CHRISTMAS IN ALASKA Bringing Home the Tree
Last Christmas my home was in a town on the border ot Alaska and. British Columbia. Everything was covered with deep snow. On Christmas Eve I went to the woods to find a Christmas tree. 1 looked and 1 looked, and, at
last. I found a suitable one. 'When I had cut it down I carried it home over wet snow trails. My father and I stood
it up in a comer of the diningroom, ■ and when it was decorated it looked beautiful. For Christmas dinner we had a huge turkey which I could hardly lift. We livted at the head of the Portland canal, and all our
stqres and Christmas presents had to come by steamer from Vancouver or Prince Rupert. We had to send all our Christmas mail for New Zealand in November. All our Christmas flowers had to be shipped from Vancouver. The boat before Christmas brought boxes of Christmas lilies and daffodils. It seems strange to me that this Christmas is in summer time. —ST. JOHN MOODY, 42 Francis avenue.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22593, 24 December 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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