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Dale.Barbour Dec 7, 2022

Pro-tip: If you head to Oh Doughnuts after 3 you stand a good shot at getting a 2 for 1 deal. #Winnipeg. You MUST tip if this happens.
And OMG their doughnuts are otherworldly.

Dale.Barbour Nov 20, 2022

Resisting the urge to live toot the #GreyCup game to a bunch of people on Mastodon who don't know me very well.
Toot #324.
Bombers QB has the football in his hand, he holds ... holds.
Now the release!
(Continued in Toot #325)

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Dale.Barbour Nov 19, 2022

@schoolingdiana I suspect it will survive. I also suspect there will be glitches and crashes ahead.

Dale.Barbour Nov 19, 2022

I'm still getting my feet on mastodon, and I suspect I'm going to remain a twitter person. But my suggestion for other people dipping their feet into Mastodon as a new tool is to fill out your profile. If I'm, and I think other think this way too, deciding whether to follow someone I want to know a little about them. #Winnipeg #WinnipegBeach #Envhist

Dale.Barbour Nov 18, 2022

Me as twitter is crashing: Hello Mastodon, my name is Dale Barbour ...
#Winnipeg #historodon (and maybe #cycling guy, cause let's reclaim that identity on a new platform.)

Dale.Barbour Nov 13, 2022

Self promotion and archival promotion. If you're looking to do a #Winnipeg project check out the oral history records held at the Manitoba #Archives. Great material recorded in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Here's a post on #WinnipegBeach:
https://www.gov.mb.ca/yourarchives/blog/2020/03_mar.html#mar16

March 2020 | Your Archives Blog | Archives of Manitoba | Province of Manitoba

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Dale.Barbour Nov 11, 2022

@WinnipegLaur We'll see where the research goes. I wrote a book on Winnipeg Beach about ten years back. Now I'm working Winnipeg's relationship with its rivers, and that does pull in Lake Winnipeg because everything that comes from Winnipeg ends up downstream.This will give you a sense of some of the things I look at: https://niche-canada.org/2020/07/15/muddied-waters-and-monkey-trails/

Muddied Waters and Monkey Trails

This is the first in a series based on presentations that would have taken place at the 2020 Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting at Western University in London, Ontario (June 1-3). This post, by Dale Barbour, was scheduled as part of a panel called "The Nature of the City." I was

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Dale.Barbour Nov 10, 2022

Making Muskoka has arrived! @awatson8381 And for no good reason here's a picture of it with a cat.

Dale.Barbour Nov 10, 2022

I don't want to alarm anyone but ice is moving by on the #Assiniboine River in #Winnipeg. I think we may be on the edge of some sort of seasonal shift.

Dale.Barbour Nov 9, 2022

I'm a bit skeptical about mastodon, but here I am with post number 1. I'm a #historian in #Winnipeg. I study #beaches, marginal spaces, riparian environments, and social and cultural history more broadly.