Guest Speaker:  Friday, April 22, 2016
Location:  Fairmont - Upper Canada Room, 18 Floor
Topic:  "Vimy: Symbol of our National Identity"
 
Jeremy Diamond is a public historian, who for more than 20 years, has been developing unique ways to tell the stories of Canada to audiences of all ages.
 
 
Jeremy is currently the Executive Director of the Vimy Foundation, whose mission is to preserve and promote Canada's First World War legacy, as symbolized with the victory at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917, a milestone when Canada came of age and was then recognized on the world stage.
 
He is currently spearheading their various centennial projects including the building of the Vimy Visitor Education Centre, to be completed in 2017.