Canadian Ambassador to visit Buncrana for Laurentic Conference

THE Canadian Ambassador to Ireland, Loyola Hearn, will be in Buncrana for the third annual Laurentic Conference and Business Beyond Borders seminar on Friday, January 28, 2011. The organisers, the Ulster Newfoundland Initiative, have put together a strong line-up of speakers with informed knowledge of doing business in the cross border and Transatlantic setting.

They will include John McCarter, chairman Inishowen Development Partnership; Loyola Hearn, the Canadian Ambassador to Ireland; Meghan Drover, economic development officer, Irish Business Partnership; Michael Graham, director of corporate real estate, Titanic Quarter-Belfast; Gareth Gallagher, managing director, Atlanfish Ltd; Suzanne Cormie, senior trade commissioner at the Canadian Embassy; Sinclair Stockman, lead consultant, Digital NI 2020 collaborative network and Mark Nagurski, champion of Digital Derry.

The conference will take place from 10am to 2pm in the Inishowen Gateway Hotel and local businesses are invited to take a stall or display. For ticket and stall prices please e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .  View the Conference Programme here.

All funds raised from the event will go towards the Ulster Newfoundland Initiative's peace and reconciliation programme.

Following the conference, the Canadian Ambassador, conference attendees and local people will participate in a wreath laying service in memory of the 343 people who died when the SS Laurentic en route to Halifax struck two mines off Lough Swilly in the North-West of Ireland on 25 January 1917 and sank within an hour.