Maurice River gives readers a good sense of the progress of the company and the visions I had moving forward. The map of new and existing roads provided people with an idea of the degree of isolation we were dealing with. The drawing of Rapide Blanc as a whole brought everything together with the river, power plant, and the town’s facilities, businesses and residential areas. What I found to be the most important map was the one including Montreal as many people aren’t familiar with the area until it is put into context with an urban space.
Another aspect that was beneficial to the book was the timeline and snippets of history provided with each year that was highlighted. Without a timeline I would even be lost trying to recall the reasons behind the decisions that were made. The newspaper article titled “Closure of the Town of Rapide Blanc” was interesting and one of the areas of the book that started to go a bit more in-depth which was