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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1968
Page
23
Christmas is celebrated with festive sights bells and carols. Communities adorn streets homes and stores while lights evergreen and manger scenes recall the holy birth in Bethlehem. People prepare, gift, share, and renew family ties.
The article recalls Canada’s early Christmases from Jacques Cartier’s 1530s wintering at Stadacona to Port Royal’s 1606 celebration. It notes famine, disease, and hardship, contrasts with Champlain’s 1606 charitable dining club d Ordre du Bon Temps, and describes winter feasts featuring moose, beaver, deer, and local game to sustain the colony.
Night of Cakes in Ireland refers to Christmas Eve when special spiced cakes baked with coriander seeds are common. The note describes setting up a tree, placing it in water, and stabilizing it with crushed stone.
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