Samantha E Thompson
@harchivist.bsky.social
Brit-Canadian archivist-librarian, government records and local history museum staffer, trad-classical musician, post-academic philosophy PhD (on Augustine), and other hyphenated things. Can't help it: so much to learn.
Michaelmas bee
September 30, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Michaelmas bee
For my birthday I visited the grave of one of my favourite historical figures, the Rev. Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby). The inscription is now hardly legible. You can make out the word Ojibway and part of his name. The original wording may be in some archival records I catalogued.
September 21, 2026 at 10:36 PM
For my birthday I visited the grave of one of my favourite historical figures, the Rev. Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby). The inscription is now hardly legible. You can make out the word Ojibway and part of his name. The original wording may be in some archival records I catalogued.
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Register now for a free advocacy webinar with John Chrastka of the EveryLibrary Institute @everylibrary.bsky.social on October 13 at 3:00 pm ET.
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Association of Canadian Archivists - Making the Case for Archives: Funding, Coalitions, and Elected Officials - Free advocacy webinar presented by the Canadian Cultural Heritage Advocacy Committee
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September 11, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Register now for a free advocacy webinar with John Chrastka of the EveryLibrary Institute @everylibrary.bsky.social on October 13 at 3:00 pm ET.
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Two of multiple tornado warnings via my phone yesterday (including of an actual tornado?). Looking for a country I can blame for this.
July 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Two of multiple tornado warnings via my phone yesterday (including of an actual tornado?). Looking for a country I can blame for this.
Vast Lake Ontario was still as a pond this morning.
June 27, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Vast Lake Ontario was still as a pond this morning.
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🗞️ A new song by Ralph Vaughan Williams has been discovered!
‘Before the Mirror’ is a setting of part of a poem by Swinburne. It was recently unearthed in a box of odd manuscripts in the archive of Morley College by Learning Resources Centre Manager, Elaine Andrews. 🧵1/3
‘Before the Mirror’ is a setting of part of a poem by Swinburne. It was recently unearthed in a box of odd manuscripts in the archive of Morley College by Learning Resources Centre Manager, Elaine Andrews. 🧵1/3
May 10, 2026 at 8:57 AM
🗞️ A new song by Ralph Vaughan Williams has been discovered!
‘Before the Mirror’ is a setting of part of a poem by Swinburne. It was recently unearthed in a box of odd manuscripts in the archive of Morley College by Learning Resources Centre Manager, Elaine Andrews. 🧵1/3
‘Before the Mirror’ is a setting of part of a poem by Swinburne. It was recently unearthed in a box of odd manuscripts in the archive of Morley College by Learning Resources Centre Manager, Elaine Andrews. 🧵1/3
One of my favorites among her renditions. youtu.be/qqXk7Fgxbtk?...
April 14, 2026 at 2:12 PM
One of my favorites among her renditions. youtu.be/qqXk7Fgxbtk?...
Big loss to the folk scene.
April 14, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Big loss to the folk scene.
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Week 14 of my stitch-the-news daily news diary included:
A Waffle House
A Pope hat
A devil's pitchfork
A Michigan logo
A white flag
A Polymarket app
A penguin
A Waffle House
A Pope hat
A devil's pitchfork
A Michigan logo
A white flag
A Polymarket app
A penguin
April 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Week 14 of my stitch-the-news daily news diary included:
A Waffle House
A Pope hat
A devil's pitchfork
A Michigan logo
A white flag
A Polymarket app
A penguin
A Waffle House
A Pope hat
A devil's pitchfork
A Michigan logo
A white flag
A Polymarket app
A penguin
St. Jude's, Oakville, Ontario.
April 3, 2026 at 5:10 PM
St. Jude's, Oakville, Ontario.
Doctors have a remarkable ability to make you feel like an imposition no matter what you do. Test comes back negative, why are you wasting their time. Test comes back positive, sigh, now you're really going to waste their time.
March 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Doctors have a remarkable ability to make you feel like an imposition no matter what you do. Test comes back negative, why are you wasting their time. Test comes back positive, sigh, now you're really going to waste their time.
I just suddenly recalled an entire Gregorian chant I learned 24 years ago and didn't know I knew. Unfortunately I can't remember what I had for breakfast today.
March 12, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I just suddenly recalled an entire Gregorian chant I learned 24 years ago and didn't know I knew. Unfortunately I can't remember what I had for breakfast today.
Flowers from archival colleagues. 🥲
March 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Flowers from archival colleagues. 🥲
Old piano for sale at the Salvation Army Thrift Store. Somehow very touching.
February 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Old piano for sale at the Salvation Army Thrift Store. Somehow very touching.
Worst time of winter and and a long way to go yet. Brits and their snowdrops can buzz off.
February 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Worst time of winter and and a long way to go yet. Brits and their snowdrops can buzz off.
Surprising how many people were out taking a walk last night at -15C. All of us grimly nodding as we passed one another.
January 19, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Surprising how many people were out taking a walk last night at -15C. All of us grimly nodding as we passed one another.
Pressing tofu. Yes I still have a dictionary. Sometimes I even read it, not that you'd know by my spelling.
January 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Pressing tofu. Yes I still have a dictionary. Sometimes I even read it, not that you'd know by my spelling.
I am sad that this is so personally familiar.
January 17, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I am sad that this is so personally familiar.
Bloody Teams notifications are an ice pick to my brain. God it was nice to have a break from the peck peck peck peck peck...
January 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Bloody Teams notifications are an ice pick to my brain. God it was nice to have a break from the peck peck peck peck peck...
Just finished processing new purchases for the parish library. (I tend to emphasize accessible books the public library likely won't have.) I miss working with books. They're so mellow compared to archival records which resist corralling at every turn.
January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Just finished processing new purchases for the parish library. (I tend to emphasize accessible books the public library likely won't have.) I miss working with books. They're so mellow compared to archival records which resist corralling at every turn.
Still recovering from a horrible realistic dream in which the US carpet-bombed Toronto. That kind of dream where you're thinking "this has to be a dream but it isn't."
January 4, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Still recovering from a horrible realistic dream in which the US carpet-bombed Toronto. That kind of dream where you're thinking "this has to be a dream but it isn't."
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Hot tip: my elderly, very skittish cat was really calmed in the car on the way to the vet by the Hilliard Ensemble’s ECM recording of ‘The Lamentations of Jeremiah.’
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hot tip: my elderly, very skittish cat was really calmed in the car on the way to the vet by the Hilliard Ensemble’s ECM recording of ‘The Lamentations of Jeremiah.’
Not embarrassed that some of these were mine.
You might say that when young my sister and I were big Doctor Who fans.
December 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Not embarrassed that some of these were mine.