Nova Scotia’s annual holiday gift to Boston was given a final farewell by its home province. A
The Tree for Boston is escorted to the Port of Halifax. (Government of Nova Scotia photo)
send-off ceremony was held at the Cunard Centre in Halifax Monday.
The Tree for Boston is a yearly gift from Nova Scotia to thank the city for sending aid to the province following the Halifax Explosion in 1917.
Premier Stephen McNeil says the province will never forget those who were lost and injured as a result of the explosion and the support of the people of Boston. He says this year’s Tree for Boston is dedicated to health-care workers, honouring both the 1917 response and those now on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Because of the pandemic, the tree will be transported on a container vessel. It leaves Halifax on Wednesday and will be delivered to its new home on Boston Common within days. A virtual tree-lighting ceremony will be held in Boston on December 3rd.
The 45-foot White Spruce was donated by a local couple, Heather and Tony Sampson of Dundee. The tree was cut last week on a lot in Grand Anse, Richmond County.