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Though my adoptive and birth names served as the initial genealogical/geographical names for the tongue rug — all bodies of water and the occasional bridge — I also used two other waypoints that did not share my family names: Lake Panache (PA-1) and Mont-Royal (MO-1). Effectively, a starting-point and an end-point; where I was from, and where I chose to settle. While doing my fieldwork, I also came across a few other waypoints that helped me to situate my “tongues” in a larger map.
- Bellevue hill and Lost Lake (A-2, A-3)
- Lac-à-l’Épaule and Montagne du Père-Legault (LA-5, LE-4)
- Lac-aux-loutres and the Lachine Canal (MO-1)
I had been classifying these new waypoints with the tongues found in the nearest geographical area. Yet it is not obvious that a story about the Lachine canal for example, would be part of the Mont-Royal waypoint. If I want people to submit stories about their own chosen body of water, best to add another tongue. I've started receiving a few stories.
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