Expat 🇨🇦 environmental historian; lover of flowers, wind over water, ice cream, & Jane of Lantern Hill.
Claire Campbell
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Vive le Québec.
If you can't be at the cottage, you can still get in the spirit of the holiday ...
Tom Thomson, Cottage on a Rocky Shore, 1914 @gallery.ca
My sister-in-law once said, "I need a wife." I think about that a lot. This post brought to you by middle-school health forms.
Summer means rereading middle-school favourites (alongside your favourite middle-schooler) 🩵
On this day in 1813 in Boston harbour ... "Capture of the American Frigate Chesapeake by HMS Shannon," Richard Henry King. Towed into Halifax five days later. Have a cup of tea. @library-archives.canada.ca
Spring woods are the best woods. 🌳
When there's been no news on your green card renewal for most of a year, *and* you're reading Loyalist papers that insist "the rebels of the country were the original causes of all their misfortunes" (1779), you do start to wonder if the two are related ... 🤨 #cdnhist
10 seconds of tranquility; or, every day is Earth Day. 🌎 Susquehanna River, Milton State Park, Pennsylvania
... even if it means working. 🇬🇧🇨🇦
@clementslibrary.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5bsdrxu7
13 years ago I spent an amazing semester @mcgill.ca Institute for the Study of Canada. Now I get to spend a week introducing a 12-year-old to #envhist & #cdnhist (& bagels) in this fantastic place. ❤️
tinyurl.com/5c77fe7u @museemccordstewart.bsky.social
