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Claire Campbell
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Expat 🇨🇦 environmental historian; lover of flowers, wind over water, ice cream, & Jane of Lantern Hill.
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6 December 1917: “There were a few helpless shouts. Then all movement and life about the ship were encompassed in a sound beyond hearing as the Mont Blanc opened up.”
~H. MacLennan, Barometer Rising (1941)

tinyurl.com/mwdjm66f #envhist #cdnhist
State Library of Massachusetts tinyurl.com/57w3xt8h
December 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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When you ask students to generate ideas for the final exam, and they share their unedited notes. (Yes, I DO like maps.) #envhist #cdnhist
A student note that reads "Maybe one of those city maps (she likes maps)."
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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'Tis the season for mailing Christmas cards! (And supporting the postal service.)

Amelia Frederica Dyneley, "The Quebec Royal Mail, Canada East" (1848) @library-archives.canada.ca tinyurl.com/45b5drc6
"Royal Mail" sled pulled across winter landscape in 19th century watercolour.
December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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When ... I all alone beweep my outcast state [in December, in Pennsylvania] ...
Haply I think on thee [the Annapolis Valley, in July] ...

(With apologies to M. Shakespeare, but I'm sure he would have liked the Valley in summer, too.)
Photo of Queen Anne's Lace at Miner's Marsh, Kentville, Nova Scotia.
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Coming home from the farmers' market the day before (American) Thanksgiving ... unconvinced that the twelve-year-old will eat anything besides turkey and pie.

Christoph Suhr, 19thC @britishmuseum.bsky.social tinyurl.com/48adszfk
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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This is a common motif in late-19th century cartoons about 🇨🇦/🇺🇸 relations: Uncle Sam as a morally repugnant sleazebag.
À propos of nothing.
#cdnhist McCord Museum, tinyurl.com/yc2zpdka
1869 cartoon in which Mother Britannia is protecting her innocent daughter Miss Canada from a lounging, smoking Uncle Sam nearby.
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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When you're an environmental historian, and your twelve-year-old is training on a shiny new soccer turf in Chester, of course you want to see what used to be there, right?

#envhist ca. 1917 c/o PSU tinyurl.com/yks4jxj9
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Sanborn Insurance map showing power company & locomotive works with rail lines along the Chester waterfront on the Delaware River.
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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When the keeper's clearing has to go to the next level.🇨🇦 ⚽❤️
tinyurl.com/2rva5yj3 (CBC)
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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"On the crown of a hill, for all to see, God planted a scarlet maple tree." ~ Bliss Carman
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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What a glorious time of year.
October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Look, as a history professor, I'm just chuffed to see someone bringing the archival receipts. tinyurl.com/56ktcp8n [CBC]

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Aislin (Montreal Gazette) cartoon, two doors to 'Canada-US Free Trade Talks,' closed with a sign hanging on the doorknob reading 'Do not disturb. Getting drunk.'
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Philip Reinagle, The Blue Jay (late 18thC) tinyurl.com/yw3kfyux

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October 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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200 years ago, though we may have escalated from 'mischievous.' The Acadian Recorder, 1 January 1825.
"From the United States we await with some degree of earnestness the event of the Presidential election, as we think that if a person of mischievous character were seated in the Chair of Washington, he might, and probably would be inclined to lead that nation into a war with Great Britain, and into an attack upon her Northern Colonies." ~ The Acadian Recorder, 1 January 1825
October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Cough cough cough
A screencap from a publishing order form that says "United States" but is not recognized, with the message "Please select a valid country."
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Another deliciously autumnal postcard from PA: the rasp of a chill breeze through a ghostly field of cornstalks.
October 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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First frost, central Pennsylvania, 2025. It’s beautiful.
Goldenrod tipped with frost A photograph of milkweed and grasses covered in frost
October 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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My dad took this photo in the fall of 1969 (I'm pretty sure) off the dock of Camp Hurontario, in the Georgian Bay. I've been hearing the water lapping all morning.
Blue, blue lake water, Canadian Shield, and autumn colours on the far shore.
October 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Try this instead.
tinyurl.com/yumu9ma3
October 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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In 1964 Congress declared October 9 Leif Erikson Day. He never came here. Good job, America.
Postcard from Duluth, MN of the Leif Erikson statue and replica ship in Leif Erikson Park.
October 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Happy Sea Ice Birthday Day to all who celebrate. @whoi.edu
tinyurl.com/msjajhtn

Peter Rindisbacher, "Discovery of the first Ice in the neighbourhood of Greenland, June 26, 1821" @library-archives.bsky.social tinyurl.com/b5d8dkrt #envhist #cdnhist
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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It does, of course, put one in mind of another moosified Canadian character. tinyurl.com/2kbvrdtd
September 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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As a Canadian, and a mother of a goalkeeper, I endorse this.

Maple the Moose, Canada's FIFA mascot.
tinyurl.com/ubay2naa
September 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Scrolling through autumnal Canadian art is officially the best part of my day. Tom Thomson, "The Lake, Bright Day" (1916)
@gallery.ca tinyurl.com/yedf4szh #envhist #cdnhist
September 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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History is an act of imagination, etc., so how to convey the literally-breath-taking experience of Quebec in winter without stuffing the class in a freezer. #envhist #cdnhist

Caroline Bucknall-Estocourt, "Winter scene on the St. Lawrence at Quebec," 1844, LAC tinyurl.com/9f7ejdsm
September 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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We'll just put in some happy little trees.
September 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM