I’ve blogged here and here about the Nikon P6000 with a built-in GPS. Here are some pictures taken at the Ottawa Tulip Festival. Select the “Map” option to see the locations of all the pictures.
During WWII Princess Juliana and her husband left the Netherlands with their two daughters. Juliana took the children to Ottawa, where she lived in Stornoway House, now the residence of the Leader of the Opposition, in Rockcliffe Park, now part of Ottawa.
When her third child Margriet was born, a special law was passed by the Canadian Parliament declaring Princess Juliana’s rooms at the Ottawa Civic Hospital as extraterritorial so that Margriet would have exclusively Dutch citizenship, which is required for her to be in the line of succession.
After the war in 1945 Juliana sent the city of Ottawa 100,000 tulip bulbs in recognition of the thousands of Canadians who died liberating the Netherlands. Then in 1946, she sent another 20,500 bulbs and promised to send Ottawa an annual gift of tulips during her lifetime. And that is the origin of the Ottawa Tulip Festival.
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