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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-06-06, Page 41cage 6—Crossroads—June 8, 19113 Where is my ad? Translated from Dutch by John Martens) In March 1946 a little girl was born in the Netherlands. Let's call her Brigit. Her dad was a Canadian soldier; let's name her Arthur, one of the many Canadians who liberated the Netherlands from the Nazis. At the time of the birth of his daughter, Arthur was in Canada to• obtain a divorce from his wife. He telephoned from far -away Canada and in this way heard his little daughter, his first child, cry through the phone. Since that time they -had not seen each other or talked to each other, but last sum- mer Arthur and his daughter fell into each other's arms. For the first time in 36 years. That this happy reunion could take place was due to the untiring efforts of Olga Rains, a fOrmer citizen of the Netherlands, now residing in North Bay, Ontario. Rains wrote a book about the many Dutch is who girls married Canadian soldiers or dated the liberators from overseas. The title of the book is: "'frees en Haar Canadees" (Eng. "Trix and Her Cana- dian"). Olga Rains told me: "During my research in the matter and in the course of collecting material for my manuscript, I met in the Netherlands not a few wom- en and children of Canadians and all had a common inter- est; the former girlfriends of Canadian soldiers were very eager to know how their f' former friends were doing and the children wanted to know who their fathers were. To get acquainted with their roots, you understand? "The girl we referred to as Brigit learned that her father was a Canadian, when she was 17. Since that day she wanted to get to know her dad she had never seen, but it was impossible to trace him. Aided by another Dutch- man, Klaas Van Baaren, 1 began searching myself for , the long -lost father. "We succeeded in convinc- ing a number of Canadian officials of the need to come to the assistance of such peo- ple as Brigit and her mother who lived under constant emotional stress. Brigit's father was quickly found. The reunion was an emotion- al and dramatic one and not free of tears, the more so as father Arthur is a very sick man; he lives as a widower in a• wheelchair and won't make it long." Olga continues: 'Bright stayed four weeks at the home of a relative of Arthur; she visited him daily in hos- pital and now plans have been made for the next visit. Fantastic t"e i5ilt it?" Last summer Olga Rains succeeded e inestablishing s ablisbin g contact between a 57 year old Dutch woman a and her form- er Canadian sweetheart, whom she bore a daughter. Olga says: "A life drama! They were so much in love, right after the liberation, but the girl's mother did not want to hear of marriage or engagement to a Canadian soldier. She locked up her daughter. The young -soldier searched for his love for weeks on end. He did not find her and returned at long last in deep disappointment and heartbroken to Canada. "Last summer I found him, although I knew only his first name. "And what had happened? It turned out that neither the Canadian soldier, nor the Dutch girl had ever married. All their life their thoughts have been only for each other." "The statistics show that many Canadian soldiers, who helped liberate the Netherlands, are gradually claimed by death. Most are in the sixties or older." That's why Olga Rains spares no efforts to bring to- gether again former Cana- dian soldiers, their children and their one-time sweet- hearts and girlfriends in the Netherlands. Those who think they want Olga's assistance, can ad- dress her as follows: Mrs. Olga Rains, 1061 Jan Street, North Bay, Ontario, Canada, 1'1B 3118. 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