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About Michael K. Barbour

Michael K. Barbour is the Director of Faculty Development and a Professor of Instructional Design for the College of Education and Health Sciences at Touro University California. He has been involved with K-12 online learning in a variety of countries for well over a decade as a researcher, teacher, course designer and administrator. Michael's research focuses on the effective design, delivery and support of K-12 online learning, particularly for students located in rural jurisdictions.

News and events for the Bay Area Canadian community

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An update from a fellow Canadian organization in the Bay Area.
Countdown to another (but more open!) COVID-19 Canada Week in the Bay 2021

With vaccinations on the rise and restrictions on the decline (Breaking News about Canada/US border restriction changes!), the Digital Moose Lounge is looking forward to bringing our local Canadian community back together, little by little.

For Canada Week 2021, we will be partnering again with the Bay Area community to bring you both virtual and live opportunities to kick off summer, from small to (well) medium events.

Canadians all over the world have been dealing with challenging times not only due to COVID-19, racial tensions at home and abroad, and now the horrific news coming out of Canada around the remains of 215 children found at what used to be a Residential School on Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops. Canadian communities everywhere care deeply about equality and justice. We hope that by bringing our community together, outside of Canada, we can find support for each other.

In this update:

mooseMoose Events for Canada Day: Get your pastrami and poutine picnic on with Augies, taste some great Canadian wines with Kascadia (ORDER BY Wednesday, June 16) and take part in the DML’s first ever Canadian vs. American Snack Off!

📆 Other events will be coming soon to our Canada Week calendar! Today, we share the link for the Canadian Expat Meetup Group.

Royal Canadian Legion.gifRoyal Canadian Legion’s “Commemoration Day” on July 1st honours the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in the Battle of Beaumont Hamel during WW1.

In case you missed this:
Last month, we hosted three great student panelists during our Chesterfield Chat: Exploring Post Secondary Options in Canada. If you missed this event, you can still view the recording online for a limited time (until June 30th, 2021).
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Augies and the Digital Moose Lounge bring you… a Canada Day Picnic!

This is an exclusive event for DML members and their families. (Augies is currently closed to the public). Outdoor seating will be available for up to 24 people on a rotating, first-come first-serve basis.

Augies is located at 700 Essex Way in Berkeley.

Please RSVP on Facebook so we can get a head count. Pre-order details coming soon…

DEADLINE TO ORDER WINE PACKAGE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16TH

This year we are delighted to mix things up with a unique East Coast vs. West Coast wine pack. We have sourced a Bordeaux red wine from the diverse province of British Columbia, and a classic Rose from third generation Italian winemakers from the Niagara Peninsula.

Included in your $65 wine package:

1.5 hrs wine tasting experience co-hosted by our Board Chair, Sarah Price and VJ Gandhi, Founder of Kascadia Wine Merchants. VJ is also a proud Canadian citizen living in San Jose, with epicurean taste and unafraid to take risks to pursue her deepest passions!

Order here! (deadline is just one week away!)

Canadian vs. American Snack Off

JULY 1, 2021 | 5 – 6:30 PM

Have you ever wondered if foods and snacks taste different when made in the U.S. vs Canada? Join us for a special edition of Virtual DML Happy Hour where we’ll play a taste test game with popular snack foods from both countries.

One lucky participant will win a $50 gift pack sponsored by Canadian Food to USA. We will have plenty of time to meet other Canadians and celebrate Canada Day together!

Canadian Food To USA is the original Canadian online grocery store — since 1999, the same year The Digital Moose Lounge was founded in Silicon Valley!

Shop here to get your favourite products, foods and beverages conveniently shipped to your home across the border. With more than 300 items, they offer brands like Tim Hortons Coffee, Old Dutch, Habitant, Vachon Cakes, St. Hubert, Swiss Chalet and many more.

RSVP and details to come…
Every year the Canadian Expat Meetup group in San Francisco gathers at a local pub. Details for an outdoor Canada Day celebration will be finalized this week and we encourage everyone to check the Meetup event page for details!
Join Royal Canadian Legion Branch 25 (representing the San Francisco Bay area), along with the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps – Arkansas Division, as they present a virtual Commemoration Day service at 10am (Pacific) on Thursday, 01 July.  If you wish to participate and watch the virtual service, please register at:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HiSbNsj9QKKVKUjZGnMg_g

While July 1st is Canada Day, for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians it is also Memorial Day or Commemoration Day – a day when we remember the tragic events of the Battle of Beaumont Hamel.
Merci and thank you to the Canadian Consulate for their generous and ongoing support of our annual Canada Week activities!

