Showing posts with label Tulip Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tulip Festival. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Ottawa: Tulips!

All of us in the northeastern part of North America had a particularly hard winter. In Ottawa, that meant the tulips were late. Never mind. What there were, were brilliant, and the days were sunny and warm. 

Friday, May 7, 2010

Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa


The Tulip Festival in Ottawa over the first two weeks and three weekends of May celebrates the warm friendship between the Netherlands and Canada. From the Canadian Tulip Festival website: 

~The Festival, now in its 58th year, preserves the local heritage of Canada’s role in freeing the Dutch people during World War II and the gift in perpetuity of the tulip to the City of Ottawa for providing a safe harbour for  the Dutch Royal Family at that time.~