Daniel Samson
@ruralcolonialns.bsky.social
historian of rural colonial Nova Scotia, father, partner, lives in Niagara, works on Nova Scotia, breaths in PEI
https://danieljosephsamson.com/
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#JamesBarryDiary 10/11/1875 A very fine warm mild day. Geo. Adamson was here all day with horse and cart filling up the place before mill door with stone and gravel, But it is not finished yet, although it will do for this winter. I got a bad tumble today knocking my head against the house no bully.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 10/11/1875 A very fine warm mild day. Geo. Adamson was here all day with horse and cart filling up the place before mill door with stone and gravel, But it is not finished yet, although it will do for this winter. I got a bad tumble today knocking my head against the house no bully.
I don’t know what the hell I was dreaming last night, but I woke up with this in my head.
Jimmie Rodgers - Honeycomb ( 1957 )
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November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I don’t know what the hell I was dreaming last night, but I woke up with this in my head.
#JamesBarryDiary 9/11/1875 Dark and rainy a little most of the day. Very dirty roads now. I finished Johnny McLeod's shingles today. Donald Gunn and I started the sawmill. Fred Cunning[ham] commenced work here today. Alexander Innes making case for door and that is all his days work!!
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 9/11/1875 Dark and rainy a little most of the day. Very dirty roads now. I finished Johnny McLeod's shingles today. Donald Gunn and I started the sawmill. Fred Cunning[ham] commenced work here today. Alexander Innes making case for door and that is all his days work!!
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April 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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#JamesBarryDiary 8/11/1875 Cold last night, but this day was moderately mild for this time of the year. Some little snow falling, but melted as fast as it fell. I was grinding and drying and sawing a few shingles in the evening. Donald Gunn was here this evening. I am troubled with the cold yet.
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 8/11/1875 Cold last night, but this day was moderately mild for this time of the year. Some little snow falling, but melted as fast as it fell. I was grinding and drying and sawing a few shingles in the evening. Donald Gunn was here this evening. I am troubled with the cold yet.
#JamesBarryDiary 7/11/1875 Dark, but not very cold. Froze some last night. It is very evident that winter is coming gradually upon us. But there will be many and serious things happen before that time comes. Some folk went past here to preaching, looking pretty blue in the nebs and muffled up well.
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 7/11/1875 Dark, but not very cold. Froze some last night. It is very evident that winter is coming gradually upon us. But there will be many and serious things happen before that time comes. Some folk went past here to preaching, looking pretty blue in the nebs and muffled up well.
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U.S. billionaire financier of Cabot Links golf resort in Cape Breton is Trumpian climate denier, Mike Keiser. Now the Cabot Group wants to take West Mabou Beach provincial park for a 3rd luxury golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia. Keiser originally got his hands on the Cabot Links land for $1. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
U.S. billionaire financier of Cabot Links golf resort in Cape Breton is Trumpian climate denier, Mike Keiser. Now the Cabot Group wants to take West Mabou Beach provincial park for a 3rd luxury golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia. Keiser originally got his hands on the Cabot Links land for $1. 🧵
#JamesBarryDiary 6/11/1875 Pretty cold this morning, but the day was sunny and nice enough for the time of the year. I was busy grinding and drying all day - I am still very bad with the cold. A lot of stuff came in today. Annabella still here. Plenty of water now for grist or shingle mill. Amen.
November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 6/11/1875 Pretty cold this morning, but the day was sunny and nice enough for the time of the year. I was busy grinding and drying all day - I am still very bad with the cold. A lot of stuff came in today. Annabella still here. Plenty of water now for grist or shingle mill. Amen.
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Castles Made of Sand: As sea levels continue to rise, endangering Atlantic Canada’s coasts and a vital link between provinces, people call out for government leadership and look for new ways to protect their homes. Recent Saltscapes feature by Jeremy Hull.
Castles made of sand - Saltscapes Magazine
Sea levels rise, endangering Atlantic Canada’s coasts and a vital link between provinces
www.saltscapes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Castles Made of Sand: As sea levels continue to rise, endangering Atlantic Canada’s coasts and a vital link between provinces, people call out for government leadership and look for new ways to protect their homes. Recent Saltscapes feature by Jeremy Hull.
Canadians would too, except only normal for either (a) a party that lies a lot, or (b) a party that few people vote for because they foolishly continue, every four years, to believe (a).
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Canadians would too, except only normal for either (a) a party that lies a lot, or (b) a party that few people vote for because they foolishly continue, every four years, to believe (a).
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the budget, in all its emphasis on (and funds for) recruiting assistant professors internationally, seems completely oblivious to the fact that there are any number of candidates domestically who are as strong as anyone else. it is an interesting kind of national self-loathing.
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
the budget, in all its emphasis on (and funds for) recruiting assistant professors internationally, seems completely oblivious to the fact that there are any number of candidates domestically who are as strong as anyone else. it is an interesting kind of national self-loathing.
View from the top: Workshop for the Mannheim University Canadian Studies Network.
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
View from the top: Workshop for the Mannheim University Canadian Studies Network.
Really excellent short local-history documentary on the Niagara, St Catharines and Toronto streetcar system. Over the past decade, the St Catharines Museum has been doing fabulous community-outreach work (and doing so on a shoestring budget).
History from Here: NS&T Lakeshore Division
YouTube video by St. Catharines Museum
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November 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Really excellent short local-history documentary on the Niagara, St Catharines and Toronto streetcar system. Over the past decade, the St Catharines Museum has been doing fabulous community-outreach work (and doing so on a shoestring budget).
From 2002: "market researchers have decided that millions of baby boomers want an adventurous image and care almost nothing about putting others at risk to achieve it, so ... "
And clearly they weren't wrong.
