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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · 1d

Historians that create personal database projects using only URL links to archival repositories and their online materials… import the reference information too. Internet URLs are not forever… Software becomes obsolete.

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Stephanie Pettigrew @stephpettigrew.bsky.social · 11d

Lovely walk along the Nashwaak today with @richrray.bsky.social, fall colours are really coming in spectacularly.

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Acadiensis @acadiensis.bsky.social · 19d

Acadiensis is proud to announce a special forum on The Marshall Decision @ 25: Honouring the Future of Peace and Friendship Treaties.

For more information click: acadiensis.wordpress...

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks for asking - working with you, and with @nichecanada.bsky.social is always great!

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Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social · 20d

I love the memories this post has generated in the comments. Did you grow up with dulce (edible seaweed) like I did?
Thanks to @richrray.bsky.social for pulling some stories out of the archives for this fun piece!

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 20d

Today @richrray.bsky.social shares a brief history of dulce in in New Brunswick.

"Dark Harbour ... emerged as the dulse capital of the world, an industry likewise made possible by its unique geography and the Fundy tides."

niche-canada.org/2025/09/18/t...

#envhist #coastalhistory #cdnhist

“The Tang of Ocean Spray”: A Brief History of Dulse in New Brunswick

Dark Harbour’s geography fostered fishing, herring, and dulse industries.

niche-canada.org

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · 20d

New from me on @nichecanada.bsky.social: a very brief history of dulse in NB

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 20d

Today @richrray.bsky.social shares a brief history of dulce in in New Brunswick.

"Dark Harbour ... emerged as the dulse capital of the world, an industry likewise made possible by its unique geography and the Fundy tides."

niche-canada.org/2025/09/18/t...

#envhist #coastalhistory #cdnhist

“The Tang of Ocean Spray”: A Brief History of Dulse in New Brunswick

Dark Harbour’s geography fostered fishing, herring, and dulse industries.

niche-canada.org

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Acadiensis @acadiensis.bsky.social · 23d

We're Baaa-aack!!

On the blog ... Michael Boudreau welcomes us to the 2025-2026 academic year with "'one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country': The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942":

“one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country”: The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942

By Michael Boudreau[1] John Arthur Oliver, age sixty-three, was charged with the murder of Sgt. Herbert Lobb, a member of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. on the afternoon of Saturday, December 2…

acadiensis.wordpress.com

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Acadiensis @acadiensis.bsky.social · Aug 28

Please check out the following Call for Contributors for The Oar: New Brunswick's Popular History Magazine.

Call for Contributions for The Oar: New Brunswick’s Popular History Magazine

Since 1985, when it began as a quarterly newsletter for the Fredericton Region Museum, The Officer’s Quarters has been an important part of the work of the York-Sunbury Historical Society in docume…

acadiensis.wordpress.com

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · Aug 26

First CfP for a new publication. Interested in writing New Brunswick history? Consider submitting a proposal for a short essay, and avoid the hell that is peer-review. Grad students highly encouraged! Please feel free to share.

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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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks @saraspike.bsky.social for sharing this incredible view with me today - a great place to chat about wildflowers, history, and dulse.

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · Aug 13

Job ad: history of healthcare and health equity, jointly at Dalhousie & University of King's College (tenure-stream, junior/mid-career): dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19481

Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity

Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health EquityDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYand theUNIVERSITY OF KING’S COLLEGEDalhousie University and the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scoti...

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · Aug 8

From staying the blazes home to staying out of the woods in Nova Scotia. Also, accidental urn ban 😂

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · Aug 4

Some - perhaps more extended. Charles GD Roberts was a cousin to Bliss Carmen and other poets for example

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · Aug 4

Tony Tremblay only a few years ago produced the NB Literary Encyclopedia and there’s certainly a proliferation of NB writers through the mid 19th and early 20th cen.

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · Aug 4

Print culture was like a vanguard to New Brunswick’s early development, sure. I’m thinking of Sower and J. Ryan in Saint John, but the loyalist preoccupation with letters certainly helped. J. Odell was another prolific writer. UNB was their school, and it’s certainly drummed in.

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · Jul 31

“Costume Magic” presents a runway of 1940s fashion - historic photographs from Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore come alive.

Heritage Village

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Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social · Jul 24

I was asked to write about my local section of the Trans Canada Trail. Here is my short essay called "Remembering the Blueberry Express," about rail to trail along the coast of Nova Scotia tctrail.ca/stories/reme...
#envhist #cdnhist @transcanadatrail.bsky.social

Two people walking away from the camera on a flat gravelled trail with bright blue sky and blue water around them.

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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · Jul 18

You can’t spell “Charlottetown” without “CHA”! The CHA is thrilled to announce that its next Annual Meeting will be held June 1-3, 2026, in Charlottetown, PEI. We hope to see you there! Click the link for the full announcement. #cdnhist #CHA2026 #UPEI #Charlottetown

Announcement: CHA Annual Meeting 2026 | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada

You can’t spell “Charlottetown” without “CHA”! The CHA is thrilled to announce that its next Annual Meeting will be held Monday-Wednesday, June 1-3, 2026, in Charlottetown, PEI. The event will be host...

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · Jun 21

Busy “writing.”

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Jun 9

ICYMI:

@itsmayana.bsky.social wins the 2025 NiCHE Prize for her article “The Bare Island Bird Sanctuary and the Myth of Indigenous Consent: Land Theft and Conservation in British Columbia, 1912–16” in The Canadian Historical Review.

niche-canada.org/2025/06/04/2...

#envhist #cdnhist #bchistory

2025 Winner of Best Article/Chapter in Canadian Environmental History Prize

Telling a rich and multi-layered story of conservation, dispossession, and activism, Mayana Slobodian alerts us to the intertwined histories of sustainability, conservation, and settler colonial juris...

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · Jun 2

Huzzah!

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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · Jun 2

Delighted to announce that yesterday was publication day for *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North* 🥳

It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃

Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...

#cdnhist #envhist

A Cold Colonialism

A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...

www.ubcpress.ca

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Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social · May 29

Well, as we know all too well. First you have to publicly shame UNB before it acts “in good faith.”

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Stephanie Pettigrew @stephpettigrew.bsky.social · May 29

I am so pleased to announce that the Elizabeth Mancke Fond is now available at the UNB archive. This collection does not yet contain her digital files, as we are still waiting for UNB School of Arts to provide those records, but all textual records are here:

7067.sydneyplus.com/archive/fina...

Elizabeth Mancke fonds

7067.sydneyplus.com

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