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Pizza on Thanksgiving?! Happy Thanksgiving!Azure said:
Happy Thanksgiving to Our Northern Neighbors
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AngelEyes1
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At my house we don't have Turkey, tonight weare having Sausages 
Master Gracy
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someone said it was columbus day???
i need to learn these holidays...
happy turkey day!
i need to learn these holidays...
happy turkey day!
DaraAllen
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Master Gracy said:
MG - It is Columbus Day in the United States, which is a Federal Holiday and a big shopping day. Poor Columbus - his day is hardly celebrated any more. My kids don't even have the day off, yet they have off on 20 October for some teacher's convention!
Canada celebrates Thanksgiving today. I don't know the origins of Canada's Thanksgiving Day (if someone from there would like to enlighten me, I stand ready to learn something new today).
Master Gracy
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aha!
so you celebrate the explorer who found america by shopping!
thanksgiving day sounds fun!
so you celebrate the explorer who found america by shopping!
thanksgiving day sounds fun!
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.
The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now called Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.
At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their Indian neighbours.
After the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.
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.
Eventually in 1879, Parliament declared November 6th a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Over the years many dates were used for Thanksgiving, the most popular was the 3rd Monday in October. After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11th occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day.
Finally, on January 31st, 1957, Parliament proclaimed...
"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed ... to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.
Hence, our Thankgiving is on the second Monday of October.
Thank you Google for saving me a heck of a lot of explanation and typing: http://www.twilightbridge.com/hobbies/festivals/thanksgiving/canada/
The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now called Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.
At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their Indian neighbours.
After the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.
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.
Eventually in 1879, Parliament declared November 6th a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Over the years many dates were used for Thanksgiving, the most popular was the 3rd Monday in October. After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11th occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day.
Finally, on January 31st, 1957, Parliament proclaimed...
"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed ... to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.
Hence, our Thankgiving is on the second Monday of October.
Thank you Google for saving me a heck of a lot of explanation and typing: http://www.twilightbridge.com/hobbies/festivals/thanksgiving/canada/
Master Gracy
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that maked me do a laugh!
happy thanks-colom-giving-bia day!
DaraAllen
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Master Gracy said:
MG-Just so you know, it is considered highly unlikely that Columbus actually did discover America. Like much history, it's been revised.
Remember, the Natives who lived here had discovered it well before anybody else! Unfortunately they didn't have any system of ownership and had it taken away. But, that's another history lesson!
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Happy Thanksgiving! 
Emily, thank you for the History lesson. I enjoyed that. 
Emily, thank you for the History lesson. I enjoyed that. -
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