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Tree on the move
By adamg on Fri, 11/17/2017 - 2:35pm
Roving UHub photographers don't let international borders stop them from bringing you the views you can use. Today, roving UHub photographer Chris Chatterton shows us the official Nova Scotia Christmas tree on its way to Boston through downtown Halifax.
Nova Scotia, of course, sends Boston a tree each year as thanks for the help we sent them after one of the worst explosions in history there in 1917.
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Great!
Now this is being world class.
100 years on December 6
Massachusetts really came to the rescue.
Some nice music: O Tannenbaum https://g.co/kgs/cEqzVo
Anyone know
if there will be any commemoration of the centennial? Seems like there should be - that's an impressive length of time to express gratitude.
Time AND money
Nova Scotia pays the cost of cutting and shipping the tree, as well as the costs of the tree lighting ceremony here, including tv coverage and travel for the Nova Scotia delegation. Last year they paid $179,000 in gratitude, including $32,000 to the city.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/10/30/the-christmas-tree-gifted-n...
And someone donates the tree each year
And it's a great honor to do so.
Lovely tradition to come out of such a tragedy.
Thanks kind folks of Nova Scotia!
Follow the Tree ...
There are all kinds of special events planned.
You can follow the tree's progress on twitter here:
https://twitter.com/TreeforBoston
Halifax has a bunch of things going on
Halifax Explosion at 100
A diary covering the event recently surfaced in Australia. Very intense! The sailor who penned it had never spoken to his family of having walked out of an apocalypse.
I love Nova Scotia
This really makes me want to visit there. Seriously!
You should go
Beautiful place. Lots of links to Boston, explosion and tree notwithstanding. Growing up, it felt like there were lots of people in Roslindale who had roots in Cape Breton. It’s a long drive to get up there, but a manageable vacation destination.
Do it
Give yourself at least a week - Halifax isn't all they have to offer. Cape Breton, and even parts of New Brunswick are fabulous as well.
We went up through Bar Harbor, driving North through the very wild New Brunswick, over the Confederation Bridge to PEI. Then we took a ferry to Nova Scotia and stayed in Cape Breton and Halifax and Lunenburg. Lunenburg is a World Heritage site. Took the ferry from Yarmouth to Portland Maine - not sure if that runs anymore.
So much more to the eastern seaboard than many ever experience. I get calls from my brother's Canadian relatives who have never much left central Canada asking about places to take their RVs.
Someday, somehow, I still want to cycle the Magdeline Islands. And visit the island that isn't US or Canada, but France.
Islands
> the island that isn't US or Canada, but France.
a whole (little) archipelago with 2 main islands (one is a multi-parter) and lots of little ones -- St. Pierre AND Miquelon
;-)
A wonderful (albeit old) documentary: https://www.nfb.ca/film/france_on_a_pebble/
Halifax is a great city--a
Halifax is a great city--a lot like Boston, really, but smaller and cleaner--and the people there are wonderful. And if you mention you're from Boston, yes, they will mention the Explosion and tree.