Glenn J. Lea, Technical Writer and Canadian Historian
Hi. Glad you are here. I am a Canadian living in Berlin, Germany. I have worked as a Technical Writer since 1993 in both Canada and Germany. My goals at work include helping users get up and running with (mostly) software. This means researching what the products can do and how I anticipate the users of those technologies would need to interact with them. Basic tech writing stuff. 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 Watch Hill, Rhode Island (think Taylor Swift’s home), slate roofing in Massachusetts and landscape construction in Ontario.
About Beyond Brant and Brock
As my career as a technical writer is winding down, I am blessed to focus on my other passion - writing about the origins and development of Canada, arguably one of the best countries on the planet.
This site (glennjlea.com) provides a place for additional ideas, updates and thoughts to compliment my articles hosted on my Substack Beyond Brant and Brock.
Read my Substack: Get informed about the origins of Canada: head over to 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).
Subscribe to my Substack: Save yourself some time now by visiting here and select the Subscribe button in Substack. You’ll then automatically get each new article as I release it to the wild.
Why is it called “Beyond Brant and Brock”?
Simple. All I knew about this history of Canada after years of elementary and high school was about these two men - Joseph Brant and General Brock. If you are from Ontario you probably heard about these two men who were fundamental to the development of a Canadian identity. Want to know more? Subscribe to my substack. See above.
Contact me
Want to contact me, best do so through my LinkedIn page.