Forrest Pass
@forrestpass.bsky.social
Historian, curator, heraldist, vexillologist, collector of arcane and eclectic Canadiana. All opinions my own. Likes, reskeets =/= endorsement.
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Cutting Applied Museum Studies would be a great loss to the #glams community in Ottawa and elsewhere. Reconsider, @algonquincollege.bsky.social! #cdnhist #publichistory
where I went to library school😔although that particular program isn't among the ones they're cutting
Algonquin College plans to cut 30 more programs | CBC News
Algonquin College says it plans to phase out dozens of programs by not enrolling new students starting this fall term. Like last year's cuts, it blames both provincial and federal decisions.
www.cbc.ca
January 23, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Cutting Applied Museum Studies would be a great loss to the #glams community in Ottawa and elsewhere. Reconsider, @algonquincollege.bsky.social! #cdnhist #publichistory
I once had a Reviewer 2 who thought I might find some useful insights in a doctoral dissertation by Forrest Pass...
January 23, 2026 at 12:37 AM
I once had a Reviewer 2 who thought I might find some useful insights in a doctoral dissertation by Forrest Pass...
Making Tibetan momos from @naomiduguid.bsky.social's amazing cookbook "Beyond the Great Wall". Cheating with store-bought dumpling wraps, but it cancels out because I made Tibetan pickled radish as a condiment, right?
January 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Making Tibetan momos from @naomiduguid.bsky.social's amazing cookbook "Beyond the Great Wall". Cheating with store-bought dumpling wraps, but it cancels out because I made Tibetan pickled radish as a condiment, right?
Just the kind of logo one would expect from one whose ignorance of basic heraldic protocol is well documented (and is suitably symbolic of his penchant for taking things that don't belong to him)... #heraldry
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January 22, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Just the kind of logo one would expect from one whose ignorance of basic heraldic protocol is well documented (and is suitably symbolic of his penchant for taking things that don't belong to him)... #heraldry
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A long history of Cdn apologists for the excesses of US expansionism. Take this postcard from a Montreal publisher, commemorating the USS Maine sinking, a pretext for war with Spain in 1898. 1/2 #cdnhist #cdnpoli #vexillology
January 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM
A long history of Cdn apologists for the excesses of US expansionism. Take this postcard from a Montreal publisher, commemorating the USS Maine sinking, a pretext for war with Spain in 1898. 1/2 #cdnhist #cdnpoli #vexillology
A long history of Cdn apologists for the excesses of US expansionism. Take this postcard from a Montreal publisher, commemorating the USS Maine sinking, a pretext for war with Spain in 1898. 1/2 #cdnhist #cdnpoli #vexillology
January 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM
A long history of Cdn apologists for the excesses of US expansionism. Take this postcard from a Montreal publisher, commemorating the USS Maine sinking, a pretext for war with Spain in 1898. 1/2 #cdnhist #cdnpoli #vexillology
Nobody tell him about Frisland...
January 21, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Nobody tell him about Frisland...
Reminds me of my favourite file name in the collection at @library-archives.canada.ca, to be found (ironically?) in the administrative records of LAC's predecessor, the Public Archives of Canada. #cdnhist #archives #glams
January 21, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Reminds me of my favourite file name in the collection at @library-archives.canada.ca, to be found (ironically?) in the administrative records of LAC's predecessor, the Public Archives of Canada. #cdnhist #archives #glams
Fun fact that may only be fun to me:
From 1995 through 2016, the phrase "rules-based international order" was spoken exactly 0 times in the House of Commons.
From 2017 through 2025, there were 123 references to the "rules-based international order," peaking at 34 references in 2022.
From 1995 through 2016, the phrase "rules-based international order" was spoken exactly 0 times in the House of Commons.
From 2017 through 2025, there were 123 references to the "rules-based international order," peaking at 34 references in 2022.
