A Year of Learning

Enjoy your library of on-demand webinars and conference sessions available to you as a National Trust member!

Learn from world-class heritage leaders, fundraising, marketing and digital experience experts, and passionate community leaders maintaining the vitality of the places in their care.

These sessions arm you with simple strategies to up your fundraising and marketing game and respond to pressing issues for Canada’s heritage movement, including community revitalization, heritage tourism, sustainable development, and climate change. New webinars are added every month.

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Heritage Places and the Climate Crisis: Adaptation and Mitigation

The Canadian heritage conservation sector is simultaneously working to respond to the climate crisis by helping decarbonize the economy through…

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Spark Session 2

Hold on to your seats! This fast and furious “Spark” session brings you enlightening presentations in a compact session format….

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Density and Change in Heritage Areas: Heritage Responds to the Housing Crisis

Over the last decade, the heritage sector has worked to articulate what significant, yet sensitively scaled, infill in heritage areas…

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Indigenous Heritage Circle Session – Indigenous Heritage, Commemoration, and Residential Schools

This session will use two initial presentations to set the stage for engagement on questions that the presenters continue to…

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Spark Session 1

Hold on to your seats! This fast and furious “Spark” session brings you enlightening presentations in a compact session format….

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Recasting Planning to Foster Reconciliation, Diversity, and Inclusion

Planning has been called the “original sin” of European settlement in North America. Canada’s urban landscapes are the accumulation of…

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Are you Ready? UNDRIP Readiness, Implementation, and Measurement in the Heritage Sector

Diversity & Inclusion

The implementation of United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the heritage sector first requires institutional…

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National Trust Winner’s Circle (2023)

Diversity & Inclusion, Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Don’t miss the National Trust’s Award Winner’s Circle session, where the individuals and organizations behind this year’s award-winning projects and…

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Rethinking Material Values: Reuse, Deconstruction, Embodied Carbon, and Social Justice

Diversity & Inclusion, Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

For about two decades, the heritage conservation sector has been trying to define, assert, and leverage the relationship between conservation…

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Cultural Landscapes, Spatial Equity & Telling a Fuller Story

Diversity & Inclusion

“A cultural landscape is a set of ideas and practices embedded in a place,” begins the NCC’s Working with Cultural…

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Cracking the (Construction) Code Barriers for Existing Buildings

Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

The Building Code is “sometimes” viewed as a major barrier when it comes to building reuse. This session provides an…

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Anishinabe Algonquin Elders’ Circle (Part 1)

Diversity & Inclusion

Leaders: Elders from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg and Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation communities. Possible topics to be explored at these…

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Heritage and Housing: Resolving the Designation and Density Tension

Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Propelled by a growing housing crisis, Canada’s urban areas rapidly need more density and old buildings are said to be…

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Diagnostics and Retrofits as Climate Action

Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

The race to net zero is heating up and heritage buildings are being pressed to prove their worth. This in-depth…

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Transforming Heritage: How Far Will We Go?

Diversity & Inclusion, Marketing & Digital Experiences, Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Launched by words of welcome from the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation and other dignitaries, this rapid-fire opening plenary will inspire and…

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Challenging Existing Narratives and Conventional Heritage Practice

Diversity & Inclusion, Marketing & Digital Experiences, Operating a Historic Place

Heritage places have often served to preserve and protect cultural assets that contribute to official narratives of national and civic…

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“Changing the Narrative”: Commemorating Canada’s diverse and complex history

Diversity & Inclusion, Operating a Historic Place

Parks Canada’s efforts to commemorate and interpret history are guided by The Framework for History and Commemoration. This Framework outlines…

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Ownership and Sustainability Models – Planning for the Future

Fundraising & Revenue Generation, Operating a Historic Place

This session is for you if you are interested in keeping heritage places supported, financially sustainable and ready for the…

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Cultural Tourism: Regenerating Tourism, Post-Pandemic

Marketing & Digital Experiences, Operating a Historic Place

Cultural tourism has been hard hit during the pandemic. Walk away from this session with a better understanding of regenerative…

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Heritage and Getting Homes Built: Affordable Housing, Intensification, and Visualizing Change

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Housing affordability and supply is at the top of the public agenda, managing change in mature neighbourhoods has become a…

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The Heritage Reset: Where Do We Go from Here?

