5 top Canadian sources for Christmas trees
Quebec is the top Christmas-tree producing province
Of the 1.7 million Christmas trees exported from Canada, worth roughly $28 million, 94 per cent go to the United States, while the rest end up in more tropical locales such as Barbados and the Cayman Islands.
5 top Canadian sources for Christmas trees:
1. Quebec $15.7 million
2. Nova Scotia $6.2 million
3. New Brunswick $5.6 million
4. Manitoba $500,000
5. Ontario $186,000
Source: Statistics Canada (2011 data)
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