Ubique 150 Celebration

UBIQUE 150

The year 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Canadian Artillery.  In honour of this special anniversary, elaborate plans were made to have various events staged all over the globe.  Planning began in the early spring of 2020, but within a month or two, it became evident that the new worldwide COVID-19 pandemic would put a serious crimp in those plans.  Undeterred, the leadership pivoted and began to plan a set of virtual events to honour the occasion.  I took some early initiative to register a number of domain names so that we would be able to control the SEO and access to the planned events without having to worry about “cyber-squatters”.  I then volunteered to create a landing page and commemorative website.  Unfortunately, red tape demanded that the actual website be strictly under control of the Department of Defence, but we still managed to put together a landing page that helped direct visitors to the appropriate areas of the main DoD-approved website.