Lieutenant George Burden wearing the Clan Lamont Tartan. PHOTO CREDIT: Stella van der Lugt.

Media member George Burden was recently appointed by Father Peter Noel Lamont, Chief of Clan Lamont, as his lieutenant for Canada. That means George is his personal representative at any official functions to which he is unable to attend. And since he lives in Sydney, Australia that could be a heck of a lot of functions!

Member Amy Rosen's latest cookbook, Toronto Eats.

Member Amy Rosen's latest cookbook, Toronto Eats, launched in September. It's the follow-up to her bestselling Toronto Cooks (2014). It's a gorgeous full-colour romp though the city's culinary landscape, filled with over a hundred recipes from 50 top chefs, as well as their stories.

	Mansoor Ladha (centre) pictured with Leela Aheer (left), MLA for Chestermere-Rockeyview and Shiraz Shariff (right), the first Ismaili MLA in Alberta.

Mansoor Ladha 's second book, Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West, was published recently, and launched successfully in Calgary. It is a story of a descendant of immigrants, brown in colour, living in a black society (Tanzania), who later became a brown immigrant living in a white society (Canada). The book sheds light on the experiences felt by immigrants, the challenges of cross-cultural differences, the hurt of discrimination, and other hardships of displacement.

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TMAC welcomes new industry member Katie Lepage, manager of the Tour & Travel (TRADE) Department which includes the International Sales Development at Croisières AML. (croisieresaml.com).

 

Katie Lepage joined Croisières AML in April 2012. She says it all started in 1996.

Katie Lepage

 

"I started as a tour leader for student groups. I quickly became the office manager of the Baillairgé Cultural Tours, a receptive company based in Québec City which offered wonderful programs to students and teenagers and to seniors and alumni travel from the USA. Then, after almost eight years with them, I moved to the Québec City Tourism office and worked for them almost ten years as account executive, which means you travel all over the world to promote the region and its members. It's a CVB.

 

"Finally, in April 2012, this position opened at AML Cruises and I'm here since then."

 

Of AML, she says, "It is a family owned business which exists since 45 years. We own 24 boats and are the largest cruise and excursion company in Canada. We operate in the province of Québec.

 

"We offer about 30 different types of cruises from many different locations such as Montréal, Trois-Rivières, Québec City, Berthier-sur-Mer, Tadoussac, Baie-Ste-Catherine, Saguenay Fjord and Rivière-du-Loup."

 

As for joining TMAC, she says, "It would really be nice for us to be more active with journalists and bloggers as well as anybody in the travel media field. We strongly believe that they are the voice and if they are followed, if people trust them, they will read their article, blog or post.

 

"This can help us being stronger and have an even better reputation. Nowadays, people like to read about experiences and truly believe that if someone had a good time on a trip, doing something they like, then it's something they can trust."

 

Katie likes to travel herself, so in celebration of a recent birthday, that's what she did.

 

"My spouse and I decided we would do something different. We travel so much for work that we usually simply go to an all-inclusive resort to relax for our vacation. Therefore, last fall, we went to Hawaii for the first time. We spent ten days there and visited two islands. We also rented a car and visited many different spots. This was, for us, a real treat. We took a helicopter ride over Maui and we went to a typical Luau dinner on my birthday.

 

"This was such a nice trip. We talk about it very often."

 

Darcy Rhyno, Atlantic member

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