About the Author

Mark Jodoin is an author and speaker of subjects related to the history of the American northeast and Canada. A graduate of Carleton University's School of Journalism, Mr. Jodoin is a former journalist and marketing entrepreneur whose career has taken him from New York to Los Angeles in the United States, and Halifax to Vancouver in Canada. As a heritage writer, his period of interest begins the US Declaration of Independence in 1776 and continues through to Canada's Confederation in 1867. Mr. Jodoin is the history feature writer for the Canadian magazine Esprit de Corps, and president of the Rideau Township Historical Society, living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.