From Steenbergen Holland, was a POW during the war and moved to Canada after the war.Read More

Leo Haak was just six years old when his home country of the Netherlands was liberated from Nazi German control at the end of the Second World War. The 80-year-old Owen Sound resident’s daughter, Monica Brown, said those Canadian-led efforts 74 years ago to free the country following a brutal five-year occupation left a lasting...Read More

Leo Haak was just six years old when his home country of the Netherlands was liberated from Nazi German control at the end of the Second World War. The 80-year-old Owen Sound resident’s daughter, Monica Brown, said those Canadian-led efforts 74 years ago to free the country following a brutal five-year occupation left a lasting...Read More

My opa and oma were part of the underground railroad in Holland helping Jews escape to freedom. My mom was born under a sheet being held up to stop the ceiling plaster falling on her while the Allies fought the Nazis during an air raid. My opa was captured and put on a train to...Read More

I am Planting for Trooper William Scott , Served in the Canadian Army ,Governor General’s Foot Guards ,RCAC . KIA at Nijmegan , Interred in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery ,2,610 Commonwealth Burials . William was My Husband , Alex Scott Craig’s , Uncle . William was Born In Stevenston , Scotland , in May 1908...Read More

My father D.H. Harper served with the Canadian Infantry Corps ( Essex Scottish). Dad was a founding member of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 514. The picture includes my Mum and two oldest siblings.Read More

My dad was a dispatch rider with the SD&G Highlanders, landed in Normandy on D-Day + 3 at the age of 18, fought in the liberation of Holland and was wounded in Germany.Read More

We are planting these bulbs in honour and memory of our father/father-in-law, the late Corporal John Doan Bird, Royal Winnipeg Rifles, (August 1943 – December 1945), who landed on Juno Beach in Normandy on D-Day and fought through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He was a member of the Canadian forces who liberated the Scheldt...Read More

From Steenbergen Holland, was a POW during the war and moved to Canada after the war.Read More

My dad fought overseas during WW11. As a proud member of RCL Branch 05-479, I am inspired by the donation s made to our legions across CanadaRead More