Happy Thanksgiving to all fellow Canadians !
 

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Unfortunately Thanksgiving is monday, but we get the picture. Thanks!

Happy Turkey Day!

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What is a Canadian Thanksgiving?

Thanks,
That reminds me I have to buy turkey:)

Same as US just we have it on diff dates

I dont understand why there is a Thanksgiving in Canada.

Did you guys kill a bunch of Natives then have dinner with them too?

Forgive my ignorance of your homeland.

I just find it odd lets say if there was a Canadian 4th of July.

Its just weird thats all.

I'm kinda in the same boat..

As touched on in a previous post.. Our Thanksgiving is a celebration of getting lost and thinking we were in India.. and having Indians show us how to grow food and survive before we started killing them and chasing them from their land.

What is the Canadian Thanksgiving a celebration of?

It's just an excuse to give us a long weekend :1orglaugh

http://www.web-holidays.com/canada/

In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The harvest season falls earlier in Canada compared to the United States due to the simple fact that Canada is further north.

Harvest celebrations have been around a long time. Ever since the very first harvest, about 2,000 years ago, people have given thanks for a prosperous bounty. The first formal Canadian Thanksgiving was held just over 40 years prior to the pilgrims landing in Massachusetts. An English explorer named Martin Frobisher had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Northern America and he did celebrate a harvest feast. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving.

In 1957, Parliament announced that on the second Monday in October that Thanksgiving would be "a day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed."

During the American Revolution, Americans who remained loyal to England moved to Canada where they brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada. There are many similarities between the two Thanksgivings such as the cornucopia and the pumpkin pie. According to one Canadian resource the Canadian table usually features venison and waterfowl over turkey. However, a professor from Durham College tells us that in Southern Ontario eating waterfowl or venison at Thanksgiving has never happened and that the turkey or/and ham is the featured food. Conversely, Lee adamantly states that when he was young "wild duck/goose was always served for Thanksgiving and, if they were fortunate venison as well! This was a common practice in that area at that time."

So you had to look it up to find out? heheheh

Americans: always taking their practices with them, and end up converting the entire place to celebrating our Holiday.

hehehehe

We can convert anyone,

hahaha

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Long Weekend = Good

Family get togethers = Bad

Its a toss up...

Thanks anyways though...

I tend to agree with your assessment, but hey its a long weekend , so enjoy anyway !:thumbsup

Cheers from another webmaster located in the best place to live in the world..Canada!

Well its the Thanksgiving weekend, so stop splitting hairs, split the turkey instead! :1orglaugh :glugglug

this is another case of canada copying the u.s.a.

Yes...I didn't know what it was about...and frankly I don't give a shit..just give me my long weekend :1orglaugh

Thanks!


I am also thankful that Fletch is a Americun. Since when does one have to live in the USA to be thankful for anything?

Just finished picking cranberries in my field for "THE DINNER"
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadian :)
Try and stand the family, it's only for a few hours. Drink up and have fun.Don't eat too much :drinkup

I wanted to ask the canadians on the board what traditions they have for thanksgiving?
My family sits down at the dinner table and every person there has to say what their thankful for :) It's pretty plain and simple but it's us:thumbsup

Ya...... Ya......... ya.......... You just have "CANADA ENVY"!!:Graucho

Heres my Turkey dinner, hes being processed tomorrow,
teehee, I get to build a nice toasty fire to keep warm by
http://www.edmontondreams.com/tt1.jpg

GOBBLE .............GOBBLE........................:gluggl ug

aw don't let me see that...:(

Well in my family there's the one upsmanship where everyone compares things and tries to be superior. "Well you see MY grocery store always double bags my groceries for me" "Yeah well MY Grocer doesn't ask for coupons"

Then, since we're canadians, there's at least ONE conversation about how stupid (I'm sorry for this but it's true!) an american was in a recent business trip, or whatever the setting was.

Then the turkey comes out, we eat, get fat, fall asleep watching football, try to convince my grandmother that we don't need all the leftovers, and leave to go home.

Ahhh traditions! :Graucho

As for what CANADIAN Thanksgiving is, we call it Canadian thanksgiving (not in normal life but when explaining it we do) because you always get one dumbass who says "Stupid, it ain't thanksgiving till next month". But really it's about the Harvest. Most cultures have a celebration for the harvest wether in south america, europe, any country that has deep agricultural roots normally has some event revolving around the harvest.

I actually kinda assumes that Thanksgiving in the States was the same. I thought the pilgrims/indians thing was more of an additional thing.

Exactly, just listen to this part of the quote:

"The first formal Canadian Thanksgiving was held just over 40 years prior to the pilgrims landing in Massachusetts."

Yes :)
ZoiNk

i just had my Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of friends

i'm drunk and stuffed to the gills

special thanks to the Rothchilds (new world order) for the wine of the evening and to Cognac for the extra buzz

never thought that Yams could taste so good (made with brown sugar, liquour and pecans)