@ccoates.bsky.social
Historian of early French Canada, the environment, and utopias. Also a keen curler.
@alanrichardson.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialWinners include Coll Thrush and @heiditworek.bsky.social at UBC! congratulations!
@cndhistassoc.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialC'est votre dernière chance de soumettre vos propositions pour la réunion annuelle de la SHC ! Envoyez-les avant le vendredi 16 octobre et rejoignez-nous à Winnipeg en juin prochain.
@cndhistassoc.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialLast chance to submit your proposals for the CHA’s annual meeting! Send yours in by Friday, October 16th and join us in Winnipeg this coming June.
@uwarchives.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialDr. Karen Froman is featured in the latest post on the 10 Years of the ICR: Records and Reflections site. See her entry and several others at www.uwinnipeg.ca/icr10/ and view the ICR Collection at www.uwinnipeg.ca/icr-collection.
@mhayday.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialSad to learn that Carl Berger passed away last week. He taught half of the Canadian history survey that I took at the University of Toronto. His book The Sense of Power played a major role in shaping my understanding of Canada's relationship to imperialism in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
@alanmaceachern.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialSometimes you fall down a rabbit hole, sometimes you jump. Here's a just-published piece of mine on Malthus, math, & magic, in @ca.theconversation.com.
43 days till Doomsday.
Should you be worried?
@parlcharlie.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialOn this day in Canadian parliamentary history - September 28, 1978: The Commons Speaker announces a new page cohort and, for the first time, women become Commons pages.
@ccoates.bsky.socialI was one of that cohort of pages at the House of Commons!
@cndhistassoc.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialChargé.e de cours pour deux cours dispensés en français – « Le Canada depuis la Confédération » et « Les Amériques françaises ». Date limite : le 25 septembre 2026. #cdnhist cha-shc.ca/fr/carrieres...
@cndhistassoc.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialSessional Instructor for two courses taught in French – Canada Since Confederation / French Americas. Deadline: September 25, 2026. #cdnhist cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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@nichecanada.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.social"Unlike infectious diseases like smallpox and cholera, malaria was firmly place-based, meaning that local and environmental histories are best suited to telling its history–if we can reconstruct past environments." - @gabtm.bsky.social
@nichecanada.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialCall for Papers - Feeling/Not Feeling Canadian: A Workshop Exploring Histories of Emotion in Canada
16 -17 June 2027, University of Winnipeg (Treaty No. 1 Territory), Winnipeg Manitoba
Proposal Deadline: 30 November 2026
@activehist.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialKaren Dubinsky, Professor Emerita of History and Global Development Studies at Queen’s U, passed away on 4 Sept. 2026 after a brief illness. Karen was a longtime supporter of—and contributor to—Active History. We mourn her loss, even as we celebrate her life. Post by Susan Lord and Scott Rutherford
@mattcaron.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialI'm incredibly honoured that Montreal After Dark has received the Urban History Association's Lizabeth Cohen Prize for the Best Book on Cities and Political Power.
Congratulations to all the 2026 award recipients!
@brettrushforth.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialSome news.
@nichecanada.bsky.socialReposted by @ccoates.bsky.socialThe Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030!
We are excited to welcome @iceho.bsky.social and environmental historians from around the world to Canada!