Richard Yeomans
@richrray.bsky.social
History PhD • Historian interested in science and settler colonialism, colonial colleges, and resource regulations in Atlantic Canada • QA Officer at Library and Archives Canada • sometimes people call me Murray (he/him)
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CFP
Atlantic Canada Studies Conference
From Harbour to Horizon: Recharting Atlantic Canada Studies
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from 3-5 June, 2026
The deadline for submission of proposals is December 19, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/conferences-...
Atlantic Canada Studies Conference
From Harbour to Horizon: Recharting Atlantic Canada Studies
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from 3-5 June, 2026
The deadline for submission of proposals is December 19, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/conferences-...
October 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
CFP
Atlantic Canada Studies Conference
From Harbour to Horizon: Recharting Atlantic Canada Studies
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from 3-5 June, 2026
The deadline for submission of proposals is December 19, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/conferences-...
Atlantic Canada Studies Conference
From Harbour to Horizon: Recharting Atlantic Canada Studies
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from 3-5 June, 2026
The deadline for submission of proposals is December 19, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/conferences-...
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Happening tomorrow at the Fredericton Region Museum: Greg Sprague joins the FRM's speaker series to discuss how faculty at @discoverunb.bsky.social lead the institution and the country into the information age. All are welcome - admission by donation.
October 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Happening tomorrow at the Fredericton Region Museum: Greg Sprague joins the FRM's speaker series to discuss how faculty at @discoverunb.bsky.social lead the institution and the country into the information age. All are welcome - admission by donation.
Historians that create personal database projects using only URL links to archival repositories and their online materials… import the reference information too. Internet URLs are not forever… Software becomes obsolete.
October 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Historians that create personal database projects using only URL links to archival repositories and their online materials… import the reference information too. Internet URLs are not forever… Software becomes obsolete.
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Lovely walk along the Nashwaak today with @richrray.bsky.social, fall colours are really coming in spectacularly.
September 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Lovely walk along the Nashwaak today with @richrray.bsky.social, fall colours are really coming in spectacularly.
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Acadiensis is proud to announce a special forum on The Marshall Decision @ 25: Honouring the Future of Peace and Friendship Treaties.
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September 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Acadiensis is proud to announce a special forum on The Marshall Decision @ 25: Honouring the Future of Peace and Friendship Treaties.
For more information click: acadiensis.wordpress...
For more information click: acadiensis.wordpress...
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I love the memories this post has generated in the comments. Did you grow up with dulce (edible seaweed) like I did?
Thanks to @richrray.bsky.social for pulling some stories out of the archives for this fun piece!
Thanks to @richrray.bsky.social for pulling some stories out of the archives for this fun piece!
Today @richrray.bsky.social shares a brief history of dulce in in New Brunswick.
"Dark Harbour ... emerged as the dulse capital of the world, an industry likewise made possible by its unique geography and the Fundy tides."
niche-canada.org/2025/09/18/t...
#envhist #coastalhistory #cdnhist
"Dark Harbour ... emerged as the dulse capital of the world, an industry likewise made possible by its unique geography and the Fundy tides."
niche-canada.org/2025/09/18/t...
#envhist #coastalhistory #cdnhist
“The Tang of Ocean Spray”: A Brief History of Dulse in New Brunswick
Dark Harbour’s geography fostered fishing, herring, and dulse industries.
niche-canada.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I love the memories this post has generated in the comments. Did you grow up with dulce (edible seaweed) like I did?
Thanks to @richrray.bsky.social for pulling some stories out of the archives for this fun piece!
Thanks to @richrray.bsky.social for pulling some stories out of the archives for this fun piece!
New from me on @nichecanada.bsky.social: a very brief history of dulse in NB
Today @richrray.bsky.social shares a brief history of dulce in in New Brunswick.
"Dark Harbour ... emerged as the dulse capital of the world, an industry likewise made possible by its unique geography and the Fundy tides."
niche-canada.org/2025/09/18/t...
#envhist #coastalhistory #cdnhist
"Dark Harbour ... emerged as the dulse capital of the world, an industry likewise made possible by its unique geography and the Fundy tides."
niche-canada.org/2025/09/18/t...
#envhist #coastalhistory #cdnhist
“The Tang of Ocean Spray”: A Brief History of Dulse in New Brunswick
Dark Harbour’s geography fostered fishing, herring, and dulse industries.
niche-canada.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
New from me on @nichecanada.bsky.social: a very brief history of dulse in NB
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We're Baaa-aack!!