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The capture of U-94

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

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The Capture of U-94

The capture of U-94

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

The sinking of U-94 by an American aircraft and HMCS Oakville off Cuba on the night of Aug. 27-28, 1942, brought to a dramatic end the submarine’s relatively long and eventful service in the Kriegsmarine.

Commissioned in August 1940, U-94 had sunk 26 Allied ships in two years, totalling 141,852 gross register tons, under the successive command of two Knight’s Cross recipients, Kapitänleutnant Herbert Kuppisch and Oberleutnant zur See Otto Ites.

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Canadians in the Huaylas

Canadians in the Huaylas

Story by Sharon Adams

On the last day of May 1970, a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake devastated the Santa Valley (Callejón de Huaylas) in Peru, releasing a deadly mudslide that thundered through villages at 160 kilometres per hour.

Boulders as big as houses smashed adobe homes as a 20-metre wave of mud, debris and glacier ice swept away trees and buildings and all life before it. The towns of Yungay and Ranrahirca were flattened and 18,000 people were killed. Nearly 67,000 people died and 800,000 were left homeless throughout the region.

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Zoom Webinar: Sarah Glassford on Supporting Canadian Servicemen’s Resilience

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This webinar may be of interest to some of our members.
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DR. SARAH GLASSFORD

A Woman’s Touch: Supporting Canadian Servicemen’s Resilience in Europe, 1943–47

June 16th, 7:30 PM ET
The webinar is FREE on Zoom.

Registration is required. You do not need a Zoom account to watch.

CLICK HERE to Register
In this talk, Sarah Glassford will explore the emotional dimensions of the Canadian presence in Europe during the later years of the Second World War. As Canadian servicemen amassed in Britain, then advanced through Italy, Normandy, and the Low Countries, 641 women of the Canadian Red Cross Corps Overseas Detachment followed close behind. Their job was to care for Canadian servicemen, shoring up the troops’ psychological resilience with a proverbial “woman’s touch.” Corps members’ letters, diaries, and oral histories provide a fascinating glimpse of how friendship, kinship, and romance helped both servicemen and Red Cross women cope with the physical and emotional traumas of wartime.

 

DR. SARAH GLASSFORD is a social historian of Canada who researches the intertwined histories of women, children, wartime, health, and humanitarian aid. She is the author of Mobilizing Mercy: A History of the Canadian Red Cross (MQUP, 2017) and co-editor with Amy Shaw of Making the Best of It: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War (UBC, 2020). She works as the Archivist at the University of Windsor’s Leddy Library.
UPCOMING WEBINARS

30 June | LCMSDS
Lee Windsor
“The View from Point 67: Canada’s Killing Fields in the Second Half of the Battle of Normandy”
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14 July | LCMSDS
Alexander Fitzgerald-Black
“The Air Support Rollercoaster: Canadian Soldiers’ Morale in Normandy”
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28 July | LCMSDS
Dr. Caroline D’Amours
“‘J’irai revoir ma Normandie’: French-Canadian Infantry Units in Normandy”
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11 August | LCMSDS
Matthew Barrett
“Canadian Army Officer Discipline and Martial Justice, 1944–45”
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25 August | LCMSDS
Marie Eve Vaillencourt, JBC
“Remembering the Canadians in Normandy”
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8 September | LCMSDS
Geoff Hayes
“The Canadians in Normandy: Another Go-Around”
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In the Footsteps of our Forces

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An item from Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Left. Right. Left. Right. Left.

Get your marching boots on and walk with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, National Museum of the Royal Navy, National Army Museum and the Royal Air Force Museum. 
We are delighted to announce the launch of a celebration of our service personnel in conjunction with this years Armed Forces Week (21 – 27 June). Join us as we walk to remember.

Walk. Share. Remember. Walk, share and remember the stories of the Armed Forces by choosing your distance – 5km, 10km or 25km – and join hundreds of others to walk in honour of those who serve.

The virtual challenge can be completed from anywhere in the world, and every person who enters will be sent a unique medal to commemorate their achievement. All the money raised will go to the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation (CWGF)  and the three museums, which are all registered charities.

The CWGF delivers vital projects to raise awareness of the stories of men and women of the Commonwealth forces during the First and Second World Wars, along with the other three charities who preserve the history of the Armed Forces and inspire with stories of sacrifice and courage.
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Important message from Canvet Publication Ltd.

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