from Veterans Affairs Canada:
"The liberation of the Netherlands, from September 1944 to April 1945,
played a key role in the culmination of the Second World War, as the
Allied forces closed in on Germany from all sides. The First Canadian
Army played a major role in the liberation of the Dutch people who had
suffered terrible hunger and hardship under the increasingly desperate
German occupiers...
...More than 7,600 Canadians died in the nine-month campaign to liberate
the Netherlands, a tremendous sacrifice in the cause of freedom. "
Read the full article here: Remembrance - Veterans Affairs Canada
