Operation Manna will showcase the heroic RCAF effort to save the starving people of the Netherlands
The Canadian Tulip Festival, which takes place from May 10-20, will commemorate the centenary celebrations of Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).
According to a press statement by the organisers of the Canadian Tulip Festival, at Commissioners Park, Dow’s Lake, more than 300,000 tulips, 200-Drone ‘Drone Show’ in Ottawa will be featured of the million that bloom in the capital.
The festival will feature family-friendly movies, food trucks, free nightly programmes including Blacklight Boardwalk at Dow’s Lake with more than 2000 tulips and daffodils lit in UV light, to experience how pollinator’s see them.
The statement adds that at 21:00 every night the Sound & Light Story at the movie screen, Operation Manna will showcase the heroic RCAF effort to save the starving people of the Netherlands. Adapted from the memoirs of ‘Shorty’ Moyes, this humanitarian operation of incredibly dangerous, low-flying food drops, forged a bond of friendship for over seven decades.
The statement says that the festival is free and ungated and offers a new self-guided Tulip Legacy Tour using seven stops with QR Codes. While telling Ottawa’s history, it allows visitors to travel back in time over eight millennia.
They add that the flower show is a tourist favourite which originated at the original Ottawa Civic Hospital, where Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born during World War II. The royal family had gifted to Ottawa the now famous symbol, tulips, as a thank you.
The organisers say that it continues to be, for sheltering the family and for the role Canada played in the liberation of the Netherlands. The festival is free and ungated and offers a new self-guided Tulip Legacy Tour using seven stops with QR Codes. While telling Ottawa’s history, it allows visitors to travel back in time over eight millennia.
