Monthly Archives: August 2020

Summer update for the Bay Area Canadian community

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A newsletter from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay Area.
Announcing the Moose Colouring Contest winners! 
Thank you to all the amazing entrants in our Moose Colouring Contest this summer. Our judges, Charlie and Scott, really enjoyed the multitude of creative entries and observed everything from “cute” to “complex” and lots of Canadian love!

You can check out out the winning entries from all three categories below, along with reactions and commentary on Facebook.

We would like to give a warm shout-out to our esteemed judging team:

Scott Boms is a cross-disciplinary design generalist, author, educator and speaker. Scott also designed our DML pins that many of you are lucky to own!

Charlie Pachter is one of Canada’s leading contemporary artists – a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. As a painter, he is known for his Queen, Moose and Maple Leaf icons.

Moose event – SAVE THE DATE!

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Wed, Sept 16th @ 3:30 p.m. DML panel: Tech Tools for Small Business Online Sales Success. More information will be made available soon.

Plus, read on below for more events of interest to the community.
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Contest Winners

UC Berkeley
Canadian Studies
September Events

Tuesday, September 1st – 12:30 p.m.
No Safe Country for Refugess? The Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement Before the Canadian Courts

Tuesday, September 15th – 12:30 p.m.
On Blackness and Belonging in North America

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Tommy Tea Tips – make sure you don’t FOLD under pressure!

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An item from the organization formerly known as There But Not There.

RBLI’s Tommy Tea is happening this September, so it’s time to settle the debate once and for all…

We know Devon likes cream first & Cornwall prefers jam first, but what about everyone else? The nations dilemma!
The Queen of Baking (Mary Berry) opts both methods by applying jam first to one side, and clotted cream first to the other half!
TOMMY TEA TIPS
We’ve created over 15 free downloads to help make your Tommy Tea truly terrific! Get your Event Guide, Fundraising Tips, Posters, Cake Flags, Bunting, Colouring Pages, Word Search and more!
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YOUR SUPPORT CHANGES LIVES
We are currently building our Centenary Village to increase our welfare support to the UK’s most disadvantaged veterans. The Centenary Village will provide family accommodation, adapted apartments for veterans with disabilities and assisted living quarters. The community and education centre will discourage isolation and encourage education.
We hope you will support this vital project by holding a Tommy Tea in your area?
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GET SOME HELP FROM THE PROFESSIONALS
Britain Loves Baking has all the ingredients and recipes you need in one box, delivered straight to your door! Make your own afternoon tea from scratch. Traditional British Tea Cakes or a Cranberry Scone with Lemon Drizzle? Not only do you get the kudos for baking it yourself, Britain Loves Baking will make a substantial donation from the sale of each box to RBLI!
BUY YOUR BAKING BOX HERE
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Judging a book by its cover

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

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Judging a book by its cover

Judging a book by its cover

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

Don’t judge a book by its cover, goes the adage. But magazine readers do it all the time.

In the highly competitive periodical industry, the cover is all-important. It’s that hook that can make a publication stand out from all the others on crowded newsstands, inspiring potential readers to pick it up and, hopefully, buy it.

The cover, say marketers and editors alike, is the most important page of the magazine. If it doesn’t grab a shopper in three seconds, goes the rule, it won’t grab them at all.

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World War II Collection (Deluxe Edition)
Military Milestones
“A good way to start off”

“A good way to start off”

Story by Sharon Adams

In Afghanistan in August 2006, the Taliban wanted to take back their spiritual home in a massive attack on the city of Kandahar, but their plans were disrupted by nearby troop movements around a Canadian change of command.

Shrapnel from a mortar shell peppered Lieutenant-Colonel Omer Lavoie’s vehicle during a familiarization tour near Masum Ghar, a peak about 30 kilometres from Kandahar.

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This week in history
This week in history

August 19, 1942

Some 6,000 Allied troops, including 5,000 Canadians, raid the port of Dieppe, France. The Germans are prepared for the attack and the raid is a complete failure, resulting in 1,946 Canadians taken prisoner and 907 killed.

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CWGC Newsletter

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A newsletter from the folks at the Commonwealth War Graces Commission.

Welcome to the CWGC’s latest newsletter.
In the run up to the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a heartbreaking letter from a Liverpudlian soldier to the daughter he never saw grow up was among the moving tributes left on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s newly created Wall of Remembrance.

Valerie Gornell shared the last letter her father, Lance Corporal James Ambrose, wrote to her and her mother from the jungles of Burma (now Myanmar) before departing on a mission behind enemy lines that ultimately cost him his life. She was just 19 months old when the letter was written but would remain unaware of its existence for almost sixty years.
In 2003 Val managed to visit her father’s grave in CWGC’s Rangoon War Cemetery, the final resting place of 1,381 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War. Val said of her visit: “It was wonderful to finally visit his grave and see how beautiful the cemetery is. This year, being able to leave a tribute on the Commission’s Wall of Remembrance means the world. Just a reminder that my family will never forget my father or his comrades.”

To read Val’s full story, click on the link below.
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To mark the 75th anniversary of VJ Day, CWGC managed to record Val’s grandson reading his final letter. You can watch this moving tribute by clicking here. 
Onward TogetherTo mark VJ Day, we teamed up with The National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN), National Army Museum (NAM) and Royal Air Force Museum (RAFM) to create a series of free virtual events for the public to engage with from the safety and comfort of their home. If you missed anything, all the content and videos are available to view via the museums’ individual digital channels.
The Railway ManThe CWGC were delighted to have an opportunity to speak with centenarian Albert “Bert” Warne for the VJ Day anniversary. Bert, a former Far East Prisoner of War, shared his moving stories of working on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway with CWGC’s Senior Public Engagement Coordinator, Megan Maltby. In turn, Megan had a little surprise for Bert.
Our next CWGC Live sees us joined by the RAF Association as we mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The CWGC’s Megan Kelleher will be joined by RAFA representatives to look at their work during this time period and the casualties we commemorate.
Tune into our Facebook page on 20 August at 1pm (UK time) for our live broadcast.
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