Every year for decades, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia provides Boston Common's Christmas Tree as a gift. This year, Mayor Michelle Wu will attend the tree-cutting in person.

It's a personal note of thanks for the long relationship, which pays tribute to the city of Boston for sending aid in the wake of the deadly explosion of a supply ship carrying explosives in Halifax Harbour in 1917, during World War I. It was the largest manmade explosion until the advent of the atomic bomb.

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"For well over a century, Boston and Nova Scotia have shared a special bond of neighborly care and friendship," Wu said in a statement. "I'm honored this year to visit our neighbors to the north for the first time and deliver a perso

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