Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦
@alanmaceachern.bsky.social
Researcher, writer, & teacher of stuff Canadian, historical, & environmental.
https://www.mqup.ca/maceachern--alan-contributor-106525.php
https://www.mqup.ca/maceachern--alan-contributor-106525.php
Your annual reminder that 🍁 were whale blower-uppers well before 🗽 were. We just didn't get television until 1990, so couldn't go viral.
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Your annual reminder that 🍁 were whale blower-uppers well before 🗽 were. We just didn't get television until 1990, so couldn't go viral.
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
#itsacanadianfact
Charlottetown Guardian, 7 May 1959.
islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/ob...
And you know what that means:
an update to the Canadian History & Environment series tower of power.
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #cdnhist
an update to the Canadian History & Environment series tower of power.
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #cdnhist
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
And you know what that means:
an update to the Canadian History & Environment series tower of power.
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #cdnhist
an update to the Canadian History & Environment series tower of power.
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
#envhist #cdnhist
Informed, inspiring text. Beautiful, illuminating pix.
Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Informed, inspiring text. Beautiful, illuminating pix.
Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social
press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...
🦞 1 place, 3 events, no waiting:
Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
Canadian Historical Association, 1-3 June
event.fourwaves.com/cha-shc-2026...
Atlantic Canada Studies, 3-5 June
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11...
#cdnhist
Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
Canadian Historical Association, 1-3 June
event.fourwaves.com/cha-shc-2026...
Atlantic Canada Studies, 3-5 June
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11...
#cdnhist
CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
niche-canada.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🦞 1 place, 3 events, no waiting:
Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
Canadian Historical Association, 1-3 June
event.fourwaves.com/cha-shc-2026...
Atlantic Canada Studies, 3-5 June
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11...
#cdnhist
Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
Canadian Historical Association, 1-3 June
event.fourwaves.com/cha-shc-2026...
Atlantic Canada Studies, 3-5 June
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11...
#cdnhist
Reposted by Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦
56 yrs ago today, Canadian climatologist Kenneth Hare gives a talk "Carbon Dioxide and All That" at the University of Toronto.
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
November 10, 1969 - “Carbon Dioxide and All That” - All Our Yesterdays
Fifty six years ago, on this day, November 10th, 1969, climatologist Kenneth Hare gave a talk titled “Carbon Dioxide and All That”. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 324ppm. As of 2025, when...
allouryesterdays.info
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
56 yrs ago today, Canadian climatologist Kenneth Hare gives a talk "Carbon Dioxide and All That" at the University of Toronto.
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
Fun fact- Hare was in the audience in 1938 when Guy Callendar spoke...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/09/n...
Hope the historians out there have Ian McEwan’s future-fiction What We Can Know on their Christmas reading. Escape & not escape.
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hope the historians out there have Ian McEwan’s future-fiction What We Can Know on their Christmas reading. Escape & not escape.
Reposted by Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦
Today we are highlighting an excerpt from the latest book in our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Mountain Voices, in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada
"Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...
"Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...
Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan
Facing frostbite or storm entrapment, Alison Criscitiello chose frostbite, later returning to Mount Logan for ice-core research revealing past climate secrets.
niche-canada.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today we are highlighting an excerpt from the latest book in our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Mountain Voices, in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada
"Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...
"Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...
What's been the most exasperating Jays news in the 3 days since the World Series?
That Kirk, Guerrero, Gimenez, & Clement wuz all robbed Golden Gloves (but hey, Ty France won!?) or that Bichette, Scherzer, IKF, Bassitt, & Diminguez (&, oh, France) are all free agents?
That Kirk, Guerrero, Gimenez, & Clement wuz all robbed Golden Gloves (but hey, Ty France won!?) or that Bichette, Scherzer, IKF, Bassitt, & Diminguez (&, oh, France) are all free agents?
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What's been the most exasperating Jays news in the 3 days since the World Series?
