Tulip Festival Ottawa Canada 2025 Location. Celebrate the beauty of spring and check out a million tulips that are planted throughout the city and along the shores of dow's lake and the rideau canal. It commemorates the sacrifice of more than 7, 500 canadian soldiers during the liberation of the netherlands.

The canadian tulip festival was established to celebrate the historic royal gift of tulips from the dutch to canadians immediately following the second world war as a symbol of international friendship. Click on the download button below to download a copy of the canadian tulip festival map.