Glenn J. Lea
Hi. Glad you are here. I am a Canadian from Toronto now living in Berlin, Germany. For over 40 years I have worked as a Technical Writer in both Canada and Germany.
As a tech writer, my job has been to help users understand and use (mostly) software. Key to this has been the ability to research user needs and product capabilities. This also means I am a researcher at heart.
Learn more: If you want to know more about my tech writing activities, take a look at my LinkedIn profile here.
Carpentry: I am also a seasoned carpenter. Before attending the University of Waterloo, I worked for almost ten years as a tradesman in New England and Ontario. Highlights (for me) included remodelling beach houses in Rhode Island, slate roofing in Massachusetts and landscape construction in Ontario. Its a family thing to know how to work with wood.
For a detailed biography, see here.
My Beyond Brant and Brock Substack
As my career as a technical writer is winding down, I can now focus on my real passion which is writing about the history of Canada, arguably one of the best countries on the planet.
Subscribe now to my Substack: I write the “Beyond Brant and Brock* Substack at glennjlea.substack.com. Beyond Brant and Brock provides well-researched articles that document in a chronological order how Europeans “discovered” the New World in the 15th Century through to the founding of Canada in the 19th Century. I also attempt to describe the impact on the Indigenous tribes these incursions by Europeans into their territories (as much as documentary evidence exists to assess it).
Why this site (glennjlea.com)?: It provides a place for additional ideas, updates and thoughts to compliment my articles hosted on my Substack Beyond Brant and Brock.
Visit Beyond Brant and Brock and select the Subscribe button to automatically get each new article as I release it to my subscribers. My cadence is approximately one article per month.
Contact
Want to contact me? Its best do so through my LinkedIn page.