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News: KLM visits Toronto with retiring MD-11
Today KLM paid a special visit to Toronto Pearson Airport’s Street Festival. KLM is the last airline to fly the MD-11 passenger jet, which was introduced in 1988. This fall it will retire its final...
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News: Successful opening of Frisian play in Ontario
Freark Smink and Klaasje Postma rehearse the play in Woodstock, Ontario. (Photo: David Lelieveld) Pier21’s play Ja-Mei-My, which loosely translates to ‘Yeah, it’s me’ is a portrayal of the...
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Letter: looking for Dutch War Brides
Canadian war bride Hendrika Lukkien (Image: Bev Tosh). Dear Publisher, My name is Olga Rains, and I am a Dutch War Bride. You did a story about my husband Lloyd; he passed away in March 2013. I am one...
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Travel Feature: Utrecht – A winter fairy tale come to light
A light dusting of snow on the tracery of the Gothic cathedral dedicated to St. Martin. Canals framed by white wharves below and white streets above. Utrecht doesn’t get a lot of snow – some years,...
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Feature: The Final Year of the War through the eyes of two Dutch women
Tiny’s ID-Card, the hated ‘persoonsbewijs’. Seventy years ago World War II entered its final phase. We will follow events in The Netherlands during those last grueling months through the eyes of two...
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Recipe: New Year’s cakes
Kniepertjes (Foto: Marianne van Erker) The combination of caraway seed and orange zest makes these cookies very special. Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour ½ cup light-brown sugar, packed ¼ teaspoon...
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Feature: Dutch New Year celebrations in 18th and 19th century America
Kniepertjes (Foto: Marianne van Erker) Seventeenth-century Dutch settlers who founded the Dutch colony of New Netherland, a huge area wedged between New England and Virginia, brought with them not only...
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Place: Amsterdam’s EYE Film Museum
Photo: Anastasia Malkin Until very recently, after arriving at Amsterdam’s Central Station, one would always exit on the south side, the side facing the city. The north exit offered nothing more than a...
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Arts Feature: Better than Rembrandt, at least for a while
Jan Lievens, Self Portrait Though today he is nowhere nearly as legendary as Rembrandt, child prodigy Jan Lievens was, for a time, a much bigger deal. Lievens, who was slightly younger than Rembrandt,...
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Travel Feature: Groningen, vibrant city of the north
Because of its renowned universities, richly intellectual atmosphere and bustling nightlife, the city of Groningen attracts a large number of national and international students and has the youngest...
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Died: Drs. P.
On June 16 a remarkable death notice appeared in Dutch newspapers NRC Handelsblad and De Volkskrant. It was a handwritten two stanza, eight line poem, adhering to the strict form and meter of the...
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Place: Nes aan de Amstel
About a mile south of Nes aan de Amstel lies Nessersluis, (the sluice at Nes). Nessersluis is on the other, eastern, shore of the Amstel river and to get there would take about a ten mile drive from...
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In an incidental series of articles we have been examining how the topography of The Netherlands has been influenced by the requirement of the Dutch to actively manage the water in their environment....
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News: Press award for DUTCH the magazine
Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, Elizabeth Dowdeswell with Tom Bijvoet One does not like to toot one’s own horn, but I must share with our readers the pride and satisfaction I felt when I was invited...
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Interview: Ambassador Henne Schuwer
Henne Schuwer (Photo: Stephen Voss) His Excellency Henne Schuwer, the newly appointed Ambassador of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to the USA, pleads for more involvement of the Dutch, even if it’s...
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Place: De Haar Castle
Photo: Albert Dros De Haar Castle (Kasteel de Haar) in the province of Utrecht is ‘undutch’ in its extreme opulence. Until 2000, the castle was owned by the baronial Van Zuylen van Nijevelt de Haar...
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Travel feature: Bourtange
Photo: Kashif Pathan Dating to the late 16th century and located in Westerwolde in the northern Dutch province of Groningen, Fort Bourtange was built by William of Orange in order to guard the only...
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