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If you bought a "real" Christmas tree, drove it home, added ornaments and surrounded it with presents, its life likely began on a farm somewhere in eastern Canada.

Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia lead the way in production, in total accounting for nearly 80 per cent of the farmland allocated to growing Christmas trees in Canada, according to 2011 Statistics Canada agriculture data.

Christmas tree farmland, by province

SOURCE: Statistics Canada

Nova Scotia produces the most trees on a per capita basis, at more than 2,000 acres-worth for every 100,000 people. By contrast, Alberta produces 37 acres-worth per capita.

Provincial Christmas tree farmland, per capita (100,000)

SOURCE: Statistics Canada

The two regions with the largest concentration of farmland growing Christmas trees can be found around Sherbrooke, Que., and the southern tip of Nova Scotia.

Acres of Christmas tree farmland by agricultural region, 2011.

Not all those trees are for Canadian consumption, though. Of the more than $64-million earned from the farms' Christmas tree sales in 2014, Canada exported $32.6-million worth, or 1.5-million trees, with about 96 per cent of them going to the United States.

Quebec's farms brought in $25-million of the $64-million, with the rest mostly attributed to Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, which exports most of its trees.

The data does not specify where each province sends its trees.