Nick Brune, BA , MA , BEd (born March 29, 1952), is a Canadian educator, historian, and author.
Born in London, England, he received a Bachelors degree and Masters degree in Honours History and Political Science from the University of Toronto.
Nick Brune is an award-winning teacher being the recipient of both the Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Teacher Award (1992) and the Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History (2002). Brune began his teaching career in Lausanne, Switzerland but has taught most of his career in Halton County.
Brune has co-authored more than half a dozen history and civics textbooks, beginning with “Canada: A North American Nation” (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989) and most recently “Defining Canada: History, Identity, and Culture” (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2003).
In addition, he has produced learning resources for a variety of different organizations. He helped found and was the Educational Writer for the award-winning CBC-TV News in Review for its first six years of existence. He has written a number of resources for The Dominion Institute (“Our Heroes,” “The Memory Project,” “Passages to Canada,” and “The Democracy Project.” For the Hong Kong Commemorative Veterans Association, he wrote “Canada in Hong Kong, 1941-1945, The Forgotten Heroes.” Working with ALPHA, he co-authored a learning resource that examines human rights abuses in China, 1931-1945.
Brune is much sought after workshop presenter having given presentations across Canada (Victoria, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax) and beyond (Birmingham, UK, Seoul, South Korea, and Shanghai, China). His themes have included historical as well as pedagogical topics.
Brune is currently the President 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 978-0-9738025-0-4.
He is also co-author and producer of History of Canada Online (HCO), as well as its textbook version, Canada: Our Story, Our People. ISBN 978-0-9780389-0-8.
He currently teaches History and Civics at Iroquois Ridge High School, Oakville, Ontario, Canada.