 Image copyright Musson Christmas Display Image caption The Mussons' home decked out for Christmas 
 
 A Canadian man known for his elaborate Christmas lights has died after falling from his roof while fixing the display. MUSSON, Douglas-As a result of an accident while tending to his famous Christmas light display on Spruce Avenue, on Monday, December 18, 2017, Douglas Musson in his 83rd year. Doug Musson (of the Musson's famous Christmas display in Burlington, Ontario <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/burlon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#burlon</a> has died after falling off a ladder while tending to the very lights he loved so much. He had been adding more lights and figures to his display each year. “Not having any family here, we had to create our own family traditions and each year we would visit your home. I debated even turning on the lights but decided he would want them on and he worked hard on making all of the displays," his wife, Joanne Musson, wrote on the family's website, Musson Christmas Display. Image copyright Musson Christmas Display Image caption Doug Musson said the display used nine circuits before they switched to efficient LED lights 
 
 Online, Mr Musson wrote that before switching to LEDs, the display used nine circuits of power. His son, Scott Musson, said his father was a family man and family meant everything to him. Well, if no one came to see them we would stop doing them,” Scott said at the end of his post. There will never be a Christmas the same ever." It was that happiness that got his dad to put up the lights each year, and that importance was reflected in the outpouring of condolences from the community. “I have been taking my children and now my grandchildren to see this family’s fantastic display of love and caring, and to show them what real Christmas spirit is all about... making others smile,” wrote Nancy Taylor.
– Doug Musson's home has become a spectacle each December for more than three decades, decorated top to bottom in Christmas lights. But this year, visitors aren't just flocking to the home in Ontario, Canada, to take in the sights. They're also paying tribute to the man who made the Christmas season extra colorful, reports the Burlington Post. While up on a ladder tending to his display Monday, the 82-year-old Burlington man fell and was later pronounced dead at a hospital, reports the CBC. Burlington's mayor calls the news "devastating," particularly as Musson had been trying to fix a leak causing water to drip on a sidewalk, for fear a visitor might slip and fall, per the BBC. In the days since, locals have left tributes to how Musson's lights became part of their own Christmas traditions. "You touched the lives of so many," reads one. Musson started out hanging lights on his home in Calgary, Alberta. After the family moved to Ontario in 1976, he started adding bigger and better lights each year, per the Toronto Star. "He worked hard on making all of the displays" which were custom-built, including a motorcycle marked with the name Cam, in honor of Musson's son who died in a motorcycle accident in 1998, his wife writes on the family's website. "I debated even turning on the lights [following his death] but decided he would want them on." His goal was to bring smiles to people's faces, says Musson's son, Scott. He adds he'll keep the display going because it's what his father would've wanted. "We put a Santa Claus that dances out every evening. The kids came to dance with it. That was Dad's favorite part," he tells the CBC. But "there will never be a Christmas the same ever." (Christmas lights can be seen from space.)