Mapping and Remembering Places of Wool Industry:
Closure and Continuity of Wool Work Throughout the Maritime Peninsula.
Cartographier et se souvenir des lieux liés à l'industrie lainière :
fermeture et continuité du travail de la laine dans toute la péninsule maritime.
Mapping Wool Sites with uMap
Cartographie des sites lainiers avec uMap
UMap is a user-friendly and collaborative mapping platform using open-sourced map background layers from OpenStreetMap. Explore the past and present wool industry sites mapped out below: icons in red indicate wool sites from the past, no longer operational, blue indicates wool mills and industries operating in the present. The purple icons indicate wool sites which became museums.
The "layers" icon bottom left in the map shows you the map legend and you can turn on and off layers using the "eye" icon.
Preliminary wool mapping
with uMap
Past and Present
Cartographie préliminaire
de la laine
avec uMap
Passé et Présent
UMap est une plateforme de cartographie conviviale et collaborative utilisant des fonds de carte open source d'OpenStreetMap. Explorez les sites de l'industrie lainière passés et présents cartographiés ci-dessous : les icônes de rouge indiquent les sites lainiers non opérationnels, le bleu indiquent les moulins et industries lainiers actuellement en activité. Les icônes violettes indiquent les sites lainiers devenus des musées.
L'icône "couches" en bas à gauche de la carte vous montre la légende de la carte et vous pouvez activer et désactiver les couches en utilisant l'icône "œil".
about / contact
à propos / contact
This research project explores the connections between work, community, and place through the wool industry. I am studying the wool history of Maine and Quebec to understand how this region has been shaped by its wool industry across national borders.
The project aims to help designers, artists, and wool enthusiasts understand the experiences of wool mill workers and recognize them as valuable keepers of this knowledge. To better understand the wool industry in relation to place, I have begun mapping the history of wool and sheep in the "Maritime Peninsula". This is a term borrowed by archeologists and historians to refer to an approximate area of land between the Gulf of Maine and the Gulf of the Saint Lawrence, extends from the St Francis River in Quebec to the tip of Nova Scotia.
E-mail: vanran08@gmail.com Instagram: @thewoolroute, @laine.leau
Ce projet de recherche explore les liens entre le travail, la communauté et le lieu par le biais de l'industrie lainière. J'étudie l'histoire de la laine du Maine et du Québec pour comprendre comment cette région a été façonnée par son industrie lainière au-delà des frontières nationales.
Le projet vise à aider les designers, les artistes et les amateurs de laine à comprendre les expériences des travailleurs des filatures de laine et à les reconnaître comme des gardiens précieux de ce savoir. Pour mieux comprendre l'industrie lainière en relation avec le lieu, j'ai commencé à cartographier l'histoire de la laine et des moutons dans la péninsule maritime. Ce terme est emprunté aux archéologues et aux historiens pour désigner une zone approximative entre le golfe du Maine et le golfe du Saint-Laurent, s'étendant de la rivière Saint-François au Québec jusqu'à la pointe de la Nouvelle-Écosse.
E-mail: vanran08@gmail.com Instagram: @thewoolroute, @laine.leau
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