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HAPPY :turkey: DAY
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HAPPY :turkey: DAY
to all our Canadian friends and family!
Enjoy your family, friends and good food!
Enjoy your family, friends and good food!
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." -- Buddha
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Momster
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Thanks
Hi All:
Yes, the turkey bird is in the oven and I'm looking forward to seeing Peg and Ron and everyone else. We're going to have lots of goodies. John and I baked an apple and a pumpkin pie last night.
It's starting to smell pretty good around here.
Anyway, we'll all be full and sleepy tonight. Aren't we lucky?
Love - Momster
Yes, the turkey bird is in the oven and I'm looking forward to seeing Peg and Ron and everyone else. We're going to have lots of goodies. John and I baked an apple and a pumpkin pie last night.
It's starting to smell pretty good around here.
Anyway, we'll all be full and sleepy tonight. Aren't we lucky?
Love - Momster
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Momster
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Tired and Happy Momster
Hi All:
We all had a good time and Peg did really well, but it did tire her out, especially with so many of us there. I enjoyed having everyone here, but am tired too, so off to early bed.
I really didn't know too much about the history of our Thanksgiving, but looked this up:
Canadian Thanksgiving - How It Began
The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are more closely connected to the traditions of Europe than of the United States. Long before Europeans settled in North America, festivals of thanks and celebrations of harvest took place in Europe in the month of October. The very first Thanksgiving celebration in North America took place in Canada when Martin Frobisher, an explorer from England, arrived in Newfoundland in 1578. He wanted to give thanks for his safe arrival to the New World. That means the first Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated 43 years before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts!
Canadian Thanksgiving - Official Holiday
For a few hundred years, Thanksgiving was celebrated in either late October or early November, before it was declared a national holiday in 1879. It was then, that November 6th was set aside as the official Thanksgiving holiday. But then on January 31, 1957, Canadian Parliament announced that on the second Monday in October, Thanksgiving would be "a day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed." Thanksgiving was moved to the second Monday in October because after the World Wars, Remembrance Day (November 11th) and Thanksgiving kept falling in the same week.
Canadian Thanksgiving - The 49th Parallel
Another reason for Canadian Thanksgiving arriving earlier than its American counterpart is that Canada is geographically further north than the United States, causing the Canadian harvest season to arrive earlier than the American harvest season. And since Thanksgiving for Canadians is more about giving thanks for the harvest season than the arrival of pilgrims, it makes sense to celebrate the holiday in October. So what are the differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving, other than the date? Not much! Both Canadians and Americans celebrate Thanksgiving with parades, family gatherings, pumpkin pie and a whole lot of turkey!
There ya'll go - I learned something today too.
Nighty-night.
Love - Momster
We all had a good time and Peg did really well, but it did tire her out, especially with so many of us there. I enjoyed having everyone here, but am tired too, so off to early bed.
I really didn't know too much about the history of our Thanksgiving, but looked this up:
Canadian Thanksgiving - How It Began
The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are more closely connected to the traditions of Europe than of the United States. Long before Europeans settled in North America, festivals of thanks and celebrations of harvest took place in Europe in the month of October. The very first Thanksgiving celebration in North America took place in Canada when Martin Frobisher, an explorer from England, arrived in Newfoundland in 1578. He wanted to give thanks for his safe arrival to the New World. That means the first Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated 43 years before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts!
Canadian Thanksgiving - Official Holiday
For a few hundred years, Thanksgiving was celebrated in either late October or early November, before it was declared a national holiday in 1879. It was then, that November 6th was set aside as the official Thanksgiving holiday. But then on January 31, 1957, Canadian Parliament announced that on the second Monday in October, Thanksgiving would be "a day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed." Thanksgiving was moved to the second Monday in October because after the World Wars, Remembrance Day (November 11th) and Thanksgiving kept falling in the same week.
Canadian Thanksgiving - The 49th Parallel
Another reason for Canadian Thanksgiving arriving earlier than its American counterpart is that Canada is geographically further north than the United States, causing the Canadian harvest season to arrive earlier than the American harvest season. And since Thanksgiving for Canadians is more about giving thanks for the harvest season than the arrival of pilgrims, it makes sense to celebrate the holiday in October. So what are the differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving, other than the date? Not much! Both Canadians and Americans celebrate Thanksgiving with parades, family gatherings, pumpkin pie and a whole lot of turkey!
There ya'll go - I learned something today too.
Nighty-night.
Love - Momster
Do something nice for you today