GALLERY: How Kitchener city hall got its Christmas tree
Within hours, a blue spruce that had stood in front of Siegfried and Alma Janssen’s home for 33 years was moved to the front of Kitchener city hall. Here’s how city crews did it.
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A Christmas celebration Victorian style
BY SHARON SAMUEL Did your grandparents teach you how to decorate your Christmas tree? If so, who would have taught them? “We can actually thank Queen Victoria and Prince Albert for some of the traditional Christmas customs we have today,” said Karen Richardson, curator at the Haldimand County Museum, at a lunchtime lounge talk at the Homer Watson Gallery. “We, as British subjects, followed every single thing that Queen Victoria … Continued
