On His Way in the World: The Voyages and Travels of John H.R. Molson, 1841

This previously unpublished diary was written by John Henry Molson when he was just fourteen. John Henry Robinson Molson was born in Kingston in 1826, a favored grandchild of the founder of Molson's Brewery in Montreal. He inherited the brewery upon John Molson's death in 1836. His grandfather had died when he was ten, and his father and uncles now ran the brewery, as well as a foundry, a ship-yard, and a line of steamships on the St. Lawrence. He was aware that this would be his last real su…