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| re: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada Isabelle5 13 Oct 08 8:52AM | Thread Closed |
Well, in the USA, we celebrate Independence Day, the day we rousted the British, July 4.
In November, we have Thanksgiving Day, a day set aside to celebrate the good things that happened during the year. I think it might be our way of celebrating the Harvest, but since most of us no longer work farms, we just have a day for thanking whomever we want to thank.
Jen, Sam? Can you give us details of your holidays?
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| re: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada unknown 13 Oct 08 9:01AM | Thread Closed |
Traditional celebration
Thanksgiving is a statutory holiday in all jurisdictions. [2]
As a liturgical festival, Thanksgiving corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves, and other harvest bounty, English and European harvest hymns sung on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend and scriptural selections drawn from biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot.
While the actual Thanksgiving holiday is on a Monday, Canadians might eat their Thanksgiving meal on any day of the three day weekend. Thanksgiving is often celebrated with family, it is also often a time for weekend getaways for couples to observe the autumn leaves, spend one last weekend at the cottage, or participate in various outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing, and hunting.
Much like its American counterpart, Canada's top professional football league, the Canadian Football League, holds a nationally televised doubleheader known as the "Thanksgiving Day Classic." It is one of two weeks in which the league plays on Monday afternoons, the other being the Labour Day Classic. Unlike the Labour Day games, the teams that play on the Thanksgiving Day Classic rotate each year.
[edit] History of Thanksgiving in Canada
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. The feast was one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations 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 [3]. 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.
After the Seven Years' War ended in 1763 handing over New France to the British, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving days were observed beginning in 1799 but did not occur every year. 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.
Starting in 1879 Thanksgiving Day was observed every year but the date was proclaimed annually and changed year to year. The theme of the Thanksgiving holiday also changed year to year to reflect an important event to be thankful for. In the early years it was for an abundant harvest and occasionally for a special anniversary.
After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11 occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays, and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day.
On January 31, 1957, the Canadian Parliament proclaimed:
“ 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.[1] ”
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| re: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada Mongrol 13 Oct 08 9:17AM | Thread Closed |
thank you - that clears that up ;)
flippin' upstart colonists!
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| re: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada geckodrome 13 Oct 08 9:19AM | Thread Closed |
http://www.citymongrol.blogspot.com/
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| re: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada Mongrol 13 Oct 08 9:33AM | Thread Closed |
the first step on the path to obsessive compulsion is never a pretty one ...
mind you neither is the last ;)
try again Mieky - do a mongrol search in google - you'll find bahzillions of us...
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| re: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada unknown 13 Oct 08 9:44AM | Thread Closed |
you look pretty
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| re: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada AlchemiA 13 Oct 08 9:50AM | Thread Closed |
while the above Wiki outlines the streams of histories flowing into the practise of Thanksgiving, if we look deep enough we can see the archetypes of Myth that underscore this wondrous practise of manifesting and Thanks -- circle dances and sharing going on here
CornuCopiousLy curiouser and curiouser
Universal comprehension brings
a compassion like no other
not limited by human affection
‘nor Animal pack instinct or Tribal huddle ...
Love does not differentiate in any way,
thats the way to really play ...
the giver gives, gives again, keeps on giving more
a generous spirit never ends, becomes the gift
so freely shared; thats what Love is for
The origin of Thanksgiving
is held within the symbol of the Cornucopia ... the Horn of plenty,
the Mystery of Something coming from Nothing
also known in Quantum science as the theoretical Higgs/Boson.
One end of the Cornucopia is curled into the infinite in
whilst the other end opens wide, tumbling all 'n everything out from inside.
The idea is that the curled end comes from the Universe
where our 'wishes' were sent with Joy and Love
and returns as manifested reality; the Wonder of Abundance!
May you all create Abundance in your life ...
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| re: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada Isabelle5 13 Oct 08 10:13AM | Thread Closed |
Thanks for all the information, everyone.
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| re: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada unknown 13 Oct 08 2:45PM | Thread Closed |
canada stole that holiday from america
tsk tsk tsk
american wannabes
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