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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1968
Page
3
The piece celebrates Christmas as a community gathering of sights, music, and traditions. It describes decorated streets, lights, songs from carols to oratorios, and the manger scene. It notes last minute preparations, gifts, and family ties. It explains Christmas meanings across languages and cultures.
The article recounts winters at Stadacona with Cartier’s ill-fated colony and a later 1606 Port Royal Christmas under Champlain. It notes scurvy, harsh winters, and Champlain’s creation of L Ordre du Bon Temps to provide meals, describing the bounty of forest game and fish during the starving season.
Night of Cakes in Ireland on Christmas Eve refers to the custom of baking special spiced cakes with carroway seeds. The practice, still observed, involves trimming the tree and keeping it steady in water with crushed stone for stability.
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