#JamesBarryDiary 29/12/1875 Froze some last night again and a little all day in the shade, for the sun was melting away the ice in warm places. Cunningham in the mill and kiln, and myself bookbinding. All peace and quietness around. Some folks coming to the mill now. Amen

#JamesBarryDiary 28/12/1875 Pretty hard frost last night, but this day it was sunny and fine, although a little frosty. No snow on the ground only ice, no sledding now. Cunningham in the mill and kiln and myself bookbinding and making Brass letters. All hands are ordinary well. God be praised. Amen.

#JamesBarryDiary 27/12/1875 Rained last night considerable and some little this day, but near night it commenced to freeze a little; and now, a good spell after nightfall, it is blowing but not much frost. Cunningham attending mill and kiln, and a lot of oats and wheat coming in.

#JamesBarryDiary 26/12/1875 A very nice day; not much frost at all. No snow on the ground, but the surface is generally covered with ice, and is very dangerous to walk on. The highland men went to preaching in a small degree, and the “animal” amongst them, as ignorant a highlandman as any of them.

#JamesBarryDiary 25/12/1875 Christmas Day has come and gone once more! Well, well. A considerable of a cold day it was; some spits of snow, but it did not amount to anything. Cunningham attending mill and kiln half a day and then went home for his Christmas. We had a Turkey for dinner. Amen.

#JamesBarryDiary 24/12/1875 Froze pretty hard this morning and all this day. Terrible slippery going altogether. All the ground covered with ice. Cunningham attending mill and kiln, and myself bookbinding. All well. Amen. Amen.

We have about six ornaments from my paternal grandparents ca 1950. They’re faded but beautiful. Merry Christmas to all.

#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.

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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.

As the Red Ensign and variants appear prominently in this group's display, it seems a good time to reshare my brief history of the Ensign's use by extremists. British Israelism, fluoride, and the Rothschilds - oh my! #cdnhist #vexillology #cdnpoli activehistory.ca/blog/2023/02...

I dunno, JD--you're kinda making it so I do

#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.

#JamesBarryDiary 20/12/1875 Coldest day that came this winter or night, rather – 16° below zero. The day was clear and complete, but very cold. Calm. I was attending the mill and kiln all day. Cunningham was not here. Willie Ban came in this evening to see if I wanted to go to Pictou this week.

#JamesBarryDiary 19/12/1875 Froze very hard last night indeed and all this day. I was down in the little shop most of the day, reading and looking round amongst my many curiosities. The “animal” went to Salt Springs to some kind of preaching, but it doesn't seem to do anybody any good.

A very Canadian story.

The Sistine Chapel of the New Deal. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

#JamesBarryDiary 18/12/1875 A blustering day, but not much frost. Folks say that there is some banks in particular places. Cunningham attending kiln and mill and myself bookbinding. Finished all the books in the shop except my own. Gave Cunningham $1 and lent him one of Spurgeon's books.

To round out our fiftieth anniversary year, we are sharing some video content from our fiftieth anniversary exhibit. See A View from the Past, A Vision for the Future at the Amherstburg Freedom Museum through January 2026. Here's to the next fifty years! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZb...

#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].

#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.

🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

«le caractère laconique &catégorique du jugement est décevant. La décision Drapeau repose sur sa conclusion q le titre de propr. privée des soc. forestières ne pourrait co-exister avc reconnaissance du titre ancestral Wolastoqey. Cette affirmation sans nuance semble ignorer développements ds domaine

#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.

« 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

Happy to have been able to circle back to this research (@medievalpenguin.bsky.social will recognize it!) in the context of this summer's droughts and resulting dry wells. #cdnhist #envhist

Today is the 300th anniversary of the signing of the 1725 Peace and Friendship Treaties in Boston by leaders of the Penobscot (acting as representatives of the Wabanaki Confederacy) and the British colonies of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts

New Comment: "Tell the Gov. of DC that USA has enough land so get lost!" - Edna Knight niche-canada.org/2020/08/20/o... #envhist #cdnhist #coastalhistory #uscanadaborder

#JamesBarryDiary 14/12/1875 [in the chaos that has been our return from Germany and the quick sprint to Winnipeg, I have been wrong every day of the diary for the past eight days in a row, so tonight in an effort to get back on track you read this!]

When the lovely Sobeys fish monger tosses in a few extra. 🎉🙏

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

#Mabou news

#JamesBarryDiary 14/12/1875 Froze a little last night and snow to some and blowed a lot and continues to blow all day and is still at it. Cunningham attending mill and kiln and myself in the bookbinding shop. Finished Dr. Fraser's books. I fixed up my new grindstone in the gristmill. All well. Amen.

#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.

#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.

A festive post on the site today! Read our editor, @historiamagoria.bsky.social, on "Augmenting Christmas: Artificial Trees and the Lure of Perpetual Nature." niche-canada.org/2025/12/11/a... #envhist #christmas #trees #plastics

The closest historical parallel to this kind of far right, treasonous poison in a mainstream stream British newspaper?

Tell me how this isn’t fascistic.

#JamesBarryDiary 09/12/1875 Snowed a little last night — ¼ of an inch ! This day was soft and calm, some fine sunshine also — complete. Cunninghams attending the mill and kiln. Not much coming in these few days; still he is preparing to keep him agoing — no wheat & one Barley. All middling well.

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We all choose the company we keep.

«A “hallmark paper” arguing glyphosate isn’t carcinogenic has been retracted by peer-reviewed journal Regulatory Toxicology & Pharmacology, 25 yrs after publication over concerns Monsanto may have partially ghostwritten it & its listed authors “may have received financial compensatn».

#JamesBarryDiary 10/12/1875 Another soft day and a fine dry indeed. Ice and snow melting away fast, but we will soon have frost and snow. I was Bookbinding all day and Cunningham attending mill and kiln. Dan McCall was here this evening in my bindery, and he wanted to play the fiddle, but I did not.

#JamesBarryDiary 8/12/1875 Another of the same — very pleasant day. No sunshine but mild. I was Bookbinding part of the day and working about the grist mill the rest of it, putting up the stove behind the wheel, and putting some buckets in the wheel and boarding up behind the wheel outside the mill.

"The Aqueduct was and remains a monument to colonial modernity. Designed by clever men with letters after their name, many of them American, the Aqueduct brought good drinking water to Winnipeg..." - @adeleperry.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2017/10/23/w... #envhist #cdnhist #water #colonialism

#JamesBarryDiary 7/12/1875 About the same as yesterday, not much frost, cloudy, looks as if it would snow sometime, not far hence. Cunningham attending mill and kiln. John McLean, Butcher, came here this afternoon and Killed my two pigs. They weighed 128 and 161 lbs at 7cts/lb = $19.88

#JamesBarryDiary 6/12/1875 Something milder, snowed about ¼ of an inch last night and I think the ice like a burr to a sheep’s tail. I was in the blacksmith’s shop most part of forenoon. Cunningham in the mill and kiln, and he is to dry oats tonight for which I paid him 25 cts. Bookbinding PM. Amen.

"[Shelley Denny, Mi'kmaq biologist from Potlotek] advocates for international co-ordination in managing the species, as it crosses international waters to spawn in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda." #Mikmaki #KitiganZibi #CDNpoli #Eels #Elvers #Fisheries

I remember December 6th 1989 very well. It was a day that looked very much like today, friends had gathered to see off our friend Melissa Calaresu on her grand adventure to Cambridge when news arrived of something horrific. A moment, solemn, sad, angry faces. We must all remember.

Wait, they’re recruiting in Canada?!?!