Jo Mrozewski
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Jo Mrozewski
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historian-in-training
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Dominion Bureau of Statistics was created after WWI. Insurance industry lobbied for it. Before that municipalities and provinces tracked it for census (taxation, policy). eg:
April 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Have to baby them now.
April 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Remembering this for some reason. Many were heading to the territories.
February 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
And another two made my top 10 for January 2025, with the help of your coupon code in December. Thanks.
January 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
earliest I ever saw salmonberry bloom in my backyard was Jan 2, 2017, and it's been close ever since. Don't know this year b/c I'm out east at school.
January 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Signage at the visitor centre is a model of strategic communication.

What struck me, visiting the area in 2018 when land was being stripped (lesson learned from Williston), were signs on trees high above the highway showing new expected water levels. I expect all this land is underwater now.
November 22, 2024 at 3:48 AM
This 1953 report from a biologist at the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (earliest I've seen so far in Canada). Asked the same questions researchers are asking now around Svalbard: what is the effect and what to do about it.
November 20, 2024 at 7:32 PM
no danger except cardiac. heart still racing. next time this goes off next to my ear I may drop dead.
November 20, 2024 at 6:03 PM
What's with this? I thought diligent beavers finished the job. Or is this a taster menu?
November 19, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Or starting again.

A confused forsythia in Peterborough ON.
November 16, 2024 at 7:15 PM
your dad was in the Italian army? good enough

* keeping alive a small town social institution
** bonus impressionistic spelling
November 12, 2024 at 12:56 PM
banner image: climbing the SS Ohio.

In 1909 the Ohio hit an uncharted rock (now named Ohio Rock according to maritime custom) while steaming from Seattle to Alaska. The skipper ran it across the pass to the nearest beach and saved most lives.
November 11, 2024 at 4:50 PM