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GUELPH, ON, August 27, 2024

Guelph Museums to guide Liberation and Remembrance group tour in 2025

Guelph Museums has teamed up with Frederick Travel to offer a group tour of Italy, France, Belgium, and Netherlands next spring. Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this tour will explore the impacts of the First and Second World Wars on the ground in Europe and at home in Canada – from the Italian Campaign to the Liberation of Holland.  This journey will also reflect on the contemporary resonance of Lt. Col. John McCrae and his poem “In Flanders Fields.”

This will be the third overseas Remembrance tour guided by Guelph Museums since 2018.

“These tours have offered memorable opportunities to learn history and practice Remembrance in a way you can only experience by walking on the ground, touching the headstones, and meeting the people who live daily with the legacy of the world wars on their homelands,” says Tammy Adkin, the City’s manager of Museums and Culture. “The experience is life changing, and has inspired all of us who have made trip to strive to do better to contribute to a peaceful world.”

Liberation and Remembrance Tour: Italy, France, Belgium, and Netherlands

Depart: April 23, 2025
Return: May 7, 2025
Cost: $8985 CDN per person based on twin/double occupancy

This tour includes moderate physical activity, including walking on uneven ground through cemeteries and on cobblestone sidewalks.

Tour includes:

• Return air transportation (tax included)
• English-speaking tour guides
• 14 nights’ accommodation
• Daily breakfast, 5 lunches, 9 dinners
• First and Second World War landmarks and historic site entry fees
• Museum entry fees
• Private bus transportation in a modern coach
• Interpretation by Guelph Museums curator Dawn Owen and former curator and McCrae expert Bev Dietrich
• Exclusive music and theatre performances by Mike Ford and Murray Foster

To register:
Contact Scott Allen at Frederick Travel [email protected], 519-745-1860 extension 303, or 1-800-578-8958. https://www.worldwide.on.ca/guelph2025

The full itinerary is available at guelphmuseums.ca/event/liberation-and-remembrance-tour.

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For more information:

Tammy Adkin, Manager, Museums and Culture
Culture and Recreation
City of Guelph
[email protected]
Phone: 519-826-1221 extension 2775
Mobile: 226-821-4125