In the sprint of 2025, come join us – myself Ted Barris and my wife/co-host Jayne MacAulay – as we travel to the Netherlands to retrace the wartime trek of Canadians who helped liberate Dutch cities and countryside during the Second World War. We’ll tour historic battlefields, museums and cemeteries of Operation Market Garden, the Scheldt Estuary and the Rhineland Offensive. 

We’ll visit Wageningen, where the Canadians received the German surrender on May 5, 1945. We’ll also join VE Day festivities in the palace city of Apeldoorn on May 8.

In Amsterdam, we’ll make must-see stops at Anne Frank House and the Rijksmuseum and then view the city on a canal-boat tour.

We’ll visit Delft to watch its master potters at work. We’ll visit The Hague for its UN International Court of Justice.

And because ours is a springtime journey, we’ll feast our eyes at Keukenhof during the peak of its world-famous tulip festival.

All this in twelve days as we celebrate with Dutch citizens the 80th anniversary of their liberation by Canadians and their allies in 1945.

Here’s the full itinerary:

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