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To all my fellow Canadians out there wanna wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving...
enjoy the turkey and the long weekend!

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Of all the American holidays (St.Valentine's Day, Halloween...) being "transplanted" to other countries of the world (including mine), Thanksgiving is the one I'd really like to get!

Turkey tastes good...
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isnt thanksgiving at the end of november? or is it october?
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In the U.S., it's in late November. Can't speak for the rest of the world that celebrates it. Actually, I didn't think anywhere else celebrated it, so to hear Luke talk about it caught me offguard.
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We's doing ham for Thanksgiving, but on a side note, whenever I think of turkey day, I recall the big production number from Addams Family Values and crack a big ol' grin.

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We had ham last year at Thanksgiving, and for some reason it didnt seem the same. All these people on my street had fried turkeys. It was interesting the morning of, to see all the deep-fryers out on the driveways. Haha, fried turkey, I hate the south!
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A few months early don't you think.
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if you had read my post carefully jimbo you would have realized i said to all my Canadians...
we celebrate it in october while americans celebrate it in November...
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Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

Regards,
Kevin
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
if you had read my post carefully jimbo you would have realized i said to all my Canadians...
we celebrate it in october while americans celebrate it in November...


When do you celebrate Halloween
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same day as everyone else...
October 31
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There are some historical reasons why Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in October. I'll come back and post them when I have something more concrete.

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I wish all the Canadians a Happy Thanksgiving.

I look forward to your post about the history of the Canandian Thanksgiving. Gundark.
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Lol, lol, lol.

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A few months early don't you think.


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if you had read my post carefully jimbo you would have realized i said to all my Canadians...
we celebrate it in october while americans celebrate it in November...


Now, not only did what luke replied amuse me, but the fact that Jimbe feels Nov. is a few months away if just hilarious.


Gundark, in my AP US History class, we learn that there is in fact no rhyme or reason to why Americans celebrate their Thanksgiving in Nov. They most certinally did not first have the feast in Nov. Here are a few quotes from a site documenting the history of the American holiday, & the Canadian reason for having it in Oct. may become clear.

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The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their first winter was devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower. But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast -- including 91 Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the natives. The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival than a true "thanksgiving" observance. It lasted three days.

Governor William Bradford sent "four men fowling" after wild ducks and geese. It is not certain that wild turkey was part of their feast. However, it is certain that they had venison. The term "turkey" was used by the Pilgrims to mean any sort of wild fowl.

Another modern staple at almost every Thanksgiving table is pumpkin pie. But it is unlikely that the first feast included that treat. The supply of flour had been long diminished, so there was no bread or pastries of any kind. However, they did eat boiled pumpkin, and they produced a type of fried bread from their corn crop. There was also no milk, cider, potatoes, or butter. There was no domestic cattle for dairy products, and the newly-discovered potato was still considered by many Europeans to be poisonous. But the feast did include fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, venison, and plums.
This "thanksgiving" feast was not repeated the following year. But in 1623, during a severe drought, the pilgrims gathered in a prayer service, praying for rain. When a long, steady rain followed the very next day, Governor Bradford proclaimed another day of Thanksgiving, again inviting their Indian friends. It wasn't until June of 1676 that another Day of Thanksgiving was proclaimed.

On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving. It is notable that this thanksgiving celebration probably did not include the Indians, as the celebration was meant partly to be in recognition of the colonists' recent victory over the "heathen natives,"
October of 1777 marked the first time that all 13 colonies joined in a thanksgiving celebration. It also commemorated the patriotic victory over the British at Saratoga. But it was a one-time affair.

George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789, although some were opposed to it.



It just may be that the October date stuck in the minds of a few loyalists who moved north after the Revolution, and it was adopted as a tradition. That is just my opinion though.

EDIT: Quotes came from here,
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Originally posted by: RRS-1980
Of all the American holidays (St.Valentine's Day, Halloween...) being "transplanted" to other countries of the world (including mine), Thanksgiving is the one I'd really like to get!

Turkey tastes good...


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Interesting. I'm surprised I was close w/ the British Loyalists who moved north.
I just hate stupid people.

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Indeed you were. Nice one, ST3K.

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