Hello all,
Regarding 'place' of birth over 'source' of birth - quotoed from "What
Makes Canada Cool?" www.canadacool.com
"Ottawa, Ontario - In 1943 Princess Margriet Francisca (younger sister of
Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, the current Queen of the Netherlands) was born
at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. She is only royal ever to be born in North
America. The Dutch Royal Family had fled to Canada in 1940 after the WWII
invasion of their country. Among their problems - the expected royal child
needed to be delivered on Dutch territory to be a Dutch citizen. So, this
one hospital maternity room was temporarily ceded to the Netherlands. Each
year Ottawa receives 20,000 tulip bulbs from the Royal Family and the Dutch
Bulb Growers, as a thank you for sheltering the Royal Family, and for
Canada's help with liberation of the Netherlands during WWII. Each May the
gardens of Ottawa burst into bloom and the city celebrates the world's
largest tulip festival. About three million flowers blossom in the region,
300,000 of them at Commissioners Park near Dows Lake."
As far as ambassadors' children are concerned, is not the embassy
considered 'home'land? That is, the Canadian Embassy in whatever country
is Canadian soil.
Heather
in Abbotsford, BC (Pure Canadian soil)
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