Borealia: Early Canadian History

Public Lecture: Firebreak: How the Maine-New Brunswick Border Defined the 1825 Miramichi Fire with Alan MacEachern March 25th, 12 1:30pm EST, Zoom More info and Link to Register in post:

This article by Adam Csank is the third post in a five-part series showcasing the research coming out of three projects hosted at Nipissing University’s Centre ...for Understanding Semi-Peripheries (CUSP) and supported by Kirsten Greer, Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies of the Semi-Peripheries. See more

For more than twenty-five years, the new settlers fought for permanent grants to that tract of land near Loch Lomond...Eliza Taylor was one of those original Black refugees.

Today on our site Ted Binnema reviews R. Grace Morgan's 'Beaver, Bison, Horse' (University of Regina Press, 2020)

"Debating (Canadian) Presentism: Narrative, Nation, and John A. Macdonald in 2021" by Jerry Bannister https://earlycanadianhistory.ca//debating-canadian-presen/

Are we there yet? On the Pandemic, Trumpism, and the History of Anticipation, by Jerry Bannister of Dalhousie History https://earlycanadianhistory.ca//are-we-there-yet-on-the-/

Teach My Research: Jesuits and Demons in New France, by @Historian_Mairi. http://earlycanadianhistory.ca//teach-my-research-jesuits/

Deadline for proposals: January 30, 2021 Conference date: September 2021 Dialogues about Canadian coastal cultures, coastal places, and global oceanic connections have taken on a new tenor in a time of climate crisis that will dramatically and disproportionately reshape the future of such conversations. Growing international interest in coasts from a range of disciplines suggests a productive framework for rethinking histories from the land and tidewaters currently known as Canada, the country with the world’s longest coastline. [ 407 more words ] http://earlycanadianhistory.ca//call-for-papers-canadian-/

Teach My Research: Loyalist Women and the Experience of Revolutionary Exile in Nova Scotia, by @historia_passim http://earlycanadianhistory.ca//teach-my-research-loyalis/

Settler Science in New Brunswick: The Brydone Jack Observatory UNB Fredericton and the Invention of European Sovereignty, by Richard Yeomans https://earlycanadianhistory.ca//settler-science-in-new-b/

Success/Failure? Louis Riel and the History of Policing Canada, by @max_hamon http://earlycanadianhistory.ca//success-failure-louis-rie/