Your Dutch Heritage
May is Dutch Heritage Month in Ontario
Click on the CNFA logo to the right to see the way the bill as presented by the former Deputy Premier of Ontario, Mrs. Elizabeth Witmer at Queen's Park and adopted.
Canada-Netherlands
Friendship Day Proclamation 2018
The friendship that the people of Burlington and Canada share with the Netherlands has a rich and enduring history, dating back in particular to harbouring the Dutch Royal Family and the birth of HRH Princess Margriet in Ottawa during World War II, and the subsequent liberation of the Netherlands by Canadian troops on May 5th, 1945. Read more ...
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Memorial in Stratford, Ontario, Canada
This memorial was a gift from the Netherlands after WWII, as a token of appreciation for Stratford's hospitality to seven hundred free men of Dutch birth who came to Stratford to form a battalion. After the occupation of Holland by Nazi armies, Canada invited free men of the world to use Stratford for a military training base. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands came four times to see them. Their Caserne or barracks was a former furniture factory on Trinity Street. For this reason and that of the participation of the Perth Regiment in the liberation of Holland in 1945, there is a close bond between our countries. The pair of hands, symbolizes Canada's support; the dove is symbolic of the Netherlands.
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Heritage Month Flag Raising Ceremony at Queen's Park, May 2013
Schiedam born, Dutch-Canadian Elizabeth Witmer, former MPP for Kitchener-Waterloo and now Chair of Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board returned to Queen`s Park to MC a Flag Raising Ceremony to celebrate Dutch Heritage Month. Read more ...
History: Twinning of Burlington with Apeldoorn intertwined with a
Thank-You-Canada mission of Dutch Students.
Eight high school students and two teachers of
the Koninklijke Scholen Gemeenschap (Royal Schools Community)
The Dutch community present included Jack van der
Laan - Canada-Netherlands Friendship-Day chairman, Wilbert Witkamp -
President Dutch Treat, Napoleon Winia - Consul of the
On Remembrance Day, November 11, 2002, Burlington City Council convened at
7 pm for their regular meeting, which was attended by the Dutch students and
their Canadian hosts, the students of Nelson High. Jack van der Laan had
obtained the permission to address the Council and he opened with: “I am so
very thrilled that the students and teachers decided to come to
Mundialization - The declaration of specified
territory - a city, town, or state, for example - as world territory, with
responsibilities and rights on a world scale. Counsel then voted on a
significant list of items for consideration, and a sigh of relief was heard
on the public seats when item CC-213-02 came to order:
Approval of proposed twinning relationship -
That the Mundialization Committee encourage the cities of Burlington and Apeldoorn, Netherlands to enter into discussions with a view to establishing a formal relationship between our two communities which would promote and enhance the following:
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Existing exchange programs between our schools |
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The celebration of the historical connection relating to
the liberation of the |
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Relationships between churches, cultural groups and
sporting groups in both |
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Our Chambers of Commerce |
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Existing and future business relationships |
And the recorded vote was unanimous to which the
public loudly applauded. After a few more agenda items, Mayor MacIsaac was
proud that all the items were dealt with before 8 pm as he had promised.
Mayor MacIsaac then related his visit with
councillor Rick Craven to Apeldoorn, where he had been asked by the Dutch
students what Canadian students eat for breakfast, and his answer “pizza”
evoked loud laughter in the council chamber. And then the Mayor invited all
present in the council chamber to accompany him to a nearby restaurant,
where he treated everyone with pizza. Not to be outdone the students and
their entourage were invited for coffee and cake at the very richly and
beautifully decorated
Burlington
Remembers - LaSalle Discovering Aldershot on the way to China
Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle is the first
white man to step on to the leafy shores of
2002 Canada-Netherlands Friendship Day
On Saturday May 4th, 2002 Mr. Alan
Earp made the following moving speech at the Canada Netherlands Friendship
Day flag raising ceremony at