Re: OT Tulips for Canada

On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 19:37:49 -0400, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#History
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The Canadian Tulip Festival (French: Festival Canadien des Tulipes;
Dutch: Canadees Festival van de Tulp) is a tulip festival held annually
each May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The festival claims to be the
world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one million tulips,[1]
with attendance of over 650,000 visitors annually.[2] Large displays of
tulips are planted throughout the city, the largest of which are often
in Commissioners Park on the shores of Dow's Lake, and along the Rideau
Canal with 300,000 tulips planted there alone.[3]
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The festival is a cultural and historical aspect of the special
Canada–Netherlands relationship, having originated with commemorative
donations of tulips to Canada from the Netherlands for Canadian actions
during World War II, when Canadian forces led the liberation of the
Netherlands and hosted the Dutch royal family in exile.[4][5][6] The
Netherlands continues to send 20,000 bulbs to Canada each year (10,000
from the royal family and 10,000 from the Dutch Bulb Growers Association)

Dave's wife's culturally and historically obliged to visit this
festival.

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Bruce
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