A number of tour companies offer packages that include airfare, ground transportation and hotel accommodation. There will be numerous celebrations in cities, towns and villages across the Netherlands throughout May and, to some extent, for the rest of the year. Thousands of our young Canadians are buried in cemeteries throughout Holland, having laid down their lives to rescue the country from Nazi tyranny. When the princess gave birth to a daughter, the Canadian government temporarily declared the maternity room at the Ottawa Civic Hospital Dutch soil to preserve the baby’s citizenship.Īs if that were not enough to earn Canada a place of honour in the hearts of the Dutch people, Canada’s armed forces played a major part in freeing the beleaguered citizens from near starvation and wartime atrocities at the hands of their conquerors. The close friendship between Canada and the Netherlands began in May 1940 after the invasion by Nazi Germany that prompted the Dutch Royal Family, exiled in England, to send the reigning monarch’s only offspring, Princess Juliana, out of harm’s way to Canada.
These visitors to the land of windmills, canals and tulips are treated like family during the festivities – especially veterans, who are often invited to stay in Dutch homes during their visit. Thousands of Canadians will head to Holland in early May to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands – and will once again bask in the adulation of the Dutch population.Ĭanadians looking to feel welcome in a foreign land can find no better place than Holland, especially in a year that ends in ‘5’ or ‘0’ when major celebrations connected to World War Two are held. The participants in an international ‘love story’ that has lasted more than six decades will rendezvous again same time this year.
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