Just to take this one step further, to this day, Halifax sends a gigantic Christmas Tree to the City of Boston as thanks for the generosity of the people of Massachusetts during the Halifax Disaster. They have never missed a year. I was brought up in the Boston area (Lynn, Mass) and have seen it dozens of times and it always looks beautiful. As a rule most TV stations carry a brief story of why Halifax sends this tree at Christmas time. Frank Strugnell