<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Past Connections Historical Consulting]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description><link>https://www.pastconnections.ca/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 16:59:59 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.pastconnections.ca/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Building a Community of Individuals and Constructing an Image of Empire: Comparing the Ways that People Interact and Shape the World Around Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I had the opportunity to give a presentation about my dissertation research, with a particular focus on one household that I reconstructed, and the ways that it is related to my newer research, which examines and compares the growth of geospatial knowledge of the Great Lakes region in North America and France.   I began by taking us back to seventeenth century Montréal.   Nicolas Sanson – Le Canada et Nouvelle France (1656) (Showing Montréal’s central position) The location...]]></description><link>https://www.pastconnections.ca/post/building-a-community-of-individuals-and-constructing-an-image-of-empire-comparing-the-ways-that-peo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cbd359f00b6aba290869aa</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:12:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea3511_06e6cac0b16c4896b9dd95aa572b985c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Alanna Loucks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagining Imperial Spaces: Comparing Cartographic Representations of the Great Lakes]]></title><description><![CDATA[In March 2025, I had the opportunity to visit the American Philosophical Society as a David Center for the American Revolution International Fellow to conduct research for a new project. The goal of this project is to explore the growth of geographic knowledge in North America and its relationship to the evolution of map-making and cartographic comprehension of the Great Lakes in Europe. While at the APS, with the help of the wonderful reference staff, librarians, and experts, I focused on...]]></description><link>https://www.pastconnections.ca/post/in-march-2025-i-had-the-opportunity-to-visit-the-american-philosophical-society-as-a-david-center-f</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9bddf3219c844499386f0</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:06:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ea3511_89dfd4745bfe4e6dbc4210261485e1da~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Alanna Loucks</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>