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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#History

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]

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)