In support of England’s largest festival of history and culture, starting on 11 September 2020 the CWGC will be offering tours of several of our sites across the United Kingdom as part of Heritage Open Days week. Come along to discover the stories of our sites across the UK, the men and women we commemorate here and to meet our staff who continue our work of honouring the fallen.
Looking for something to do with your children as they head back to school? Come along for an ‘I Spy a War Hero’ event on Saturday 12 September at Weston Mill Cemetery, Plymouth, exploring the stories of some of the casualties commemorated here from the First and Second World Wars.
Also in Plymouth is one of our trio of iconic UK naval memorials. The Plymouth Naval Memorial has recently undergone essential maintenance; work has been ongoing for the past few months as the Memorial’s stone planters, which flank the steps leading from the Hoe to the memorial lawn, have been stripped back and repaired with new modern materials.
Sarah Ashbridge, a Researcher from the University of Huddersfield, explores how the Commission’s founder, Fabian Ware, was involved in the development of an iconic piece of military equipment used during both World Wars, which played a vital role in the work of Commission staff – the 1916 double identity disc or ‘dog tag’.
Our next CWGC Live, on Thursday 3 September, focuses on Britain’s entry to the Second World War in 1939. Our Official Historian, George Hay, will be joined by Dr Alan Allport and Professor Lucy Noakes as they cover this subject and explore some of the first casualties of the Second World War.
An item from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay Area.
In recent months, the DML has been reaching out to Canadian-owned, affiliated and themed small businesses in the Bay Area, to support them in today’s challenging economy. We’ve heard how the pandemic has impacted businesses, and forced our favourite shops, restaurants, artisans, and service providers to find new ways of reaching customers.
In this panel, we will gather experts from our Canadian tech community to discuss tips and strategies on how to make the most of tech tools and grow sales online.
Please join our webinar, and share the details with any small business or entrepreneur who you think might find this information helpful. We will make time for Q&A at the end.
Meet our panelists, below, and don’t forget to pre-register for this Zoom webinar scheduled for Wednesday, September 16th!
Brian Hale (panelist) is originally from Calgary, and is currently serving as the VP of Product Growth at Facebook, helping oversee Facebook’s small business platform.
Brian began his career in growth and performance marketing in 1999 at the start-up ACDSee, where he first started “figuring out that search engine thing”, growing e-commerce, and providing analytics. He has since gone on to lead demand generation and e-commerce for DivX, the digital video technology company, and then led SEO and Growth functions for the travel start-up “Uptake”, which later sold to Groupon. Since 2010 he has been at Facebook, where he is Vice President of the Product Growth team, which partners with engineering teams across Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Messenger using data and experimentation to drive growth of app adoption and engagement.
Amy Thibodeau (panelist) is from Saskatchewan, and moved from Silicon Valley back to Canada a few years ago to lead UX for Store Management at Shopify. In her role as Director, Amy leads design, research, content strategy, and UX development for the Store Management team.
In earlier iterations of her life she was one of the first members of Facebook’s now gigantic content strategy team, she renovated an old house in the south of France, worked in art museums, and traveled around the world for a year. Amy lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband Dan and two small dogs, Augustus and Eleanor.
David Stewart (moderator) is the Digital Moose Lounge’s Past Chair, or “Pastured Moose”, and the Advisory Board Chair at UC Berkeley’s Canadian Studies Program. Since 2013, he has consulted on a range of Canada-US education and innovation projects for clients such as the University of Saskatchewan, Expansion Quebec, the Association of University Research Parks Canada, and UBC. From 2007 – 2012, he was the Academic Relations Officer at the Consulate General of Canada in Palo Alto. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of International House, a nonprofit in Charlotte, North Carolina. David began his career as a commercial and immigration lawyer in Toronto, Boston, and Charlotte, and is a member of the Bar in Ontario and Massachusetts.