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Join a group of heritage leaders who will unpack what they’ve heard about the Heritage Reset, reflect on the critical…

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Stone, Tree, River, Path: Re-Thinking an Inclusive Heritage

Diversity & Inclusion, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

What do we designate as heritage? What should bear the weight of memory, preserved as memorial? Buildings, monuments, landmarks, ruins,…

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Toronto Indigenous Heritage Forum (Part 3)

Diversity & Inclusion

Tkaronto, also known as Toronto, is the traditional territory of many Nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg,…

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The Next Generation: Transforming the Heritage Industry and Workforce

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

At National Trust Conference 2021 (with CAHP), ACO NextGen led an incisive conversation around what the heritage sector looks like…

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Measuring Impact and Asserting Value: Triple-Bottom-Line Tools, Deconstruction, and a Heritage Approach to Ordinary Buildings

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Building reuse and retrofit as an alternative to new construction is recognized as the single most effective tool to meet…

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Ahead of the Curve: City-Wide Surveys as a Response to Proactive Heritage Planning

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

An emerging best practice in cities around the globe, city-wide heritage surveys are fast-emerging as a key a part of…

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Indigenous Heritage Circle – UNDRIP & Heritage Looking Forward: A Facilitated Circle Work Process

Diversity & Inclusion

The Indigenous Heritage Circle (IHC) explored the meaning of the term ‘Indigenous heritage’ in workshops across Canada and arriving at…

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Parks Canada Session – Pathways to Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity & Inclusion

Canadians are diverse and so are their histories. Inclusiveness means presenting different voices, perspectives and experiences. This session will present…

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A New Model of Stewardship for Historic Places: Four Local Case Studies

Operating a Historic Place

What happens when historic places we take for granted suddenly come at risk? Often this is due to development pressures…

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Making Critical Choices (Part 2): Finding Common Cause with the Climate Movement

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

According to the recent Heritage Reset project survey of the heritage sector, failure to position heritage conservation as a player…

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Anishinabe Odjibikan – Retelling Anishinabe History through an Anishinabe Algonquin lens: Early Beginnings

Diversity & Inclusion

Session presented in partnership with Public Service and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation, and…

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Panel Discussion – The Heritage Reset in Action

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Seismic societal shifts exacerbated by a global pandemic have drawn into question many values, structures, and public policies in Canada,…

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Toronto Indigenous Forum – Moving Forward in a Good Way: Co-Development of Municipal Heritage with Indigenous Communities

Diversity & Inclusion

The recognition of the need for meaningful Indigenous engagement in the heritage sector has been on the rise across the…

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Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals Award Winner’s Circle (2022)

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

2022 Conference Session Each year CAHP presents our annual awards to celebrate outstanding achievement in the heritage field across Canada….

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National Trust Award Winner’s Circle (2022)

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Don’t miss the National Trust’s Award Winner’s Circle session, where the individuals and organizations behind this year’s award-winning projects and…

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Spark Session

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Hold on to your seats! This fast and furious “Spark” session brings you enlightening presentations in a compact session format….

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New Financial Solutions and Business Models for Heritage Development

Fundraising & Revenue Generation, Operating a Historic Place

Risk, return on investment, construction costs, tax treatment, ease of property development… Property owners plotting the future for heritage places…

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Climate Action: Embodied Carbon Calculation and Adaptation Strategies

Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

The Canadian heritage conservation sector is simultaneously working to help decarbonize the economy through building reuse/retrofitting and helping heritage places…

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UNDRIP & Indigenous Heritage: In Practice

Diversity & Inclusion, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Large governmental approaches involving legislation and planning are only part of the story of the United Nations declaration on the…

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Heritage for Whom? Conserving Community Spaces

Diversity & Inclusion, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

While the relationship between architecture and community are intrinsically intertwined, the built form of “community spaces” is not easily defined…

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IHC Session – UNDRIP & Indigenous Heritage: Pathways to Implementation

