International partnership trimmed from 2004 Canadian Tulip Festival

Published April 28, 2004

The Canadian Tulip Festival dropped its international partnership theme this year, citing financial shortfalls that forced the organization to restructure the19-day event.

In almost a decade-old tradition, the Ottawa-based festival had teamed up with another tulip-producing country to promote that region by involving its diplomatic, business and cultural communities. The namesake of the festival ­...