Americans CAN’T EXPLAIN Why the Dutch Still Send Canada Tulips Every Year

0:00 The mystery in Commissioners Park 3:02 The Dutch royal family in exile 6:21 Princess Margriet’s Canadian birth 9:03 The Hunger Winter and tulip bulbs 13:11 Canadian graves remembered in the Netherlands 15:30 How Ottawa made the tulips its own 21:10 The promise beneath the winter snow 22:29 A living tradition between Canada and the Netherlands Why does the Netherlands still send tulip bulbs to Ottawa every year? I follow Greg Larkin as he discovers the wartime story buried beneath the flowers in Commissioners Park. I explore the Dutch royal family’s exile in Ottawa, the birth of Princess Margriet at the Ottawa Civic Hospital, and the Hunger Winter that shaped the bond between Canada and the Netherlands. I also trace how Canadian soldiers, Dutch families, and generations of children in Holten continue to remember the liberation. From the Canadian Tulip Festival to the Queen Juliana bed, I show how a gift of flowers became a lasting promise between two countries.