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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 17h

I knew Thanksgiving Sunday took quite a while to be established in Canada, but TIL that the October date was legislated nationally only in 1957!

Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 17h

Even less important in Quebec. Thanksgiving has its origin in a British empire celebration (shared by some Quebecers, but not a Catholic liturgical feast)

Part of the abstract of an article by Joseph Hardwick in the Canadian historical review, volume 98 number 4 Pages 675 to 703 in 2017. Essentially, local harvest festivals shifted in the telegraph world of the 1880s to an Empire wide Day of prayer. The article discusses why days of fasting, humiliation, and Thanksgiving were such an enduring aspect of 19th century anglo-canadian life. The answer has to do with Protestant churchmen and civil officials valuing their community - building potential

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 13h

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading, watching, and listening to from September!

niche-canada.org/2025/10/11/e...

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#EnvHist Worth Reading: September 2025

Find historical ecology, a chicken tax, and living rivers in the September list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.

niche-canada.org

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d

Ben Loman by the Sea
Maud Lewis
c. 1962

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 9d

Check out this Q&A with Rutgers History prof Jack Bouchard about his forthcoming book, “Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World” (@yalepress, 2025) #Rutgers

history.rutgers.edu/news-events/...

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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Friday laugh! 😂

Mark Nenadov @mark-nenadov.bsky.social · 1d

A classic moment in Blue Jays history. What a master stroke by Lloyd Moseby!! #bluejays

youtu.be/YSLJu2tgOPc?...

Lloyd Moseby 'steals' second twice... on same play

YouTube video by MLB

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 2d

Late afternoon sun in wild #Halifax

A granite whaleback pointing to a granite boulder. A strip of bright blue sky. Greens and reds in the surrounding plants

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 3d

The #BlueJays are off to the ALCS

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 4d

Fall At My Place
Christopher Pratt
2004

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 4d

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Peter L. Twohig @ptwohig.bsky.social · 4d

Happy to announce the latest edition of Acadiensis is available:
acadiensis.wordpress.com/.../acadiens...
If you are working on topics of interest, shoot me an email.

acadiensis.wordpress.com

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 4d

Call For Contributors: Join the Active History Project This Fall!

Interested? Click here for more information: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/10...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 5d

Fall Asters
Molly Lamb Bobak
n.d.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 6d

Base Hit
Kenneth Lochhead
1993

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 6d

Evening, Nipigon River
Yvonne McKague Housser
n.d.

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 11d

The editors at Active History have put together a list of resources to help you contextualize the #NDTR & the history of #ResidentialSchools. activehistory.ca/blog/2025/09...

On the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued its final report on the history of residential schools in Canada. Mandated to “inform all Canadians about what happened in reside…

activehistory.ca

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Jess Dunkin @jdunkin.bsky.social · 11d

Crystal Fraser and I are co-editing a series on environmental histories of Indian residential and day schools for @nichecanada.bsky.social. We chose to launch the series on Orange Shirt Day, in part, to remind historians of their responsibilities to Survivors and intergenerational Survivors.

Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12d

Leaf of Gold
W.J. Phillips
1941

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12d

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 12d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Matthew P. Brown @mpbrown.bsky.social · 14d

*the novel and the _____* available now from mighty @hopkinspress.bsky.social use discount code HTNAB25 #bookhistory #skystorians #18c #vastearlyamerica #c18 #c19

Matthew P. Brown @mpbrown.bsky.social · Apr 7

guys come for the book trades yawning, stay for the sex-gender system critique, THE NOVEL AND THE BLANK forthcoming august 2025 from big ups publisher @hopkinspress.bsky.social

page proof prose from *the novel and the blank: a literary history of the book trades in eighteenth-century british america*

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 12d

It's finally in my hands! @harvardpress.bsky.social did such a wonderful job with the jacket. It's available for preorder, and will ship (to anyone in the US or Canada) on October 28th. #EnvHist #Astronomy #Space