That Kirk, Guerrero, Gimenez, & Clement wuz all robbed Golden Gloves (but hey, Ty France won!?) or that Bichette, Scherzer, IKF, Bassitt, & Diminguez (&, oh, France) are all free agents?
That Kirk, Guerrero, Gimenez, & Clement wuz all robbed Golden Gloves (but hey, Ty France won!?) or that Bichette, Scherzer, IKF, Bassitt, & Diminguez (&, oh, France) are all free agents?
I got home just after my family had finished dinner. *Just* after. Food had been put in the fridge for me a minute earlier.
Solve an argument: Was this “dinner” or “leftovers”? Does dinner become leftovers as soon as the fridge door closes?
Solve an argument: Was this “dinner” or “leftovers”? Does dinner become leftovers as soon as the fridge door closes?
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I got home just after my family had finished dinner. *Just* after. Food had been put in the fridge for me a minute earlier.
Solve an argument: Was this “dinner” or “leftovers”? Does dinner become leftovers as soon as the fridge door closes?
Solve an argument: Was this “dinner” or “leftovers”? Does dinner become leftovers as soon as the fridge door closes?
Just submitted a grant that asked for recent "contributions to training" - MA & PhD supervisions.
My list was of histories of kudzu, snow, highways, oil & gas dev, sand sucking, alternative service work, NASA missions, the blind in nature, POW camps, & yellow fever.
History prof = no comfort zone.
My list was of histories of kudzu, snow, highways, oil & gas dev, sand sucking, alternative service work, NASA missions, the blind in nature, POW camps, & yellow fever.
History prof = no comfort zone.
November 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Just submitted a grant that asked for recent "contributions to training" - MA & PhD supervisions.
My list was of histories of kudzu, snow, highways, oil & gas dev, sand sucking, alternative service work, NASA missions, the blind in nature, POW camps, & yellow fever.
History prof = no comfort zone.
My list was of histories of kudzu, snow, highways, oil & gas dev, sand sucking, alternative service work, NASA missions, the blind in nature, POW camps, & yellow fever.
History prof = no comfort zone.
A slow, bluesy “Ok Blue Jays” - Sarah Harmer? Diana Krall? - running through my head today.
November 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A slow, bluesy “Ok Blue Jays” - Sarah Harmer? Diana Krall? - running through my head today.
Springer forward, fall balk
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Springer forward, fall balk
Whatever happens: what a great Jays season.
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Whatever happens: what a great Jays season.
Giving off some Normanne Bates of Green Gables energy handing out candy. The kids keep walking.
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Giving off some Normanne Bates of Green Gables energy handing out candy. The kids keep walking.
“So you could have gone to bed after 3 pitches?”
October 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
“So you could have gone to bed after 3 pitches?”
We're accepting applications until 30 November, but *today* is the last day to apply if you want a chance to win $250 worth of books in the UBC Press Nature | History | Society series.
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
niche-canada.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
We're accepting applications until 30 November, but *today* is the last day to apply if you want a chance to win $250 worth of books in the UBC Press Nature | History | Society series.
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
Reposted by Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦
Well this is a gut punch.
I was just extolling the virtues of his books to my tutorial students this week. What a loss for the field and his family.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I was just extolling the virtues of his books to my tutorial students this week. What a loss for the field and his family.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Tim Cook, chief historian at Canadian War Museum, dies | CBC News
Tim Cook, the chief historian at the Canadian War Museum and the country’s “pre-eminent military historian,” has died, the museum announced Sunday.
www.cbc.ca
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Well this is a gut punch.
I was just extolling the virtues of his books to my tutorial students this week. What a loss for the field and his family.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I was just extolling the virtues of his books to my tutorial students this week. What a loss for the field and his family.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ok, you don't want Ontario to quote that 1987 Reagan radio address? Fine. How about this 1988 one?
