Christopher Moore
@cmedmoore.bsky.social
Writer. Historian of things Canadian.TFC supporter. Still blogs at www.christophermoore.ca
I love this one of all your details of tariff history.
8/ To illustrate, a popular story in 1905 “Pigs is Pigs” used shipping rates to comic effect. A railway agent insists that the tariff for guinea pigs is the livestock rate, not the pet rate. Consignee won't pay the higher livestock rate. Hilarity ensues, as the uncollected guinea pigs have babies.
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I love this one of all your details of tariff history.
Vital in wartime, not needed after, maybe?
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Vital in wartime, not needed after, maybe?
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Come hear me talk next week in the Beaches! #TOHistory
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Come hear me talk next week in the Beaches! #TOHistory
Last chance today to read Canada's History's Remembrance Day feature.
Rememberance Day memorials have changed fuelled by creation of online databases that document the lives and deaths of Canada’s soldiers. Christopher Moore writes in depth about how that affects who we remember and how.
Read through the link in the comments.
Read through the link in the comments.
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Last chance today to read Canada's History's Remembrance Day feature.
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Rememberance Day memorials have changed fuelled by creation of online databases that document the lives and deaths of Canada’s soldiers. Christopher Moore writes in depth about how that affects who we remember and how.
Read through the link in the comments.
Read through the link in the comments.
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Rememberance Day memorials have changed fuelled by creation of online databases that document the lives and deaths of Canada’s soldiers. Christopher Moore writes in depth about how that affects who we remember and how.
Read through the link in the comments.
Read through the link in the comments.
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The Soldier’s Wife
Elizabeth Cann
1941
Elizabeth Cann
1941
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Soldier’s Wife
Elizabeth Cann
1941
Elizabeth Cann
1941
Thanks E!
Christopher Moore @cmedmoore.bsky.social on bias in a new Canadian history podcast.
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New podcast at the CIHE
The Toronto organization called the Canadian Institute for Historical Education has drawn my attention to its new podcast History Matters ...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Thanks E!
The constitution and Commonwealth will survive a couple of private citizens watching their local team.
They really abandoned the commonwealth hey
I’ve got serious constitutional questions now
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The constitution and Commonwealth will survive a couple of private citizens watching their local team.
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I certainly look intrigued in the photo in this article, eh.
Great article by Vivian Song
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Great article by Vivian Song
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Are American tourists easily distinguishable from Canadians? Let the debate begin | CNN
Travel pros weigh in on the differences between travelers from the United States and Canada. There are definitely distinctions, they say.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I certainly look intrigued in the photo in this article, eh.
Great article by Vivian Song
✌️❤️🇨🇦
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/27/t...
Great article by Vivian Song
✌️❤️🇨🇦
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/27/t...
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This is a prime example of why we need caucus selection and removal of leaders. Rustad claims a democratic mandate from the party membership as he drives the party into the ground and believing he can't be removed. This is not how parties are supposed to operate in our system.
His own executives want him gone. But B.C. Conservative leader Rustad won't quit
VICTORIA - Almost one year ago to the day, John Rustad was on the brink of becoming premier of British Columbia.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This is a prime example of why we need caucus selection and removal of leaders. Rustad claims a democratic mandate from the party membership as he drives the party into the ground and believing he can't be removed. This is not how parties are supposed to operate in our system.
Britain is stuck with this family. In Canada we can dispose of the whole foreign thing whenever we are ready to.
Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde
Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde
After years of drip-fed revelations, we might as well face it. This is a family elevated by birthright: they’re stuck with him and so are we, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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October 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Britain is stuck with this family. In Canada we can dispose of the whole foreign thing whenever we are ready to.
There is no Nobel prize in History, but Joel Mokyr, who shares this year's prize in Economics, is really a historian.
Four items by Mokyr: the first is a topic already recognised by the Nobel, but the other three are less well known areas of Mokyr: his study of the Irish famine, his explanation of why the Dutch Republic was not the first, and his artisan theory of the Industrial Revolution.
October 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
There is no Nobel prize in History, but Joel Mokyr, who shares this year's prize in Economics, is really a historian.
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"I wanted... to reveal a little of the intellectual challenges and partisan realities that shaped the electoral fortunes and fate of this one good person, John Norquay."
Read the full Q&A with Gerald Friesen on our website now: dafoefoundation.ca/news/
Read the full Q&A with Gerald Friesen on our website now: dafoefoundation.ca/news/
October 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"I wanted... to reveal a little of the intellectual challenges and partisan realities that shaped the electoral fortunes and fate of this one good person, John Norquay."
