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‘Forever in their debt’: MPs mark 75 years since Canada’s liberation of the Netherlands and the end of World War II in Europe

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Perth Regiment's Capt. Crawford Smith is pictured with Suzie Calder in Harderwijk, Netherlands, on April 19, 1945.Photograph courtesy of Capt. Jack H. Smith/Department of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada

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BY NEIL MOSS

May 11, 2020

Three quarters of a century ago, the Canadian Army advanced through the Netherlands in 1945 liberating it from nearly five years of Nazi occupation. MPs honoured those Canadians who fought in support of the Dutch liberation, including the more than 7,600 Canadians who died in the Netherlands. “T...

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