Happy Thanksgiving :):) from your Canadian friends
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Jan

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 05:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I hope all of our American Friends have the best Thanksgiving Day ever and all of your troops are out of harms way :):)

Jan

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 05:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
turkey

Djgirl

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 05:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! I'll be thinking of all of you as I'm working away today!

Spitfire

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 06:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Happy Thanksgiving all! I hope you enjoy your holiday time with family and friends.

Mak1

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 07:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you to our Canadian friends!

Squaredsc

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 07:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ditto what mak said!!

Lostintheglades

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 08:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you to all of you as you are all more reasons that we have to be thankful! Have a great day!

Skootz

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 08:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Happy Thanksgiving...and if you can save me a piece of pumpkin pie please :)

Llkoolaid

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 10:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Happy Thanksgiving from another Canuck.

Ladytex

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 10:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks y'all. One thing I'm thankful for is you!!

Shoofly

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 10:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
And from this one:)

Stay safe if you are traveling.

Enjoy your families and I would bet that the best thanks for the cook in your house will be a hand in the kitchen.

Twiggyish

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 04:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you!!

Jeep

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 05:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks to our Canadian friends for all the nice wishes.

Kristylovesbb

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 05:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you for your kind messages!

Herckleperckle

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 11:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you, Canadian cuties!

Lancecrossfire

Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 11:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks much to all of our Canadian friends for your well wishes!

Kellirippa

Friday, November 28, 2003 - 10:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OOps, missed this yesterday...Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving! Happy Holidays!

Kellirippa

Friday, November 28, 2003 - 01:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
...by the way, I've always wondered; Canadian Thanksgiving is always on a Monday. With American Thanksgiving on a Thursday, is the Friday a regular work/school day?

Herckleperckle

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 12:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kellirippa,

Hello! Nice to talk with you!

From my experience (former teacher), every public school is closed; I would think most private schools are, too.

Whether or not adults have a work day is dependent on their companies. Most corporations give their employees that day off, too; however, some require you take the day after as a vacation day.

Jan

Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 10:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
BTW, for those who always wondered but were afraid to ask (right :))), it's my understanding that Canadian Thanksgiving (which is the second Monday In October..your Columbus Day) is meant to celebrate the Harvest. We are thankful for the bountiful harvest and all of God's blessings etc

Naturally, since we are further North than you, our Harvest is earlier :)

Well, that's my understanding anyway. If I am wrong, then maybe another Canadian here can better educate me and give you guys the right info

Lumbele

Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 11:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Just to elaborate a little on what Jan said so correctly.

<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.">
article here

Herckleperckle

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 07:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you, Jan and Lumbele! So what do you typically serve on your Thanksgiving? (Or is there no 'typical'? . . . turkey, venison, duck?) And is it a national holiday for you, too?

Jan

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 09:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep. It is national (ie a federal holiday, as far as I know. Maybe one of the Quebecois can verify if it is celebrated in Quebec? I think so).

We normally have turkey or ham (or both) and definitely pumpkin pie.Yum!

Djgirl

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 09:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My family has a buffet dinner and everyone brings a dish so that if you don't like turkey (as I don't) there are many, many options!