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Our Mission and Vision
Our mission is to rediscover the past as a means of understanding the present by uncovering the people, places, and connections that shape our world. Through expert historical consulting, rigorous archival research, land claims research, genealogy, mapping, and collections management across North America, we provide accurate, ethically grounded, and defensible historical work. By bridging scholarly research with geospatial and genealogical analysis, we illuminate past connections to offer clarity, context, and insight for contemporary communities, institutions, and legal processes.
Our vision is a future in which historical research actively informs present-day understanding, decision-making, and reconciliation. We envision history as a living framework - one that connects archival records, genealogies, and geospatial knowledge to contemporary questions of land, identity, and stewardship. By making complex historical evidence accessible and meaningful, we aim to foster deeper awareness of how past relationships and movements continue to shape North America today.
Who We Are
At Past Connections Historical Consulting, we are dedicated to preserving the past and bringing it to life for future generations. Using innovative research methods, our expert team is committed to providing insightful research and expert analysis, ensuring that every historical narrative is accurately represented. Our rigorous research and analysis contributes to our understanding of how history enriches our present and shapes our future.
What We Do
We offer a wide-range of consulting services to expertly assist, advise, and support businesses, organizations, communities, and individuals to draw connections between the past and the present.
Expert Historical Consulting
Building on years of engagement, study, and the presentation of historical information across academic and public settings, we partner with interdisciplinary specialists to advise and assist businesses, organizations, communities, and individuals in their research needs. We provide expert advice on topics, including cultural heritage, heritage preservation, public policy, commemoration, animation, video game imagery, and historical accuracy.
Land Claims Research
We offer research services related to historical Indigenous presences, land claims, treaty-making, and historical and contemporary breaches of treaties and mismanagement of Indigenous lands by the Crown to support legal claims for compensation and recognition of rights. We provide in-depth research and comprehensive analysis of relevant archival and contemporary records in both English and French to ensure effective and inclusive recognition.
Mapping
Gain access to large, multifaceted collections of historical maps and skilled analysis to interpret cartographic and geospatial information. In addition to advice and analysis, we can create maps to reflect particular information and objectives, and reconstruct and adapt historical maps to highlight particular geospatial, topographical, or demographic data.
Archival Research
We tailor solutions precisely to your unique needs and vision. Our team works to bring your specific ideas to life by supporting your projects from concept to completion. Through our research experience and PhD-quality analysis, we conduct inquiries to systematically and critically investigate past communities, events, and peoples to examine, understand, and draw connections and conclusions about the ways that the past influences the present.
Collections Management
Based on significant experience navigating archival and library collections and building relevant datasets to compile, interpret, and present vast amounts of historical data, we create, support, and manage data collection services. This allows businesses, organizations, communities, and individuals to rely on specialized experience to organize relevant materials and manage their distribution to present information in innovative and effective ways.