Diversity & Inclusion

In May 2022 Indigenous Heritage Circle (IHC) released a report in May 2022 exploring how Canada’s implementation of the United…

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Rethinking Revenue Development: Innovative Ways to Save, Sustain and Grow Your Historic Site

Fundraising & Revenue Generation, Operating a Historic Place

This session features three unique approaches to sustaining and growing revenue to evolve and save historic places. The speakers will…

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Accelerating Building Reuse, Retrofits, and Adaptation for Challenging Buildings

Operating a Historic Place

This session explores creative approaches at four uniquely challenging properties related to conservation and protection, accessibility and inclusion, business modelling,…

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Telling a Fuller Story: Transforming Heritage Places and Processes

Operating a Historic Place

While heritage conservation practices have successfully empowered people to protect heritage places, many communities and perspectives have been marginalized or…

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Toronto Indigenous Heritage Forum (Part 1)

Diversity & Inclusion

Tkaronto, also known as Toronto, is the traditional territory of many Nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg,…

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Making Critical Choices (Part 1): Resetting Heritage Practice

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

In 2012, the National Trust’s Heritage Summit in Montreal resulted in a manifesto that attempted to re-frame heritage conservation. Ten…

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Fixing Broken Systems: The Growth Machine, Environmental Plunder, & Expanding the Heritage Conservation Vision

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

This session seeks to unpack and disrupt key narratives propelling the take-make-waste mind set in Western societies. From the examining…

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Reconsidering Museums

Marketing & Digital Experiences, Operating a Historic Place

What do Canadians see as the value of museums for them, their communities, and for Canada? Reconsidering Museums, a three-year…

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Resetting Our Heritage Purpose

Diversity & Inclusion, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Seismic societal shifts exacerbated by a global pandemic have drawn into question many values, structures, and public policies in Canada,…

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ZERO is a Positive Number: Building Reuse, Climate Justice, and the Pathway to a Bright Future

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Presented by National Trust for Canada Conference 2022 and hosted by the City of Toronto. Climate change is not occurring…

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Virtual Tour of Craigdarroch Castle

Guided Tours

Join the staff of Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia, as they take you on a tour of this bonanza…

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Engaging Indigenous Partners in Cultural Heritage Management

Diversity & Inclusion, Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Parks Canada is seeking to tell broader and more inclusive stories that represent the diversity and complexity of Canadian history….

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Getting to Zero: Energy Retrofits, Mitigation, and LCA at Heritage Places

Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

The race to net zero is heating up and heritage buildings are being pressed to prove their worth. This in-depth…

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Getting to Yes! Building our Heritage Through Accessibility

Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

How do ‘Accessibility’ and ‘Heritage’ work together? What opportunities exist for making our heritage buildings more welcoming and inclusive of…

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Resilient and Sustainable Historic Sites

Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

‘Resetting’ historic sites requires breaking out of traditional models and adapting to ever-changing contexts. Whether through their innovative programming, communications…

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Discover the McAdam Railway Station – McAdam, New Brunswick

Guided Tours

Enjoy this tour of a beautifully restored railway station from the time when riding the rail was the only way…

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Heritage Education Reset

Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

With heritage linked increasingly to achieving goals of environmental, social, economic, and cultural sustainability, what is missing in teaching still…

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Historic Sites Post-COVID Regenerating Tourism and Attracting New Audiences

Marketing & Digital Experiences, Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

As the tourism sector “hits the reset button” in the aftermath of COVID 19, what are the implications for Cultural…

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Tour at Battle Harbour with Executive Director, Peter Bull

Guided Tours

Historic Places Days kicked off launch weekend with a virtual tour of Battle Harbour Historic district on the gorgeous east…

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Discover Métis Crossing and meet Knowledge Holder Lilyrose

Diversity & Inclusion, Guided Tours

Learn firsthand about Métis culture and traditions at Métis Crossing, the first major Métis cultural destination in Alberta that is…

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Heritage Adaptation Under Pressure

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

As the climate crisis intensifies and community values shift, heritage places are being asked to be more flexible, accommodating, and…

