Tiny Tim sang "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" during the Tulip Festival.

In the year 2012 the Canadian Tulip Festival planned to relocate because the agency could not afford to lease property from the National Capital Commission. The venues were:
Dow's Lake/ Commissioner's Park - The Dow's Lake parking lot, Queen Juliana Park (870 Carling Avenue) and the Central Experimental Farm are part of a 60 acre land deal, a donation of federal public property to the Ottawa Civic hospital. I would not be surprised if the Civic is granted more Agriculture Canada land because it would be in "the public interest" to expand their facility. Then they will build housing for medical students, a hospice, research laboratories, a walk-in clinic, an addiction and rehab centre, etc. As I have said before, the Chretien government wanted to demolish the Dominion Observatory during the mid-1990's.
 If one acre of the Experimental Farm is divested the floodgates will open and I anticipate the demise of the Farm and the Observatory Campus.
Major's Hill Park.
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The Central Experimental Farm is a National Interest Land Mass property. It is untouchable.
Definition of the term National Interest Land Mass
"The National Interest Land Mass (NILM) identifies lands that are essential to the achievement of the NCC's mandate. Lands identified within the NILM are required to support the symbolism, functions, physical structure, and natural and cultural landscape qualities of Canada's Capital. A NILM designation indicates a formal expression of the federal government's interest in the long-term use of these lands in a manner that supports Canada's Capital." (From: "NCC Proponent's Guide to the NCC's Federal Land Use, Design and Transaction Approvals Process" - September 2018 - Page 7/20.)
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More National Interest Land Mass federal lands that should be protected from corporate,residential and commercial development in perpetuity:
1.)  The Greenbelt - 49,421 acres of publicly-owned federal greenspace.
The following groups are trying to maintain the integrity of the landscape:
Save Our Greenspace! - Protecting the Greenbelt.
Alliance to Save Our Greenbelt - Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital.
2.)  Lincoln Fields/Pinecrest Creek - an 88-acre greenspace corridor,
3.)  West Hunt Club (north) and Highway 416 - 64 acres.
4.)  Booth Street Complex.
( Information about 2,3 and 4 is from "NCC Federal Site Review for the New Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital" November 2016 - page 27 of 256 pages.)

   

Tiny Tim performed at the Rideau Centre shopping mall and  Dow's Lake. (Chris Makula photo, Ottawa Citizen.) He stayed in the Chateau Laurier which was then a Crown asset.. World famous photographer Malak Karsh was the founder of the Tulip Festival and he and Mrs. Karsh were Chateau Laurier inhabitants for years.