A worker helps unload a Christmas tree fresh from Canada on Boston Common in 2007. The tree is donated each year to the people of Boston as a symbol of gratitude for its assistance following the 1917 ...

This year’s historic Tree for Boston is a 45-foot-tall white spruce from Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. It will be cut down ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu helped cut down the city’s Christmas tree during a trip to Nova Scotia to highlight the continuing ...

Nova Scotia gifts a tree to the City of Boston each year in recognition of the aid Boston sent north after the deadly Halifax Explosion of 1917. Caused by the collision of two wartime ships — one of ...

A city devastated; neighbors coming to its aid; the hunt for a scapegoat: Though the Angelenos enduring wildfires today lead lives dramatically different from those of the people who survived the ...