In depth recounting of my global wandering
As I noted in the first post about Montreal, Jacques Cartier was the first European to have contact with the Haudenosaunee in 1534. He reached what is now Montreal on his second voyage in 1535 in what would have been …
A linguistic hint shortens the trip. A typical Todd post would likely try to trace the origins of the native tribes living in and around present day Montreal at least as far back as 5,000 years Before Present (BP) to …
In the time before humans. Our planet is a dynamic and turbulent place. Tectonic plates slide along faults and crash into one another creating and moving continents and lifting up mountains. In another mountain building exercise, magma boils up from …
Echoes of 1972. None of us who are old enough can forget the events of the 1972 Olympics in Munich when the Black September group took nine members of the Israeli Olympic Team hostage after first killing two others. The …
The first stop on my Olympic host cities tour is Montreal. I’ve been to the city on three separate occasions – once before it hosted the 1976 Summer Games and twice afterward. So, let’s get started. My pre-teen excursion. I …