Diversity / Writing Elective

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Please check this blog at least every few days. Please come to class and, when you do, plan on spending an hour and a half discussing architecture, travel, and the logistics you'll each need to consider to make this a successful venture. Each year is different. This thing is not on auto pilot and it needs your input and consideration.

The map of the week is below. 1730. Yellow is the USA (New York and Vermont). Blue is Ontario. As you can see Montreal, in a very broad geography, sits at a bend in a grand confluence of rivers and tributaries. That fits both culturally and topographically. To the west is British North America, to the south is the American Colonies (already regarded more independent than BNA), and to the north and east is French Canada. In this time travel was done almost solely through waterways. Tracing the patterns of water cutting across this map, look where they all lead- Montreal. All navigable paths into the interior of the landscape have to pass by this spot. The location itself is unnavigable and it lies just ahead of a series of branches in the pathway (like the great lakes).