BONNE ACTION DE GRÂCE, MES AMIS CANADIENS!!
From B4tea:
Thanksgiving Day in Canada has been celebrated since 1957, on the second Monday of October. It is a chance to give thanks for good harvest and other fortunes in the past year for the people. People have a day off work on this day, though perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is identified as a secular holiday now. Many stores and other organizations and businesses are also closed on this day.
Canadians eat their Thanksgiving meal with turkey and mashed potatoes and other meal such as pumpkin, corn ears and pecan nuts. At this time of year, a common image is seen of a cornucopia, or horn, filled with seasonal fruit and vegetables.
The Thanksgiving weekend is a well-liked time to take a short autumn vacation. Many other popular activities are also done including outdoor breaks to admire the spectacular colors of the Canadian autumn; hiking; and fishing. While who are the Fans of the teams in the Canadian Football League may expend their part of the weekend watching the Thanksgiving Day Classic matches.
And we are unanimous in this!
ReplyDeleteOur American friends would be well advised to check out the Canadian Football League - which has several games being broadcast stateside this year. With a bigger field (both longer and wider) and only three downs - and don't forget the mysterious rouge - it makes for a far more exciting game.
ReplyDeleteAnd none of that namby-pamby "fair catch" silliness in Canada.
Y'all Canadians are the best, Malcolm! And as DP says, we are unanimous in this.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mimi! Weather is lovely up here today and the house is full of leftovers from the grand feast yesterday!
ReplyDeleteI have to agree Grandmère Mimi, we certainly couldn't ask for better next door neighbors up here! (Maine borders two Canadian Provinces, only one US State. And now with Bishop Gene over there we've called a truce with them...)
ReplyDeleteTim, so you had your grand feast yesterday. Leftovers are sooo good.
ReplyDeleteWade, you well know how nice the Canadians are.
My number of visitors are way up today, and my most popular page is this post. I should wish you Canadian folks Happy Thanksgiving every day.
We appreciate the fact that you never forget, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteNow if I ever forget....
ReplyDeleteMimi, I join you in sending warm Thanksgiving greetings to our friends north of the border.
ReplyDeleteThanksgiving Day has been celebrated in Canada since long before 1957; I can remember the feasts during the years when I lived in Alberta starting in 1953. I believe that it was in 1957 that the date, which had shifted around a lot, finally got fixed by way of an act of Parliament as the second Monday in October
Yes, Mary Clara, 1957 was the year the date was settled. Here's more information on the history of Thanksgiving in Canada and its varying dates.
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