Retracing the footsteps of Canadian liberators: a European trail
​​The Canadian Trail is a transnational hiking route that retraces the footsteps of Canadian soldiers who liberated Europe during World War II.​

Rucphen remembers
historical

​Recovery of a 1st Hussars DD tank
contemporary

Liberation party on the Grote Markt
historical

​Queens own Cameron Highlanders of Canada in Bray-Dunes​
historical

Juno Beach Centre
museum

The Battle for Caen
other

War Graves of Allied Airmen in Wijnaldum

Barka: from Nazi barracks to collaborators’ internment camp

​​A disaster in Wagenborgen​

​Calgary Tank Regiment White Beach​

​Canadian Scottish Regiment advance to Calais​

​Mrs Dumont and the Canadian Field Grave​
contemporary

​The Liberation of Rouen​

​​The hell of Woldendorp​

​​The capture of Leer City Hall​

Dutch troops in Normandy
other

The last medal of the war​

Nick Janicki and the Liberation of Deventer

​​The war is over​ (Leer)

​Commander Clouston's action in Operation Dynamo​

​​The Massacre of Abbey d’Ardenne

Belgian troops in Normandy
other

​The Calgary Highlanders at Loon Plage​

​White Beach, Dieppe​

​Red Beach, Dieppe​

​​Operation Goodwood: largest tank battle in Normandy of the Second World War

​​Destruction of the bridges over the Rivers Dives and Divette​

​Siege of Dunkirk​

Bunkers of the Atlantikwall in Harlingen

​The Essex Scottish Regiment return to Dieppe​

​The Halifax 100​

The days before liberation in Harlingen

Lieutenant Donald MacKenzie saves two lives

Destruction in Harlingen to slow the Allied advance

​Operation Jubilee at Blue Beach

Midlum and the attack on Harlingen
contemporary

The final battle for freedom

​​Adegem Canadian War Cemetery​

​Gestapo HQ and Collaborators in Rouen​

​​Preparations to attack Boulogne

​Battle of Todt Battery and Cap Gris-Nez

​Liberation by the North Shore Regiment

​Capturing the Port of Calais​

Operation Cleanser

The razing of Friesoythe

​Canadian burials, Dunkirk Town Cemetery

​​Bunker Museum Emden

Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery

The siege of Doesburg

German forces fear of a "Normandy" in Harlingen

Battle of the Dykes

​No.405 Squadron RCAF bombing raid​

​The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders cross the Seine​

​Liberation of Dieppe​

​Operation Charnwood: Battle for Buron​

A medal for soldier Clifford Lloyd Challice

The battle for Nieuweschans: A Canadian assault on the border

​Philippe Liewer​

Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery

​Liberation of Eu, Le Treport & Mer-les-Bains​

​Todt Battery

​Operation Undergo​

Bartholomeus church brings salvation in Zevenbergen

Batterie Dollart Süd

The liberation of Harderwijk

​​Refugees from the quarries of Caen

​​Clearing the Channel Coast

Two monasteries are liberated in Oudenbosch

The assault crossing of the Ems at Meppen

​The Liberation of Boulogne-Sur-Mer​

​Losses for the Queens Own Rifles of Canada in Boulogne-sur-Mer suburbs​

The liberation of Doetinchem

​The Black Watch at Grand Millebrugge

The liberation of Achtmaal and the "Achtmaal package"
audiospot

​Cosy’s Pillbox​

​Canada House

​14th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery memorial​

​​Canadian forces liberate Carpiquet

US Division under Canadian command!

Freedom Monument in Veurne

Liberation of Wernhout

​​Memorial plaquette T.G. Gibsonstraat Deventer​

German prisoners of war transported to Germany via Harlingen

​Liberation of Zeebrugge Monument

​​The battle for Wyler​

Terror from above

Resistance Square, Knokke

Operation Astonia

​​Ready to advance to Boulogne

​​Wing Commander Arthur Brian Wheeler​

Peace Monument, Moerbrugge

​​A German counter attack at Wagenborgen​

​​Monument South Alberta Regiment

Advance of the Timberwolf division

​Calais during World War Two​

A Norwegian Spitfire crashes near Standdaarbuiten

Dombunker

Memorial to Commandant Roger Mengin

Fort Nieulay

​Memorial to the executed at Calais Citadel​

Fort Risban

​​Balgerhoeke Sasbrug Monument

The first American attempt to cross the River Mark

Operation Cerberus

Explosives in Zundert - forever a danger!

The bombing of Calais on 27 February 1945

No Timberwolves in Breda!

