Cenotaph Park is located in downtown Rivers next to the Legion Hall Branch No 75. The cenotaph consists of a shaft and granite statue of a WWI soldier on a platform. It was built to honor the soldiers who gave their lives in Battle. The Dutch Canadian Freindship tulip garden is planted nearly in a raised bed.
The Dutch-Canadian Friendship Tulip Garden was erected in 2015 by the Rivers Legion Branch No 75, which partnered with Communities in Bloom (CIB). Volunteers planted an interlaced pattern of red and white tulip bulbs in the garden beds surrounding the Memorial. The blooms will offer a visual reminder next spring of the link between the two countries.
Rivers was one of the 140 communities selected from the more than 400 applications received by the Canadian Garden Council. Each of the 140 new 70th Anniversary Dutch-Canadian Friendship Tulip Gardens across the country will consist of 700 red and white tulip bulbs (350 of each colour) donated by Vesey’s Bulbs in Prince Edward Island.
