While I feel no particular urge to involve myself in the topic of Canadian (or for that matter, Dutch) roundels on the A&A game board, I think it’s still appropriate to correct some geographical misconceptions here. Specifically:
@CWO:
… and which is 1,657 times the size of Holland in terms of surface area. (To put it another way, Holland is a couple of hundred square kilometers smaller than Canada’s smallest province, P.E.I.).
The surface of Prince Edward Island is 5,660 km2. “Holland”, which has not existed as a single political entity since 1840, was a historical area of the Netherlands approximately contiguous with the current Dutch provinces of South Holland (2,818 km2) and North Holland (2,670 km2), for a total of 5,488 km2. So in that sense, the statement that Holland is smaller than PEI is correct. However, if you include the water area which Holland has and PEI strangely doesn’t have, at 7,494 km2 Holland is actually quite a bit larger than PEI. And the historical county of Holland was also larger as it included areas that are now part of different provinces, notably Brabant and Utrecht. The areas of the provinces vary slightly over the years anyway because sometimes their borders are changed as municipalities merge.
Quite apart from that, the larger and quite common misconception is of course, to equate Holland with the Netherlands, which at 41,543 is really a lot larger that PEI (and at 9,984,670 km2, Canada is “only” 240 times the size of that :-) ). The A&A map unfortunately adds to this misunderstanding by having an are labeled “Holland Belgium”. The aforementioned Dutch provinces of North and South Holland don’t even border Belgium, so an area “Holland Belgium” would be a non-contiguous oddity, with the remainder of the Netherlands in between and to the north and east. “Low Countries” might have been a better name, also because it can to some degree be considered to encompass Luxembourg as well.