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Bio
Tony Patterson lives in Ottawa in a boutique housing co-op called Catalpa. This is where his interest in the world of cooperatives originates. He kicked up his participation a level once the UN declared 2012 the Year of Cooperatives. In July 2012 he wrote Catalpa's submission to the House of Commons Special Committee on Cooperatives. In October 2012 he was a participant at the IYC International Summit of Cooperatives in Quebec City, and also at the preliminary IMAGINE conference on co-op economics. That same month he launched CO-OP CANADA ACCELERATOR, the blog about communications and community engagement. He loves Quebec City, where his first European ancestors landed almost 350 years ago.
On another side Tony is descended from a sapper who came to Canada from England in 1826 to help build the Rideau Canal. On the blog RIDEAU CANAL AND ALL THAT he's compiling stories of the Canadian family that arose out of this awesome engineering achievement, the wonder of its time and a World Heritage site today. The canal was a stroke of military brilliance that allayed fear of a third American invasion. It became the indispensable link to move goods and people between the two Canadas during the quarter century leading to Confederation. The Rideau Canal is the reason Canada's capital is where it is.
A ninth generation Métis, Tony is editor and CEO of SCAN, which is about the companies, people and events along Ontario's technology corridor. Its forerunner, Silicon Valley NORTH had separate editions in Ottawa, Toronto, Alberta and BC.
Born in Toronto, raised in Montreal, active in the West Indies where he resided (Barbados) from 1968 to 1972, he has lived since 1976 in Ottawa. He has four sons, two daughters, two stepsons, eleven grandchildren and a great grandson, who reside in Kamloops, Vancouver, Bowen Island, Kuujjuaq, Edmonton, Yellowknife, Ottawa, Wakefield, Ile Perrot and Montreal.
Tony has qualified as a member of both Mensa and Intertel. He is a practitioner and former instructor of Taoist Tai Chi and Lok Hup. He is the recipient of the CATA Award of Distinction for Excellence in Science and Technology Reporting and the Print Media Award of the Ottawa Life Sciences Council.
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