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Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all you Canadians out there. For all who don't know, the Canadian Thanksgiving is to give thanks for a successful harvest. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World. The reason for the earlier celebration, is the simple fact that Canada is further north and the harvest comes earlier than the States.
The first Canadian Thanksgiving was first held over 40 years before the pilgrims landed in Massachusetts. In 1957, the Canadian Parliament announced that on the second Monday in October Thanksgiving would be a day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.
So what do we eat here in Canada? I have always had Turkey dinner with potatoes, carrots and much more. But some people say that the original feasts usually featured venison and waterfowl. And of coarse we always has pumpkin pie. Mm mm, my Mom's home made pumpkin pie, there's nothing better. Well maybe the turkey.
Comment by Christopher
2004-10-10T19:43:09-04:00 EDT
Hey, I'm Virginian but I spent a month in Canada a few years ago and had the chance to celebrate Thanksgiving with a family in Thompson, Manitoba. It was great. A little discombobulating when they announced thanksgiving was in a day or so where I was thinking it was in a month or so.
As for what we had it was mostly traditional fare (turkey, etc..) but I also got to have some moose meat meat-balls.
For those that have never eaten moose I highly recommend it.
Comment by cLin
2004-10-12T01:49:34-04:00 EDT
Your a canuck? Wow, never knew that. Anyways, happy thanksgiving duder
Comment by Wrywriter
2004-10-12T15:42:11-04:00 EDT
Dinner in our house was delicious, but very untraditional, it was stir fry pork, imperial rolls and steamed veggies. Not that any of us are Chinese, but that I was the cook.
Comment by Matt
2004-10-13T15:11:23-04:00 EDT
Christopher, I have never had Moose before, but I have heard it was good. I really should try some. Maybe on of these days I finally go on that moose hunt I've been thinking of.
cLin, yes, yes I am, eh!
Wrywriter, no turkey? I don't think I could have thanksgiving without a turkey. Well, I guess if I had to cook I could go without as well.
Comment by james banden
2006-11-14T13:22:29-05:00 EST
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2006-11-14T13:24:35-05:00 EST
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2006-11-14T13:25:40-05:00 EST
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Comment by Canadian aboot boot eh
2006-11-14T13:25:48-05:00 EST
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Comment by Canadian aboot boot eh
2006-11-14T13:26:41-05:00 EST
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Comment by josiah gross
2006-11-14T13:27:08-05:00 EST
are you the canadian guy frome Xplay?
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2006-11-14T13:28:50-05:00 EST
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Comment by old guy
2006-11-14T13:32:02-05:00 EST
crazy kids stop messin around and leave us old folks alone
Comment by old guy
2006-11-14T13:45:00-05:00 EST
bye
p,bhi;b;kg8 v;kg8lbj8;lv8lk;j vgjkty The Canadian Thanksgiving Day came about because of a combination of traditions. Before the first Europeans arrived in North America, the farmers in Europe held celebrations at harvest time. The farm workers filled a curved goat's horn with fruit and grain to give thanks for their harvest having been a good one. This horn was called a Horn of Plenty.....or a Cornucopia, and the farm workers who started a new life in Canada took this tradition with them.
In Newfoundland in 1578, the English navigator Martin Frobisher held a ceremony to give thanks for surviving the long journey. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Northern Canada named after him.....Frobisher Bay. As other settlers arrived they continued these ceremonies.
In 1621, in what is now the United States of America, the Pilgrims celebrated their harvest in the New World. By the 1750's settlers moving to Canada from America had taken this celebration to Nova Scotia. At the same time, French settlers arriving in Canada with the explorer Samuel de Champlain held thanksgiving feasts and shared their food with their Indian neighbours. After the seven years war ended in 1763 the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.
At the time of the American Revolution, the people who remained loyal to the Government in England moved to Canada and spread the Thanksgiving celebration to other parts of the country. Other English settlers were also used to having a harvest celebration in their churches every Autumn.
In 1879 the Canadian Parliament declared the 6th November as a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Over the years the date has changed with the third Monday in October being the most popular time. Finally on the 31st January 1957 the Canadian Parliament proclaimed that....
'A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.....to be observed on the second Monday in October.'
Comment by old guy
2006-11-14T13:47:31-05:00 EST
sorry about that lasty one josiah mesed me up bye