Every year for more than three decades, Nova Scotia has given the city of Boston, Mass., a majestic Christmas tree.* Every year for more than three decades, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia (nō`və skō`shə) [Lat.,=new Scotland], province (2001 pop. 908,007), 21,425 sq mi (55,491 sq km), E Canada. Geography has given the city of Boston, Mass., a majestic Christmas tree Christmas tree Evergreen tree, usually decorated with lights and ornaments, to celebrate the Christmas season. The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands as symbols of eternal life was common among the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews. . This is in gratitude for the aid and succor Boston sent to Halifax following a massive fire in December 1917. But this year, Boston wise men decided to call their tree a "holiday tree." Nova Scotia's premier, John Hamm John Frederick Hamm, MLA, MD (born April 8, 1938) is a Canadian physician and politician and was the 31st premier of Nova Scotia, Canada. Hamm, a graduate of the University of King's College and Dalhousie University, was a family doctor in his hometown of Stellarton, Nova , noted that, "when [the tree] left Nova Scotia, it was a Christmas tree." Donnie Hatt had an even better remark. He is the logger who felled the 48-foot white spruce, and had he known that it would be called a "holiday tree," "I'd have ... put it through the chipper chipper Drug slang An occasional user of illicit drugs. See Recreational drug use Tobacco A popular term for a person who smokes < 5 cigarettes/day, who may be resistant to nicotine dependence or addiction, and often born to non-smoking parents. ." There is a Christmas, rather than a holiday, spirit. |
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