The Christmas Tree Interpretive Centre is located just up the road a small distance from Ross Farm Museum in New Ross, Nova Scotia.  Ross Farm itself is a wonderful historical working farm museum.  New Ross has always been an extremely active center for Christmas tree cultivation, so it is most fitting that this strong farming and forestry community is host to the Interpretative Centre.
This photograph shows a former President of the Christmas Tree Council of Nova Scotia, Myles MacPherson preparing to formally open the Centre.

The Centre is located on the Number 12 Highway in Nova Scotia, almost in the center of this road that travels from Chester Basin by the Atlantic Ocean to Kentville in the Annapolis Valley of Southwest Nova Scotia.  Unfortunately we cannot man this facility full time, so it is typically only open during community festivals in New Ross.  A signifcant time to visit is during the New Ross Christmas festival held each year in early December. 

                                                                                                    - part of the crowd at the Official Opening


The Centre hosts the Nova Scotia Christmas Tree "Wall of Fame", those individuals who have been inducted into the Christmas Tree Hall of Fame.  Unfortnately this photo from the Lunenburg County Christmas Tree Producers' Association booth at the South Shore Big Ex will havbe to suffice until we get a chance to secure better photographs of our Wall of Fame members.  

Although difficult to tell,  the Wall of Fame members are:
            Top Left:                                Bruce McKean, Lunenburg Association Builder
            Second From Top Left:          Ken and Joan Hughes, Cobequid Association Builders
            Second From Top Right:        Merle Taylor, Northeastern Association Builder
            Top Right:                              Tom Ernst, Lunenburg and Provincial Builder
            Bottom Left:                           Les and Betty Corkum, Lunenburg and Provincial Builders
            Bottom Right:                         The Sanders Family of New Ross, Lunenburg and
                                                                  Provincial Builders
            Missing:                                  Michael and Dianne Falkenham, Lunenburg Builders.

Plans are afoot to incorporate Christmas tree history into the Parkdale-Maplewood Community Museum in Lunenburg County, which will allow for better public access.