Metropolis Reality Forums - happy canadian thanksgiving

Sponsored by: The Fans!

Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register.
Nov 24^th, 2024, 9:28pm

Upcoming Premiere Dates:
Survivor 23, Season premiere
Thursday, September 14 (8:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT) on CBS

Metropolis Reality Forums Ť happy canadian thanksgiving ť

   Metropolis Reality Forums
   Community
   The Grapevine (Moderators: Heather, Bumper, Isle_be_back)
   happy canadian thanksgiving

Previous topic | New Topic | Next topic »

Pages: 1

Add Poll

Notify of replies

Send Topic

Author

Topic: happy canadian thanksgiving (Read 181 times)

east
ForumsNet Member

sigh

Gender:

Posts: 3487

happy canadian thanksgiving
« on: Oct 10^th, 2003, 9:47pm »

Quote

Modify

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."

IP Logged

read, study, reflect, write, read, study, reflect, spell check, write

Red
You Bet Your ASS Team
ForumsNet Member

Gender:

Posts: 1057

Re: happy canadian thanksgiving
« Reply #1 on: Oct 11^th, 2003, 7:31am »

Quote

Modify

Happy Turkey Day!!!!

IP Logged

MzWings
ForumsNet Member

Praying for FN members/family health & happiness

Gender:

Posts: 0

Re: happy canadian thanksgiving
« Reply #2 on: Oct 11^th, 2003, 8:59am »

Quote

Modify

Though I'm not Canadian, I still can enjoy two Thanksgivings! :clapping:

IP Logged

"Senility Prayer"...God grant me...
The senility to forget the people I never liked
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do
And the eyesight to tell the difference."

Rhune
ForumsNet Administrator

Gender:

Posts: 292

Re: happy canadian thanksgiving
« Reply #3 on: Oct 11^th, 2003, 1:56pm »

Quote

Modify

Have a wonderful holiday up in Canada everyone who's there enjoying it!

IP Logged

luci
ForumsNet Member

Gender:

Posts: 12045

Re: happy canadian thanksgiving
« Reply #4 on: Oct 11^th, 2003, 6:42pm »

Quote

Modify

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, YA'LL!

IP Logged

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and
can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

Mags
ForumsNet Member

Gender:

Posts: 221

Re: happy canadian thanksgiving
« Reply #5 on: Oct 12^th, 2003, 3:03pm »

Quote

Modify

Happy Thanksgiving All Cool

I know that I have SO much to give Thanks for Cool

Have a great day all!!!!! Tongue

IP Logged

If you judge people, you have less time to Love them. Anon.

Maggi

Addams
You Bet Your ASS Team
ForumsNet Member

Gender:

Posts: 5398

Re: happy canadian thanksgiving
« Reply #6 on: Oct 13^th, 2003, 9:05pm »

Quote

Modify

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

IP Logged

eeschein
ForumsNet Member

Gender:

Posts: 258

Re: happy canadian thanksgiving
« Reply #7 on: Oct 14^th, 2003, 9:31pm »

Quote

Modify

my friend john is from alberta, so we have had a canadian thanksgiving celebration right here in massachusetts the past two years. we did so again yesterday, but he serves salmon instead because he says you just have too many turkeys floating around otherwise. personally i think just about everyone invited (myself included) is a turkey, so it didn't work so well...

IP Logged

"Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one to grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world."

--Al Franken, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them'

Red
You Bet Your ASS Team
ForumsNet Member

Gender:

Posts: 1057

Re: happy canadian thanksgiving
« Reply #8 on: Oct 15^th, 2003, 7:28am »

Quote

Modify

lol ees

the dj on the radio said something today that got me thinking...Monday is the official holiday, but most celebrate it on Sunday - go figure!

IP Logged

Pages: 1

Add Poll

Notify of replies

Send Topic


Previous topic \| New Topic \| Next topic »