Ottawa ready with world's largest tulip festival (CanWest News Service)
From The CanWest News Service:
By Rick Cropp and Barbara Braidwood
The annual Canadian Tulip Festival (1-800-66-TULIP; http://tuilpfestival.ca) courtesy of the Dutch who gave Canada gift of 100,000 tulip bulbs in 1945. They were given in appreciation of the safe haven given to their Royal Family and to commemorate Canada's role in the liberation of the Netherlands during the Second World War.
The festival takes place from May 1 to 18 and now, in what is billed as the largest tulip festival in the world, there more than three million tulips blooming throughout the Capital Region.
http://www.canada.com/travel/canada/Ottawa+ready+with+world+largest+tulip+festival/1469693/story.html
By Rick Cropp and Barbara Braidwood
The annual Canadian Tulip Festival (1-800-66-TULIP; http://tuilpfestival.ca) courtesy of the Dutch who gave Canada gift of 100,000 tulip bulbs in 1945. They were given in appreciation of the safe haven given to their Royal Family and to commemorate Canada's role in the liberation of the Netherlands during the Second World War.
The festival takes place from May 1 to 18 and now, in what is billed as the largest tulip festival in the world, there more than three million tulips blooming throughout the Capital Region.
http://www.canada.com/travel/canada/Ottawa+ready+with+world+largest+tulip+festival/1469693/story.html
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