From today: Xers and Millennials happily joining.
And clearly they weren't wrong.
From today: Xers and Millennials happily joining.
Vehicle bloat is killing us. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/transportati...
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
From 2002: "market researchers have decided that millions of baby boomers want an adventurous image and care almost nothing about putting others at risk to achieve it, so ... "
And clearly they weren't wrong.
From today: Xers and Millennials happily joining.
And clearly they weren't wrong.
From today: Xers and Millennials happily joining.
#JamesBarryDiary 5/11/1875 Dark and something colder than yesterday, but still a fine day for the time of the year. I was drying and grinding most all day, and building bridge between kiln and mill. I am troubled with the damned cold in my throat so that I cannot get my sleep complete.
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 5/11/1875 Dark and something colder than yesterday, but still a fine day for the time of the year. I was drying and grinding most all day, and building bridge between kiln and mill. I am troubled with the damned cold in my throat so that I cannot get my sleep complete.
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Inspired by Mi’kmaq History Month Emily Pictou-Roberts and Jess Wilton explore Mi’kmaq queer culture and history for our Queering Atlantic Canada Series.
Queering Mi’kma’ki: Sharing the Story of the Puoinaq
In the Mi’kmaw language, puoin (boo-oh-in) refers to a shaman or witch. In Mi’kmaki — the area we now call Atlantic Canada and parts of Maine and Québec—these puoinaq (plural of puoin) are sa…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Inspired by Mi’kmaq History Month Emily Pictou-Roberts and Jess Wilton explore Mi’kmaq queer culture and history for our Queering Atlantic Canada Series.
Wait, what?!?! How much ?!?!
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Wait, what?!?! How much ?!?!
#JamesBarryDiary 4/11/1875 Dark but warm and nice indeed. We have a considerable of a frolic today hawling slabs for kiln and house, and sawing for house; hawling stone and building wall at front of the mill and building bridge at mill door .... /1
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 4/11/1875 Dark but warm and nice indeed. We have a considerable of a frolic today hawling slabs for kiln and house, and sawing for house; hawling stone and building wall at front of the mill and building bridge at mill door .... /1
#JamesBarryDiary 3/11/1875 An ugly day again, sometimes snowing and sometimes raining. I was grinding and drying, and many other things about the premises. I am still much troubled with the cold. Rory Innes making door for house. Annabella here still. I am to have a frolic tomorrow.
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 3/11/1875 An ugly day again, sometimes snowing and sometimes raining. I was grinding and drying, and many other things about the premises. I am still much troubled with the cold. Rory Innes making door for house. Annabella here still. I am to have a frolic tomorrow.
#JamesBarryDiary 2/11/1875 An ugly day indeed; some snow falling in the forenoon and raining most of the afternoon. I finished Rogers shingles, the sign of them, and edged the most of them. I spent half the day fixing the damned gate that got wrong. Rory Innes working at the door for house.
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 2/11/1875 An ugly day indeed; some snow falling in the forenoon and raining most of the afternoon. I finished Rogers shingles, the sign of them, and edged the most of them. I spent half the day fixing the damned gate that got wrong. Rory Innes working at the door for house.
#JamesBarryDiary 1/11/1875 Froze something hard last night, but this was a beautiful day – sunny most of the time. I was grinding and poking about many things in the afternoon - making a place for my 2 little pigs in the cowhouse. John McKay's boy to ask the people to the frolic for Thursday.
November 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 1/11/1875 Froze something hard last night, but this was a beautiful day – sunny most of the time. I was grinding and poking about many things in the afternoon - making a place for my 2 little pigs in the cowhouse. John McKay's boy to ask the people to the frolic for Thursday.
#JamesBarryDiary 31/10/1875 Last day of October 1875. I may say that all the good fall weather is gone, and a fearful looking for of [sic] bad weather to commence. November's surly blasts will soon be here. Indeed this night sounds ugly enough outside, raining and blowing betimes ... /1
November 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 31/10/1875 Last day of October 1875. I may say that all the good fall weather is gone, and a fearful looking for of [sic] bad weather to commence. November's surly blasts will soon be here. Indeed this night sounds ugly enough outside, raining and blowing betimes ... /1
The other day a colleague here asked me what’s surprised me most about Germany. The answer is easy: the inter-city “hi-speed” trains are consistently late, and not just a little - very often by 2-3 hours. My colleague laughed, and said, oh, I know: I live in Cologne - I’m late almost every week.
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The other day a colleague here asked me what’s surprised me most about Germany. The answer is easy: the inter-city “hi-speed” trains are consistently late, and not just a little - very often by 2-3 hours. My colleague laughed, and said, oh, I know: I live in Cologne - I’m late almost every week.
#JamesBarryDiary 30/10/1875 Somewhat of a fine day, sun shining sometimes. All the snow away again. Cunningham was half a day, but it goes free for the frolic day – I having paid him for it. Robert Elliott and the animal was in town today and spent a lot of money and bought lot of things of course.
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 30/10/1875 Somewhat of a fine day, sun shining sometimes. All the snow away again. Cunningham was half a day, but it goes free for the frolic day – I having paid him for it. Robert Elliott and the animal was in town today and spent a lot of money and bought lot of things of course.
#JamesBarryDiary 29/11/1875 A nasty day indeed; snowing some the most of the day, but after all it only fell about half an inch that appears. No grinding today - some grain came in though. The [ water ] was rather scarce for the shingle mill to go steady. I am still bad with the cold yet.
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#JamesBarryDiary 29/11/1875 A nasty day indeed; snowing some the most of the day, but after all it only fell about half an inch that appears. No grinding today - some grain came in though. The [ water ] was rather scarce for the shingle mill to go steady. I am still bad with the cold yet.