And Victor in his anguish cried out that the Lord was a rotten bastard. So the Lord sent an angel to comfort St. Victor for the weekend. And entered they together the jacuzzi. Here endeth the lesson.
File under "views that haven't changed much in 66 years": a postcard of M.V. Quillayute at Earl [sic] Cove Ferry Terminal. Postmark (Powell River) is Fall 1960; funnel colour and flag on sign are Black Ball (i.e. before BC Ferries took over the route). @scmuseum.bsky.social
#bchist
One of my projects (and featuring a cameo appearance by my hands and forearms!) #cdnhist #bookhistory
Love that this chromolithograph (I assume?) is the colours of the Suffrage Flag! #vexillology
(Img: Canadian Museum of History, 2010.232.1)
You know who you can trust never to sell underweight foodstuffs? IYKYK #bchist
And coincidentally, my weekend thrifting turned up a 1930s edition of Nostradamus' prophecies, decorated with the sage's coat of arms! You may see a carbuncle Or and a gryphon's head erased Sable, but I foresee a nuclear explosion and a chicken-headed antichrist. Prophecy most fowl! #heraldry
Reading the April issue of @reviewcanada.bsky.social this morning and enjoyed this review - congrats! Also lamented that I didn't make a side trip to Cardston on my Alberta road trip last summer: the temple looks like a sight for the bucket list!
Of course David Robertson has written about it! His work on Wawa is fascinating..
Nothing revelatory in the Dictionary of Canadianisms or the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, but some of the quotations from the Dictionary of American Regional English do hint at a "Chicago"-like pronunciation, which could explain the folk etymology!
I've never heard that etymology. My understanding is that it's from the Chinook Jargon "chee" (new) and "chako" (to come).
An oddity for #FlagFriday (or #VendrediVexillologique). TL;DR Nostradamus predicted Quebec will be the faithful's refuge during Armageddon, and the design of the Quebec flag proves it! But Armageddon was to have come in 2000, you say? Details, details...
#astrology #cdnhist #vexillology #qchist
Working towards the Fulvor? (An obscure Latin word meaning tawny orange)
Fantastic - coincidentally, just last week I re-read MacIsaac et al.'s "Devil of Decourcy Island" and was surprised to see Harrison's name (I had read it in the 90s, long before encountering the NSBC, so hadn't made the connection). We should chat at some point - a number of common interests!
Very cool! Are you talking about Victor Harrison's "imaginative" interpretation of the so-called "Hepburn Stone"? (Seafaring Hawaiians and the Egyptian god Ra were involved in some way....)
Interesting to read Vivian McAlister's (@westernuhistory.bsky.social) Abraham Groves bio today. Years ago I found this copy of Groves' 1930 poetry chapbook "Stray Thoughts" at a thrift store in Arnprior, ON - a poem for "Pretty Polly" but naught for the alligator 😞 #cdnhist #canlit #bookhistory
It doesn't address the decolonization problem, but H.A. Collison called them "Graham Island caribou" in a 1972 article - reprinted from Victoria Naturalist in The Charlottes: A Journal of the Queen Charlotte Islands, vol. 3, p. 42:
Interesting to read Vivian McAlister's (@westernuhistory.bsky.social) Abraham Groves bio today. Years ago I found this copy of Groves' 1930 poetry chapbook "Stray Thoughts" at a thrift store in Arnprior, ON - a poem for "Pretty Polly" but naught for the alligator 😞 #cdnhist #canlit #bookhistory
(Alternatively, maybe some unofficial mash-up of an Artillery colour and an Ensign: many Artillery flags are split horizontally into red and blue halves. But this is a long shot: the top looks too light for red and I've never heard of an "Artillery Ensign")
(Alternatively, maybe some unofficial mash-up of an Artillery colour and an Ensign: many Artillery flags are split horizontally into red and blue halves. But this is a long shot: the top looks too light for red and I've never heard of an "Artillery Ensign")
(Alternatively, maybe some unofficial mash-up of an Artillery colour and an Ensign: many Artillery flags are split horizontally into red and blue halves. But this is a long shot: the top looks too light for red and I've never heard of an "Artillery Ensign")
I think the "AI slop" hypothesis might be spot on: in addition to the strange two-colour field, there is something odd about the Crosses of St Andrew and St. Patrick on the Union Jack...
I think the "AI slop" hypothesis in the comments on the original post might be spot on: in addition to the strange two-colour field, there is something odd about the Crosses of St Andrew and St. Patrick on the Union Jack...
I think the "AI slop" hypothesis in the comments on the original post might be spot on: in addition to the strange two-colour field, there is something odd about the Crosses of St Andrew and St. Patrick on the Union Jack...
@ubcengineering.bsky.social students up to tricks? 'Twas ever thus, as I explored in the thread below a couple of months ago.. #cdnhist #bchist
Officials working to remove ca...
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At once happy to revisit this piece I wrote in 2021 and sad that it is still timely as ever. #cdnhist #vaccineswork
During the colonial period, the Catholic Church declared the beavers were fish so that French-Canadian habitants could eat them (or, rather, their tails) during Lent.
Still an hour left to share my favourite piece of #AprilFoolsDay ephemera: the Report of the Royal Commission on abolishing the Parliament of Canada! A keepsake from the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner in 1949. (I wrote about it here: tinyurl.com/4yfppt39.
#cdnhist #cdnpoli