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The Netherlands helps Sint Nicolaas celebrate

 

For centuries in the Netherlands, the 6th of December - and for the grown-ups especially the evening of the 5th - has been a day when nearly everyone is at home, celebrating the

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Arrival by boat at New Westminster

Dutch stores increasingly promote their own Sinterklaas events

 

Children in the Netherlands every year lustily sing "Zie ginds komt de stoomboot uit Spanje weer aan..." (See there the steamship from Spain is coming agan...) At the Westminster Quay Public Market, their Dutch Canadian cousins actually see the boat moor at the Quay,

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Kitchen Crew 2007

 
 
girl friends

 

 
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