This is a follow-up from my earlier post on using Google Fusion Tables to analyse the embarkation roll of the 114th Bn CEF. Fusion Tables allows you to examine a spreadsheet using some of the apps in the Google Suite of online tools, such as Google Maps. If a column in your spreadsheet contains locations, for example, all of these locations can be mapped. Without … Continue reading Mapping Intensity
At the moment, I’m writing a chapter on voluntary contributions from Indigenous communities in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the First World War. Any discussion of First Nations enlistments in Canada is bound to include a discussion of the 114th (Brock’s Rangers) Battalion, raised in Haldiman County in Southwestern Ontario. The 114th included two companies of First Nations soldiers, recruited mainly from the Six … Continue reading Playing with Fusion
