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🎄This year's #Boston Christmas tree comes from Christmas Island, #NovaScotia.

It's a 105-year-old thank you tradition; Boston sent medical personnel to Halifax in the wake of a catastrophic explosion.

Thanks #NovaScotia!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/christmas-island-family-donates-45-foot-tall-tree-boston-1.6653587

Nov 17, 2022 at 4:40pmWeb
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Here's a piece from #CuriosityDesk reporter Edgar B. Herwick III on the Boston/Halifax Christmas connection: https://www.wgbh.org/news/2016/12/01/bostons-christmas-tree-tradition-rooted-canadian-thank-you

Got a question that Google isn't doing a good job of answering for you? Let me know...Edgar might just look into it for you.

Questions by you, answered by Edgar: https://www.wgbh.org/news/the-curiosity-desk

Boston's Christmas Tree Tradition Rooted In A Canadian Thank You

Boston's official 2016 Christmas tree, like others that have come before it, is a thank you gift for events a century ago in the Nova Scotia's Canadian province's coastal capital of Halifax.

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Show threadElizabeth AlcinoeNov 17, 2022
@gbhnews Curiosity Desk always has interesting stories.
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@alcinoe we love it too
Show threadDeclan DonaldNov 18, 2022
@alcinoe@ how are you doing over there pretty lady ?