Dutch Resistance: Van Wielingen

Van Wielingen: And yet there is one aspect about which little is known. In the early 1940s, Mr. Van Wielingen, as a 20-year-old, went underground in the Dutch Resistance to combat the Nazi occupation of his country. He rarely talked about those years and, when he died on April 1 at 92, his family still had very little information to go on, according to Globe and Mail. What his father did in the Resistance may have been considered necessary and even heroic, Mac says, but it meant being part of exercises that led to the deaths of enemy soldiers. It takes something away from your own humanity, Mac says. I saw how much pain he carried around and There is much about Gus Van Wielingens remarkable life that is well documented how the Dutch-born engineer became a Calgary energy entrepreneur and one of the builders of the natural gas industry in Western Canada. He wanted to protect us from all those realities, and he just didnt want to relive the memories, says his son Mac Van Wielingen, one of Gus and his wife Betsys three children. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.