Read the full Q&A with Gerald Friesen on our website now: dafoefoundation.ca/news/
Read the full Q&A with Gerald Friesen on our website now: dafoefoundation.ca/news/
Toronto Public Library too. Very useful at times.
Ok #halisky a colleague just pointed out that you can get access to ProQuest with your Hfx Public Library account.
I didn't know this, and I suspect some of you are nerdy enough to value this and might not know either?
www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/blogs/post/b...
I didn't know this, and I suspect some of you are nerdy enough to value this and might not know either?
www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/blogs/post/b...
October 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Toronto Public Library too. Very useful at times.
Amber Morley in Ward 3. Progressive beachhead.
I remember Yvan Baker completely misrepresenting what our organization said to him in response to a provincial “distracted pedestrian” law he was trying to get onto the agenda when he was a Liberal MPP.
Etobicoke politicians, man.
Etobicoke politicians, man.
September 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Amber Morley in Ward 3. Progressive beachhead.
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BONJOUR ET BIENVENUE FC SUPRA!!
The brand identity of the #CanPL's ninth team, and first in Québec, has been unveiled at a league event in Laval.
The name is a direct callback to the team that played in the Canadian Soccer League in the 80s and 90s.
The brand identity of the #CanPL's ninth team, and first in Québec, has been unveiled at a league event in Laval.
The name is a direct callback to the team that played in the Canadian Soccer League in the 80s and 90s.
September 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
BONJOUR ET BIENVENUE FC SUPRA!!
The brand identity of the #CanPL's ninth team, and first in Québec, has been unveiled at a league event in Laval.
The name is a direct callback to the team that played in the Canadian Soccer League in the 80s and 90s.
The brand identity of the #CanPL's ninth team, and first in Québec, has been unveiled at a league event in Laval.
The name is a direct callback to the team that played in the Canadian Soccer League in the 80s and 90s.
Canada could easily make a big contribution on point 1.
Look who came with
September 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Canada could easily make a big contribution on point 1.
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TIL parking restrictions date back to 700 BCE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
September 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
TIL parking restrictions date back to 700 BCE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
If you subscribed to Canada's History like you oughta, you could already reading my Remembrance Day story -- and feeling that lump forming in your throat. christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com/2025/09/this...
This Month at Canada's History: Remembrance and me
The cover story at Canada's History magazine for October-November is a Remembrance Day story -- and it's mine. Here's the cover. Story no...
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September 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
If you subscribed to Canada's History like you oughta, you could already reading my Remembrance Day story -- and feeling that lump forming in your throat. christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com/2025/09/this...
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NEW POST: Not even the notwithstanding clause can save Quebec's proposed ban on public prayer
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Not even the notwithstanding clause can save Quebec's proposed ban on public prayer
Quebec’s “Minister for Secularism” has promised to ban public prayer.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
NEW POST: Not even the notwithstanding clause can save Quebec's proposed ban on public prayer
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Reposting one I screwed up yesterday: celebrating the opening of Sankofa Square in Toronto and diversifying the official face of T.O. tinyurl.com/57r3c64c
Canadianizing the Streets of Toronto
Great to see coverage of crowds of Torontonians coming out to celebrate the dedication of Sankofa Square in the heart of Toronto, recently ...
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August 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reposting one I screwed up yesterday: celebrating the opening of Sankofa Square in Toronto and diversifying the official face of T.O. tinyurl.com/57r3c64c
Impressive range this symposium has. Free and online or in person in T.O.
Our fall schedule is finalized and ready for registrations!
All talks will livestream and be recorded on our YouTube channel.
All are offered for FREE!
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All talks will livestream and be recorded on our YouTube channel.
All are offered for FREE!
www.historysymposium.com/online-lectu...
August 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Impressive range this symposium has. Free and online or in person in T.O.
Christopher Moore's History News: Canadianizing the Streets of Toronto
Opening of Sankofa Square, Toronto
Opening of Sankofa Square, Toronto
August 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Christopher Moore's History News: Canadianizing the Streets of Toronto
Opening of Sankofa Square, Toronto
Opening of Sankofa Square, Toronto
Well done. Good book.
It was a pleasure to talk the 1825 Miramichi Fire not just in Miramichi, but in St Paul’s Anglican Church, which had survived the fire.
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August 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Well done. Good book.
What are the top 5 main tracts, say? Honestly interested.
for my sins, I'm re-reading the main tracts in support of national and nationalist Canadian history published in the 1990s, and what is striking is how very, very little they have to say about histories of Indigenous people or colonialism.
August 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
What are the top 5 main tracts, say? Honestly interested.