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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 1d

just ordered my copy from book city!

Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 1d

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

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 4d

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

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 5d

ew...

ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

youre a historian eh?

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

"come back zinc!"

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 7d

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

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 7d

green light for competitive butter tarts

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 8d

ew shes still around?

ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 8d

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

Neil Young - Piece Of Crap

YouTube video by neilyoungchannel

www.youtube.com

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 9d

cosmic sans font?

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 9d

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?

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 9d

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.

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 10d

As a child of the 80s, I read this incorrectly...

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10d

To the Daily Beast staffer who put “79” into this headline, know this:

We salute you.

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 10d

soooo much of bc's 1958 centennial celebrations format was pinched from the alberta and saskatchewan jubilees just a few years earlier...

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 10d

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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