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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 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,
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Students at University, where the largest camp currently is, seem to have focused initially on South Africa. While the beginnings of the movement there look to have taken place around the same time as at UofT, the main student newspaper (the McGill Daily) includes far more material on divestment from an earlier date (1980). 2/

https://archive.org/details/mcgilluniversitystudentpublications

brian_gettler,
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All of this makes me want to do more university history, especially to get a better handle on how institutions (especially these two - McGill and UofT) shifted from a more-or-less hand-to-mouth existence (where they were in the mid-19th century, the period in which I know their history best), to the endowment-toting behemoths they've become. I've got reading to do! 3/

#histodons #McGill #HigherEd #divestment

brian_gettler, to history French
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Olivier Bellavance, « Illustrer la circulation transnationale du numéraire étranger au Bas-Canada : les bons de marchands de 1837-1839 » @histodons

https://histoireengagee.ca/illustrer-la-circulation-transnationale-du-numeraire-etranger-au-bas-canada-les-bons-de-marchands-de-1837-1839/

#histodons #histoire #histQC #CdnHist #numismatics

brian_gettler, to history
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Required reading for historians, archivists, and librarians in and of Canada on the cuts suffered by Library and Archives Canada over the past 15-20 years. @histodons

Danielle Robichaud, "Contextualizing a Scandal: A Brief History of Library and Archives Canada"

https://activehistory.ca/blog/2024/04/29/contextualizing-a-scandal-a-brief-history-of-library-and-archives-canada/

#histodons #archive #librarians #GLAM

brian_gettler, to random
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Periodic reminder: cops are a recent phenomenon, existing in recognizably modern form for less than 200 years. They are not inevitable. Most societies in human history have done without them. Maybe we could too.

brian_gettler, to history French
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Oh boy.

Vu le parti politique et l'historien qui mènent le projet, il faut être bien innocent pour croire que le musée sera national et non pas nationaliste. @histodons

https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/2024-04-25/quebec/un-musee-national-d-histoire-sur-les-cendres-des-espaces-bleus.php

brian_gettler, to history
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Check out Rise UP!, an excellent digital archive of feminist activism in Canada covering the 1970s through the 1990s. @histodons

https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/

brian_gettler,
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@mimoqc En effet. Bien que les archives comprennent des publications du Québec, celles-ci semblent être uniquement en langue anglaise. @histodons

AnnaAnthro, to Poutine
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Ohh lord - The Montreal airport mascot is a large bowl of !

She (yes it’s gendered - la poutine!) is called YULtine, YUL is the airport code and its very first mascot.

https://www.yulexpress.com/en/2024/03/welcome-to-yultine-yuls-very-first-mascot/

brian_gettler,
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@stephanie @AnnaAnthro @bougiewonderland Youppi looks speechless. Because the the airport has a mascot? Because it's (she's!) a giant poutine in athletic shorts?

inquiline, to random
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Emeritus faculty not insult non-tenure-stream faculty because you don’t realize that getting hired in 2010 and 1980 are not the same challenge: impossible

brian_gettler,
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@inquiline I'm often tempted to tell these people that, based on their files coming out of grad school, we wouldn't hire them today, not into the tenure stream, not as adjuncts, maybe not even as TAs. But I don't think the ones running their mouths would care.

brian_gettler, to history French
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Une collègue, mentore et amie, Andrée Lévesque, vient de faire paraître chez les Éditions du remue-ménage une monographie d'histoire que j'ai bien hâte à lire : Les filles de Jeanne : Histoires de vies anonymes, 1658-1915 @histodons

https://www.editions-rm.ca/livres/les-filles-de-jeanne/

#histodons #histoire #HistQC #Québec #WomensHistory #CdnHist

inquiline, to random
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Anyone else notice a trend with customer service queues where the system offers to call you back; then calls back immediately and puts you in hold queue anyway?

This post brought to you by 😱

brian_gettler,
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@inquiline At least there's an album for that (that I love far more than is reasonable):

https://thebeatindex.bandcamp.com/album/volume-two-thank-you-for-your-patience

brian_gettler, to random
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For this week, we're posting : the first song we remember hearing live. Mine is the Screaming Trees, "Nearly Lost You." The Trees opened the MTV Alternative Nation Tour at the Marcus Amphitheater at Summerfest in Milwaukee, WI in July 1993. They were followed, in very obviously decreasing order of quality by Soul Asylum and headliners (ugh) the Spin Doctors. I quickly graduated from stadium rock to underground shows. But I still love this song.

https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=PE5f561Y1x4

brian_gettler, to random
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Canadian science* gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in 20 years†

*research

†it's still pretty damn modest

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01124-2

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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There comes a time in every Torontonian's life when you have to have let your neighbour know that a family of raccoons has taken up residence in their roof.

brian_gettler, to history
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Héritage Canadiana, a large repository of digitized microfilm reels from Library and Archives Canada, has quietly begun rolling out full-text-searchable transcriptions (now mostly OCR on typed archival docs, but #Transkribus generated transcriptions on manuscript sources are on their way). The search engine is awful - you can't search only transcribed sources - but the collection is already impressive and promises to get better fast. @histodons

https://heritage.canadiana.ca/

#histodons #CdnHist

brian_gettler, to Canada
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No one believes us, but here it is again: at least in Canada, humanities grads make more money three years out than social and physical & life science grads.

My pitch to the parents of potential students: We're not the worst! Just imagine your kids' future if they studied psychology or physics.

https://higheredstrategy.com/new-graduate-salary-data-ngs-2020/

brian_gettler, to history
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Review of my book from the American Numismatic Society Magazine. @histodons

#histodons #numismatics

A magazine page with two columns of text.

brian_gettler, to random
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Falconer Larkworthy: a real nineteenth-century name you couldn't get away with in fiction, historical or otherwise.

brian_gettler, to history
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Allan Greer on historians and the recent and impending changes at Library and Archives Canada. @histodons

LAC's "Vision 2030 expresses eagerness to attract more uninitiated users, but it has little to say about how they will 'connect with their history and culture.' It is as though archival materials were unproblematic and transparent and as though they automatically yielded knowledge and enlightenment to the most casual investigator...."

https://activehistory.ca/blog/2024/04/09/lacs-vision-what-future-for-the-past/

#histodons #CdnHist

brian_gettler, to random
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Following yesterday's interest rate announcement, it's worth a reminder that our collective fixation on inflation only reflects one aspect of the Bank's remit under the Bank of Canada Act (1985).

The BoC is tasked with mitigating "fluctuations in the general level of production, trade, prices and employment" - that is, using interest rates not only to influence inflation, but employment, etc. The obsession with 2% came later and isn't reflected in the law.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/b-2/

brian_gettler,
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... And, while this is something of a flippant observation, it's also worth pointing out that the word "inflation" appears nowhere in the Bank of Canada Act (1985).

brian_gettler, to history
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After last week's book that I wanted nothing so much as to disintegrate, I'm really enjoying this week's reading. I'd like more political economy/history of capitalism - ahem, colonial economism - like this please. @histodons

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29411

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,
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And a short 1935 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film:

"Some guy with a yen for action conceived the idea of combining baseball with horse racing, thus creating a game of super speed. His brain worked something like this. And when he had it all figured out he found he couldn't get himself races horses, so he got himself of a flock of... donkeys.

Hey you! Not you, the other jackass."

https://youtu.be/HcNWfcdEJ6E

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