11/23/06 Happy Thanksgiving. Options

[BGOAT wiz]

I hope that everyone is having a great Thanksgiving and your enjoying your time w/ your friends and family. Also be sure to give thanks to the people less fortunate then you are. So enjoy the parades on tv and what ever your eating wether it's a vegan feast or a feast w/ tons of turkey and yams have a good time and a Happy* Thanksgiving.

[logan]

We celebrate the day the pilgrims ate turkey!

[Gamb]

We celebrate the day the pilgrims ate turkey in the colonies.

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History Lesson...

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 Canada. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving, and the first Thanksgiving to have taken place in North America. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. Frobisher 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 Native-Canadian neighbours.

After the Seven Years' War ended in 1763 handing over New France to the British, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.

After the American Revolution, American refugees who remained loyal (United Empire Loyalists) to Great Britain were exiled from the United States and came to Canada. They brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada, although as a liturgical festival Thanksgiving in Canada also corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest Festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves and other harvest bounty, English and European harvest hymns sung on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend and scriptural lections drawn from the biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot....

The rest here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Than...iving_in_Canada

This post has been edited by Gamb: Nov 25 2006, 07:06 PM