Brenda Wilson spent her professional career (1972–2010) in the dual domains of teaching and librarianship at the secondary and post-secondary levels in Quebec and Ontario. During her twenty years of teaching as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University, her courses included “Children’s Literature,” “Young Adult Literature,” “Media Production” and “Educational Use of Film and Television.”

During her tenure there, she also taught courses and produced video support materials for the Faculty’s Distance Education Program. In 1991, Brenda’s pioneering work was recorded in the publication, Aspects of Education by Margaret Gillett for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the McGill Faculty of Education.

Always a leading-edge presenter, she was invited to travel to both national and international conferences to speak about the importance of striking a balanced use of print, audiovisual, and electronic media to positively affect learning outcomes.

In her fifteen years as teacher librarian at Trafalgar School for Girls, Brenda taught “Media Production” and “Introduction to Film and Television.” Her class won a national award for the World War II documentary production entitled, Pat Moll Remembers. She also pushed the boundaries of computer technology in teaching. In the final chapter of A History of Trafalgar School for Girls by Margaret Gillett, her groundbreaking work was again documented and she received the Apple Computer Life Achievement Award for Creative Use of Computers in Libraries and Schools.

As a media producer, she wrote and directed a long-running children’s public television series for CFCF Cable TV in Montreal entitled, Storytime / L’heure du Conte. Her media production company in Montreal, “Edinfo,” produced both print and non-print media in the area of Canadian copyright. For this work she employed National Film Board Studio “B,” McGill University and Concordia University AV production studios.

When she moved to Ontario to work at the Cornwall Public Library as head of Young Adult and Children’s Services, she produced and directed an award–winning children’s TV series for Cogeco Cable called, Simon’s Moving Picture Show.

Since most of the countryside in the late 1990s had only dialup connection to the Internet, she formed a company to aggregate demand for broadband and became a community champion for the deployment of high-speed connectivity across rural Eastern Ontario. Her not-for-profit company, the Communities of Eastern Ontario Network (CEONET), managed five million dollars in public, private partnership (P3) grants to get “fibre optic cable to the door,” thereby levelling the playing field for rural residents ranging from creators to farmers to hospitals to community services.

After retiring, she was finally able to indulge in her great passion for writing, photography, and world travel. For over three decades, she has followed her love for the monarch butterfly to Mexico, where she spent so many winters with them.

After years of research, Brenda published “Takewing a.m.” in 2018, and in 2023 she published its Spanish translation, “Al Vuelo” which she dedicated to Homero Gomez Gonzalez, the monarch activist who was murdered in his beloved Mexican monarch sanctuary.

Brenda Wilson now lives and writes in the wonderful city of her birth: Montreal, Quebec, near to her dear family and friends.