Daniel Samson
@ruralcolonialns
historian of rural colonial Nova Scotia, father, partner, lives in Niagara, works on Nova Scotia, breaths in PEI
Babysitting the grandkids tonight but prepping by travelling around their uber-cool post-industrial neighborhood.
Having fun today doing some course prep and working on a module on landscape - here DesBarres's view of Canso Islands with Isles Madame and L'Ardoise across the bay. Source: Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center.
The best (and worst) vending machine I saw in rural Bordeaux a few years ago. And yes, of course, I bought one and it was terrible.
And yet change impacts vary - we're having this ridiculous heat and smoke, but incredibly unstable air is producing 2-3 thunderstorms every week - so everything is surprisingly green - our garden is literally bursting everywhere - we can't breathe, but the garden's happy.
Last night in a hot smokey Toronto, the incomparable Valerie June - in a bleak world, an extraordinary talent singing songs of joy and liberty (and trees!) to energize a room full of weary Canadians.
Climate change means the Weather Network has had to change its symbol: sun with smoke.
Delighted to announce Trudy Tattersall's successful defense of her PhD diss. "A Mingled Yarn: Needlework, Emotional Communities, and Affective Experience in Settler-Colonial Maritime Canada" - committee members Margot Francis and Ingrid Makus, Internal Ebru Ustundag, and external Erin Morton.
Spent our day cleaning out on the edge of the ravine behind our house - was excited to find a substantial patch of wild strawberries but alas they are false strawberries - pretty but tasteless.
I love being in PEI - I love coming home - it’s the bits in the middle that I’m less fond of.
La Journée nationale des peuples autochtones à Summerside, ce dimanche 21 juin à partir de 13 h au Centre Belle-Alliance.
An amazing week of farm, food, and wine travel In PEI & NS with good friends @reneegb.bsky.social and Daniel Boudin. Talking sustainability and reconciliation with Rusty Bittermann, Margaret McCallum & Jean-Benoit Deslauriers, eating exceptional local foods at the North Shore Canteen and Le Caveau.
Zachary Richard, Under the Spires, Salon des Livres, Indian River, #PEI
Presented this a.m. on 18thC Isle St-Jean/Epekwitk and the persistence of Mi’kmaw harvesting and mobility - one of my locations on the Amasisipukwek/Grand River, which flows north into Malpeque Bay.
I’ve been in PEI over a week now and this is the second time I’ve seen the sun and the first time I believe summer may yet come.
Mostly patent medicines: sarsaparillas, bitters, and numerous purgatives [including my favourite, Dr Radway's Perfect Purgative Pills] and his favourite, Radway's Ready Relief [which are probably the same things] - he tried many and dismissed most. He also tried liquors - brandy, rum - but not often
I always love the fun details on Jean-Baptiste Franquelin's maps. Detail from Rade de l'isle Percée, Jean-Baptiste Franquelin, 1686 - gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
We're rebuilding our raised beds. The second photo shows the wheelbarrow the day before it collapsed.
Wait, Tom Verlaine smoked Canadian cigarettes?!?! This changes everything I’ve ever known about cultural hegemony.
Wait, so farm bankruptcies exploded during the first Rumping admin, declined quite dramatically during the Biden years, and are now rising again during the Orange man's second reign - and rural folk, umm, vote for this?