Here's one not related top WWII, but indirectly to WWI... the city of Halifax send a big Christmas tree to Boston every years because it was a trainload of people/equipment/supplies from Boston that arrived first to help after the Halifax explosion.
[ until the Hiroshima a-bomb it was the biggest "man-made" explosion in history. A 2 ships, one loaded with WWI munitions, collided in Halifax Harbour].

As regards Queen Juliana (then Princess) staying in Ottawa, the story taught in school was that Canada ceded the place where her daughter was born to the Netherlands so that the requirement that royalty be born on Dutch soil would be met.


>to change the conversation slightly :), does anyone know of any other gifts that are given because of ww2? i know that norway provides a hugh christmas tree to england every year, i had never heard of the tulips, but i am sure that there are loads of others as well and i just be interested in knows about the others.
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>The Netherlands still sends 25,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa every year by way of thanks, and every spring they bloom during the city's Tulip Festival.