Alastair Sweeny, BA , MLitt , PhD (born August 15, 1946), is a Canadian executive, historian, and author.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he attended St. Andrew's College, received a Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, and a Master of Letters and Doctor of Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin.
Alastair Sweeny has managed research programs, produced reference and learning materials and consulted with many leading private and public sector organizations, including the Privy Council Office, Library & Archives Canada, Parks Canada, Canadian Heritage, eLibrary ProQuest, Nelson Thomson Learning, Quebecor Media, Electric Library Canada and CanWest Global.
Sweeny produced "Canadisk", Canada's first multimedia CD-ROM in 1989 as a joint venture with Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has developed learning materials for Apple Computer's eWorld, and produced the original Encarta Book of Quotations (1999) with Microsoft Inc. and Bloomsbury Publishing, London. In the 1990s he helped get Canada's SchoolNet under way, and developed the Today in Canadian History online service for Bell Globemedia.
Sweeny has produced and written corporate histories of a number of Canadian companies, including Investors Group and Alberta Energy Company (Encana). He has done background research for Canadian authors such as Peter C. Newman [Hudson's Bay Company series background history], Richard Gwyn, Pierre Berton and Jeffrey Simpson, and is author of several biographies, including George-Etienne Cartier, as well as the recently published CanQuiz.
Sweeny is currently Executive Director of the non-profit educational foundation, The Civics Channel, dedicated to research, teaching and learning in the areas of citizenship and society, politics, human rights and the justice system. He is co-author and producer of the Civics Canada Online Textbook, as well as its print version, Civics Canada ISBN 0-9738025-0-2.
He is also Vice President of Northern Blue Publishing of Waterloo, Ontario, and co-author and producer of the History of Canada Online, as well as its textbook version, Canada: Our Story, Our People. ISBN 0-9780389-0-8.
He is currently co-authoring and producing Canada's First People, a pioneering history of Canada's native and aboriginal nations.
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Works
- George-Etienne Cartier: A Biography (1976)
- CanQuiz (2002) ISBN: 1552634159
External links
- History of Canada Online
- Canadian History News
- Canadian Military History News
- Canadian Birthdays
- Canada's First People
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