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It's old, crooked, spindly and spectators say it's even uglier in person. Montreal's Christmas tree is a major symbol of the holiday season and with the city's 375th anniversary in 2017, organizers had plans to go big.

Christmas tree draws crowd for all the wrong reasons. See it


Leeanna McLean
Digital Reporter

Tuesday, December 6, 2016, 5:23 PM - It's old, crooked, spindly and spectators say it's even uglier in person.

Montreal's Christmas tree is a major symbol of the holiday season and with the city's 375th anniversary in 2017, organizers had plans to go big. This year's display was supposed to compete with New York's fabled Rockefeller tree, which usually averages at 22 metres tall.


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Located at Place des Arts, the Montreal tree stands at 28 metres. One would think the higher the better, but it seems it isn't living up to expectations.

From "embarrassing" to "it looks like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree," these are a few of the comments being shard on social media. This year's dud even has its own Twitter account: @sapinlaid, which translates to "ugly fir."

Decorated in lights and Canadian tire logo ornaments, some say the tree is so unattractive that it's actually endearing.

However, the company who installed the tree is standing by it.

"What we delivered is a natural Quebec tree, as a Quebec tree should be," Sapin MTL co-founder Philippe Pelletier told reporters. "People have in mind that a Christmas tree should be perfect, but that's not the reality."

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