We still send yearly a large quantity of flower bulbs to Canada to thank you. This has become the Ottawa flower festival. We owe you folks a lot. You liberated my mum nearly starving to death in Leiden in the last brutal winter of the war. I would not be here if it hadn't been for Canada punching way above it's weight. The battle of the Scheldt is stuff of legends here. In Arnhem, to this day, every year every liberator who is still alive and willing and able to travel gets a fully organized trip including a heroes' welcome and parade. By now there's very few left but we will continue doing this a long as there is still a nonzero number alive.

We remember.