Spring Really Blooms Each Year at The Canadian Tulip Festival!
The Canadian Tulip Festival (sometimes called the Ottawa Tulip Festival) has become the world's largest tulip festival and takes place in May each year with more than three million tulips in bloom. It runs for three weeks every spring and this year, Ottawa expects more than 500,000 people will visit to enjoy the flowers and all of the festival activities.
The tulip has become a symbol of the friendship between Holland and Canada. This friendship began more than fifty years ago when the Dutch people gave Ottawa a gift of tulips as a thank you for providing a safe haven to members of the Dutch Royal Family during the Second World War and for the part that Canadian soldiers played in helping to liberate Holland from the Nazis. Read more about the history of this enduring friendship at A Bloom of Friendship.
The gift of tulip bulbs has become a beloved tradition and today, the celebration is bigger and better than ever.
This quintessential photograph of the
tulip festival was taken by Benito78.
The Canadian Tulip Festival, Where Ideas Bloom!
- A Video Of The 2008 Canadian Tulip Festival
- Previous Tulip Festival Themes...What Will 2009 Bring?
- The Canadian Tulip Festival Concerts Helped Create Some Well Known Music Artists
- Official Information About The Tulip Festival
- The Canadian Tulip Festival In The News
- The Canadian Tulip Festival In The News in 2009 ~~ President Barack Obama's Tulip
- The Canadian Tulip Festival in Writer's Blogs
- A Bloom of Friendship: The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival by Anne Renaud
- 2002 Was The 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Tulip Festival And Canada Post Produced These Magnificent Postage Stamps
- More Great Tulip Reading Here At Squidoo
- The Netherlands Headquarters
- Did you enjoy this visit to the Canadian Tulip Festival?
It Is Really Amazing That Only One Tulip In This Entire Bed Of Tulips Is The Wrong Color!
A Video Of The 2008 Canadian Tulip Festival
It will give you a general idea of what you might expect at the Canadian Tulip Festival.
Tulip Festival 2008 Tv Commercial
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Previous Tulip Festival Themes...What Will 2009 Bring?
- 1994 A Tribute to the Origin Country of the Tulip - Turkey
- 1995 The Friendship That Flowered, the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Holland
- 1996 Floral Tribute to Nice
- 1997 Floral Artistry of Japan
- 1998 A Celebration of Canada's Provinces and Territories
- 1999 Between Friends
- 2000 Tulips 2000: A Capital Celebration!
- 2001 Tulips Forever! A Salute to Britain
- 2002 Tulipmania! 50th Anniversary
- 2003 G'day Australia - Tulips Down Under
- 2004 Canada's Tulip Experience
- 2005 A Celebration of Peace and Friendship
- 2006 Tulips 2006 - World Flower Rendezvous!
- 2007 "CelebrIDÉE A Celebration of Ideas" inaugural year
World famous photographer Malak Karsh is widely know for his photographs of the tulips and was instrumental in the establishment of the Canadian tulip festival.
The Canadian Tulip Festival Concerts Helped Create Some Well Known Music Artists
Some of the artists who have performed at the Canadian Tulip Festival concerts include Liberace who performed an opening concert in 1972, Alanis Morissette who made her first appearance when she was just 12 year sold in 1987, The Trews who opened for Big Sugar in 2003 and General Rudie who performed early in their musical careers in 2000. These 'free' concerts were both entertaining and career building for budding new artists. They proved to be great exposure. However, the concerts have been difficult because of the unpredictability of springtime weather in Ottawa.The music man shown in this picture by azzaelea was part of the fun but obviously not one of the concert performers!
Official Information About The Tulip Festival
- Canadian Tulip Festival 2008 Official Site
- Canadian Tulip Festival May 2 to 19, 2008. The largest tulip festival in the world. Millions of tulips will bloom in May of 2008 in Canada's scenic Capital Region creating an exotic mosaic of colour and beauty.
- Canadian Tulip Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Canadian Tulip Festival claims to be the world's largest tulip festival, with attendance of over 500,000 visitors annually.[1] This major cultural event is held annually in Ottawa and Gatineau, Canada, over the course of 18 days in May, concluding with the Victoria Day long weekend.
- Canadian Tulip Festival: Back in bloom | poweredByProfit | Canadian Business Online
- Straying from its roots in the name of growth, the Canadian Tulip Festival almost died. It's blossoming again - but only after some strategic pruning.
