To all a happy Thanksgiving Weekend in Canada.
To all a happy Thanksgiving Weekend in Canada.
Thanks Chris, back at you
Happy Thanksgiving !!!!!
:cheers:
Beauty Eh!
I hope all my northern friends have a wonderful Thanksgiving! :cheers:
I can't believe I don't know this being from Detroit and all where Canada is across the street almost, but what do Canadians eat traditionally for Thanksgiving? And what is a Canadian Thanksgiving about? You know, like ours is about the Pilgrims and the Mayflower and the Indians. Happy Thanksgiving neighbors!
here is a link with canadian thanksgiving dates http://www.pch.gc.ca/PROGS/CPSC-CCSP...A/graces_e.cfm
Interesting to know that it was not until the late 1950's canadian thanksgiving was officially set for the 2nd monday of october.
Yummmmy... TURKEY.... woot! Enjoy the day!
To all my friends and colleagues in Canada. I hope your day is outstanding!
Traditional celebration
Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October, and is a statutory holiday in all jurisdictions except New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island. [1]
As a liturgical festival, Thanksgiving 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.
While the actual Thanksgiving holiday is on a Monday, Canadians might eat their Thanksgiving meal on any day of the three day weekend. Thanksgiving is often celebrated with family, it is also often a time for weekend getaways for couples to observe the autumn leaves, spend one last weekend at the cottage, or participate in various outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing, and hunting.
On January 31, 1957, the Canadian 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.[3]”
It just came into my coffee enriched brain, that Monday is Thanksgiving and Tuesday is the elction. WOW !!!
I hope all my friends in the Great White North are having a great holiday weekend!
In your honor I partook of a Moosehead, a Labatt Blue and my favorite, Molson Canadian....the holy trinity of North American beers..
Easy to do in Dunedin Fl, winter home of the Blue Jays..a neighborhood tavern, the Pinehurst Pub have all on tap.
Jim Schafer
Retired From PPG Industries/
Transitions Optical, Inc.
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say even less.
Paul Brown
Why isn't it celebrated in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and PEI ?? Are the people there to upity to eat turkey??
I thought it was. I thought it was a National Holiday.
We have some Province only holidays like Remembrance Day and Family Day
You'd be surprised in the differences province to province when it comes to stat holidays. Just because they don't get a payed day off, I think you'd find they'll still celebrate it. (NFLD Celebrates St. Pat's day!)
Good for Newfoundland, I may need to move there :). Do they need a good wholesale lab that isn't part of the Evil Empire??
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