Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is visiting Nova Scotia this week to highlight a continuing partnership with the Canadian province that began after an explosion that took place there in 1917 in Halifax Harbor, killing roughly 2,000 people.

Nova Scotia provides the city with its Boston Common Christmas tree each year as a thank-you for sending medical aid and relief supplies following the explosion. Wu will become the first Boston mayor to attend and participate in the Boston tree-cutting ceremony in the Canadian province, the mayor’s office said.

Wu, fresh off her reelection last week, will visit Nova Scotia from Sunday to Wednesday with her family. The mayor will return to Boston on Wednesday.

Her trip will include a visit to the Port Innovation, Engagement and Research with leadership from t

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