Bringing it all back to the same spot: re-engaging place

My last post in this little project is one where I feel I must bring it all back to the beginning. I referenced Seixas, (2009), and Levesque (2010) and their call for a historical inquiry that involved process, and meaning and connectedness. A historical narrative is, just that, a narrative, but it is made meaningful by its connections - to the past, present, and future - not simply for the writer but also for the reader. There has to be a connectedness of the narrative to those who read it.
It is my hope that this little blog, being in a place of complete publicity, will create connections for those who read it and engage with it as it did for me create connections between what I thought, what I think and what I am open to thinking in the future. The Rideau Canal as a historical place is fueled by the people who interact with it, whether it be the visitors, the officials who maintain it, the citizens who use it or the people who remember it. It is interacted with over and over and it is those interactions those connections of meaning that make it a site worth historical remembering.