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ben bradley

@benbradleyca.bsky.social

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cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 22h

Company/staff magazines are a useful source, especially when company archives have been discarded or destroyed. David Michelson uses ”Telephone Talk” to chart the history of the North-West Telephone Company (of British Columbia, Canada) #shot2025

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Library and Archives Canada @library-archives.canada.ca · 1d

Library and Archives Canada has entered the chat! 🍁

As the continuing memory of the federal government, we safeguard Canada’s distant past and recent history for generations to come.

Immerse yourself in a journey of discovery!

#Libraries #Archives #History #CanadaSky

View of the Preservation Centre in Gatineau from across a pond.

Two people spread a very large map across the floor of the Preservation Centre in Gatineau.

A crowd of people listens to a presentation in the Pellan Room at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.

A small group of people gathers inside the Art Vault at Library and Archives Canada to view several large, gold-framed paintings.

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 14h

welcome, forrest-sector employer!

ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 3d

just ordered my copy from book city!

Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 3d

Ice huts, those brightly-coloured shacks and ice villages out on frozen lakes, captured the imagination of photographer Richard Johnson. A new book showcases his 30-year pursuit of Canada’s iconic wintertime structures. https://macleans.ca/culture/richard-johnson-resilience-ice-huts/

Canada’s Quirky Fishing Shacks - Macleans.ca

Richard Johnson photographed more than a thousand ice huts across all 10 provinces

macleans.ca

ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 3d

id like to add that as a historian of canada and british columbia, i always, always read this as the "babine review."

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CSN-RÉC @csnrec.bsky.social · 4d

Join the CSN!

Our new membership year started Oct. 1, why not join us - receive interesting job/CFP/awards opportunities info & support our prize dossiers and other activities? We would love to welcome you as a member of the CSN!

csn-rec.ca/membership-d...
csn-rec.ca/membership-d...

#cdnstudies

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 6d

wow any nice bc ones? theres been rather a drought of late.

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 7d

ew...

ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 7d

kicking horse river and canadian pacific railway mainline, in the kicking horse canyon between golden and the west gate of yoho national park, as viewed by motorists from the kicking horse trail. late 1920s?
#bchist #cdnhist

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 8d

youre a historian eh?

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 9d

hopefully most or all this will be promptly forwarded to ukraine. america now seems to expect others to purchase and provide, rather than provide itself

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 9d

Good afternoon to everyone, but especially to all the raccoons, for today is their special day!

This woodcut of a raccoon was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.

📷 Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio

#InternationalRaccoonAppreciationDay #RareBooks

Cropped image of a page in an opened book. In the centre of the page is a large woodcut illustration of a raccoon. The title in Latin above it is 'Mapach'

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 9d

"come back zinc!"

ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 9d

did you see the very fun @theguardian.com article about them aboot a week ago?

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 9d

green light for competitive butter tarts

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 10d

ew shes still around?

ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 10d

this was on much music, canada's MTV, a lot when it came out! not this exact video. but neil young wasnt really a much music guy, and this song also stood out at a particularly grunge-y moment in time...

ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 10d

soundtrack?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovum...

Neil Young - Piece Of Crap

YouTube video by neilyoungchannel

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 11d

cosmic sans font?

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 12d

On Tuesday Sept 30 there's going to be a showing of "Cold Journey" (1975) at the Revue Cinema on Roncesvalles Ave, followed by a Q&A session about residential schools, the NFB, and Indigenous film-making in 1960s and 1970s Canada.
#cdnhist
revuecinema.ca/films/stompb...

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 11d

i hate to ask the question im sure youve been asked about 2 million times, even though vista and fresno are rather far apart, but: any relation to matt?

ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 11d

my brother lives in the district and has collected a considerable pile of these (partly on the basis that i should want them). it was a very well made magazine, and cominco had rather far-flung operations around western canada, so its really super news.

ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 11d

cominco is a big deal in the kootenay-boundary country (and other parts of bc and canada), and so this has received a fair bit of news coverage.
see for example:
www.rosslandnews.com/home/trail-m...
and
library.ok.ubc.ca/2025/08/29/n...
and
trail.ca/en/news/trai...

New digitized collection: Cominco Magazine

The UBC Okanagan Library is a nexus of scholarly engagement for students, faculty, staff and visitors at the UBC Okanagan campus. Explore our spaces, collections, and services.

library.ok.ubc.ca

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 11d

interested in the history of mining, smelting, heavy industry, workplace health & safety, or company magazines in canada?the trail bc museum and bcrdh.ca have just digitized a complete run of "cominco magazine."
bcrdh.ca/islandora/ob...
thanks to @kellyblack.ca for the tip!
#bchist #cdnhist #envhist

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 12d

"im surprised weird al sold out and started shilling for big bed"