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brian_gettler

@brian_gettler@mas.to

Settler historian. Prof, University of Toronto, member of the Montreal History Group (https://ghm.uqam.ca/) and Associate Editor, Canadian Historical Review.

Thinking about Indigenous peoples, capitalism, the state, and colonialism, especially the fiduciary and fiscal varieties. 🎶 and 🚴 too. Posts in English. En français itou. #histodons #CdnHist #HistQC #19thcentury | tfr

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brian_gettler, to history
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Um, I'd love an explanation. Anyone know what exactly this early-20th-century postcard of New Brunswick was trying to communicate?

"The Hoppers Have Made a Donkey Out of Me, Edmunston" (Toronto: Canadian Post Card co: n.d.)

Source: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2483650

brian_gettler, to baseball
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Paging all and aficionados. TIL about donkey baseball. This is a thing I never knew I needed. Now I'd like to know more.

Source: The Port Credit News, July 21, 1937, https://pub.canadiana.ca/view/omcn.PortCreditNews_4/171

brian_gettler, to australia
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I'm not a scholar of , so I'll refrain from commenting on the specifics of the failed constitutional referendum there. As a historian of , however, I will point out that here, at least, what we call might just as effectively be called democratic . Over the past few centuries, the electorate - by no means everyone who lives in the country - has repeatedly and overwhelmingly favoured Indigenous dispossession while opposing Indigenous empowerment.

brian_gettler, to history
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My university is only a few years out from its 200th anniversary*. Between now and then, I suppose I should try to publish the research I've been doing in my "downtime" on the history of some of its shady land deals, eh?

*The 200th anniversary of its charter (an old date! Just what the marketing people like to celebrate). The institution didn't actually enrol its first university-level student for another 15 years (1842).

brian_gettler, to EarWorms
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I've decided to set myself a challenge for by only suggesting .

µ-Ziq, "Brace Yourself Jason" (1997), https://youtu.be/T5ut41xU2TI

brian_gettler, to history
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Historical question! Does anyone know when institutions in the English-speaking world - corporations, government departments, etc - began opening bank accounts in their own names rather than entrusting funds to individual officeholders (who often mixed public and private funds in personal accounts)? I'm currently looking at 1830s-40s Canada where, if I'm understanding the admittedly sparse material correctly, this shift had not yet occurred. @histodons @econhist

brian_gettler, to academia
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Area University Now an App
https://magazine.utoronto.ca/campus/education-is-evolving-in-the-age-of-ai/

brian_gettler, to academia
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Adam Chapnick, "The History PhD and Before: Reimagining the History MA to Improve PhD Outcomes," November 2022.

https://activehistory.ca/blog/2022/11/22/the-history-phd-and-before-reimagining-the-history-ma-to-improve-phd-outcomes/#more-32499

Response to the the report of the CHA Task Force on the Future of the History PhD in Canada: https://cha-shc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CHA-Task-Force-Report-Final.pdf

@histodons @academicchatter

brian_gettler, to Canada
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She takes a while to get there, but in the closing paragraph of the last chapter of her ambitious and deeply erudite "Civilization: From Enlightenment Philosophy to Canadian History," Elsbeth Heaman makes a pithy and, in my view, wholly convincing argument that in #Canada (and, I would say, in many other places) we need more #history. #histodons #CdnHist @histodons

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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I voted for someone (who actually won!) who is working hard to raise my property taxes (by more than 10%!) and it feels great! Hearing my generally awful city councillor whining about it on the local news yesterday was icing on the cake.

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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Who knew that has a by-law that "limits idling to no more than one minute in a 60-minute period?" It's news to me, as I'm sure it would be to thousands of drivers who like to idle the day away.

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/applying-for-a-parking-permit/parking-by-laws-regulations/idling-control-by-law/

brian_gettler, to random
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Since the theme of is , I think I'll post a sampling of tracks from various places, in various languages that have had an effect on me over the years. The first is from the UK and combines great flow with Clint Mansell/Kronos Quartet's excellent Requiem for a Dream theme.

Skitz, "Requiem of the Gods," ft. Orifice Vulgatron, Mr Ti2bs, Dynamite MC, and Harry Shotta (2010)

https://daddyskitz.bandcamp.com/track/requiem-of-the-gods-ft-orifice-vulgatron-mr-ti2bs-dynamite-mc-harry-shotta

brian_gettler, to pizza
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People get so upset about pineapple on #pizza. Whatever your take, Hawaiian pizza is a perfect expression of postwar #Canada - produced by migration, consumer society, and new foodways, esp. the rise of restaurants and the turn towards the "exotic" in suburban kitchens. Pizza was virtually unknown in the country prior to the late 1940s.

Check out the pizza Mrs. Brady made for the CBC in 1957 (and how she prononces "pizzeria") for an idea: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1402818181 #histodons #history

brian_gettler, to Quebec
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We're in Rimouski, a city that's more or less guaranteed to be covered by a thick blanket of snow from December through March. Not only is there no snow on the ground, but all the outdoor skating rinks are closed too.

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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The website of the public remains down 10 days after "a cyber security incident." According to management, which has yet to provide any specifics on the incident, it may take another week to restore service.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-public-library-cyber-security-services-1.7019685

brian_gettler, to random
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At the local music festival and Kid2 asked two perceptive questions:

  1. "Why do they call it Blues Fest? This is rock and before they were playing jazz."
  2. "Did most people come for everything but the music?"
brian_gettler, to random
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It'd be impossible to come up with any sort of definitive list, especially a short one, of great songs in which Steve Albini was involved. But below are a few, in no particular order that have long appealed to me.

  1. The Jesus Lizard, "Then Comes Dudley" (1991)

https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=cPA9kcVfcvI

#SteveAlbini #RIP

brian_gettler, to cycling
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Has any jurisdiction ever tried to levy fines for dangerous driving, speeding, etc. based on vehicle weight? Or vehicle registration? thoughts.

brian_gettler, to random
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It's only the third week of term and I'm already exhausted. So I decided to resist the impetus to produce for the glory of the university, science, humanity and myself and to make homemade pasta on a Tuesday night instead. It was worth it. Now, on to the dishes.

brian_gettler, to cycling
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One of the things that in a city that was absolutely not designed to make it safe that I've come to appreciate is the way it's led me to find alternate routes. My standard commute leads me through sleepy streets and gorgeous ravines. It feels like being invited into a semi-secret city that most, if aware of it at all, certainly don't get to experience on a daily basis.

brian_gettler, to histodons
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! And anyone else who reads chicken scratch! A little transcription help please:

"consequent on the removal of the seat of govt. to Montreal the monetary concerns of the several tribes of Indians within the Province of Canada are in [?] to be conducted by the Recr General"

"Future" makes sense in place of the [?], but is it right? It looks like the word begins with a 'g' to me... @histodons

brian_gettler, to academia
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How do others manage to write during term? With all of the other demands on my time, I can barely string enough hours together in one sitting to remember where I left off last time.

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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Curious about #university #divestment movements, I poked around student newspaper archives today. While some discussion of South Africa took place at the U. of #Toronto earlier, 1983 looks like the moment when it took off. However, this relatively well-known case wasn't the first to garner attention at UofT and other Canadian universities (notably U. of Winnipeg). That honour seems to go to Noranda, a mining company heavily involved in Pinochet's Chile. #BDS #histodons 1/
https://archive.org/details/varsity

brian_gettler, to Ottawa
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The resistance in #Ottawa. #autowa #WarOnCars

brian_gettler, to gardening
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Soon there will be jelly! #gardening

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