On the blog ... Michael Boudreau welcomes us to the 2025-2026 academic year with "'one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country': The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942":
On the blog ... Michael Boudreau welcomes us to the 2025-2026 academic year with "'one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country': The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942":
“one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country”: The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942
By Michael Boudreau[1] John Arthur Oliver, age sixty-three, was charged with the murder of Sgt. Herbert Lobb, a member of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. on the afternoon of Saturday, December 2…
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September 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We're Baaa-aack!!
On the blog ... Michael Boudreau welcomes us to the 2025-2026 academic year with "'one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country': The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942":
On the blog ... Michael Boudreau welcomes us to the 2025-2026 academic year with "'one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country': The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942":
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Please check out the following Call for Contributors for The Oar: New Brunswick's Popular History Magazine.
Call for Contributions for The Oar: New Brunswick’s Popular History Magazine
Since 1985, when it began as a quarterly newsletter for the Fredericton Region Museum, The Officer’s Quarters has been an important part of the work of the York-Sunbury Historical Society in docume…
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August 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Please check out the following Call for Contributors for The Oar: New Brunswick's Popular History Magazine.
First CfP for a new publication. Interested in writing New Brunswick history? Consider submitting a proposal for a short essay, and avoid the hell that is peer-review. Grad students highly encouraged! Please feel free to share.
Our first Call for Papers is live! If you are interested in writing the history of New Brunswick, engaging with popular audiences, and supporting small museums, then we would love to hear from you! Proposals for submissions are due 30 September 2025. See below for details:
August 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
First CfP for a new publication. Interested in writing New Brunswick history? Consider submitting a proposal for a short essay, and avoid the hell that is peer-review. Grad students highly encouraged! Please feel free to share.
Thanks @saraspike.bsky.social for sharing this incredible view with me today - a great place to chat about wildflowers, history, and dulse.
August 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Thanks @saraspike.bsky.social for sharing this incredible view with me today - a great place to chat about wildflowers, history, and dulse.
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Job ad: history of healthcare and health equity, jointly at Dalhousie & University of King's College (tenure-stream, junior/mid-career): dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19481
Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity
Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health EquityDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYand theUNIVERSITY OF KING’S COLLEGEDalhousie University and the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scoti...
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August 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Job ad: history of healthcare and health equity, jointly at Dalhousie & University of King's College (tenure-stream, junior/mid-career): dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19481
From staying the blazes home to staying out of the woods in Nova Scotia. Also, accidental urn ban 😂
August 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
From staying the blazes home to staying out of the woods in Nova Scotia. Also, accidental urn ban 😂
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“Costume Magic” presents a runway of 1940s fashion - historic photographs from Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore come alive.
Heritage Village
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July 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“Costume Magic” presents a runway of 1940s fashion - historic photographs from Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore come alive.
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I was asked to write about my local section of the Trans Canada Trail. Here is my short essay called "Remembering the Blueberry Express," about rail to trail along the coast of Nova Scotia tctrail.ca/stories/reme...
#envhist #cdnhist @transcanadatrail.bsky.social
#envhist #cdnhist @transcanadatrail.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I was asked to write about my local section of the Trans Canada Trail. Here is my short essay called "Remembering the Blueberry Express," about rail to trail along the coast of Nova Scotia tctrail.ca/stories/reme...
#envhist #cdnhist @transcanadatrail.bsky.social
#envhist #cdnhist @transcanadatrail.bsky.social
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You can’t spell “Charlottetown” without “CHA”! The CHA is thrilled to announce that its next Annual Meeting will be held June 1-3, 2026, in Charlottetown, PEI. We hope to see you there! Click the link for the full announcement. #cdnhist #CHA2026 #UPEI #Charlottetown
Announcement: CHA Annual Meeting 2026 | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada
You can’t spell “Charlottetown” without “CHA”! The CHA is thrilled to announce that its next Annual Meeting will be held Monday-Wednesday, June 1-3, 2026, in Charlottetown, PEI. The event will be host...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
You can’t spell “Charlottetown” without “CHA”! The CHA is thrilled to announce that its next Annual Meeting will be held June 1-3, 2026, in Charlottetown, PEI. We hope to see you there! Click the link for the full announcement. #cdnhist #CHA2026 #UPEI #Charlottetown
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ICYMI:
@itsmayana.bsky.social wins the 2025 NiCHE Prize for her article “The Bare Island Bird Sanctuary and the Myth of Indigenous Consent: Land Theft and Conservation in British Columbia, 1912–16” in The Canadian Historical Review.
niche-canada.org/2025/06/04/2...
