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Illustrative: Frank Corbett, the Deputy Premier of Nova Scotia, is flanked by a Royal Canadian Mountie during the lighting of the City of Boston's Christmas tree in Boston, November 29, 2012. The annual gift by Nova Scotia of the tree is in honor of aid that Boston sent following the 1917 explosion of a munitions ship in Halifax harbor that killed more than 1,600. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
December 24, 2021, 2:52 am
The little-known Jewish origins of Boston’s annual Christmas tree tradition
For over 50 years, Nova Scotians have gifted Bostoners a spruce in gratitude for an aid mission led by Abraham Ratshesky in 1917 after a port explosion killed and injured thousands
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