convenient time. “Is it nothing to you, all ye who pass by?” asks the age-old scripture. While we sometimes struggle to preserve remembrance at home, it may be timely to consider how others remember Canada’s enormous sacrifices. Seventy-seven years ago, this fall, Canadians were fighting and dying in the Scheldt on their way to liberating the Netherlands from four years of Nazi oppression. The price for Dutch freedom was high and largely paid for by Canadians; ultimately more than 7600 Canadians were killed in the Netherlands. The Dutch remember If you visit the little town of Doetinchem in the Netherlands, a traveler will immediately notice something unusual about this otherwise usual Dutch town. In a gesture of remembrance for the Canadians who came this way many years before, the good citizens of Doetinchem changed the street names in their town to Canadian place names a couple of decades ago – Vancouverstraat, Toronotostraat and other similarly named streets are permanent and daily reminders to everyone that the Dutch remember well. About an hour’s drive north is the village of Holten and the nearby Holten Canadians War Cemetery. Set in the middle of a forest, this immaculately kept cemetery
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