.png)
Rediscover the Past — Discovering the Present Through Past Connections
Projects
Our past work has helped businesses, organizations, communities, and individuals rediscover the past as a means of understanding the present by uncovering the peoples, 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 have provided accurate, ethically grounded, and defensible historical research. 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 Projects
On behalf of academic, professional, and community-based organizations, we have assisted, advised, and provided a wide-range of research and consulting services.
-
Advise a multinational technology conglomerate to ensure the accuracy of concept art depictions of characters and landscapes for an in-development video game.
-
Conduct expert research on behalf of law firms to uncover evidence to support ongoing land claims disputes and legal actions.
-
Compile and synthesize diverse information to create mapped representations of historical and contemporary demographic and geographic data.
-
Find, transcribe, and examine diverse historical records to present organized reports and support different research and argumentative objectives.
-
Format, edit, and revise manuscript and bibliographical data to ensure clarity and editorial accuracy.
-
Compile genealogical data to reconstruct family networks.
Exploring and Preserving Local Histories
In collaboration with other professionals and organizations, we work to share the histories of vibrant neighbourhoods and historical sites in Toronto, to emphasize the importance of their protection and preservation. We work to uncover and understand the interactions and actions of those who made communities and neighbourhoods vibrant and dynamic, and who continue to influence the diversity of spaces across Toronto, and other cities across Canada and the United States.
Alongside other members of the board at the Friends of Fort York and Garrison Common, we are working to adapt and reinvigorate the organization's journal, The Fife and Drum, to capture and share the dynamic history of Fort York and the vibrant neighbourhood surrounding the site. With a renewed emphasis on capturing diverse perspectives and presenting the important role of this site in Canadian history, we will bring this journal to the attention of a wider range of readers, contributors, and community members across academic and public platforms.
Building on our expertise in genealogical research, we are collaborating with The Beach and East Toronto Historical Society to migrate indexed genealogical, housing, and business records about The Beach neighbourhood into an accessible database. Between 2019 and 2021, we worked with a local architect and authors to uncover, capture, and share some of the stories of families who lived in the workers' houses in the East End Toronto neighbourhoods.
Discovering the Past
Our research is always driven by a desire to discover the past. Here are examples of published work that highlights our interest and commitment to uncovering different voices and histories.
Published:
-
Forthcoming: "The Grey Nuns of Montréal: Intimacies and Connections in a Conventual Household, 1727-1771." French Colonial History, Special Issue: Colonial Intimacies (2026).
-
Forthcoming: "Building a Fur Trading Hub: The Networks of an Opportunistic Montréal Merchant, 1700-1750." French Colonial History (2026).
-
"Imagining Imperial Spaces: Comparing Cartographic Representations of the Great Lakes Region in the 17th and 18th Century." American Philosophical Society - APS Library Blog, June 9, 2025.
-
"Re-Thinking Where the Sources Lead: Reflecting on the Research and Writing Process." Borealia: Early Canadian History, February 5, 2024.
-
"A Different Road to Sainthood: Building a Religious Community in Eighteenth-Century Montréal." Borealia: Early Canadian History, July 5, 2021.
-
"At a Crossroads: Connections and Family Formation in Montréal, 1700-1750." Borealia: Early Canadian History, November 30, 2020.
Presented:
-
"Building a Community of Individuals and Constructing an Image of Empire: Comparing the Ways that People Interact and Shape the World Around Them." ERA Architects - Wednesday Forum, October 22, 2025.
-
"The Grey Nuns of Montréal: Tracing a Different Kind of Intimacy and Connection, 1721-1771." Canadian Historical Association Conference, June 3, 2025.
-
"Imagining Imperial Spaces: Comparing Cartographic Representations of the Great Lakes Region in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century." American Philosophical Society - Brown Bag Lunches, May 6, 2025.
-
"The Grey Nuns of Montréal: Intimacies and Connections in a Conventual Household, 1727-1771." 48th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, May 24, 2024.
-
"A Different Road to Sainthood: Building a Religious Community in Eighteenth Century Montréal." Canadian Historical Association Conference, May 29, 2023.
-
"Blurring Boundaries: Encounters in an Eighteenth Century Montréal Religious Community." Society for French Historical Studies, March 18, 2023.
-
"Searching Beyond Borders: The Networks of an Opportunistic Montréal Merchant, 1700-1750." Canadian Historical Association Conference, May 16, 2022.
-
"Building an Interconnected French Colonial World: The Networks Created by One Montréal Household, 1700-1750." 46th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, May 14, 2022.
-
"Household Composition and Networks of Connection in Eighteenth Century Montréal." Canadian Historical Association Conference, June 9, 2021.
