Today May 3 the Rideau Canal is back to its normal water level for boating. Parks Canada started to let the level of the water rise on 26 April and then stopped completing the process today. The 60th Tulip Festival is about to start and the tulips in their thousands are blooming everywhere in the Capital. All the parks of the Capital are full of large tulip beds of various colours, a gift of the Netherlands in thanks for Canada's liberation of the Netherlands in 1945 and the hospitality during the Second World War when the Dutch Royal Family sought refuge in Ottawa. Queen Juliana gave birth to Princess Margriet in Ottawa in 1943, the hospital room at the Civic Hospital declared by Royal decree of Canada's Governor General, the Earl of Athlone, Dutch territory for the occasion.
The fog over the Capital seemed to absorb all noises, a strange silence. The rain makes everything so green and fresh and the trees are bursting with new leafs.
Tulips in their thousands in Major Hill Park, Ottawa
Tulips in various colours at Ottawa City Hall
The Basilica and Roman Catholic Cathedral of Ottawa on Sussex Drive
The great glass rotunda of the National Gallery of Canada on Sussex Drive
The centre block of Parliament of Canada with the round library as seen from Major Hill park across from the Rideau Canal locks.
The Ottawa river looking west just below Parliament Hill in Ottawa
Colonel John By of the Royal Engineers (1779-1836), builder of the Rideau Canal.
Knox Presbyterian Church (1844) Elgin street.
On Cartier Street in front of a private house, a Camellia bush in bloom.
The fog over the Capital seemed to absorb all noises, a strange silence. The rain makes everything so green and fresh and the trees are bursting with new leafs.
The Ottawa river looking west just below Parliament Hill in Ottawa
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