News and Updates
Follow the latest updates and news about our society. This page will be updated on a regular basis until July 2020.
Latest Updates
The second annual Canadian Walk for Veterans will be held at Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam BC on Saturday, October 19th, 2019″
September 2019: We are shipping the bulbs!
A big thank you to all our sponsors and individual purchasers.
Press Articles
Brian Minter: Commemorative tulips
This tulip was to be a recognition of the liberation of the Netherlands, an expression of deep appreciation and a means to create awareness among the younger generations of the role Canadians played.
Dutch Liberation Canadian Society Looking For Delta’s Help to Mark Milestone
The Dutch Liberation Canadian Society is looking for community support as it gets set to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands and the rest of Europe.
Chilliwack Encouraged to Commemorate Liberation of Holland
As events marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Normandy wind down, members of the Canadian Dutch community are planning to celebrate the 1945 liberation of the Netherlands.
Dutch Heritage Day Approved by Canadian Parliament
Source: blackburnnews.com It’s time to stock up on orange clothing and wooden shoes because from now on, May 5 will be known as Dutch Heritage
Blog Articles
Liberation of the Netherlands 1944-45 – “Faces to Graves” Project
by Joost Blom The Dutch Liberation 2020 Canadian Society is a group of volunteers that has got together to assist and promote the commemoration in
Historical Overview
by Albert vander Heide, 2010. Canadian veterans earned lasting gratitude from the Dutch public, in the spring of 1945, welcoming them in an unprecedented outburst
Reflections on Sixty Years of Freedom in the Netherlands – 2005
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 2010 – The six British Columbia regiments, which helped liberate the Netherlands in 1944 and 1945 from its brutal Nazi oppressor,
50th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands by Dutch-Canadians in Vancouver, British Columbia
In May 1995, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary, William Zylmans, Hans Steen, Gerry Bouwman, and Hank van Ness were the directors of the Holland Revisited Society
25th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands in Ottawa
The Dutch-Canadian Committee 1945-70 under the Patronage of Her Majesty Queen Juliana and His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands created “Operation Thank You
