Kevin Leonard
@repusvek27.bsky.social
Retired | Anthropological Archaeology PhD, 1996, University of Toronto | husband to Sandra | father of two amazing daughters | one love
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Kevin Leonard
@repusvek27.bsky.social
· Mar 28
Before getting into archaeology, I spent 14 months north of 60° as a Meteorological Technician for Environment Canada. In May and June of ’85, I was at the High Arctic Weather Station in Mould Bay, Prince Patrick Island. King, the heroic station dog, was disabled from run-ins with polar bears.
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Dresden, Ontario. A woman emerged from a salon, which is partly visible on the right of the frame, to assure me that the phone works. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak TriX)
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Dresden, Ontario. A woman emerged from a salon, which is partly visible on the right of the frame, to assure me that the phone works. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak TriX)
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Houses on Gerrard Street, Toronto, circa 1918
Artist: Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970)
Medium: Oil painting, on board
#lawrenharris #winter #snow #1910s #oilpainting #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
Artist: Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970)
Medium: Oil painting, on board
#lawrenharris #winter #snow #1910s #oilpainting #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Houses on Gerrard Street, Toronto, circa 1918
Artist: Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970)
Medium: Oil painting, on board
#lawrenharris #winter #snow #1910s #oilpainting #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
Artist: Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970)
Medium: Oil painting, on board
#lawrenharris #winter #snow #1910s #oilpainting #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
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The pyrite from the chunks hasn't survived, there's no evidence either sparked this particular fire, and there's no flint with sparking traces. The evidence of firestarting is only indirect. And that's no surprise: Evidence for sparking fires is hard to find!
www.johnhawks.net/p/sparking-a...
www.johnhawks.net/p/sparking-a...
Sparking ancient fires
New research helps to show the challenges of documenting ancient firemaking
www.johnhawks.net
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The pyrite from the chunks hasn't survived, there's no evidence either sparked this particular fire, and there's no flint with sparking traces. The evidence of firestarting is only indirect. And that's no surprise: Evidence for sparking fires is hard to find!
www.johnhawks.net/p/sparking-a...
www.johnhawks.net/p/sparking-a...
Frequent reports of museum CEOs bullying employees in Canada over the past decade suggest that bad behaviour is not only tolerated but rewarded in these environments. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Report alleges national museum CEO mistreated staff, called leadership team 'sluts' | CBC News
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Harriet Solloway found that Marie Chapman, who holds the most senior job at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, engaged in a pattern of behav...
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Frequent reports of museum CEOs bullying employees in Canada over the past decade suggest that bad behaviour is not only tolerated but rewarded in these environments. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Odd to say but I miss ❄️ storm closures since I moved from NB to TO. #nostalgia
Storm Closure
The Fundy Geological Museum will be closed today, Wednesday December 3, 2025, due to poor weather and road conditions.
The Fundy Geological Museum will be closed today, Wednesday December 3, 2025, due to poor weather and road conditions.
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Odd to say but I miss ❄️ storm closures since I moved from NB to TO. #nostalgia
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Big Ben Hawaiian Band - Hey Jude [UK, Easy/Hawaiian/Club](1970) Beatles cover
https://redd.it/10bopp0
https://youtu.be/PBrdnAhthDk
https://redd.it/10bopp0
https://youtu.be/PBrdnAhthDk
Big Ben Hawaiian Band - Hey Jude [UK, Easy/Hawaiian/Club](1970) Beatles cover
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Big Ben Hawaiian Band - Hey Jude [UK, Easy/Hawaiian/Club](1970) Beatles cover
https://redd.it/10bopp0
https://youtu.be/PBrdnAhthDk
https://redd.it/10bopp0
https://youtu.be/PBrdnAhthDk
This is also true for Canada‘s western high arctic: Prince Patrick Island for example. More accessible than Antarctica too.
What makes Antarctica so useful to archaeologists? #AntarcticaDay
It was never occupied by primates, so may be the perfect 'natural laboratory' for comparing human (or other primate)-made #lithic tools with naturally fractured stones.
🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
It was never occupied by primates, so may be the perfect 'natural laboratory' for comparing human (or other primate)-made #lithic tools with naturally fractured stones.
🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This is also true for Canada‘s western high arctic: Prince Patrick Island for example. More accessible than Antarctica too.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen 🎸
BTO, Not Fragile, (backed by Rush), Moncton, 1975
Supertramp, Breakfast in America, Moncton, 1979
David Bowie, Serious Moonlight, Edmonton, 1983
Tina Turner, Private Dancer, Calgary, 1985
The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang, Magnetic Hill, 2005
BTO, Not Fragile, (backed by Rush), Moncton, 1975
Supertramp, Breakfast in America, Moncton, 1979
David Bowie, Serious Moonlight, Edmonton, 1983
Tina Turner, Private Dancer, Calgary, 1985
The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang, Magnetic Hill, 2005
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen 🎸
BTO, Not Fragile, (backed by Rush), Moncton, 1975
Supertramp, Breakfast in America, Moncton, 1979
David Bowie, Serious Moonlight, Edmonton, 1983
Tina Turner, Private Dancer, Calgary, 1985
The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang, Magnetic Hill, 2005
BTO, Not Fragile, (backed by Rush), Moncton, 1975
Supertramp, Breakfast in America, Moncton, 1979
David Bowie, Serious Moonlight, Edmonton, 1983
Tina Turner, Private Dancer, Calgary, 1985
The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang, Magnetic Hill, 2005
With so many delays and off-route streetcars, TTC in Toronto should extend the fare period from 2 to 3 hours for the winter 🙏#MayorOliviaChow
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
With so many delays and off-route streetcars, TTC in Toronto should extend the fare period from 2 to 3 hours for the winter 🙏#MayorOliviaChow
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Using thousands of laser blasts, we measure how the ratio of Mg to Ca changes. This ratio tracks with temperature. So, by looking at what this ratio was when the oyster died, we can determine what seasons these oysters were collected by enslaved and Free Black communities on the Georgia coast 2/3
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Using thousands of laser blasts, we measure how the ratio of Mg to Ca changes. This ratio tracks with temperature. So, by looking at what this ratio was when the oyster died, we can determine what seasons these oysters were collected by enslaved and Free Black communities on the Georgia coast 2/3
Many rivers to cross ❤️
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Many rivers to cross ❤️
Major dip in U.S. sales has Christmas tree growers bracing for down year
Mos def gonna pick up a real tree this year to support the 🎄 growers in the Maritimes
Mos def gonna pick up a real tree this year to support the 🎄 growers in the Maritimes
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Major dip in U.S. sales has Christmas tree growers bracing for down year
Mos def gonna pick up a real tree this year to support the 🎄 growers in the Maritimes
Mos def gonna pick up a real tree this year to support the 🎄 growers in the Maritimes
So cool how you get slush forming from the iced mug
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
So cool how you get slush forming from the iced mug
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The city of Toronto should absolutely throw a parade for these Blue Jays!!!
