Canadian Tulip Festival
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The Canadian Tulip Festival, now in its 60th year, has grown to become the largest Tulip Festival in the world. It preserves the local heritage of Canada’s role in freeing the Dutch during World War II, and the symbolic tulip; a gift in perpetuity to the Canadian people for providing a safe harbour to the Dutch Royal Family at that time.
The festival’s mandate is to preserve this heritage and celebrate the tulip as a symbol of international friendship by engaging local organizers, volunteers, artists, performers, tourists and festival-goers in what has become an annual ritual of spring and one of Canada’s best loved and well-known cultural events.
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Festival Information:
General information: 613.567.5757 /1.800.66.TULIP
General information email: info@tulipfestival.ca
Ticket information: www.tulipfestival.ca
Volunteer information: www.tulipfestival.ca/volunteer
Location: Throughout the National Capital area
On the Web:
Website: www.tulipfestival.ca/www.festivaldestulipes.ca
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1209015588&ref=ts
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/canadiantulipfestival
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Présentement dans sa 60e année, le Festival canadien des tulipes est aujourd’hui le plus important festival de tulipes au monde. Il commémore la participation des troupes canadiennes à la libération des Pays-Bas durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La tulipe symbolise un don à perpétuité offert au Canada en remerciement du refuge que la famille royale hollandaise en exil avait pu y trouver à cette époque.
Le mandat du Festival est de préserver cet héritage et de reconnaître la tulipe comme un symbole d’amitié internationale en amenant les organisateurs locaux, les bénévoles, les artistes, les touristes et les festivaliers à participer à ce qui est maintenant devenu un rituel annuel du printemps et l’un des événements culturels les plus populaires et les plus aimés au Canada.
L’information de festivale:
L’information generale: 613.567.5757 /1.800.66.TULIP
L’information generale de couriel: info@tulipfestival.ca
L’information de billets: www.tulipfestival.ca
L’information de benevoler: www.tulipfestival.ca/volunteer
Sur le web:
Website: www.tulipfestival.ca/www.festivaldestulipes.ca
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1209015588&ref=ts
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/canadiantulipfestival
Tulip Festival opens in Ottawa
Lesley Peterson, Toronto Cultural Travel Examiner
The Canadian Tulip Festival (May 7 to 24, 2010) opened in Ottawa yesterday but if you’re planning to catch the three million bulbs on display, better hurry. Many of them are already in full bloom.
Read more: Tulip Festival opens in Ottawa
It’s cold, but tulip festival goes on: Forecast for coming days at least promising
Ottawa Citizen
… the first full day of the Canadian Tulip Festival. “It’s comfortably cold,” said Sai Medaravrpu, who is visiting Ottawa for the first time from India. …
Read more: It’s cold, but tulip festival goes on
Tulip time again in Ottawa: Festival to feature recreation of street party marking end of WWII
TRACEY TONG, METRO OTTAWA
With hundreds of tulips already in bloom in Ottawa and Gatineau, the Canadian Tulip Festival will make it abundantly clear that it’s tulip time in the nation’s capital.
The stars of the festival, of course, are the one to two million tulips, which have or will come up over the next few weeks.
“There are some beautiful flowers right now,” said Berry. “We’re encouraging people to come out right now to get the full effect of it.”
Ontario Tourism estimates that the festival will have a $100-million impact for Ottawa.
Full story: Tulip time again in Ottawa
Sunny, warm weather could bring early burst of tulips
Tony Lofaro, The Ottawa Citizen
Photograph by: Bryanna Bradley, The Ottawa Citizen
If the mild weather continues, the city could soon witness a dazzling tulip display.
The appearance of tulips almost a month before the annual festival is not necessarily a problem, he added. The Canadian Tulip Festival runs from May 7 to 24. Fournier said the NCC plants about 700,000 tulip bulbs. Of those, 20 per cent — about 140,000 — are early-blooming. They generally pop up at the end of April.
The remaining 560,000 tulips are normal and late-blooming varieties, designed to be on display for the duration of the festival. Fournier said said cool weather is better for the for the festival’s schedule. “The weather is very important at this time, but we have no control over that.”
Full article on the Ottawa Citizen website: Sunny, warm weather could bring early burst of tulips
Canadian Tulip Festival Getaway Package Available
If you are planning on visiting Ottawa during the Canadian Tulip Festival, check out the package available on the Ottawa Tourism website. In addition to a special rate on Tulip Festival tickets, the package also includes a Rideau Centre savings directory and admission to other area attractions.
» Visit the Ottawa Tourism website: Tulip Celebration Getaway Package
A Bloom of Friendship: The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival
A BLOOM OF FRIENDSHIP:
THE STORY OF THE CANADIAN TULIP FESTIVAL
ANNE RENAUD
ILLUSTRATIONS: ASHLEY SPIRES
MONTRÉAL: LOBSTER PRESS,
2004. 24 P.
(MY CANADA)
ISBN 189422289X
AGES 6 TO 10
A Bloom of Friendship: The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival
Ottawa, Canada’s national capital, has hosted the Tulip Festival since 1953. The festival stems from the gift in 1945 of thousands of tulips bulbs from the Queen of Holland to Canada. This giving of bulbs became a yearly thank you to our country for hosting Dutch Princess Juliana and her two daughters during the Second World War. A Bloom of Friendship: The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival gives a general overview of the war, of the invasion of the Netherlands and of the life of the Dutch Royal family in Canada, including the birth of Princess Margriet in an Ottawa hospital. While the Royal family was safe in Canada, Dutch people in Holland suffered from hunger and cold at the hands of the Nazis, who took away most of the food. When Canadian troops liberated their country in the spring of 1945, they found a starving population. Many Canadian soldiers helped Dutch citizens to rebuild their houses and their country.
This non-fiction book is illustrated with colourful collages created by Ashley Spires. The textured, handmade paper makes for lively interior scenes and brings out the vivid colours of the Ottawa blooms in springtime. Maps, photographs and archival documents such as Dutch food coupons, Star of David badges, newspaper clippings and vintage postcards add historical interest to the book.
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