Winnipeg Free Press For more than 65 years, St. George’s Anglican Church has celebrated Christmas with a special carol service. For more than 65 years, St. George’s Anglican Church has celebrated Christmas with a special carol service. For many generations of families in the parish and across the city, attending the service — modelled after the service of Lessons and Carols begun at Truro Cathedral in the United Kingdom in 1880 — has been a cherished Christmas tradition. But this year that isn’t possible because of the pandemic. "Parish leadership felt, this year more than ever, to uphold this tradition to celebrate this service, especially as so many parishes have cancelled their special Christmas services entirely," Christopher Thomson, a longtime member of the church, said.