Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦
@alanmaceachern.bsky.social
Researcher, writer, & teacher of stuff Canadian, historical, & environmental.
https://www.mqup.ca/content/search?type%5B%5D=books&SearchText=Maceachern+
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Like every (?) #skystorian, doing a little Groundhog Day research in the run-up.
Haven't seen this before:
An 1879 Chicago Daily Trib article connecting the holiday not to Pennsylvania Germans but to "our colored brethren."
Haven't seen this before:
An 1879 Chicago Daily Trib article connecting the holiday not to Pennsylvania Germans but to "our colored brethren."
January 27, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Like every (?) #skystorian, doing a little Groundhog Day research in the run-up.
Haven't seen this before:
An 1879 Chicago Daily Trib article connecting the holiday not to Pennsylvania Germans but to "our colored brethren."
Haven't seen this before:
An 1879 Chicago Daily Trib article connecting the holiday not to Pennsylvania Germans but to "our colored brethren."
Spider causes earthquake.
Like the butterfly effect, but creepier.
Like the butterfly effect, but creepier.
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Spider causes earthquake.
Like the butterfly effect, but creepier.
Like the butterfly effect, but creepier.
Love it when you find a photo for your book.
There's 1/2 a page done.🙂
There's 1/2 a page done.🙂
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Love it when you find a photo for your book.
There's 1/2 a page done.🙂
There's 1/2 a page done.🙂
We talked pareidolia in #His1840 Graphic History! & now students are sending me faces they see in the world. My email is more fun than usual.
January 22, 2026 at 1:30 PM
We talked pareidolia in #His1840 Graphic History! & now students are sending me faces they see in the world. My email is more fun than usual.
Geopolitically & seasonally apt.
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Geopolitically & seasonally apt.
Trade you. 😀
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Trade you. 😀
My evening’s locked & loaded.
December 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My evening’s locked & loaded.
Well, it's better than anything I came up with.
December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Well, it's better than anything I came up with.
Betwixtmas, illustrated.
December 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Betwixtmas, illustrated.
December 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Good stuff, Keith (& happy holidays). Here’s my pile.
December 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Good stuff, Keith (& happy holidays). Here’s my pile.
In its dishonesty cut with absurdity, for me this was the quote of the year.
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In its dishonesty cut with absurdity, for me this was the quote of the year.
Just read.
Whew.
Whew.
December 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Just read.
Whew.
Whew.
Problems: There's no "i" or "v" in my name. Also no 2nd "h" & no 3rd "n" or "e". And the OED doesn't know from mannels.
AI can't anagram my name. Each real man can.
AI can't anagram my name. Each real man can.
December 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Problems: There's no "i" or "v" in my name. Also no 2nd "h" & no 3rd "n" or "e". And the OED doesn't know from mannels.
AI can't anagram my name. Each real man can.
AI can't anagram my name. Each real man can.
Fascinating.
My Graphic History! course is a month away, so I must be reading "Consulting the Map: Bil Keane’s dotted-line drawings in The Family Circus and comics cartography."
My Graphic History! course is a month away, so I must be reading "Consulting the Map: Bil Keane’s dotted-line drawings in The Family Circus and comics cartography."
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Fascinating.
My Graphic History! course is a month away, so I must be reading "Consulting the Map: Bil Keane’s dotted-line drawings in The Family Circus and comics cartography."
My Graphic History! course is a month away, so I must be reading "Consulting the Map: Bil Keane’s dotted-line drawings in The Family Circus and comics cartography."
Whenever I hear stories of "Canadian" animals spotted in the UK, I first wonder if they're the descendants of donated Canadian national park ones that escaped. It's happened.
Here are beaver heading to London, Eng, 1946. 2 died in the traps, another in transit. heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm....
Here are beaver heading to London, Eng, 1946. 2 died in the traps, another in transit. heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm....
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Whenever I hear stories of "Canadian" animals spotted in the UK, I first wonder if they're the descendants of donated Canadian national park ones that escaped. It's happened.
Here are beaver heading to London, Eng, 1946. 2 died in the traps, another in transit. heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm....
Here are beaver heading to London, Eng, 1946. 2 died in the traps, another in transit. heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm....
I hear you, Western U, I hear you.
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I hear you, Western U, I hear you.
Taught this in my #envhist class today & was reminded how superb it is not just on doing animal history, but on doing history, full stop. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
But I do wish they'd chosen this as the cover.
But I do wish they'd chosen this as the cover.
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Taught this in my #envhist class today & was reminded how superb it is not just on doing animal history, but on doing history, full stop. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
But I do wish they'd chosen this as the cover.
But I do wish they'd chosen this as the cover.
I can't decide whether adding this to my calendar today is a sign of positive thinking or despair.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I can't decide whether adding this to my calendar today is a sign of positive thinking or despair.
Receipts or it didn't happen.😀
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Receipts or it didn't happen.😀
Your annual reminder that 🍁 were whale blower-uppers well before 🗽 were. We just didn't get television until 1990, so couldn't go viral.
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Your annual reminder that 🍁 were whale blower-uppers well before 🗽 were. We just didn't get television until 1990, so couldn't go viral.
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
