I've always loved this story. A fabulous part of our history.
I am embarassed to say that I am one of the Canadians Jenny mentioned who did not know this part of our history.
This makes me even prouder to be Canadian, it's also good to know that the Dutch remember and appriciate it.
I sincerly doubt our neighbours to the south would have ceded one inch of their land, for even a nanosecond, in order to help a friendly nation in peril.
That's an awesome bit of history there - declaring a hospital room to another nation so the princess could be born on 'native soil'. How utterly....Canadian is that!
At least they sent us some really nice flowers instead of their nasty cuisine.. Their food is horrible..
As a guy who spent a couple of weeks in Amsterdam last year, I agree 100%. Beautiful flowers, awful food.
Canada also turned away boats of Jews running away from the nazis. Still so proud?
Well, I'm proud. Why not be proud. Sure would be nice to get rid of God keep our land from Oh Canada though. It wasn't there many years ago. Anyway, so Dutch food is horrible. I don't have plans to go there anyway.