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Bajagypsy
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Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadian Nomad's!!
From our house to yours, happy thanksgiving, to all the Canadian Nomads!!!
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Bob and Susan
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my calander says...
Thanksgiving Day Canada is on MONDAY!!! oct13th
today is SUNDAY!!!
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windgrrl
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
my calander says...
Thanksgiving Day Canada is on MONDAY!!! oct13th
today is SUNDAY!!! |
We're flexible up north...you can be grateful over the whole long weekend!
Happy Thanksgiving, Canucks - aren't you thankful we finally have a new national anthem (er, I mean Hockey Night in Canada song?!!).
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When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
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Hook
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Tell us about this holiday and what they are celebrating, gypsy mujer. Is it basically a harvest festival?
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shari
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thanks Gypsy...I didn't remember it was thanksgiving in canucklandia. Enjoy your family gatherings and last of the good weather.
Bob & Susan...Sunday is usually the day when the families get together for Thanksgiving Dinner which often entails yummy wild game. Monday is to
recover and eat turkey sandwiches.
I guess we'll eat the smoked turkey franks a Nomad left here! MIght make a pumpkin pie though seeing as the weather cooled off today and I have pants
on for the first time in months.
Happy turkey day paisanos mios!
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ArroyoTaxi
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Same here - we always use the holiday Monday to eat turkey sandwiches and make turkey soup. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
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Bob and Susan
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well...
in the states we have a "REAL" holiday tomorrow....
"Columbus Day"
In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.....
[Edited on 10-12-2008 by Bob and Susan]
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windgrrl
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Well, some of us will be eating Tofurkey sandwiches, actually.
It was touch and go as I brought home the Tofurkey slices and suasages from Planet Organic on a trip to Edmonton this week.
Had my carry-on searched by airport security. As they pulled out the goods and acknowledged that the tube-shaped devices were foodstuffs, they said,
"You a vegetarian?"
So what other kind of person would be packing tofu?!!
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
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DrTom
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
Tell us about this holiday and what they are celebrating, gypsy mujer. Is it basically a harvest festival? |
this is part of my "stump the canadian" quiz.....mostly its keeping up with the americans in the holiday department...
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DrTom
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"After the American Revolution, American refugees who remained loyal to Great Britain moved from the United States and came to Canada. They brought
the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada. The first Thanksgiving Day after Canadian Confederation was observed as a civic
holiday on April 5, 1872 to celebrate the recovery of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) from a serious illness"
from wikipedia...
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David K
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Very interesting!
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Pompano
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Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Day
Happy turkey and venison leftovers, BajaGypsy family. Living in ND just south of the border, we often have Canadian friends invite us north for
dinner..and vice versa when the US celebrates ours later in November. All great smells from the kitchens...I even eat the perogies!
Here's a good US/Canada story to retell around your table tonight:
This is the transcript on an ACTUAL radio conversation of a US Naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October,
1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10 - 10 - 95.
Americans: "Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision."
Canadians: "Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision."
Americans: "This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course."
Canadians: "No. I say again you divert YOUR course."
Americans: "THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES` ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE
DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP."
Canadians: "This is a lighthouse. Your call."
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I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Crusoe
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Thanks Pompano.....Too funny.That says it all. ++C++:lol
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Bajagypsy
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Pompano,
I will tell that story tonight at the table! And next time we are down in the Mulege area, if you are there, I'll make you some perogies!
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Bob and Susan
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perogies = Dough rounds filled with potato, bacon, cheese and sauerkraut filling mixtures...
they don't sell these in southern california where we grew up
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DrTom
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
Happy turkey and venison leftovers, BajaGypsy family. Living in ND just south of the border, we often have Canadian friends invite us north for
dinner..and vice versa when the US celebrates ours later in November. All great smells from the kitchens...I even eat the perogies!
Here's a good US/Canada story to retell around your table tonight:
This is the transcript on an ACTUAL radio conversation of a US Naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October,
1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10 - 10 - 95.
Americans: "Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision."
Canadians: "Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision."
Americans: "This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course."
Canadians: "No. I say again you divert YOUR course."
Americans: "THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES` ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE
DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP."
Canadians: "This is a lighthouse. Your call."
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thats so funny and so true to character....
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Cypress
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Yummy,  Gonna have to fix a batch of 'em.
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Kell-Baja
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MMM Love Thanksgiving & Perogies!!!! Geez wish it was Thanksgiving here. Oh well, a lil over a month away.
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shari
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So if canuck thanksgiving is based on an american oh sorry American holiday...why is it on a different date? crappy weather in november?? I can smell
that turkey from here...ummm....
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Pompano
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Why that Thanksgiving date in Canada...?
Enquiring Minds need to know!
1. The farmers in Europe held celebrations at the time of harvesting to give thanks for their good fortune of a bountiful harvest and abundance of
food. The farmers would fill a goat's curved horn with fruits and grains. This curved horn was known as a cornucopia or the horn of plenty. It is
believed that when the European farmers came to Canada they brought this tradition of Thanksgiving with them.
2. The history of Thanksgiving in Canada is related to Martin Frobisher, who was an English navigator. He made a lot of efforts to find a northern
passage to the Orient. Though he did not succeed in his efforts but he was able to establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he
held a formal ceremony, in what is now known as Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian
Thanksgiving. Martin Frobisher was later knighted and an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada was named as ' Frobisher Bay' after him. When
other settlers arrived here they continued this ceremony of giving thanks.
3. The third influence occurred in 1621 in what is now the United States. Here the pilgrims, who were the English colonists, celebrated their first
harvest in the New World at Plymouth Massachusetts. By the 1750s this celebration of harvest was brought to Nova Scotia by American settlers from the
south.
In the 1600s, another navigator Samuel de Champlain crossed the ocean and arrived to Canada. Other French Settlers also came with him and their group
held huge feasts of thanks for the harvests. On this event they shared their food with the Native American neighbors and thus involved them in their
celebrations. Then they formed ' The Order of Good Cheer' which marked the harvests and other events as well.
After the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.
During the American Revolution the Americans who remained loyal to England moved to Canada. They brought with themselves the customs and practices of
the American Thanksgiving to Canada.
In 1879, the Parliament declared 6th day of November as the day of Thanksgiving and also declared it a national holiday. Over the years different
dates were used for celebrating the Thanksgiving Day in Canada but the most popular date was the 3rd Monday of October.
After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving Day were celebrated on a common day that was Monday of the week in which fell the 11th day of
November. Ten years later, in 1931, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving Day became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed as the 'Remembrance
Day'.
Finally, on January 31st, 1957, the Parliament issued a proclamation to fix permanently the 2nd Monday in October as the Thanksgiving Day. The
Proclamation goes as...
"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…"
[Edited on 10-12-2008 by Pompano]
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