Shodan
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Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to anyone on here that is from Canada!!
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:asian: :karate:
Happy Thanksgiving Canada!!!!
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Kroy
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Oooooh, I can smell the turkey right now.:boing2:
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KenpoGirl
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I am on turkey overload, we had our family meal yesterday and of course I got leftovers which I ate today.
I don't wan to see another turkey for ..... a couple days a least.
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I don't wan to see another turkey for ..... a couple days a least.
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I'm fused.. splain Canadian Thanksgiving to me ) please~!!
Pilgrims,.. turkey.. Pilgrims.. Plymouth Rock.. Please this Tess is fused *G*
BTW... Happy Thanksgiving you Canadians
Pilgrims,.. turkey.. Pilgrims.. Plymouth Rock.. Please this Tess is fused *G*
BTW... Happy Thanksgiving you Canadians
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Originally posted by KenpoTess
I'm fused.. splain Canadian Thanksgiving to me ) please~!!
Pilgrims,.. turkey.. Pilgrims.. Plymouth Rock.. Please this Tess is fused *G*
BTW... Happy Thanksgiving you Canadians
Pilgrims eh,.. turkey eh.. Pilgrims eh.. Plymouth Rock eh.. ...nods.
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Shodan
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Okay- here's the deal according to my Canadian hubby!! I said to him "Why is there a Canadian Thanksgiving........what do you celebrate, etc." and he says to me "Well- Canadians can be thankful too can't they?!!!!" So, I guess their holiday is just a take-off on ours but just a day of giving thanks for everything.
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Shodan
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Just found this............
Canadian Thanksgiving
The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are more closely connected to the traditions of Europe than of the United States. Long before Europeans settled in North America, festivals of thanks and celebrations of harvest took place in Europe in the month of October. The very first Thanksgiving celebration in North America took place in Canada when Martin Frobisher, an explorer from England, arrived in Newfoundland in 1578. He wanted to give thanks for his safe arrival to the New World. That means the first Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated 43 years before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts!
For a few hundred years, Thanksgiving was celebrated in either late October or early November, before it was declared a national holiday in 1879. It was then, that November 6th was set aside as the official Thanksgiving holiday. But then on January 31, 1957, 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
Harvest Season
Canada has been blessed." Thanksgiving was moved to the second Monday in October because after the World Wars, Remembrance Day (November 11th) and Thanksgiving kept falling in the same week.
Another reason for Canadian Thanksgiving arriving earlier than its American counterpart is that Canada is geographically further north than the United States, causing the Canadian harvest season to arrive earlier than the American harvest season. And since Thanksgiving for Canadians is more about giving thanks for the harvest season than the arrival of pilgrims, it makes sense to celebrate the holiday in October.
So what are the differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving, other than the date? Not much! Both Canadians and Americans celebrate Thanksgiving with parades, family gatherings, pumpkin pie and a whole lot of turkey!
Canadian Thanksgiving
The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are more closely connected to the traditions of Europe than of the United States. Long before Europeans settled in North America, festivals of thanks and celebrations of harvest took place in Europe in the month of October. The very first Thanksgiving celebration in North America took place in Canada when Martin Frobisher, an explorer from England, arrived in Newfoundland in 1578. He wanted to give thanks for his safe arrival to the New World. That means the first Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated 43 years before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts!
For a few hundred years, Thanksgiving was celebrated in either late October or early November, before it was declared a national holiday in 1879. It was then, that November 6th was set aside as the official Thanksgiving holiday. But then on January 31, 1957, 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
Harvest Season
Canada has been blessed." Thanksgiving was moved to the second Monday in October because after the World Wars, Remembrance Day (November 11th) and Thanksgiving kept falling in the same week.
Another reason for Canadian Thanksgiving arriving earlier than its American counterpart is that Canada is geographically further north than the United States, causing the Canadian harvest season to arrive earlier than the American harvest season. And since Thanksgiving for Canadians is more about giving thanks for the harvest season than the arrival of pilgrims, it makes sense to celebrate the holiday in October.
So what are the differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving, other than the date? Not much! Both Canadians and Americans celebrate Thanksgiving with parades, family gatherings, pumpkin pie and a whole lot of turkey!
oK.. it makes sense now *G* Thanks Shodan ~!! It was one of those quesitons that I just never asked ~!
Ender.. *pokes* eh
It was one of those quesitons that I just never asked ~! Ender.. *pokes* eh
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