SAINT JOHN — Tulips are synonymous with the Netherlands and now thousands of special tulips are being planted to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of the Second World War. Under a bright autumn sun, 93-year-old Aubrey Moore lends a helping hand planting tulip bulbs outside a nursing...Read More

Proud of all my relatives who served in WWII in various capacities in England, North Africa, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.Read More

Dad joined the Canadian Army in the spring of 1940. In January 1941, he was shipped to the U.K. After D-Day, he fought in France, Belgium and the Netherlands through the winter of 1944-45 with the Royal Canadian Artillery. Five years after leaving, he came home (January 1946) and returned to university to finish his...Read More

Who are you planting for? My Father. He returned from the WWII with PTSD and never really managed to re-integrate himself into life after the war. He practised medicine from 1943 until he died at age 53 in 1971. He just didn’t have the heart to go on a day longer.Read More

Lawrence Bridges served wth the Royal Canadian Artillery Division: 2nd Anti-Tank Regiment. He enlisted in 1940 and was injured in the Battle of the Scheldt and died on October 10th, 1944. He had emigrated from England to Canada as a young man and married my aunt in 1936. My aunt was so devastated by his...Read More

WWII Veteran Joyce Gwendyl Paynter (nee Andrews) of Charlottetown was a private in the Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Women’s Army Corps assigned to the 43rd company out of Canada’s military headquarters in London during the Second World War. She married Arthur Paynter in 1943 while volunteering with the British Red Cross and without yet setting...Read More

My mom survived the bombing in Rotterdam half he house was gone when she came home from work!Read More

Sargeant Ross Dickie was my uncle whom I never knew. He was an air gunner with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He died on August 30, 1944, along with three other crew members, when their Whitley bomber exploded and disintegrated over Scotland. He died five months before his older brother, Captain Richard Dickie, who was...Read More

Captain Dickie was my maternal uncle, an older brother to my mother. I never had the opportunity to know him. By supporting the Liberation 75 campaign, I am honouring his memory and service. He died on January 29, 1945 at the age of twenty-one. My uncle was killed in action while leading his company against...Read More

I am planting these tulips in honour of my father who grew up in the Netherlands during the war. He told us many stories of living under occupation and remembered being liberated by the Canadians. He immigrated to Canada in the 1950’s and embraced Canada as his new home.Read More