The Timberwolves meet a Polish Division

Railway workers losses at Calais station

Allen Bridge: British troops build bridges for Timberwolves

​​Saint-Pierre​ Bunker

Artillery near Herbaijum

Dieppe air battle

The end of the war in sight

​The Canadian Forces: From Normandy to Belgium​

​​Leke Canadian Remembrance and Liberation Memorial​

Risky reconnaissance in Zwolle - Help at the Van Gerner farm

Adinkerke Military Cemetery

​Taking the Port of Boulogne-sur-Mer​

A city in ruins

The battle of Bienen: A costly victory on the road to Germany

​Operation Charnwood: Battle for Authie

​Dunkirk: Allied Progress Slowed by Flooding​

Canadian Burials, St Sever communal cemetery

​Surrounding the Ports of Pas-de-Calais​

​Boulogne Eastern Cemetery

Bridge to the final opposition in Knokke

​The Taking of the Capes​

Canada Bridge Bruges

Oldenburg Battery

Liberation of North Groningen

​Calais Canadian War Cemetery​

Monument to the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade at Hell’s Corner

Place Alphonse Noël

Monument to Murdered Royal Winnipeg Rifles

Typhoon Pilots Monument

Green Jackets Monument

Rollsperre in Harlingen

Civilian casualties at Harlingen during the liberation

The battle for Leer

​​The liberation of Olst

First Lieutenant Cecil H. Bolton receives a Medal of Honor

Bells stolen from the towers of Harlingen

Operation Totalize: the break towards Falaise, 7 to 11 August 1944

The last skirmishes in Harlingen

Saving the Basilica of Oudenbosch

Liberation battle in Hoeven

​Green Beach, Pourville​

​Liberation of Totes

The wall of the restricted zone, Calais

​​Atlantic Wall Museum ‘The Todt Battery’

​​The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders at Pont de L'Arche​

Wimereux Communal Cemetery

Corporal Leo Major and the liberation of Zwolle

​Musee Memoire 1939-1945​

​Pont Major Charles K Crummer​

Liberation of Kampen

​North Shore Regiment D-Day Memorial​

Italy Square Monument Diksmuide

​Les Hirondelles D-Day footage​

Calgary Tank Regiment Red Beach

​​Oostende Naval Monument 29th MTB Flotilla

Le Mesnil Crossroads

Regina Rifle Regiment Monument

​The Taking of Calais​

For Freedom Museum

​​Memorial Fleeing Germans Gentpoort in Bruges

​A Warm Welcome for the Canadian Liberators​

​​Battle of "'t Molentje"​

​Commander James Clouston​

​​Monument to the Airplane crash of 28 July 1944

Resistance in Calais

First Hussars and Queen’s Own Rifles Monument

​French Pilots support Canadian forces

Ranville War Cemetery

​Canadian and US Forces link up​

​Operation Wellhitt

Canadian War Cemetery Holten

​The Algonquins cross the Seine

Major Ramsay & Lance Bombardier Karos

The Falaise pocket – Memorial of Montormel

​​Liberation of Westende-Bad and Lombardsijde

The battle for the Künsten canal

​​Monument to the Belgian Commandos

The courageous action of Captain Walker

Memorial Worthington Force

Atlantic Wall Raversyde

​​Stutzpunkte "Blankenberghe Mole"

Canadian Liberation Maple

Strijdershuis, Bruges

Stützpunkt Cadzand-Badhuis

REFOOT Canadian route
Length: 12.88 km
Route from None

Groningen Walking Knots
Length: 1.66 km
Route from Routebureau Groningen

REFOOT Canadian route
Length: 12.02 km
Route from None

REFOOT Canadian route
Route from None

Groningen Walking Knots
Route from Routebureau Groningen

Airbornepad
Route from OLAT

Segment Overijssel-Friesland

Westerborkpad

Pieterpad 1
Route from Wandelnet

Hiking Knots Overijssel - western route

Trekvogelpad

Delfzijl 1945
Route from LRE Foundation

Route - 24 januari 2024

Verbinding 28 en 83

Route - 25 maart 2025

Lus Midlumerstraat en Riedstraat

Rijk van Nijmegen
Route from Federtrek

Rondje Franeker 3380

Rondje Wolvega 3375

GR®2 Sentier de la Seine

E9 Europäischer Fernwanderweg 9

Hörsteine Kranenburg - Groesbeek

Hiking Knots Gelderland

Rondje Heerenveen 3377

GR®223 Littoral de la Normandie

GR®120 Sentier du Littoral

Marskramerpad

GR®21 Sentier des Falaises

Delfzijl - Emden | Liberation Route Europe (Canadian Trail)

GR®36 De la Manche aux Pyrénées
Route from FFRandonnée

GR®221 De Coutances (Manche) à Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton

Liberation Route volledige lijn, incl. alternatieve routelijnen

Hiking knots Brabant
Route from Visit Brabant Routebureau

RVN

Operation Market Garden

Montormel
Route from Open Source - Waymarked Trails

Route - 9 juli 2023

Brabantse Walpad

Grenslandpad

HT-ZLD-7 (Walking Knots)
Route from Province of Zeeland

Groesbeek Landing Zones

Rhineland Offensive Route

Dropzone Ede
Route from Municipality of Ede

Nijanderstraat

Rondje Zürich 3379

HT-ZLD-9 (Walking Knots)
Route from Province of Zeeland

Hiking Knots Brabant - connecting Ravenstein and Grave
Route from Visit Brabant Routebureau

Hiking knots Brabant

HT-ZLD-1 (Grenslandroute Leg 6)

Reichswald

Length: None km

Westerschelde Ferry
Route from Westerschelde Ferry

GR®222 De Pîtres à Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton

GR®23 Vallée de la Seine

GR®210 De Dieppe à Rouen

GR®224 De Berville-sur-Mer à Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton

Liberation of Groningen

Route - 22 mei 2025

Canadian Trail - Groningen deel 2

Staphorstnew
Route from

Route from