On 6 December, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One was a munitions ship loaded to the gills with every manner of explosives. It caught fire and created the largest man-made explosion until the A-bomb.
A huge section of the city was flattened. 2000 were killed and thousands injured.
New England, and Boston in particular, rushed to our aid with supplies and medical staff.
As a way of saying thanks the province shipped a huge spruce tree to Boston which was set up on the Boston common for Christmas.
In 1971 it was decided to make this an annual tradition and a tree has been sent every year since to much ceremony and circumstance when the tree is lit with thousands of lights in Boston.
This is the 2019 tree being loaded and will soon be on its way south.
A huge section of the city was flattened. 2000 were killed and thousands injured.
New England, and Boston in particular, rushed to our aid with supplies and medical staff.
As a way of saying thanks the province shipped a huge spruce tree to Boston which was set up on the Boston common for Christmas.
In 1971 it was decided to make this an annual tradition and a tree has been sent every year since to much ceremony and circumstance when the tree is lit with thousands of lights in Boston.
This is the 2019 tree being loaded and will soon be on its way south.
