{"id":26905,"date":"2019-12-23T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=26905"},"modified":"2019-12-25T08:17:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T13:17:40","slug":"in-our-fathers-footsteps-commemorate-canadas-liberation-of-the-netherlands-75-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/23\/in-our-fathers-footsteps-commemorate-canadas-liberation-of-the-netherlands-75-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"In Our Father&#8217;s Footsteps &#8211; Commemorate Canada\u2019s liberation of the Netherlands 75 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fb8ac1_8d9f1244abd940f49019fc76f44f89dcmv2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26906\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fb8ac1_8d9f1244abd940f49019fc76f44f89dcmv2-300x212.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fb8ac1_8d9f1244abd940f49019fc76f44f89dcmv2-300x212.gif 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fb8ac1_8d9f1244abd940f49019fc76f44f89dcmv2-600x424.gif 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fb8ac1_8d9f1244abd940f49019fc76f44f89dcmv2-768x543.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>From Guelph to Kitchener, Burlington, Woodstock, London, Mississauga, Brampton, Bradford, Barrie, Orillia, Collingwood, Newmarket, Cornwall, North Bay&#8230; the news is spreading across Ontario (and Canada) about In Our Fathers\u2019 Footsteps, a one-time, first-of-its-kind remembrance event inspired by a WWII memoir written by a Canadian veteran and given to his daughter on his 80th birthday. News of the event has received a standing ovation in Ontario\u2019s provincial legislature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat began as <em>In My Father\u2019s Footsteps<\/em> has captured the hearts and souls of veterans\u2019 descendants across Canada and become In Our Fathers\u2019 Footsteps,\u201d says Karen Hunter, the event\u2019s organizer.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate Canada\u2019s liberation of the Netherlands 75 years ago, veterans\u2019 descendants will carry the Canadian Remembrance Torch from Toronto to the Netherlands, where they\u2019ll walk, in \u201cplatoons\u201d 60 km in the footsteps of the Canadian troops, eat from mess kits and experience the geography and history around them. They\u2019ll honour Canadian veterans at cemeteries and monuments, carry out veterans\u2019 wishes, and party with the Dutch at liberation festivals. They\u2019ll march as a large contingent into Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn where they\u2019ll meet Princess Margriet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Our Fathers\u2019 Footsteps is a new way of thinking about\u2014and experiencing\u2014remembrance,\u201d Hunter says. \u201cIt\u2019s the future of remembrance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sign up deadline is Dec. 31 for this unique, one-time event in May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found <a class=\"ga ga-ext\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inourfathersfootsteps.com\/?utm_source=sootoday.com&amp;utm_campaign=sootoday.com&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-category=\"OutboundLink\" data-ga-action=\"OutboundLink\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.inourfathersfootsteps.com\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Guelph to Kitchener, Burlington, Woodstock, London, Mississauga, Brampton, Bradford, Barrie, Orillia, Collingwood, Newmarket, Cornwall, North Bay&#8230; the news is spreading across Ontario (and Canada) about In Our Fathers\u2019 Footsteps, a one-time, first-of-its-kind remembrance event inspired by a WWII memoir written by a Canadian veteran and given to his daughter on his 80th birthday. News &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2238],"class_list":["post-26905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial","tag-canadas-liberation-of-the-netherlands"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 11:11:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26907,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905\/revisions\/26907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}