January 21, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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Marking #PenguinAwarenessDay with two Canadian heraldic penguins, on the Arms of the Down Syndrome Society of Quebec, symbolizing unconditional parental love. A design by (former) Miramichi Herald and (currently and forever) my chère moitié, Manon Labelle! #cdnhist #heraldry
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Marking #PenguinAwarenessDay with two Canadian heraldic penguins, on the Arms of the Down Syndrome Society of Quebec, symbolizing unconditional parental love. A design by (former) Miramichi Herald and (currently and forever) my chère moitié, Manon Labelle! #cdnhist #heraldry
Marking #PenguinAwarenessDay with two Canadian heraldic penguins, on the Arms of the Down Syndrome Society of Quebec, symbolizing unconditional parental love. A design by (former) Miramichi Herald and (currently and forever) my chère moitié, Manon Labelle! #cdnhist #heraldry
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Marking #PenguinAwarenessDay with two Canadian heraldic penguins, on the Arms of the Down Syndrome Society of Quebec, symbolizing unconditional parental love. A design by (former) Miramichi Herald and (currently and forever) my chère moitié, Manon Labelle! #cdnhist #heraldry
Also: The Minnesota Historical Society has this flag but *doesn’t keep it on display,* because it’s, you know, a confederate flag and that’s gross.
So deeply Minnesotan. “We humiliated our opponent but the real prize is that we refuse to display the trophy. They know we have it.”
So deeply Minnesotan. “We humiliated our opponent but the real prize is that we refuse to display the trophy. They know we have it.”
A good time to remind everyone of the Minnesota First. One of the earliest state militias to volunteer to fight in the Civil War—three years after joining the Union! Provided one of the essential turning points at Gettysburg. Took the flag of the Virginia regiment they captured AND STILL HAVE IT.
January 18, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I feel like I'm entering my Carlsberg years (and maybe my Jarlsberg years for good measure)... 🇩🇰🇬🇱 #HandsOffGreenland
there will prob be a global boycott of US goods by the end of his term
January 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I feel like I'm entering my Carlsberg years (and maybe my Jarlsberg years for good measure)... 🇩🇰🇬🇱 #HandsOffGreenland
I love Victorian small-town newspapers. Some hard-hitting journalism here from the "Ingersoll [Ontario] Chronicle and Canadian Dairyman," Nov 22, 1894. Front page, of course. #cdnhist #envhist #ManglesOfBluesky
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I love Victorian small-town newspapers. Some hard-hitting journalism here from the "Ingersoll [Ontario] Chronicle and Canadian Dairyman," Nov 22, 1894. Front page, of course. #cdnhist #envhist #ManglesOfBluesky
Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians
January 16, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Insightful commentary from the people who brought you the hot take that protesters "deserve" bullets... 😡
casual reminder that most of canada's print media is owned by an american company that is owned by an american hedge fund with ties to donald trump.
January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Insightful commentary from the people who brought you the hot take that protesters "deserve" bullets... 😡
Not all heroes wear capes: some write history doctoral dissertations!
Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Not all heroes wear capes: some write history doctoral dissertations!
#vexillology (I, for one, welcome our new Scandi Koala Overlords...)
In a store across the street from the US Embassy on Sussex Drive in Ottawa, this small wooden koala is now holding a Danish flag. 🇩🇰 🐨@ourlowertown.bsky.social #Ottawa #CdnPoli #Greenland 🇬🇱
January 15, 2026 at 2:43 AM
#vexillology (I, for one, welcome our new Scandi Koala Overlords...)
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Mercator's own map of the Arctic, "Septentrionalium terrarum descriptio...," 1602 edition (first ed was 1595), with a more proportional Greenland. Spoiler: there's no mountain of magnetite, nor any "Pygmies"... #envhist #cdnhist
Image: @library-archives.canada.ca; fullsize at tinyurl.com/5x5n6xdn
Image: @library-archives.canada.ca; fullsize at tinyurl.com/5x5n6xdn
January 14, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Mercator's own map of the Arctic, "Septentrionalium terrarum descriptio...," 1602 edition (first ed was 1595), with a more proportional Greenland. Spoiler: there's no mountain of magnetite, nor any "Pygmies"... #envhist #cdnhist
Image: @library-archives.canada.ca; fullsize at tinyurl.com/5x5n6xdn
Image: @library-archives.canada.ca; fullsize at tinyurl.com/5x5n6xdn