Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

**Token** · 10-07-2007, 10:22 AM

I've got a lot to be thankful for and the great friends that I have made because of LXForums.com are certainly among them.

Some of you guys/gals have enriched my life and still provide endless hours of fun and great times.

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canucks.

Now for your history lesson:

The Canadian Thanksgiving Day came about because of a combination of traditions. Before the first Europeans arrived in North America, the farmers in Europe held celebrations at harvest time. The farm workers filled a curved goat's horn with fruit and grain to give thanks for their harvest having been a good one. This horn was called a Horn of Plenty.....or a Cornucopia, and the farm workers who started a new life in Canada took this tradition with them.

In Newfoundland in 1578, the English navigator Martin Frobisher held a ceremony to give thanks for surviving the long journey. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Northern Canada named after him.....Frobisher Bay. As other settlers arrived they continued these ceremonies.

In 1621, in what is now the United States of America, the Pilgrims celebrated their harvest in the New World. By the 1750's settlers moving to Canada from America had taken this celebration to Nova Scotia. At the same time, French settlers arriving in Canada with the explorer Samuel de Champlain held thanksgiving feasts and shared their food with their Indian neighbours. After the seven years war ended in 1763 the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.

At the time of the American Revolution, the people who remained loyal to the Government in England moved to Canada and spread the Thanksgiving celebration to other parts of the country. Other English settlers were also used to having a harvest celebration every Autumn.

In 1879 the Canadian Parliament declared the 6th November as a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Over the years the date has changed with the third Monday in October being the most popular time. Finally on the 31st January 1957 the Canadian Parliament proclaimed that....

'A Day of General Thanksgiving for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.....to be observed on the second Monday in October.'

**whelin** · 10-07-2007, 11:03 AM

And a very happy Thanksgiving to you Dave.

**CANDYAPPLE** · 10-07-2007, 11:09 AM

Happy Turkey Day to all!!!

Cheers CANDYAPPLE

**silverlightening** · 10-07-2007, 11:10 AM

Happy thanksgiving to everyone, and as someone new to the forum, my wife and I are looking forward to meeting everyone.

**FleshWound** · 10-07-2007, 11:15 AM

Have a good one everybody,
Welcome aboard silverlightening enjoy the forums

**Cliffy** · 10-07-2007, 01:03 PM

Happy thanksgiving everybody!

**hemiwagn** · 10-07-2007, 01:13 PM

Yes we have a lot to be thankful for.
Happy T-day to all.

next long weekend in Canada is Christmas <buzz kill>

**Obsidian** · 10-07-2007, 01:42 PM

Happy Thanksgiving!

**dwight-mandy** · 10-07-2007, 01:52 PM

Thanks for the write-up Token!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!

**36 chambers** · 10-07-2007, 02:01 PM

mm creamed corn... happy turkey day!!!

**Jaak** · 10-07-2007, 02:09 PM

Just remember, you are what you eat.

Have a great one!!!

**Nightshade** · 10-07-2007, 02:20 PM

Happy turkey day..

Poor Americans.. getting all the leftover turkeys for their thanksgiving..

Remember when I had to do thanksgiving twice every year.. once here in canada with my family and again in the US with the out-laws. er inlaws.

**themightye** · 10-07-2007, 03:36 PM

Hope everyone has a safe, happy day but no turkey for me though...
I'm going to cruise Lake Ontario for a "divorce" party later on today. Wow, we used to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and weddings. Now we are going to celebrate the breaking up of 2 people(not me...cost me way too much!).