Wendy Elliott
Wendy is an accomplished writer, editor, designer and teacher/trainer. She holds a master's degree in distance education from Athabasca University (GPA 4.0), and is a consultant and instructional designer for several Canadian and American online education sites. One particularly challenging and rewarding project was creating a program in Cree for a northern Manitoba community (Wendy doesn't speak Cree!). She has also written, designed and produced many instructional manuals, videos and podcasts for her clients. As a teacher and trainer of Web-based publishing, computer software, and fundraising courses at southern Ontario colleges, she always earns outstanding performance evaluations from her students.
As a volunteer, Wendy has been a co-founder of a literacy organization in Toronto, a board member of a theatre company, and is currently a facilitator in an inner city business program, and a long-time advisor doing international development work for Canadian Executive Services Organization (CESO). Going on assignments for CESO allows her to fulfill one of her loves -- travel. She is an adventurous creature, curious, inquisitive, and delights in discovery. One of the best trips she ever took was an 8-month solo sojourn in an RV around Canada and the United States, from Newfoundland to Alaska, to California, Florida and northward back home.
But her favourite pastime is writing and editing. She started out writing fundraising proposals for charitable organizations, and soon discovered that she had a talent for stringing words together in a logic and compelling manner. Her keen interest in history, especially Canadian history, and in research propelled her to write several plays about historical figures. She is currently working with a composer to write a musical based on the War of 1812. Ironically it was one of her fictional plays, Millennium Madness, which was produced on CBC Radio in 2000. She has had several articles published in magazines, one academic paper published online (The Audiocast Diaries), and is the author of a book on Canadian political scandals (Scandals? We Don't Got No Stinking Scandals). Her two most fascinating and rewarding assignments were to edit the memoirs of a Montreal business man, and to coach a new writer in writing a mystery novel.
Latest Articles
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CNR's "Radio Train" Show
In 1927 the Canadian National Railway broadcast Radio Train, the world's first educational soap opera about the adventures of a group of rail travellers.
Mar 6, 2008
- Wendy Elliott
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Wesleyan Methodist Ancestors
It is not always easy finding vital records for the 19th century Ontario. However, for Wesleyan Methodists there are three very helpful sources.
Mar 4, 2008
- Wendy Elliott
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Dorothea Palmer
The 1937-37 trial of Dorothea Palmer proved to be a landmark case in how birth control information was distributed in Canada.
Mar 4, 2008
- Wendy Elliott
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Parents' Information Bureau
Until the 1960s, it was illegal to distribute birth control information. Parents' Information Bureau risked all, and changed the lives of Canadian families and society.
Mar 3, 2008
- Wendy Elliott
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Ottawa's Underground Diefenbunker
Tour Canada's Cold War Museum near Ottawa known as the Diefenbunker, complex underground warren of protection in the event of a nuclear war.
Mar 3, 2008
- Wendy Elliott
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Flora MacDonald Denison
Flora MacDonald Denison (1867-1921) was an original: suffragist, journalist, radical believer in free love and birth control, and fan of spiritualism and Walt Whitman.
Mar 3, 2008
- Wendy Elliott
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Martha Black, 2nd Woman MP
Determined to find wealth in the Klondike Gold Rush, Martha Louis Munger Purdy Black instead found riches of another sort: love, friendship, adventure and a beloved home.
Feb 25, 2008
- Wendy Elliott
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Churchill Museum, Cabinet War Room
The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms give visitors a historic peek into the major events and strategic high command in London during the dark days of World War II.
Dec 19, 2007
- Wendy Elliott
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Yerevan, Capital of Armenia
Little known Yerevan has everything the discerning traveller could want -- excellent accommodations, delicious food, magnificent vistas, and unique architecture.
Dec 13, 2007
- Wendy Elliott
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