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The 2025 Gulf Project Meeting - The GeoREACH Lab at UPEI

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Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Aug 29

Consider submitting a piece to The Oar, an exciting new popular history magazine by some really excellent New Brunswick scholars!

The Oar @theoarnb.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our first Call for Papers is live! If you are interested in writing the history of New Brunswick, engaging with popular audiences, and supporting small museums, then we would love to hear from you! Proposals for submissions are due 30 September 2025. See below for details:

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Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Jul 22

Later sessions are open and some may be joined virtually so feel free to reach out by email if you’d like to join. Our hybrid sessions will begin tomorrow with our first keynote by Natasha Simon and Lyle Vicare “Where Tides Meet: The Signitog Isthmus as a Nokumi zone and Mi’kmaq place of belonging.”

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Jul 22

It’s a beautiful day to kick it off with walking tours (including at Fort Folly First Nation) and a welcome session this evening.
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Introduction The “Ecologies, Knowledge, and Power in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Region c1500-Present” project, is a group that was launched in 2023 by Dr. Joshua MacFadyen and the late Dr. Elizabeth Man...

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Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Jul 22

What’s at the other end of this bridge? Cape Jourimain, NB, the Chignecto Isthmus, and the second Gulf Ecologies conference: “Knowledge Beyond the Text,” to be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville.

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Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Jun 24

New article from UPEI MA (Island Studies) candidate and member of the GeoREACH Lab, Barbara Rousseau, using #hGIS #envhist and other methods to examine how Prince Edward Island’s coastal dunes – and people’s perceptions of them – have changed over time. #cdnhist journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Jun 23

Funded Master’s Position in the History of Food Systems in Canada

@jamiemurton.bsky.social is looking for a graduate student to join his research team on the How Canadians Ate Project at Nipissing University

Start Dates: September 2025/September 2026

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Funded Master’s Position in the History of Food Systems in Canada

Dr. Jamie Murton is looking for a graduate student to join his research team on the How Canadians Ate Project at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario. This is a funded position.

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Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Jun 21

The knave.

By Muscle, Mast, and Motor: A Transportation History of Charlottetown, PEI - The GeoREACH Lab at UPEI

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Jun 13

For more on the Charlottetown site’s significance see historicplaces.ca and for this station’s role in the history of mobility see my Story Map with Barbara Rousseau, “By Muscle, Mast, and Motor: A Transportation History of Charlottetown, PEI.”
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The GeoREACH Lab is excited to share a digital mapping project created by the Director, Dr. Joshua MacFadyen and students in Applied Communications, Leadership & Culture 2090 a project-based course on...

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Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Jun 13

The Sackville station was moved to Acadian Heritage Village in Caraquet where it has been beautifully restored. tantramarheritage.ca/archive/hist...

Gone But Not Forgotten: Irving Service Station

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Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Jun 13

These chateauesque stations were designed for Irving in the early 1930s by Acadian architect (and another son of Bouctouche) Samuel Roy. Here's the Souris station in 1942. (Source: Earle's PEI History, Facebook)

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Jun 13

It does this Islander/historian’s heart good to see the Euston St gas station en route to preservation and repurposing for the community in Charlottetown. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Formation of the Canada History Collective | Collectif Histoire Canada

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Jun 5

But with DQ and Starbucks waiting for him it would have been worth the trek, amirite? Explains the bowel pain anyway.

Also, the train was to Pictou, yes?

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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · May 27

I'm giving a series of talks this summer/fall in the Maritimes on the burncentennial of the 1825 Miramichi Fire.

Thx, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, for the swag (are bookmarks swag?) & for the MQ25 25% discount code. www.mqup.ca/miramichi-fi...

#envhist #cdnhist #wildfire #forestfire #fire

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · May 13

Formation of the Canada History Collective | Collectif Histoire Canada

April 2025 marked the creation of the Canada History Collective | Collectif Histoire Canada, a pan-Canadian grouping of national, provincial and territorial historical societies.

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April 2025 marked the creation of the Canada History Collective | Collectif Histoire Canada, a pan-Canadian grouping of national, provincial and territorial historical societies.

Call for Papers - Ecologies, Knowledge, and Power in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Region, c. 1500-Present

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Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · May 14

Join us this summer at Mount Allison University in Sackville NB for the next meeting! See the CFP here (due 30 May) niche-canada.org/2025/05/02/c...

The central theme this year will be: Non-textual Sources for Understanding Ecologies, Knowledge, and Power in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Region, or “Knowledge Beyond the Text.”

Ecologies, Knowledge, and Power in the Gulf of St Lawrence Region: Project Launch and 2024 Meeting

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · May 14

New from the Ecologies, Knowledge, & Power in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Region project, a film on our first meeting and launch in 2024. Enjoy some aerial views of the Climate School in St Peters, the Morell River field trip, and the Basin Head beach and fisheries museum.
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YouTube video by UPEI GeoREACH Lab

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Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · May 14

Interesting. As I’m sure you’ve noticed there aren’t many potatoes in yet, here in 2025 times.

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · May 13

Lands and Fields was the greatest book.

This workshop would be amazing.

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · May 12

Potatoes are in! Any idea why he had JM plant them? As opposed to “the boy” or himself?

Oh Canada! The Current's Travel Bucket List

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · May 8

That rises to nearly a third if you include Quebec City and the Saguenay Fjord, and nearly half if you include the rest of Atlantic Canada (Bonavista NL and the Bay of Fundy). Nine out of 20 is a pretty good showing, considering less than 10% of Canadians live in or east of Quebec City.

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · May 8

I know Canadians love their coasts, but the Gulf of St. Lawrence really dominated this CBC list of Canada's favourite destinations. At least a fifth of the top-20 are in the Gulf (Basin Head PEI, Cape Breton NS, Gros Morne NL, and Kouchibouguac NB)... www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

The Current is building a Canadian travel bucket list. Help us pick from these 20 locations.

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Retro St. John's - The Newfoundland capital in 1967

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · May 5

Mayor Mews on place in NL: “you know down through the centuries fishermen have lived in these little houses perched upon the cliffs and they don't want to leave them. It was suggested that they [move to] the city but they want to be by the sea, and we all understand that.” youtu.be/pAiI_qT-5Kc?...

YouTube video by CBC News NL - Newfoundland and Labrador

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Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Apr 27

lol. Thanks! And that’s a great census entry!

Josh MacFadyen @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social · Apr 25

Every now and then April produces a nice one around here…
I’ve missed the last month or ten, so maybe you’ve explained, but any idea who the “Boy sawing” is?