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by Maggie Chandler on October 11, 2008
in Uncategorized
In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October – that would be this Monday 13th and its a stautory holiday, so we can enjoy a long weekend and get together with family.
Do you know how Thanksgiving in Canada started? Here’s what Wikipedia says
The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This feast is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving celebration in North America, although celebrating the harvest and giving thanks for a successful bounty of crops had been a long-standing tradition throughout North America by various First Nations and Native American groups. First Nations and Native Americans throughout the Americas, including the Pueblo, Cherokee, Cree and many others organized harvest festivals, ceremonial dances, and other celebrations of thanks for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in North America [2]. Frobisher was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him — Frobisher Bay.
At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed ‘The Order of Good Cheer‘ and gladly shared their food with their First Nations neighbours. Read more
Here’s the weather forecast for Thanksgiving in Vancouver.
In Canada and Vancouver in particular I think we have LOTS to give thanks for. Particularly this year with the current financial crisis. The B.C. Government tells us that “BC is the best place on earth“.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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