Cool. Via Rail got worse by shuffling their schedule. Just found out I can no longer travel from Québec City to Northern Ontario anymore because trains no longer align and so I'd have to spend ungodly amounts of money on a hotel in Toronto during FIFA. Goodbye vacation plans to visit home. *sigh*

When you're a serious historian stumbling on a familiar name... #Starwars #ColonialHistory

Linguistic flash of the day. I kept wondering why 18th century French sources keep spelling "Bastonnais" instead of "Bostonnais". Then it hit me: they're transcribing the Boston accent. #boston #NewFrance #NouvelleFrance

Mon petit dernier dans le Journal de Québec! www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/03/22/l...

J'avais besoin d'exorciser mes pensées au sujet d'IA dans le monde universitaire. J'ai donc écrit un long billet de blogue à ce sujet. #AI #IA curieusenouvellefrance.blogspot.com/2026/03/plai...

Pierre Poilievre has been MIA. The PM is travelling the world to meet allies. Conservative backbencher Jamil Jivani is telling MAGA media Canadians are having a "hissy fit" over threats to our sovereignty. Where's Pierre? He's working on his abs. Not serious this guy. Not serious.

Je suis en train de fouiller pour identifier un particulier en Nouvelle-France. Je tombe sur ça: "Le 8 mai 1670 c’est la visite du coffre du chirurgien major Guillaume De LOL du navire le Saint-Pierre."

I confirm.

Mon petit dernier de l'année pour mon blogue: curieusenouvellefrance.blogspot.com/2025/12/dang...

In today's digital age where copyists are no longer strapped to a table to handle ungodly amounts of physical type characters, the latinism op. cit. needs to die. There, I said it.

La Revue d'histoire de la Nouvelle-France m'a interviewé! #NouvelleFrance #Histoire www.rhnf.ca/s/stories/la...

Histoire de l'Halloween au Québec: www.journaldequebec.com/2023/10/29/l... #Halloween #Québec #Canada #Quebec #Citrouilles #Écossais

"Les manchettes d'aujourd'hui sont n'importe quoi. Dans le bon vieux temps, on parlait des vraies affaires" Les manchettes du bon vieux temps:

Question for anyone into #Culloden ( @jennscott1485.bsky.social or otherwise): If I'm a visiting historian in Edinburg, what's a good recommendation on how to visit Culloden? Tour group? Bus? I want to visit the visitor center and not just rush.

Q. Why does Marie Antoinette look a bit grim-faced? A. Because it's Bastille Day. Holiday in France today to commemorate the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 in the French Revolution.

In a moviescape poisoned by rampant cynicism, the new Superman is a breath of fresh air. The hopeful legacy of the Reeves' version is back!

I can't get enough of his little dance.

Making new business cards. Thank god for my last minute proofreading: apparently you CAN misspell Ph. D. (for the curious: I wrote Phd. D.)

My Lilo & Stitch review Original L&S animated movie > L&S Remake > All the other Disney remakes. Now, can Disney finally get back to original programming?

Quand je dis que l'i.a. nous abrutis, c'est pas des farces.

À quoi ressemblent mes étudiants quand je les oblige d'aller à la bibliothèque et de lâcher l'internet deux secondes en consultant "des antiquités"...

I never tire of the dignified poetry of Welle's observations on mankind. "Go on singing. Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much." youtu.be/p67d9F9nW2Y?...

Help. I have the theme from Brazil stuck in my head. What does it mean. youtu.be/BEhPQBMxLfA?...

Jackie Smith de nouveau candidate à la mairie de Québec: «crinquée comme jamais» pour la mobilité et l’environnement (@vdesbiensjdq.bsky.social)

so basically all copyrights and patents in the US are void because whatever comes out of that AI will be infringing on anything and everything that has ever been sent

I thought the goal of all my years spent mastering paleography was to teach students how to read old writing, not to help me read theirs... #gradingtime

I am severely disappointed. I was having lunch with a paleontologist friend. She goes on and on about mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. I leaned in, eyes narrowed, and asked: "BUT have you found a magical liopleurodon?" "No." she replied most seriously. Feels like I wasted a kidney.

Because of Trump’s firings and gutting of federal agencies, the Congressionally-appointed U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission now lacks representation from NEA, NEH, IMLS, National Archives, and the LOC. Along with all the new cabinet agencies on the Commission. It’s about controlling 250.

The thing about the 17th century being current, is that you never want the 17th century to be current. * cough * tariffs *cough*

I don't know what disturbs me more: this t-shirt, or the fact that I get all the references from years of visiting Chicago 🤣

Nerd confession: I can only remember Leo XIV's name by associating the name to Louis XIV + Leo the lion.

New Pope. Who dis?

Whenever I travel in the U.S., I take unhealthy pleasure in convincing as many Americans as possible that because we use the metric system, Canada has 25 hours in a day; each Canadian hour has 50 minutes, thus accounting for the extra hour. Never. Been. Called. Out. It's goddamn hilarious.

Good morning, Bluesky.

And you may find yourself living in a thatched-roof hut And you may find yourself living in the Holy Roman Empire And you may find yourself negotiating with your lords And you may find yourself in a beautiful hall, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Ahhh nuts. Talk about irony: I'm dipping into Montreal tomorrow, but had no clue the amazing @profaliceroberts.bsky.social will be giving a talk there the very moment I'm heading back home! If you're in Montreal, don't miss out!

Sounds like an apt metaphor.

WUT

Welp, my personal Boston Tea Party moment has arrived: my stash of American tea just ran out tonight because I haven't ordered more since the start of the boycott.

Oy, Canada, don't forget to vote.

Me, writing an article on the 1775 American invasion of Canada: "Don't be political. Don't be political. Don't be political." Last line of the conclusion: "Totally political." Oops.

I CAN'T EVEN WITH THIS HAMMERHEAD SHARK #bestiary #weirdfish #weirdhistory #alienbubbleeyedmonstrosity #BAnQ #ANQc Detail from map of America, by Jodocus Hondius, 1606. Archives nationales à Québec, P600,S4,SS2,D368 numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/d...

Sylva Clapin est un de nos premiers lexicographes et il n'est pas tendre envers les puristes, trop prompts selon lui à condamner les canadianismes. Le plus récent billet sur le site du Fonds de données linguistiques du Québec est consacré à Clapin et à son dictionnaire de 1894. Bonne lecture!

This #TeddyRoosevelt doll looks like how I feel over the logging news...

Je ne me suis toujours pas décidé si je me trouve un successeur pour M. Poe, néanmoins je trouve moyen quand-même de nourrir mon ailurophilie. #academicswithcats

Of all the political memes circulating right now, this one was the biggest hit with my 18th-century-specialist colleagues 😂😂😂

Bibi-- euh, bébé castor 😍

Hello - good evening new followers! Let me repost this self-introduction in case it has escaped your attention. :)))

Beefiest beef that has ever beefed.