December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A worthwhile read/listen on the history of environmental ideas and solutions over the early 21c. (I'm biased, as I'll be featuring the Margaret Atwood interview in a forthcoming exhibit! #cdnhist #envhist #cdnlit
The Green Interview is a series of about 100 conversations with prominent thinkers and changemakers, along with six documentaries exploring the future of life on Earth and humanity’s collective responsibility to protect it.
https://thediscoverblog.com/2024/07/11/the-green-interview-fonds
https://thediscoverblog.com/2024/07/11/the-green-interview-fonds
January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The 1975 translation of La Femme de Loth, winner of the 1970 Governor General's Award for French-language Fiction. Remarkably, it remains the only one of her 17 titles to have been translated. #WITMonth #cdnlit #booksky #cdnhist
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Looking Back on Lot's Wife
Lot's Wife [ La Femme de Loth ] Monique Bosco [trans John Glassco] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1975 151 pages De temps à autre, un mot, ...
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August 24, 2026 at 11:27 AM
The 1975 translation of La Femme de Loth, winner of the 1970 Governor General's Award for French-language Fiction. Remarkably, it remains the only one of her 17 titles to have been translated. #WITMonth #cdnlit #booksky #cdnhist
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Vancouver poet A.M. Stephen wrote this satirical poem mocking patriotic verse. But earlier, Stephen had written plenty of patriotic ditties. Why the change? Check out my article on interwar BC poets and national identity! #worldpoetryday #cdnhist #bchist #cdnlit
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March 21, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Vancouver poet A.M. Stephen wrote this satirical poem mocking patriotic verse. But earlier, Stephen had written plenty of patriotic ditties. Why the change? Check out my article on interwar BC poets and national identity! #worldpoetryday #cdnhist #bchist #cdnlit
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A fascinating bio. Some time ago, I went through LAC's (small) Yeigh fonds, documenting his friendship with Tekahionwake E. Pauline Johnson. The papers include 2 unpublished TEPJ poems, as well as an unsigned verse, "Pauline Johnson's Grave" - maybe Yeigh's own work? #cdnhist #cdnlit #bookhistory
June 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A fascinating bio. Some time ago, I went through LAC's (small) Yeigh fonds, documenting his friendship with Tekahionwake E. Pauline Johnson. The papers include 2 unpublished TEPJ poems, as well as an unsigned verse, "Pauline Johnson's Grave" - maybe Yeigh's own work? #cdnhist #cdnlit #bookhistory
Since everyone is talking about the Northern Lights today, let's read about the role that they play in Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth.
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#IndigenousLit #Inuit #Auroraborealis #envhum #cdnlit
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#IndigenousLit #Inuit #Auroraborealis #envhum #cdnlit
Looking With and Beyond the Words in Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth
In Split Tooth, the Aurora Borealis are a central part of the story and play a key role in imagination, vision, dream and legend.
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May 11, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Since everyone is talking about the Northern Lights today, let's read about the role that they play in Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth.
niche-canada.org/2023/02/16/l...
#IndigenousLit #Inuit #Auroraborealis #envhum #cdnlit
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#IndigenousLit #Inuit #Auroraborealis #envhum #cdnlit
Today we have "A Geography of Skin: Okanagan Epistemology in the Works of Jeannette Armstrong" by Alice Salion
This is the second post in the series The Land is Never Silenced: Ecocritical Perspectives on Indigenous Literature in Canada
niche-canada.org/2026/08/12/a...
#envhist #cdnlit #envhist
This is the second post in the series The Land is Never Silenced: Ecocritical Perspectives on Indigenous Literature in Canada
niche-canada.org/2026/08/12/a...
#envhist #cdnlit #envhist
A Geography of Skin: Okanagan Epistemology in the Works of Jeannette Armstrong
Explore the life and work of Syilx author Jeannette Armstrong, whose writing embeds Okanagan land-based consciousness, Indigenous resistance, and relational ontology.
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August 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Today we have "A Geography of Skin: Okanagan Epistemology in the Works of Jeannette Armstrong" by Alice Salion
This is the second post in the series The Land is Never Silenced: Ecocritical Perspectives on Indigenous Literature in Canada
niche-canada.org/2026/08/12/a...