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Digital Storytelling: Unfolding the Narrative

Marketing & Digital Experiences

Digital Storytelling makes use of new and existing technology to enhance the story or narrative of a space. For heritage…

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Heritage Conservation and Real Estate Economics: Unpacking Factors Affecting Heritage Property Investment

Operating a Historic Place

The decision by property owners to retain and reuse, or to demolish heritage buildings, doesn’t happen in a vacuum. This…

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Organizing to Identify and Protect LGBTQ+ Heritage Places: Strategies and Lessons from New York City

Diversity & Inclusion

Launched in 2015 and building on 25 years of previous research, the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project’s goal is to…

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Maamiikwendan: How to Create Space for Indigenous Narratives and Commemoration

Diversity & Inclusion

This session looks at several initiatives designed to highlight Indigenous commemoration practices. It considers the need for Indigenous spaces of…

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How Heritage Organizations Can Gain a Competitive Edge in Sponsorship

Fundraising & Revenue Generation

There is a big difference between corporate sponsor solicitation and donor solicitation. And, when you are new to fundraising, it…

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Regenerating Places of Faith

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Places of faith have traditionally anchored and shaped our communities. Yet many congregations today are facing declining attendance and insufficient…

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What You Need to Know Now about Raising Funds for Your Historic Place

Fundraising & Revenue Generation

The pandemic has highlighted the importance of maintaining a strong donor base and that could be the key to financial…

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Heritage Served Up Virtually: Navigating the New World of Online Events and Programming

Marketing & Digital Experiences, Operating a Historic Place

Are you exploring moving events or programming online? Is this the right fit for your historic site? As physical distancing…

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Recruiting and Engaging Volunteers for your Historic Place

Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

In the heritage sector we rely on volunteers to be our advocates, story tellers, champions and fundraisers. In this webinar…

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Pricing for Profit and Purpose

Marketing & Digital Experiences

Do you find it difficult to know how much to charge for admission to your historic site, for guided tours,…

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Are You Getting Ready to Raise Funds for a Heritage Capital Project?

Fundraising & Revenue Generation

Drawing on experiences of successful capital campaigns for heritage projects across the country, this webinar will guide you through developing…

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Social Media for Historic Places: How to Attract and Engage with Your Audience

Marketing & Digital Experiences

Social Media Communications have become very important since the start of the pandemic, and many organizations have had to amplify…

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Canadian Heritage Funding Opportunities

Fundraising & Revenue Generation

Join Canadian Heritage colleagues for this opportunity to learn about two Canadian Heritage programs that support the heritage sector. This…

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Insurance Issues at Heritage Sites

Operating a Historic Place

The current COVID-19 crisis is presenting multiple challenges to historic sites that cannot currently provide their usual in-person activities and…

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Practical Approaches to Historic Home Rehabilitation

Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

Rehabilitating historic buildings doesn’t have to be expensive and complicated. Focusing on historic homes, this webinar will present practical approaches…

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Climate Change in Heritage Places

Operating a Historic Place, Saving & Renewing Places/Communities

This webinar will explore the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events affecting Canadian heritage places and will gain…

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Identifying Three Low-Cost Activities to Attract New Visitors to Your Historic Site

Marketing & Digital Experiences

Do you rely on selling tickets, or memberships, or even ice-cream to cover the costs of running your historic place…

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Digital Platforms for Heritage Places

Marketing & Digital Experiences

With much of Canada still in lockdown, now’s the time to amplify your heritage place’s online profile through digital access…

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Indigenous Naming in Edmonton and Rethinking Territorial Acknowledgements

Diversity & Inclusion

The delivery of territorial acknowledgements and the reclamation of Indigenous places names have been central elements in Reconciliation efforts in…

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Techniques for Breaking Through the Clutter and Creating a Memorable Brand

Marketing & Digital Experiences

What makes a great brand so great? And why do great ones sometimes fail? Learn tips and techniques for building…

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Six Steps to Telling Your Heritage Story

Marketing & Digital Experiences

Heritage places are filled with great stories to tell. In this webinar learn how to share and get your message…

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