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1969. March 13th, 1969: 32 Christmas tree growers meet in Coaticook, a municipality in southeastern Quebec. They decide to create the Quebec Christmas Tree Growers Association (Association des producteurs d’arbres de Noel du Québec (APANQ)) with Lorrainy Marchessault, a skilled Franco-American grower, as their mentor.
The province of Quebec is the main producer of Christmas trees in Canada, Quebec accounts for over 71% of all exported Christmas trees. In 2020, 266 Christmas tree farms were registered with the MAPAQ (ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec).
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History. The Canadian Christmas Tree Growers Association was founded in 1972 with Richard Lord as its first president. In Lord's view it was a forest products trade dispute with the United States in 1986 that brought the CCTGA "into its own". Twice the organization has run a donated Christmas tree program. Initiatives by the CCTGA in both 2007 ...
Canada was first introduced to the Christmas tree in 1781 in Sorel, Quebec, by a German immigrant, Baron Friederick von Riedesel. The Baron’s tree was a balsam fir cut from the dense forests of Quebec and was decorated with myriad white candles (for safety reasons, we do not recommend the use of candles today).
A main feature of the winter solstice, the decorated tree symbolized life and renewal. More than 2,000 years ago, the Celts gathered around a spruce tree on December 24 and decorated it with fruit, flowers and wheat. In the 11th century, the tree was decorated with red apples, symbolizing the tree of paradise.
Canada, production of Christmas trees in Quebec is largely focused on production of balsam fir for export to the U.S. The bulk of Quebec Christmas tree exports to the U.S. go to Massachusetts and New York. Christmas tree plantations in Quebec are mainly established based on planting seedlings and transplants. This is in contrast to Nova Scotia ...
Quebec, along with New England and the other provinces of Atlantic Canada, is a primary producer of Balsam Fir trees for use as Christmas trees; the Balsam Fir is one of the most popular species of Christmas tree in North America. Quebec Christmas tree production in 1997 totaled nearly 1.9 million trees, 80 percent of which were exported for ...
