Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage?
A NiCHE Series
Abstract deadline: May 1, 2026
Edited by @ramya.bsky.social
NiCHE invites submissions for a blog series asking if rivers can be heritage and if so, what kind of heritage.
niche-canada.org/2026/04/08/c...
#rivers #envhist #envhum #heritage
The Brown Homestead, the oldest home in St. Catharines (c. 1796), is hiring for a YCW-funded Museum Educator and Program Assistant: thebrownhomestead.ca/careers
It was a great pleasure to work at the Homestead in the summer of 2021. Friends in St. Catharines and Niagara, please circulate widely.
My partner’s family home in St. Catharines is near land granted to Richard Pierpoint, a Black Loyalist and early Niagara settler who served in the War of 1812.
@nichecanada.bsky.social
We are accepting proposals for a resident 16-week summer research fellowship, which will investigate a topic relevant to the history of health and health care.
Find the full application details here:https://www.museumofhealthcare.ca/fellowship
#histmed #fellowship
"Contrasted Drummers", a humorous 1790s print depicting a stocky British soldier with a bass drum confronting an slender Frenchman with a much smaller drum. From the Bodleian Libraries.
Delighted to learn that my PhD dissertation has received the 2026 Research Prize from the International Society for the Research and Promotion of Wind Music.
The book version, Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars, is out early next year with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
2) "Cardboard Battlefields in 1812: The Invasion of Canada" by @jakebreadman.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/01/07/c...
#cdnhist #envhist #boardgames
Our most-read articles published in January!
Links in the thread below.
#envhist #cdnhist #urbanhistory
The tripling of Canadian military spending is coming at a huge cost to Canadian historical institutions, museums, archives, and heritage. Canada is going to be all elbows. What are we even protecting?
On Saturday, July 17th, 1943, amidst a lot of other important news, my great-grandpa made front-page-news for winning a car after hanging up on the reporter!
Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.
A powerful look at how women’s writing during the Seven Years’ War reveals the raw emotion, loss, and humanity often hidden in colonial archives. A moving reminder that behind every global conflict are intimate stories worth remembering. @tlecaque.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/02/h...
It is #BlackHistoryMonth. John Baker (d. 1871) was “perhaps the last surviving Canadian slave.” Manumitted after 2+ decades of forced labour, he enlisted in the British army, fought in the #WarOf1812, and claimed to have seen Napoleon at Waterloo.
www.biographi.ca/en/bio/baker... #BHM
“If America chose to balance peace and war on the childish resentment and antipathy which she has displayed towards our ambassador, let her blow the trumpet; and when she has learned to distinguish it as a challenge to arms, from a play thing, we shall find in her more prudence.” - A Briton, 1812
“America, like a child that has been introduced too soon into life, has conducted herself with an offensive pertness and a ridiculous dignity. She would require that England bend to her in mock-tragedy, like the giant paying his court to Tom Thumb.”
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
Butlerian Jihad NOW
New Englanders also generally have the best names:
- Elihu Luce
- Lieut. Americus Arnold
- Waldo Tucker
- Cpl. Erastus Cady
- Gustavous Meriam
A.S. Cogswell, 11th U.S. Infantry, Burlington, 17 July 1813: "We have some very good officers, but a large part of them are the most Ignorant and ugly parcel of rascals that I ever saw. Some of them are men tyrannical and swear worse than those Algerine pirates."
I was hoping there’d be some civil service jobs available upon graduation but unfortunately we’re in the worst austerity timeline and, sadly, Ontarians will simply roll over and let it happen.
He continued: “Some of our Officers had recourse to Mr. Madison’s wardrobe where they Shifted their linnen & Remained in the City until six o’clock the next morning.”
It must have felt nice to change into fresh, presidential linens after a sweltering day under the sun!
... retreated with great Precipitation and left our Troops… in quiet and peace possession of their Capital which they burned to the Ground beginning with the house of Congress, War & Intelligence Office, Mr. Maddisons house, the Dock Yard &c. until a General Conflagration ensued.”
“The American army were drawn up in Admirable Order but after the first round were put in great Confusion & disorder, only about 2000 of ours Engaged an army of 8000 & put great numbers to the Sword. the Americans made a bold Stand at first but Seeing the Gallant 85th advancing with charg’d Bayonets
I’d wager there were more Maritimers & Newfoundlanders in the Royal Marines, who also participated. Dr. John Fox, Assistant Surgeon aboard HMS Majestic, born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, witnessed the Burning firsthand. Writing to his father from Chesapeake Bay, he described the attack on Washington:
The British regiments that participated in the Burning were sent directly from Europe to North America after Napoleon was “defeated” in April 1814. Of these regiments, some previously served in the Americas, so it’s possible there were some older, American-born recruits in the ranks, but I doubt it.
I’m sorry for the delayed response! I somehow missed this in my notifications. Thank you sending this, it’s exactly what I needed.
This looks really cool
By the way... Hasphat is a student of Morrowind history. Take the chance to get a little education. And I have a few history books in here. Help yourself. You're welcome to them. No point in being part of history if you're too ignorant to understand it.
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