Prince George's Dutch community gathered Saturday to commemorate the liberation of Holland from German occupation.
The day was May 5, 1945 and Canadian soldiers and accepted the surrender of German in the Netherlands.
The 22nd Annual Dutch Canadian Tulip Commemoration was held at Veterans Plaza in front of Prince George City Hall.
"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," says the Veteran Affairs Canada website of treatment during the Second World War.
Shirley Bond, MLA for Prince George-Valemount as well as Cariboo Prince George MP Todd Doherty, spoke to the audience Saturday.