- Canadian Tulips Festival - 360 Cities
- Explore high resolution panoramic photography of 'Canadian Tulips Festival' on 360 Cities. This will put you in a bed of tulips, literally. I have never seen anything quite like this...and the tulips are magnificent! When you visit, make sure you choose to make the screen 'full screen' and note that you can also visit other Ottawa sites in a 360 panoramic view.
The Canadian Tulip Festival In The News in 2009 ~~ President Barack Obama's Tulip
During the festival you can see the artist, Jill Alexander at work in the tulips downtown.
The Canadian Tulip Festival presented a very unique gift in the form of a 5 foot tall wooden tulip to President Obama on the occasion of his historic first visit to Canada on February 19, 2009. Large wooden tulips are a beautiful tradition of the festival. This one will represent President's Obama's messages -- Hope, Change, and Yes We Can. It will also have his face in profile and other national U.S. symbols on it. This particular tulip is the work of Canadian artist Jill Alexander.
If You Are Lucky, You Might Come Across An Artist At Work Painting Tulips
Photo by dugspr.
The Canadian Tulip Festival in Writer's Blogs
Here is a chance to read what other people are writing about the tulip festival.
- Presenting: Ottawa – Canada's Capital and An Exciting Travel ...
- May belongs to the Canadian Tulip Festival?three weeks of celebration of Ottawa's favourite flower. During World War II, the Dutch royal family took refuge in Ottawa and Princess Margriet was born here, in a hospital room designated ...
- http://www.ishs.org/news » 2010 World Tulip Summit – USA
- In 2002, at the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa, it was revived as the World Tulip Summit. The Summit has brought together delegates from some of the world's largest tulip festivals, bulb farms, and floral events. ...
- Centennial tulips a blooming success | The Maple Leaf - Vol. 12 ...
- The tulip, officially called the ?Red Impression ? Canadian Naval Centennial 1910-2010 Tulip?, was offered for sale this summer by the Canadian Tulip Festival, celebrated each spring in Ottawa. As part of a fundraising event called ...
A Bloom of Friendship: The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival by Anne Renaud
Please come back in a few days to read more about the history of the Canadian Tulip Festival and a review of this beautiful children's picture book, A Bloom of Friendship.
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A Bloom Of Friendship, The Canadian Tulip Festival Children's Book Review
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A non-fiction, children's picture book written by Anne Renaud and illustrated by Ashley Spires, A Bloom Of Friendship: The Story Of The Canadian Tulip Festival tells the story of the history behind the world's largest tulip festival held every spring...
2002 Was The 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Tulip Festival And Canada Post Produced These Magnificent Postage Stamps
These ones are available for purchase on eBay.
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More Great Tulip Reading Here At Squidoo
Lensmasters, if you have a great page written on Squidoo about tulips and/or tulip festivals, please feel free to add your pages about tulips to this links list.
My Trip to Tulip Town
I was fortunate to be able to drive up to the Skag more...1 point
A Bloom Of Friendship: The Story Of The Canadian Tulip Festival
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Tiny Tim: Tiptoe Through the Tulips (Lyrics)
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The Albany Tulip Festival
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Keukenhof Gardens in Holland
Each year over 7,000,000 bulbs are hand-planted to more...0 points
If You Are Planning On Seeing The Tulips, You'll Need A Good Travel Guide...
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Picture by Microcontroleur.
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The Netherlands Headquarters
This page is proud to be associated with the great reading in The Netherlands Headquarters because of the association between the tulips and the Netherlands.
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- spirituality spirituality Nov 23, 2009 @ 2:38 am
- Great lens, but you knew that :) Just wanted to remind you that this is featured on the The Netherlands Headquarters
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- OhMe OhMe Oct 8, 2009 @ 9:21 pm
- This is beautiful. I would love to be able to attend this one year. Blessed!
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- calicoskies calicoskies Sep 29, 2009 @ 1:32 pm
- Wow! Your photos are beautiful :)
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- Christene Christene Sep 25, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
- Very nice lens :)
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Sep 25, 2009 @ 12:26 pm
- I love a good festival, and I never realized there were so many TULIP festivals. I really like that big painting that artist is working on in the photo above. It would look great over my sofa. Lovely lens.
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