Canada-Netherlands Study Tour Purpose and Goals
John and Lucinda Flemer have joined with the University of New Brunswick’s Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society to promote awareness about the impact of the Second World War on the Kingdom of Netherlands. Our common vision is to encourage teaching professionals to engage students on the subject of the special relationship between the Netherlands and Canada which began during the war. This teacher’s professional development program builds on the successful model established by the University of New Brunswick and Wilfrid Laurier University during the last decade in France and Belgium. In 2015, with support from John and Lucinda Flemer we are expanding the program to include a focused tour on the Second World War in the Netherlands. Teachers and education students will visit key sites in the Netherlands and along its borders to better understand wartime occupation, resistance, the Holocaust and as well as the Allied war efforts to Liberate the Netherlands in 1944-45.
Follow the program as participants visit memorial sites and battlegrounds, discuss questions and tensions surrounding daily seminar topics, take in local culture, and consider how to bring this all back to the classroom.
John and Lucinda Flemer have joined with the University of New Brunswick’s Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society to promote awareness about the impact of the Second World War on the Kingdom of Netherlands. Our common vision is to encourage teaching professionals to engage students on the subject of the special relationship between the Netherlands and Canada which began during the war. This teacher’s professional development program builds on the successful model established by the University of New Brunswick and Wilfrid Laurier University during the last decade in France and Belgium. In 2015, with support from John and Lucinda Flemer we are expanding the program to include a focused tour on the Second World War in the Netherlands. Teachers and education students will visit key sites in the Netherlands and along its borders to better understand wartime occupation, resistance, the Holocaust and as well as the Allied war efforts to Liberate the Netherlands in 1944-45.
Follow the program as participants visit memorial sites and battlegrounds, discuss questions and tensions surrounding daily seminar topics, take in local culture, and consider how to bring this all back to the classroom.
Day 1 (July 6): Evening Meet & Greet;
Introduction to the Second World War in Northwest Europe. Day 2 (July 7): Rotterdam Day 3 (July 8): Breskens Pocket, Scheldt Estuary; Adagem Cemetery, Belgium. Day 4 (July 9): Woensdrecht Ridge; South Beveland Peninsula; Walcheren Island. |
Day 5 (July 10): Bergen-op-Zoom
Cemetery; British and American airborne battlefields, Arnhem; Market Garden Museum, Oosterbeek. Day 6 (July 11): Groesbeek Heights, Nijmegen; the Battle for the Rhineland; the Hochwald Gap; Groesbeek Cemetery. Day 7 (July 12): The Allied Combined Bomber Offensive; Riechswald Forest Cemetery; Kleve, Germany; Dutch National Field of Honour, Loenen; German Luftwaffe air defence complex, Deelen. |
Day 8 (July 13): Ijssel River; Putten.
Day 9 (July 14): Holten Canadian Cemetery; Westerbork Concentration Camp. Day 10 (July 15): Groningen. Day 11 (July 16): Battle for the Delfzijl and Ems Estuary coastal fortresses. Day 12 (July 17): The Great Closure Dyke along the North Sea. Day 13 (July 18): Travel day. |