Tuesday, May 31, 2016

WLU students map Cambridge's history - CBC News

Projects will be used to build a heritage map for the city

Otto Klotz Wilfrid Laurier Cambridge heritage map project


Build a heritage map for Cambridge and tell interesting stories – that was the broad assignment given to a group of fourth-year geography and environmental students at Wilfrid Laurier University this past semester.
"They knew very little about Cambridge, but they really kind of immersed themselves," professor Andrew Spring said. "It's these three tiny towns that came together and these tiny towns had their own pretty amazing stories."


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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Laurier students develop heritage maps to highlight Cambridge’s history and culture

WATERLOO – As part of a course competition for Wilfrid Laurier University’s Capstone Urban Studies Project (CUSP), a team of Geography and Environmental Studies students was awarded first prize for recommending a smartphone heritage map application for the City of Cambridge, which would include an interactive feature articulating the stories of historical Cambridge residents buried in local public cemeteries.