Since WWII Canada has had very close relations with the Dutch. The Queen stayed in Ottawa during the Nazi occupation where she gave birth to one of her children; an Order-in-Council was issued declaring the delivery room to be Dutch soil. The friendship was cemented when Gen. Guy Simmonds booted the Nazis back to Germany. The Ottawa Tulip Festival was the result of Queen Juliana’s gratitude; all of the bulbs were a gift from the Dutch royal family.
Very interesting. I suppose about as many Americans know of the town of Inuvik as know what you speak. I drove the Dempster Highway several decades ago. And until very recently, EVERY CANADIAN that I mentioned it to knew of Inuvik, and not a SINGLE AMERICAN knew of it. It was fun for me to talk it.
We have a lot in common, but we are far from identical twins - for example, how many Americans understand that Canadians were fighting and dying in Europe before Pearl Harbor, 2+ years before, to be exact? To us at the time, it was a “war in Europe”. To Canada it was already a WORLD WAR and (many) body bags were coming home.