This Dutch saying means "Something that is good and well preserved, will not lose its value." Works for herring and also for us. We’ve worked so very hard to...

In the meantime in the Netherlands... How awesome is this training footage, shot in a cold caravan storage? On May 2, we'll walk the route of the 2nd Canadia...

Help IOFF carry the first-ever Canadian Remembrance Torch to show our veterans that we, as the next generation, will never forget. The Canadian Remembrance T...

IOFF's founder Karen Hunter was interviewed by Guelph Today last week asking Guelph families to help her find information about the 13 Guelph soldiers buried...

Grab your stamps and let's send Fred a nice birthday card! This Canadian WWII veteran who was involved in the liberation of The Netherlands, turns 100 on Mar...

“I’m a WWII buff,” said Garth Ukrainetz in an email to IOFF last week. Born in Saskatchewan, he now lives in Edmonton and is the self-named “Poet Laureate of...

Tomorrow evening, on December 24th, Dutch schoolkids go to the Canadian War Cemetery in Holten and place almost 1500 candles on the graves of all fallen sold...

Our dear WWII veteran Don White is all smiles! So are we. On May 9th, 2020, we'll be attending the Canadian Liberation Festival in Apeldoorn. What a great op...

Thanks Guelph Musuems for adding Sgt. Harry Jacob Bockner’s name to the cenotaph in time for Remembrance Day 2019. From my father’s war memoir, I learned tha...

The power of walking in our (grand)fathers’ footsteps! Thanks to Menno Versteeg of the Canadian indie rock band, Hollerado, for sharing his amazing story. Ch...

Between 4500 and 7000 Dutch war babies were born with Allied fathers following the liberation. Most of the fathers are Canadians. Bob Smiet is a Dutch libera...

Karen Hunter says the entire event was created in the process of learning more about her father. Guelph resident Karen Hunter is rallying up descendants of t...

I’ll be at Canadian Walk For Veterans in Barrie--one of 10 Canadian locations--walking shoulder to shoulder with veterans, current-serving Canadian Armed For...

“Take a guess,” said Don White (our famous tulip veteran) as we toured Ontario Regiment Museum where, at age 95, he volunteers on Saturdays. “What do you thi...

In a recent commemoration in The Netherlands, around 1500 people took part in a mass parachute drop, including a 97-year-old Arnhem veteran from Scotland who...

Says Ernie Wiles, a WWII veteran and member of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, one of hundreds of young men dropped into German-occupied Holland to hel...

IOFF’s Karen Hunter received the Boot of Remembrance pin on Friday when she dropped by Guelph Legion’s Branch 234 to congratulate the Ruck 2 Remember-Road 2 ...

Guelph’s Karen Hunter is following in her late father’s footsteps next year and she expects to feel many, many things. “It’s hard to find the words to descri...

In March 1945, the Allies needed help. German and Italian armies had destroyed the bridges needed to cross the Rhine River to advance into Germany. The Royal...