Christopher Moore
cmedmoore.bsky.social
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
Vital in wartime, not needed after, maybe?
"First" consulate in Greenland? When this news broke, I remembered encountering a reference to a Canadian Consulate in Greenland in the 1940s - and the 1946 Canada Year Book confirms it. Now to figure out when (and why) the first one closed! #cdnhist #cdnpoli

Canada Year Book, 1946, p. 88:
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Come hear me talk next week in the Beaches! #TOHistory
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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.
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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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.
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The Soldier’s Wife
Elizabeth Cann
1941
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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
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I certainly look intrigued in the photo in this article, eh.
Great article by Vivian Song
✌️❤️🇨🇦
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/27/t...
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.
edition.cnn.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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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.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Britain is stuck with this family. In Canada we can dispose of the whole foreign thing whenever we are ready to.
October 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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
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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/
October 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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...
October 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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.
September 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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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.
September 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Canada could easily make a big contribution on point 1.
Canada:

1- cancel the monarchy

2- ban Big Tech

#cdnpoli
Look who came with
September 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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TIL parking restrictions date back to 700 BCE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
September 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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...
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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NEW POST: Not even the notwithstanding clause can save Quebec's proposed ban on public prayer
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/not-even-t...
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.
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:03 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
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
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!

www.historysymposium.com/online-lectu...
August 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Christopher Moore's History News: Canadianizing the Streets of Toronto
Opening of Sankofa Square, Toronto
August 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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
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