Boston's Christmas Tree Is About To Begin Its Journey From Nova Scotia

November 11, 2018

The Associated Press

Arborists Joe White, left, and Christian Bugbee signal a crane operator to guide a 40-foot white spruce tree into place on the Boston Common in Boston Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Each year Nova Scotia donates a giant evergreen to the people of Boston as a thank you for their assistance following the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Once erected, the Nova Scotia tree will be decorated with thousands of lights and will be the focal point of the city's annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) — Arborists Joe White, left, and Christian Bugbee signal a crane operator to guide a 40-foot white spruce tree into place on the Boston Common in Boston Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Each year Nova Scotia donates a giant evergreen to the people of Boston as a thank you for their assistance following the 1917 Halifax Explosion. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

The Christmas tree that will be displayed in the Boston Common is getting ready to make its journey from Nova Scotia.

The 46-foot white spruce donated by Ross McKellar and Teresa Simpson from Oxford, Nova Scotia will be cut down during a ceremony on Thursday.

On Nov. 20, the Boston Police Department will escort the tree from Billerica to the Boston Common. The tree will be greeted by an official Nova Scotia town crier, Santa Claus and schoolchildren.

A tree lighting ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 29.

Nova Scotia donates a tree to Boston each year as a token of thanks for relief efforts undertaken by Bostonians after a munitions ship exploded in Halifax Harbor in 1917, killing or injuring thousands of people.

Boston's Christmas Tree Is About To Begin Its Journey From Nova Scotia

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