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Ok, you don't want Ontario to quote that 1987 Reagan radio address? Fine. How about this 1988 one?
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
Taking this break from grant writing to show Grant writing. Grant-writing, amirite? My mind's gone. There's just nothing. At this point, I'd give you $10,000 to give me $10,000.
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Taking this break from grant writing to show Grant writing. Grant-writing, amirite? My mind's gone. There's just nothing. At this point, I'd give you $10,000 to give me $10,000.
Reposted by Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦
To encourage early applications:
Thx to the good folks at UBC Press, 1 lucky person who applies *by 28 October* & ends up coming to CHESS will receive $250 worth of books in the Nature | History | Society series - winner's choice!
www.ubcpress.ca/nature-histo...
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
Thx to the good folks at UBC Press, 1 lucky person who applies *by 28 October* & ends up coming to CHESS will receive $250 worth of books in the Nature | History | Society series - winner's choice!
www.ubcpress.ca/nature-histo...
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
niche-canada.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
To encourage early applications:
Thx to the good folks at UBC Press, 1 lucky person who applies *by 28 October* & ends up coming to CHESS will receive $250 worth of books in the Nature | History | Society series - winner's choice!
www.ubcpress.ca/nature-histo...
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
Thx to the good folks at UBC Press, 1 lucky person who applies *by 28 October* & ends up coming to CHESS will receive $250 worth of books in the Nature | History | Society series - winner's choice!
www.ubcpress.ca/nature-histo...
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
🔥Today, Canada designated the Miramichi Fire as being of national historic significance.🔥
www.canada.ca/en/parks-can...
www.canada.ca/en/parks-can...
Government of Canada recognizes 11 new designations of national historic significance - Canada.ca
Government of Canada recognizes 11 new designations of national historic significance
www.canada.ca
October 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
🔥Today, Canada designated the Miramichi Fire as being of national historic significance.🔥
www.canada.ca/en/parks-can...
www.canada.ca/en/parks-can...
To encourage early applications:
Thx to the good folks at UBC Press, 1 lucky person who applies *by 28 October* & ends up coming to CHESS will receive $250 worth of books in the Nature | History | Society series - winner's choice!
www.ubcpress.ca/nature-histo...
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
Thx to the good folks at UBC Press, 1 lucky person who applies *by 28 October* & ends up coming to CHESS will receive $250 worth of books in the Nature | History | Society series - winner's choice!
www.ubcpress.ca/nature-histo...
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
niche-canada.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
To encourage early applications:
Thx to the good folks at UBC Press, 1 lucky person who applies *by 28 October* & ends up coming to CHESS will receive $250 worth of books in the Nature | History | Society series - winner's choice!
www.ubcpress.ca/nature-histo...
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
Thx to the good folks at UBC Press, 1 lucky person who applies *by 28 October* & ends up coming to CHESS will receive $250 worth of books in the Nature | History | Society series - winner's choice!
www.ubcpress.ca/nature-histo...
#envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist
Remembering the last pitch that a Jays player faced in the World Series.
I was bartending at the Queen's Grad Club when Joe Carter hit his homer. There's no procedure for such bedlam. "Free beer for the house!" I may have shouted. All 3 floors. Later, I sheepishly phoned my manager.
I was bartending at the Queen's Grad Club when Joe Carter hit his homer. There's no procedure for such bedlam. "Free beer for the house!" I may have shouted. All 3 floors. Later, I sheepishly phoned my manager.
October 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Remembering the last pitch that a Jays player faced in the World Series.
I was bartending at the Queen's Grad Club when Joe Carter hit his homer. There's no procedure for such bedlam. "Free beer for the house!" I may have shouted. All 3 floors. Later, I sheepishly phoned my manager.
I was bartending at the Queen's Grad Club when Joe Carter hit his homer. There's no procedure for such bedlam. "Free beer for the house!" I may have shouted. All 3 floors. Later, I sheepishly phoned my manager.