Canada’s capital hosts a number of
festivals and activities hi welcome to
watchmojo.com i’m your host Kristine and
today we’ll show you that Ottawa has
something for everyone located almost
midway between two of Canada’s biggest
cities Montreal Toronto Ottawa is
Canada’s capital for all these reasons
the city’s a haven for festivals and
activities and because of Canada’s
distinct four seasons Ottawa celebrates
year round the annual festival to
celebrate winter called winterlude was
started in 1979 the event is one of
Canada’s most important tourist draws
lasting for three weekends in February
the festival includes various outdoor
activities such as public skating snow
and ice sculpture competitions and
musical concerts at the winterlude snow
bowl at almost five miles long and about
the size of 90 olympic sized drinks the
rideau canal skate ways the world’s
largest natural frozen ice rink each
year more than 1 million visitors skate
on the canal and it’s a central feature
in the winter loop festivities
traditional food at winterlude is the
beaver tail if fried o-type pastry often
dusted with cinnamon and sugar or top
with chocolate held every year in May
the Canadian to a festival both
attendance of over half a million
visitors each year tulips are found
throughout the city at this time but the
most vast bed are found at the shores of
Dallas lake at the south and Ottawa
section of the rideau canal the festival
foods began in 1945 when the Dutch royal
family sent a hundred thousand tulip
bulbs in thanks for Canada having
sheltered there Princess Juliana and her
daughters for the final three years of
the Second World War over the years the
event has expanded to showcase over 3
million tulips throughout the region
this festival has helped make Ottawa the
tulip capital of North America
throughout summer months be sure to pick
through fresh produce and flowers at the
buyer Ward market the market is open
year-round which makes it Canada’s
oldest continuous operating farmers
market celebrations of Canada’s national
holiday on July first are extravagant
and huge each year hundreds of thousands
gather on Parliament Hill to partake in
the festivities events include a
flag-raising ceremony changing the
guards the RCMP musical ride concerts by
Canadian artists and a spectacular
firework show to cap off the evening
festivals and activities hi welcome to
watchmojo.com i’m your host Kristine and
today we’ll show you that Ottawa has
something for everyone located almost
midway between two of Canada’s biggest
cities Montreal Toronto Ottawa is
Canada’s capital for all these reasons
the city’s a haven for festivals and
activities and because of Canada’s
distinct four seasons Ottawa celebrates
year round the annual festival to
celebrate winter called winterlude was
started in 1979 the event is one of
Canada’s most important tourist draws
lasting for three weekends in February
the festival includes various outdoor
activities such as public skating snow
and ice sculpture competitions and
musical concerts at the winterlude snow
bowl at almost five miles long and about
the size of 90 olympic sized drinks the
rideau canal skate ways the world’s
largest natural frozen ice rink each
year more than 1 million visitors skate
on the canal and it’s a central feature
in the winter loop festivities
traditional food at winterlude is the
beaver tail if fried o-type pastry often
dusted with cinnamon and sugar or top
with chocolate held every year in May
the Canadian to a festival both
attendance of over half a million
visitors each year tulips are found
throughout the city at this time but the
most vast bed are found at the shores of
Dallas lake at the south and Ottawa
section of the rideau canal the festival
foods began in 1945 when the Dutch royal
family sent a hundred thousand tulip
bulbs in thanks for Canada having
sheltered there Princess Juliana and her
daughters for the final three years of
the Second World War over the years the
event has expanded to showcase over 3
million tulips throughout the region
this festival has helped make Ottawa the
tulip capital of North America
throughout summer months be sure to pick
through fresh produce and flowers at the
buyer Ward market the market is open
year-round which makes it Canada’s
oldest continuous operating farmers
market celebrations of Canada’s national
holiday on July first are extravagant
and huge each year hundreds of thousands
gather on Parliament Hill to partake in
the festivities events include a
flag-raising ceremony changing the
guards the RCMP musical ride concerts by
Canadian artists and a spectacular
firework show to cap off the evening
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