#envhist #cdnhist #bchistory
@itsmayana.bsky.social wins the 2025 NiCHE Prize for her article “The Bare Island Bird Sanctuary and the Myth of Indigenous Consent: Land Theft and Conservation in British Columbia, 1912–16” in The Canadian Historical Review.
niche-canada.org/2025/06/04/2...
#envhist #cdnhist #bchistory
2025 Winner of Best Article/Chapter in Canadian Environmental History Prize
Telling a rich and multi-layered story of conservation, dispossession, and activism, Mayana Slobodian alerts us to the intertwined histories of sustainability, conservation, and settler colonial juris...
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June 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
ICYMI:
@itsmayana.bsky.social wins the 2025 NiCHE Prize for her article “The Bare Island Bird Sanctuary and the Myth of Indigenous Consent: Land Theft and Conservation in British Columbia, 1912–16” in The Canadian Historical Review.
niche-canada.org/2025/06/04/2...
#envhist #cdnhist #bchistory
@itsmayana.bsky.social wins the 2025 NiCHE Prize for her article “The Bare Island Bird Sanctuary and the Myth of Indigenous Consent: Land Theft and Conservation in British Columbia, 1912–16” in The Canadian Historical Review.
niche-canada.org/2025/06/04/2...
#envhist #cdnhist #bchistory
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Delighted to announce that yesterday was publication day for *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North* 🥳
It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃
Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
#cdnhist #envhist
It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃
Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
#cdnhist #envhist
A Cold Colonialism
A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...
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June 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Delighted to announce that yesterday was publication day for *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North* 🥳
It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃
Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
#cdnhist #envhist
It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃
Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
#cdnhist #envhist
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I am so pleased to announce that the Elizabeth Mancke Fond is now available at the UNB archive. This collection does not yet contain her digital files, as we are still waiting for UNB School of Arts to provide those records, but all textual records are here:
7067.sydneyplus.com/archive/fina...
7067.sydneyplus.com/archive/fina...
Elizabeth Mancke fonds
7067.sydneyplus.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I am so pleased to announce that the Elizabeth Mancke Fond is now available at the UNB archive. This collection does not yet contain her digital files, as we are still waiting for UNB School of Arts to provide those records, but all textual records are here:
7067.sydneyplus.com/archive/fina...
7067.sydneyplus.com/archive/fina...
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US military museums, often pet projects of the ultra-wealthy, purport to provide accurate depictions of war. But even the most clear-eyed exhibits are problematic, even deadly.
“They put these things on an altar, like they’re sanctified. These are not toys, they are weapons."
“They put these things on an altar, like they’re sanctified. These are not toys, they are weapons."
Inside the curious, and dangerous, world of US military museums
“These are not toys, they are weapons. And yet there’s no accountability.”
www.motherjones.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
US military museums, often pet projects of the ultra-wealthy, purport to provide accurate depictions of war. But even the most clear-eyed exhibits are problematic, even deadly.
“They put these things on an altar, like they’re sanctified. These are not toys, they are weapons."
“They put these things on an altar, like they’re sanctified. These are not toys, they are weapons."
And as various spring deadlines approach I find myself asking “have I perhaps over-committed?” A question past me apparently never foresaw 🤷🏻♂️
May 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
And as various spring deadlines approach I find myself asking “have I perhaps over-committed?” A question past me apparently never foresaw 🤷🏻♂️
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Collage Night at the Museum of Natural History! Explore botanical specimens & create art on May 28 from 6-9 pm with curators Sean Haughian & Brenna Frasier. #halisky naturalhistory.novascotia.ca/event/natura...
May 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Collage Night at the Museum of Natural History! Explore botanical specimens & create art on May 28 from 6-9 pm with curators Sean Haughian & Brenna Frasier. #halisky naturalhistory.novascotia.ca/event/natura...
Things I will look forward to this week: 1) talking about plants and 2) talking to plants. Conferencing and gardening in a nutshell.
May 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Things I will look forward to this week: 1) talking about plants and 2) talking to plants. Conferencing and gardening in a nutshell.
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So excited to announce our conference on Gardens & Empires, with @englishheritage.bsky.social and the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June 2025, in person/online. Fantastic global speakers and panellists. Do come! Tickets £15-£40 in person; £5-£15 online. events.bl.uk/events/garde...
Gardens and Empires | British Library
The histories of plants and gardens are deeply entangled with the histories of empires. This conference investigates the impacts of these global connection
events.bl.uk
April 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So excited to announce our conference on Gardens & Empires, with @englishheritage.bsky.social and the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June 2025, in person/online. Fantastic global speakers and panellists. Do come! Tickets £15-£40 in person; £5-£15 online. events.bl.uk/events/garde...