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We have dozens of annual festivals, events and the like. Ottawa is a big tourist city, we almost always have something going on to lure people in from out of town.
In February we open up the Rideau Canal for Winterlude, there's skating, ice sculpures, bathtub races and all other sorts of frozen fun.
In the spring we have the Tulip Festival. The Dutch have given us hundreds of thousands of tulips every year since WW2, when the Dutch Royal Family fled here and we temporarily made a hospital room Dutch territory so that Princess Margriet could be born on Dutch soil. There's concerts, art displays, and tulips everywhere. It's even a federal offense to pick the tulips.
The summer is when things really pick up. We have the Busker festival, Bluesfest, Jazzfest, the rib cookoff and not to mention the granddaddy of them all. Canada Day, the downtown core fills with about 250,000 lunatics with maple leaves painted on their faces, there's a lot of drinking, then we have fireworks.
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