Thanks but...
... it's not thanksgiving in canada. no really. it was at the beginning of october. yeah, really. no, i don't know why, i'm sure i knew at some point. no it's not really that big of a celebration, no the pilgrims don't really play a part. yeah, i actually only learned a couple of years ago what candied yams are .
i'm often expected to know details about canada that i really never paid attention to. for instance, recently i became an expert on maple syrup grades.
in honour of dispelling myths and in celebration of non-canadian thanksgiving here are some pictures of traditional thanksgiving food.
i'm often expected to know details about canada that i really never paid attention to. for instance, recently i became an expert on maple syrup grades.
in honour of dispelling myths and in celebration of non-canadian thanksgiving here are some pictures of traditional thanksgiving food.
posted by kristin at 11/24/2006 12:59:00 p.m.
2 Comments:
Happy Thanksgiving Kristin.
You're missing out on the big feast back home!
wikipedia has a decent section on the history of thanksgiving in canada (as well as origins/history of the US holiday). the opening paragraph:
"The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had
been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a
settlement in Canada. 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 is considered the
first Canadian Thanksgiving, and the first Thanksgiving to have taken place in North America.
Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. Frobisher was later knighted and had an
inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him ? Frobisher Bay."
the US version, as you say, originates with the pilgrims, squanto, the harvest etc.
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