#envhist #cdnlit #envhist
This is the second post in the series The Land is Never Silenced: Ecocritical Perspectives on Indigenous Literature in Canada
niche-canada.org/2026/08/12/a...
#envhist #cdnlit #envhist
Today New Scholars Committee member Sabrina Schettino concludes her debut editorial series in "The Land is Never Silenced: A Symphony of Reciprocity."
Indigenous literature reveals land as living, resisting settler-colonial silence.
niche-canada.org/2026/08/22/t...
#envhist #envhum #cdnlit
Indigenous literature reveals land as living, resisting settler-colonial silence.
niche-canada.org/2026/08/22/t...
#envhist #envhum #cdnlit
The Land is Never Silenced: A Symphony of Reciprocity
Indigenous literature views land as a living partner, showing that human identity connects deeply with nature despite colonial attempts to silence it.
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August 22, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Today New Scholars Committee member Sabrina Schettino concludes her debut editorial series in "The Land is Never Silenced: A Symphony of Reciprocity."
Indigenous literature reveals land as living, resisting settler-colonial silence.
niche-canada.org/2026/08/22/t...
#envhist #envhum #cdnlit
Indigenous literature reveals land as living, resisting settler-colonial silence.
niche-canada.org/2026/08/22/t...
#envhist #envhum #cdnlit
Another great review of my Mum (@fishgottaswim.bsky.social)'s forthcoming book! #cdnlit
Oh! How nice to see this as I drink my coffee by the wood stove...
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Overwhelmed - BC Booklook
Theresa Kishkan reclaims her gaze in a haunting memoir on art, power, and being a 23-year-old muse. A review of The Art of Looking Back.
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March 18, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Another great review of my Mum (@fishgottaswim.bsky.social)'s forthcoming book! #cdnlit
Call for Nominations – 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize - For the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing
Deadline: 31 December 2023
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#envhist #envhum #cdnlit
Deadline: 31 December 2023
niche-canada.org/2023/12/08/c...
#envhist #envhum #cdnlit
Call for Nominations - 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize
In the spirit of Alanna Bondar’s own work, the committee seeks to award the prize to provocative, original, and stimulating books on environmental topics.
niche-canada.org
December 8, 2023 at 5:40 PM
Call for Nominations – 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize - For the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing
Deadline: 31 December 2023
niche-canada.org/2023/12/08/c...
#envhist #envhum #cdnlit
Deadline: 31 December 2023
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#envhist #envhum #cdnlit
For L.M. Montgomery's 150th birthday, read "'A window looking seaward' – Finding Environmental History in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery" by @clairecampbell.bsky.social
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#cdnhist #cdnlit #envhist #envhum
niche-canada.org/2020/03/26/a...
#cdnhist #cdnlit #envhist #envhum
“A window looking seaward” - Finding Environmental History in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery
This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from The Greater Gulf: Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, recently published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
For few thi...
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November 30, 2024 at 5:23 PM
For L.M. Montgomery's 150th birthday, read "'A window looking seaward' – Finding Environmental History in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery" by @clairecampbell.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2020/03/26/a...
#cdnhist #cdnlit #envhist #envhum
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#cdnhist #cdnlit #envhist #envhum
He spent some time in Canada, too. His story "The Wendigo" was inspired by his northern sojourn (and, rather loosely, by Anishinabe lore)... #cdnhist #cdnlit
#OTD in 1869 writer Algernon Blackwood was born. He was "among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre."
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Books by Blackwood at PG:
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#books #literature
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerno...
Books by Blackwood at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #literature
March 14, 2026 at 12:18 PM
CFP - International Journal of Canadian Studies - Expansion and internationalization of comics produced in Canada
Submissions accepted September 2025 to 05 December 2025
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#cdnlit
Submissions accepted September 2025 to 05 December 2025
csn-rec.ca/conferences-...
#cdnlit
August 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
CFP - International Journal of Canadian Studies - Expansion and internationalization of comics produced in Canada
Submissions accepted September 2025 to 05 December 2025
csn-rec.ca/conferences-...
#cdnlit
Submissions accepted September 2025 to 05 December 2025
csn-rec.ca/conferences-...
#cdnlit
ICYMI:
ALECC is accepting nominations for their 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize until December 31st.
