110 years ago today, Oct 15, 1916. My great-grandfather’s company marched out of Albert at 8.30. He went ahead to look for billets, and wrote:
“Bunked in a shack & jolly cold too.”
110 years ago today, Oct 15, 1916. My great-grandfather’s company marched out of Albert at 8.30. He went ahead to look for billets, and wrote:
“Bunked in a shack & jolly cold too.”
@thecanadareport.bsky.socialWhat Happens When You Report a UFO in Canada, According to Military Records
Read more: 👇
https://www.thecanadareport.ca/report-ufo-canada-military-records/
#ufo #canada #militaryrecords #uforeports #canadianhistory #paranormal #dnd
On the Somme, Oct 14, 1916. Andrew Murray Robertson, Canadian Engineers, is told the company pulls out tomorrow:
“Can’t say I’m sorry to go but I really liked the road job.”
@jcharshc.bsky.socialNew author’s interview just dropped! Learn more about the tension embodied by disabled Canadians war veterans who were simultaneously glorified and pitied. Link in bio! #canadianhistory #history #warveterans #disabledveterans #ableism
@reachcentre.bsky.socialHappy 100th Anniversary, Winnie-the-Pooh!
Read the Canadian story behind Pooh:
www.cbc.ca/kids/article...
#WinnieThePooh100 #CanadianHistory #LoveOfReading #ReachLearningCentre
@grannycanuck.bsky.socialSir Isaac Brock, Mike Myers
& the PMO ⬆️
• BrockU 2026-04-20 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 (brocku.ca/brock-news/2...)
• CBC 2026-04-21 www.cbc.ca/news/politic... 🔚 #Carney #cdnHistory #cdnPoli #MarkCarney #MikeMyers #PMMC #SirIssacBrock #CanadianHistory
My great-grandfather, Andrew Murray Robertson, kept a diary through WWI, Feb 1915 to Dec 1918. He enlisted as a gunner, was commissioned, won the Military Cross with the Canadian Engineers, and was wounded twice. Diary and letters, day by day: robertsondiary.com
#WWI #CanadianHistory #TheGreatWar
@canadianrootsfound.bsky.socialCanada's Thanksgiving wasn't fixed on the second Monday in October until 1957. In 1898 it fell on November 24th, the same day as the American one, and a newspaper editor called that Yankeeism.
@canadianrootsfound.bsky.socialSome of the Pilgrims' descendants ended up in Canada. They sided with the Crown in the American Revolution, and when it was lost, they went north. More than 30,000 Loyalists went to the Maritimes alone.
@canadianrootsfound.bsky.socialIn 1578, 43 years before the Pilgrims' harvest feast, English sailors knelt to give thanks in Frobisher Bay, in what's now Nunavut. A minister named Wolfall preached on their "strange and miraculous deliverance."
@canadianrootsfound.bsky.socialBetween 1749 and 1768, three waves of settlers came to Nova Scotia, and the third one brought its own way of keeping records.
@canadianrootsfound.bsky.socialNova Scotia's oldest continuous church registers were kept by the French Acadians. Port-Royal was founded on the Annapolis Basin in the summer of 1605.
@canadianrootsfound.bsky.socialNova Scotia's history did not start with a ship. The Mi'kmaq were here first, in a homeland they call Mi'kma'ki. It covers all of today's Nova Scotia and reaches into PEI, New Brunswick, the Gaspé and Maine.
@canadianrootsfound.bsky.socialOntario began registering births, marriages and deaths in 1869, two years after Confederation. Before that, births and deaths were usually recorded only by churches.
@canadianrootsfound.bsky.socialIn June 1812, the United States declared war on Britain, and Upper Canada was the front line. The war left records behind: militia pay lists name the men who served.
@canadianrootsfound.bsky.socialOn 26 December 1791, the old Province of Quebec was split in two, mostly along the Ottawa River. West of the line was Upper Canada, today's Ontario, with roughly 10,000 settlers.
@canadianrootsfound.bsky.socialAfter the American Revolution, about 7,500 colonists loyal to the Crown came to what is now Ontario. Most arrived in 1783 and 1784, on land along the St. Lawrence, the Bay of Quinte and the Niagara River.
@mabelquill.bsky.socialThe Royal Proclamation Reshapes North America #TodayInHistory #MabelQuill #RoyalProclamation #FirstNationsHistory #CanadianHistory #HistoryTok #HistoryFacts #LearnHistory #fyp
@keithlovesmovies.bsky.socialSean Menard’s Run Terry Run offers an intimate, compelling look at Terry Fox and the iconic Marathon of Hope.
Read more in our review by @queerfilmnerd.
#Canadiancinema #CanadianHistory #CancerResearch #documentary #FilmReview #MarathonofHope #moviereview #runterryrun #SeanMenard #TerryFox #tiff #
@uoftpress.bsky.social#CallforPapers! Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine invites submissions for peer-reviewed research on the history of urban Canada. Rolling submissions, published twice yearly. Submit: https://bit.ly/3TvTBBy
