Stealing from the French Last Night Twenty one Dunghil Fowles #Winslow

#JamesBarryDiary 14/9/1875 A beautiful day indeed, sunny all day. I dried and ground 24 bushels of barley into pig feed. All well. Amen. Amen.

14/9/1875 Grand Pre Camp, Orders of the Day. Parole Beavers Hamlet. Fifty men to be Employed tomorrow in Securing the Graine. a Serjant and ten men to attend them by way of Gaurd and all to be under the Inspection of an officer the men to Get their Brakefast Early both Labourers & Gaurd. #Winslow

#JamesBarryDiary 13/9/1875 Dark mostly all day and in the latter part of the afternoon it rained considerable. I ground some Buckwheat and dried and ground one grist of Oats. All in health, thank the giver of all good.

13/9/1755 ... no Party or Person will be admitted to go out after Calling the roll as many bad thing have been done Lately, in the night Season to the Distresed French Inhabitants in this Neighborhood and ... are not to Suffer the men to Intermeddle with the French or their Effects. #Winslow

#JamesBarryDiary 12/9/1875 Beautiful day again, but it is quite evident that the fall is coming on us. The evenings and mornings are quite cool now, and the leaves of some of the willows about the house is beginning to fall. All right. Come on winter.

12/9/1755 Petition to John Winslow representing the Evils which Seams to threaten them on all Sides Obliges them to beg your Protection on their behalf and that you will Interced with his Majesty to Consider those who have Invioblay Kept the Fidelity and Submition Promised to his Majesty #Winslow

Heading south again after the very successful Bookselling as Resistance Conference here in Münster. Lots of great digital projects, including Sara Pyke’s Seized Books site.

#JamesBarryDiary 11/9/1875 Beautiful day indeed. Very busy grinding and no mistake, and I keep the mill just clear. Water something better than yesterday. Sold buck bran, buck flour and oatmeal today. I put a window in my little shop to[o], So I was so busy in the mill, the middle one in the front.

11/9/1755 I ordered of under a Gaurd Commanded by Capt Osgood 80 non Commission officers and Private men, who marched of them, but when he Came to put them on board the Vessels Found them but 89 Instead of 109. So that the Number Embarqued Was but 230 and Thus Ended this Troblesome Jobb. #Winslow

#JamesBarryDiary 10/9/1875 Dark most of the day and heavy rain the latter half of the afternoon. I was busy grinding, but the water would do no more this day. Sent $4 to McLean by George Sutherland this evening to go down tomorrow. No drying today. Nothing new under the sun here. All well.