Forged in respect and peace, but later abrogated by the British, the Peace and Friendship Treaties bound nations as equals. This powerful collection argues that the treaties are still alive and are foundational to any just relationship between Indigenous and settler peoples. buff.ly/Dc9zfR2

Killarney Pines at Sunset Philip Sybal 2003

hold my calls @foliosociety.bsky.social

"Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade". Iva Lučić and I are excited to share the special issue on Timber Colonialism. #envhist @nichecanada.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Savannah Sparrow.

Summer Day Tom Thomson 1915

… & don’t get me started on headlights, which design engineers must know are far too bright to be safe on the road.

A female White-breasted Nuthatch waiting for a sunflower seed. The females have dark gray caps, while the males have black.

Natasha Henry-Dixon of York University has made it her mission to recover the stories of these often overlooked people. She joins us on this episode to talk about the lives of these early black residents on Muddy York, Toronto's #1 history podcast. spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/oUXPBTP003b

This captures my feelings when people ask me if AI could be used in my writing— one of the most pleasurable parts of my vocation!

In the woods with the Wild Sarsaparilla. That humble plant with a spectacular name

Edmund Burke, English politician, philosopher (1729-97), founder of the philosophy of conservatism, speaking about Acadians: «We did most inhumanely and upon pretences that, in the eye of an honest man, are not worth a farthing, root out this poor, innocent, deserving people, whom our utter

Song Sparrow in the rain.

Marsh Lizz Miles 2024

Notes from the Shore - a look at one of my fountain pen ink drawings on paper ✍️ In this drawing, I was inspired by the calm of the waves rolling in, lapping at the shoreline sands of the cove 🌊 #inkdrawing #fountainpen #penandink

A male Baltimore Oriole perched low in the cattails, giving good looks of his brilliant orange and black plumage.

A male Common Yellowthroat watching the field below. I don't know if there were young ones or a good food source in the grasses, but this male kept popping down around the same spot in the grasses.

Everyone at Acadiensis would like to offer a hearty congratulations to Colin Osmond for winning the CHA's Best Article in Indigenous History prize for his “Maligomish: A History of the Mi’kmaw St. Anne’s Mission,” published in Vol 53 (2) of Acadiensis. Way to go Colin!!!

Inlet on Big Brook Lake Medium: Watercolour On Paper Size: 4×4 inches, Unframed Year: 2022 Signed on the front, title and other details on verso. Available www.mark-brennan.com/store

Congratulations to Prof. Ciara Breathnach on the publication of her @universitypress.cambridge.org Element, no 35 in the Historical Theory and Practice series--available for download full Open Access!

Sometimes we think that #Juneteenth is just an American thing, but in #Canada - esp #swont - US enslavement defined the region. #EmancipationDay in Canada may be August 1, but we must mark today to remember how enslavement shaped #cdnhist long past 1834, & in many ways there is work still to do.

Out here doing some Luddite praxis.

The mate of the Queen of the Boardwalk, a Northern Cardinal, perches on the boardwalk railing.

Before the Storm, Georgian Bay Yvonne McKague Housser 1940

The annual bibliography is one of @sharpweb.org’s most important (and least recognized) contributions to #bookhistory. Broad and diverse in scope.

#JamesBarryDiary 15/6/1876 Beautiful forenoon but the afternoon was thundering and raining heavy a lot of the time - Raised the water up the buckle a gay bit. I was poking about the bindery the rest of the [day]. Blair is still here, and is now scratching away at the fiddle down in the Kitchen.

Volume 1 of The Oar will be released August 1st, 2026. Printed copies will be available at the Fredericton Region Museum, and online after January 1st 2027. We are pleased to share the table of contents for the first issue!

Sunset, Canoe Lake Tom Thomson 1915

Cool- a new Mi’kmaw archive: Mi’kmaw-led digital archive launches for 300th Anniversary of 1726 Treaty

A Cedar Waxwing deciding on which berry would be the best one to eat.

Know someone writing a dissertation in need of practical advice? We recommend - that you recommend - Ann Daly's "How to Write a Dissertation Chapter!" on The Panorama Visit today to read the last post of our #JERPano Demystifying the Doctorate forum series. Link below.

Excited to share my latest collaboration with Dictionary of @dcb-dbc.bsky.social highlighting the lives and experiences of Black people enslaved in colonial Ontario! www.biographi.ca/en/bio/name_...

My forthcoming book, out in November on Oxford University Press, has a cover!

Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are striking with their red, white, and black attire. One of my favorite birds to photograph in the summer.

The #BlueJays have walked off the Phillies, 3-2. His first career walk-off in the big leagues. What a moment for the rookie.

9th June 2015 Lined by a row of red-brick Tudor chimney stacks on the right and the turrets of Gonville & Caius College on the left, Trinity Street has changed very little since the sixteenth century. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to...

Fishing Village Anne Savage c. 1930

From the Onset Billie Rae Busby 2024

A Cedar Waxwing pausing for a moment before going back to hunting berries.

One of the many lovely Baltimore Orioles at the local park. While common they are always a delight to photograph.

Countryside Prudence Heward 1934

Your periodic reminder that the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social / @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series exists, that it's print/open-access, & that I'm always on the lookout for the next potential volume. Talk to me. press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

Listened to maybe 20 Champlain Society podcasts on my drives to & from PEI this week & really, really recommend them. So many smart folks speaking with so much knowledge & passion about #cdnhist history & their work in it. champlainsociety.utppublishing.com/witness-to-y...

... as if all the birds left at the same moment ... [or just a worn out wall by the sea front]

A male Northern Cardinal sings in the morning sunshine.

We are thrilled to announce that the 2026 winner of our Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize is Jack Bouchard for Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World (@yalepress.bsky.social 2025)!! niche-canada.org/2026/06/03/b... #envhist #cdnhist #books

Issue 54, 2 of the journal has been launched. For more details, click here:

There are seven districts that make up the homeland of the Mi'gmaq; Signigtewa'gi, also known as southern New Brunswick, means "drainage place" but more specifically refers to the low grinding sounds of ice age glaciers as they turned a river into a gulf. The sounds of the land! Love it.

A female Northern Yellow Warbler gathers dandelion seeds to line her nest.