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The city of Toronto should absolutely throw a parade for these Blue Jays!!!
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OK, I'm all stocked up. No matter how many trick or treaters we get, we are not going to run out of oysters this year.
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
OK, I'm all stocked up. No matter how many trick or treaters we get, we are not going to run out of oysters this year.
My neighborhood 🤗
Gerrard St. East - from Chinatown east to the tracks - will be facing changes as the Ontario Line gets developed. Photographer Peter MacCallum captures its current state. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Gerrard Street East Part 1, 2023-2024 - Spacing Toronto
In the spring of 2023, a friend who was familiar with my earlier documentary photography of the city’s main streets suggested that I consider doing a project on the highly varied streetscape of Gerrar...
spacing.ca
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My neighborhood 🤗
A proactive move by NB’s Minister of Tourism, Heritage and Culture augurs well for the province’s extraordinary heritage resources.🏺 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ministers Island board to take ownership of island from the province | CBC News
Tourism Minister Isabelle Thériault says details are being worked out for passing ownership of provincially owned Ministers Island to the charity that's been running it.
www.cbc.ca
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A proactive move by NB’s Minister of Tourism, Heritage and Culture augurs well for the province’s extraordinary heritage resources.🏺 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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My sister's cat is getting her looks ready for Halloween.
October 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
My sister's cat is getting her looks ready for Halloween.
Illicit digging on archaeological sites 🏺 in the Martimes ( #NB, #NS #PEI ) by detectorists has boomed in the past decade - part of a global trend - but coinciding locally with the the long-running TV series on Oak Island. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Parks Canada warns against unauthorized digs at parks along N.B.-N.S. border | CBC News
Parks Canada is raising the alarm over unauthorized archaeological activities at Fort Beauséjour–Fort Cumberland National Historic Site and Beaubassin and Fort Lawrence National Historic Sites.
www.cbc.ca
October 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Illicit digging on archaeological sites 🏺 in the Martimes ( #NB, #NS #PEI ) by detectorists has boomed in the past decade - part of a global trend - but coinciding locally with the the long-running TV series on Oak Island. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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We are in Refuge Harbour, Baffin Island, Nunavut.
This will be the furthest north I’ve travelled. Around 71°N
This will be the furthest north I’ve travelled. Around 71°N
September 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
We are in Refuge Harbour, Baffin Island, Nunavut.
This will be the furthest north I’ve travelled. Around 71°N
This will be the furthest north I’ve travelled. Around 71°N
Global warming is providing archaeologists 🏺 with examples of environmental challenges people and wildlife faced at the end of the Pleistocene.
A new study found that 75 streams in Alaska’s Brooks Range have turned orange due to thawing permafrost, which releases metals like iron, aluminum and cadmium that exceed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency safety thresholds for aquatic life.
Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities
The writer John McPhee once described Alaska’s Salmon River as having “the clearest, purest water” he’d ever seen. Today, that same river runs orange with toxic metals unleashed by thawing…
news.mongabay.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Global warming is providing archaeologists 🏺 with examples of environmental challenges people and wildlife faced at the end of the Pleistocene.
🏺 👏 Educating the public this way could reduce metal detector use / pot hunting. Proactive policy that could benefit other jurisdictions.
SANTA FE, NM: New Mexico has launched a free Archaeology Field Training Program for state residents, running this month through early 2026. Choose the two-week Field Technician track or the Supervisor track, followed by a paid three-week field experience.
Read more: buff.ly/kpka2Rf
Read more: buff.ly/kpka2Rf
New Mexico launches free Archaeology Field Training Program for residents
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico has launched a free Archaeology Field Training Program to provide state residents with skills to work on archeological projects. The primary goal, according…
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September 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🏺 👏 Educating the public this way could reduce metal detector use / pot hunting. Proactive policy that could benefit other jurisdictions.
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"Das Fahrrad mit Beiwagen, eine praktische Neuheit zum Mitnehmen von Kindern bei Ausflügen, in den Strassen Berlins."
(The bicycle with sidecar, a practical novelty for taking children on excursions, in the streets of Berlin).
1927.
(The bicycle with sidecar, a practical novelty for taking children on excursions, in the streets of Berlin).
1927.
September 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"Das Fahrrad mit Beiwagen, eine praktische Neuheit zum Mitnehmen von Kindern bei Ausflügen, in den Strassen Berlins."
(The bicycle with sidecar, a practical novelty for taking children on excursions, in the streets of Berlin).
1927.
(The bicycle with sidecar, a practical novelty for taking children on excursions, in the streets of Berlin).
1927.