Whoa, I was feeling good I got a run in today! 😀Congratulations, Jim, that's amazing.

The best thing about grading #His1840 Graphic History exams? Some students offer goodbye doodles.

(This one channels @berincole.bsky.social.)

Thanks to Valerio Caruso for inviting me to speak and publishing it and the interview that followed on "Environmental History and Deindustrialisation Studies" in the journal Global Environment (open access)

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Retracing the Steps of Mary Schäffer Warren American explorer Mary Schäffer Warren studied Rockies wildflowers, explored Maligne Lake, later inspiring filmmakers to recreate and reinterpret her legacy.

This interview with the makers of Wildflowers for @nichecanada.bsky.social was fun! The film is about Mary Schäffer Warren, who surveyed Maligne Lake in Jasper Nat'l Park in the early 1900s for the Geological Survey of Can. (an extraordinary feat for a woman then!) niche-canada.org/2026/04/14/r...

from Andrew den Bok's graphic history "A Very Fine Vessel: Alexander Mackintosh, Miller Worsley, & the HMS Nancy"

from Isabelle Krueger's graphic history "The Cadaver Synod"

from Charlotte Needham-Robbins' graphic history "Rasputin"

from Nusayba Hamou's graphic history "The History of Israel-Palestine"

Another year, another amazing set of final assignments from
#His1840 #GraphicHistory students.

Take a moment to look at these 4, shared with their permission (alt-text for their details).

@westernuhistory.bsky.social

Western students, local historians bring London’s stories to life through Forest City Facts Through Forest City Facts, Western’s MA public history field is helping to uncover stories that have shaped - and continue to shape – the city.

Our public history project with the City of London and the London & Middlesex Historical Society is in today's Western News: #westernu @westernupubhist.bsky.social
news.westernu.ca/2026/04/west...

Just noticed Bluesky's Canada emoji. Someone's going to be hearing aboot this.

Canada: Hold my beer, eh?

My inner voice has been calling the book on the early history of the Meteorological Service of Canada "Boys5casta."

#weatherhistory

GeoPEI: The Prince Edward Island Historical Map Viewer - The GeoREACH Lab at UPEI Click here to access GeoPEI: Prince Edward Island Historical Map Viewer GeoPEI is a web portal developed by Dr. MacFadyen and students in the GeoREACH Lab. Its purpose is to share maps, atlases, aeria...

Enjoy the new layer on GeoPEI, and take in the Island from 30,000 feet, or just above the tree line! www.upei.ca/GeoPEI

Congratulations to Cheryl Troupe, John Sandlos, @arnkeeling.bsky.social, @tinaadcock.bsky.social, @kdubin.bsky.social, & @micahtrue.bsky.social

To be clear, the review was just published, here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/bjcs

www.mqup.ca/Books/B/Beco...
#greengables #pei #annewithane

Just remembered I meant to answer this:
Turns out I've only reviewed 10 in the past 20 yrs ...yet I've probably only refused 3-4 in that time.
Which is to say: I don't get asked much.

"I am rarely sorry to reach the end of a book written by an academic, but in this case I was."

I'm rarely sorry to reach the end of a book review written by an academic, but in this case I was.😀

Pologies for being a proud papa, but 2 yrs out, this is the *only* review my book has received.

#otd 50 yrs ago, #PEI launched Energy Days, w/ int'l experts speaking on the future of energy - a 1st step in PEI's plan to become a world leader in self-sufficiency & sustainability.

This spring @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social & I are writing about the spirit of ‘76. Watch the skies.

#cdnhist #envhist

Congratulations, Dagomar!

@westernu.ca really needs to start offering science.🤓

In the past 24 hours

*book club invitation: 100% chance of scam
*talk invitation: 40% chance of scam
*media request: 20% chance of scam

What a time to be alive. If indeed I am alive & not a simulated element of some other scam.

@ledevoir.com drawing attention to the Parks Canada Library issue today: www.ledevoir.com/culture/9660...

#envhist #cdnhist #parkscanada

Applications are now open for the 2027-2028 L.M. Montgomery Institute’s Visiting Scholar Program!

The next Visiting Scholar will participate in Institute Management Committee meetings and help plan the next biennial conference in 2028, where they will also present a keynote address.

This is the best & most important thing I've ever written.

(...Of course, I always say that. What's the worst they can do - check?)

@nichecanada.bsky.social has just published my "5 minute read" about the reduction/closure of #ParksCanada library services. Take a look.

#envhist #cdnhist

niche-canada.org/2026/03/16/i...

Americans' Best Canadian Idea: ParksCanadaHistory.com American park historians created ParksCanadaHistory.com, digitizing hundreds of publications to preserve and expand public access to national parks research.

"Late in 2013, we used the NPSHistory.com model and began the process of converting Parks Canada publications into electronic editions." - Randall D. Payne and Harry Butowsky

niche-canada.org/2014/05/20/a...

#envhist #parkhistory #parkscanada #cdnhist

If only AI had been around when Spandau Ballet was writing "True."

Time for another round of "name that Timothee Chalamet Movie™️"

"I don't want to be farming okra, or things where it's like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive,' even though it's like, no one cares about this anymore. All respect to the okra farmers out there."

Becoming Green Gables In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as inspiration for Anne of Green Gables...

My book came out almost 2 years ago - 4.8 on Amazon, 4.7 on Goodreads, but who's counting? - & I just got word the 1st (& only?) review of it will come out soon.🙄

www.mqup.ca/Books/B/Beco...

Pleased as punk to see that the @cndhistassoc.bsky.social & @lmmipei.bsky.social 2026 conferences both have papers, by different scholars, that seem to be built around greengablesdiary.ca.

#cdnhist

try 50+ years:

8 double-0, 565, 7421
That’s the magic number, free to everyone,
Phone today & sail away to the island in the sun,
8 double-0, 565, 7421!

One offshoot of being on a Cormac McCarthy kick is that I start wearing corduroy shirts & tight jeans to work. Honey, where are my cowboy boots?