The Memoirs of Alexander Brodie Kitchen Author: Lt-Gen Jonathon Riley

Author: Lt-Gen Jonathon Riley

recording his memorable impressions of his trip down the Hudson Valley

" as well as preparations for meats

and how it came to signify and solidify Canada’s national identity

Paperback: 184 pages

The Memoirs of Alexander Brodie Kitchen Author: Lt-Gen Jonathon RileyAlexander Brodie emigrated from Scotland to what was then the British colony of Upper Canada now Ontario in the 1830s. In this fascinating memoir, written in the early years of the 20th century, Brodie describes life on what was still very much the frontier. Among the subjects described by Brodie are the Rebellion of 1837, making maple syrup in the bush, and the transatlantic crossing to Canada. John Steckley, anthropologist, sociologist, and author