De Hollandse Krant
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De Hollandse Krant is a monthly magazine for Dutch immigrants in Canada and the United States. It is published by the Timmer Publishing Company of Langley, British Columbia and appears on or about the twentieth of every month, with the exception of July (there is no August issue). De Hollandse Krant is also known to its readers as De Krant, which is Dutch for "the Newspaper". It is printed in a tabloid newspaper format.
De Hollandse Krant brings a selection of news stories related to the Netherlands, but its main focus is the publication of personal columns and editorials by a number of Dutch immigrants to Canada and the United States. These include the publishing editors, Gerard Bonekamp and Janny Bonekamp from Surrey, BC, Willem Steur from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Tom Bijvoet, from Penticton, BC, Aubrey Beauchamp from San Clemente, CA and Anne van Arragon Hutten from Kentville, NS. In addition to news and columns De Hollandse Krant publishes letters to the editor and carries advertisements for ethnic Dutch businesses in North America.
De Hollandse Krant has approximately 7,500 subscribers throughout North America, but its overall readership is likely to be significantly larger because people lend the paper to friends and neighbours. The paper is sold in a small number of "Dutch Stores" (Grocery Stores catering to the Dutch immigrant community) in Western Canada and Ontario.
De Hollandse Krant first appeared in 1969.
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Albert VanderMey, To All Our Children, The Story of the Postwar Dutch Immigration to Canada
Frans J. Schryer, The Netherlandic Presence in Ontario
Peter Lowensteyn, A Social History of the Dutch in Quebec
De Hollandse Krant, July 2007 issue