The prize celebrates environmental humanities and creative writing.
niche-canada.org/2023/12/08/c...
#envhum #envhist #cdnlit
ALECC is accepting nominations for their 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize until December 31st.
The prize celebrates environmental humanities and creative writing.
niche-canada.org/2023/12/08/c...
#envhum #envhist #cdnlit
Call for Nominations - 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize
In the spirit of Alanna Bondar’s own work, the committee seeks to award the prize to provocative, original, and stimulating books on environmental topics.
niche-canada.org
December 12, 2023 at 8:38 PM
ICYMI:
ALECC is accepting nominations for their 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize until December 31st.
The prize celebrates environmental humanities and creative writing.
niche-canada.org/2023/12/08/c...
#envhum #envhist #cdnlit
ALECC is accepting nominations for their 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize until December 31st.
The prize celebrates environmental humanities and creative writing.
niche-canada.org/2023/12/08/c...
#envhum #envhist #cdnlit
In this post Candice Allmark-Kent shares her new book and some of the research that inspired her to write it, Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism (Palgrave 2023)
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#envhist #animalhistory #envhum #cdnlit
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#envhist #animalhistory #envhum #cdnlit
New Book: Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism
Between the Nature Fakers controversy and the legal status of animals as “property” in anti-cruelty legislation, my curiosity was consumed by these fascinating juxtapositions in the history of animal ...
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April 23, 2024 at 4:25 PM
In this post Candice Allmark-Kent shares her new book and some of the research that inspired her to write it, Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism (Palgrave 2023)
niche-canada.org/2024/04/22/n...
#envhist #animalhistory #envhum #cdnlit
niche-canada.org/2024/04/22/n...
#envhist #animalhistory #envhum #cdnlit
Author Thomas King reveals he’s not Cherokee – why some call the news a gut punch | Truth & Politics - @aptnnews.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NPi...
#cdnlit #pretendians #indigenous
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#cdnlit #pretendians #indigenous
Author Thomas King reveals he’s not Cherokee – why some call the news a gut punch | Truth & Politics
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Author Thomas King reveals he’s not Cherokee – why some call the news a gut punch | Truth & Politics - @aptnnews.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NPi...
#cdnlit #pretendians #indigenous
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NPi...
#cdnlit #pretendians #indigenous
#InternationalInuitDay
Take some time to read @svenjaengelmannke.bsky.social's analysis of Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth.
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#envhist #envhum #cdnlit #inuit #indigenouslit @svenjaengelmannke.bsky.social
Take some time to read @svenjaengelmannke.bsky.social's analysis of Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth.
niche-canada.org/2023/02/16/l...
#envhist #envhum #cdnlit #inuit #indigenouslit @svenjaengelmannke.bsky.social
Looking With and Beyond the Words in Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth
In Split Tooth, the Aurora Borealis are a central part of the story and play a key role in imagination, vision, dream and legend.
niche-canada.org
November 7, 2023 at 5:56 PM
#InternationalInuitDay
Take some time to read @svenjaengelmannke.bsky.social's analysis of Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth.
niche-canada.org/2023/02/16/l...
#envhist #envhum #cdnlit #inuit #indigenouslit @svenjaengelmannke.bsky.social
Take some time to read @svenjaengelmannke.bsky.social's analysis of Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth.
niche-canada.org/2023/02/16/l...
#envhist #envhum #cdnlit #inuit #indigenouslit @svenjaengelmannke.bsky.social
job
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Critical Canadian Cultural and Literary Studies - McMaster University
DL: November 20th, 2025
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#cdnlit
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Critical Canadian Cultural and Literary Studies - McMaster University
DL: November 20th, 2025
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
#cdnlit
October 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
job
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Critical Canadian Cultural and Literary Studies - McMaster University
DL: November 20th, 2025
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#cdnlit
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Critical Canadian Cultural and Literary Studies - McMaster University
DL: November 20th, 2025
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
#cdnlit
February 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Gatineau Village des valeurs doesn't always deliver, but when it does... yesterday's finds:
#thrifting #cdnlit
#thrifting #cdnlit
January 13, 2026 at 1:14 PM
The Gatineau Village des valeurs doesn't always deliver, but when it does... yesterday's finds:
#thrifting #cdnlit
#thrifting #cdnlit