On October 29, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada visited the Canadian War Cemetery in Bergen op Zoom. Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery contains 1,118 tombs of Canadian soldiers who died during the Second World War, 31 of which are unidentified. The city and the surrounding municipalities were liberated by the Canadians in October 1944, as part of the Battle of the Scheldt.