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Research Talk
I am presenting my current research programme 7 February 2007 at 11:30am in the TAPoR Research Lab. All are welcome!

Areas and Materials of Interest
Currently, I conducting research on liquor license enforcement in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba. I am also investigating the various Licensed Victuallers Associations in Canada, the US and the UK to explore trade organization and its effectiveness in fighting the imposition of prohibition in the late nineteenth century. I am also investigating chattel mortgage records a valuable resource for exploring the material dimensions of hotel proprietorship.

I have provided repositories of my research, including conference papers, datasets, visual support materials as well as things which I have done purely for fun on this site. The following are available:

Conference Papers
These are made available as rights, time and my interests allow.

Datasets
More PhD datasets coming soon. In the meantime also check out the ones that I share from the MA work below.

My World of Maps
I love creating maps. I have been doing so since I was 11. Luckily I still have many of these early maps of mine, drawn on onion skin and eventually labeled very carefully with Letraset rub-on lettering. I have always found cartography (well maybe I am overselling my map-making ability) quite fascinating and continue it to this day. Much of my quantitative work during my MA and PhD have involved visualization of numeric data in a visual form...often maps and certainly has led me into GIS exploits.
Here is a little (expanding) gallery of some of my latest creations.

My MA Research Work
My M.A. work was concerned with the nature of proprietorship in late-nineteenth century Ontario. In carrying out my research I worked with a wide variety of source materials and compiled some extensive datasets. Some of this data was represented visually through charts and graphs, while other sets I massaged into a variety of virtual representations using GIS.

Other Websites of Mine
I am constantly adding information to this site. This area contains materials which just don't fall cleanly into the categories that I have defined for myself.

Visual Support Materials
I like to express myself visually. Often this is more effective and comes more naturally to me than trying to express myself through words. Here are few examples of some of the materials that I have created over time to illustrate concepts, ideas or represent quantitative data.