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Happy Thanksgiving my fellow Canucks (and that means you too Jeff)! 
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I fell in love with BC last summer. Wish I could afford to live in Squamish or Whistler.
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Same to you Keith and the rest of my fellow Can"U"ks.  We have a lot to be thankful for.
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Keith, seriously....whats the origin of your Thanksgiving feast/holiday.....? I know ours is the pilgrams surviving thanks to the locals & the grace of God but I have to plead ignorence here..
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Keith, seriously....whats the origin of your Thanksgiving feast/holiday.....? I know ours is the pilgrams surviving thanks to the locals & the grace of God but I have to plead ignorence here..
Well, Daniel... it's simple really. Our TG is pretty much an annual holiday set aside to give thanks at the close of the harvest season. That's about it!
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Keith, seriously....whats the origin of your Thanksgiving feast/holiday.....? I know ours is the pilgrams surviving thanks to the locals & the grace of God but I have to plead ignorence here..
Well, Daniel... it's simple really. Our TG is pretty much an annual holiday set aside to give thanks at the close of the harvest season. That's about it!
Sounds like it involves beer...
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Sounds like it involves beer...
Did I forget to mention that? 
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Just think....if the Indians had given the Pilgrims a donkey instead of a turkey, we would all be having a piece of ass this Thanksgiving!!! 
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I went out to friends for TG dinner yesterday and had a blast eating turkey, drinkin' wine and playing crokinole. Haven't done that for a while (play crokinole, that is)! I was a good time but then I suffered all night with indigestion, aarg! 
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Oh, we Canadians have been know to do some strange things, like play crocodile. DOH,  I mean crokinole!
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What Keith you forgot about the year just after Confederation they declared it thanksgiving for the Prince of Wales recovering or when Upper Canada and Lower Canada celebrated on different days. And of course there was the year it was kicked off Armistice day which became Rememberence day, it was a moveable feast you might say. And I always thought that it was for the 49th parallel.  OK, good harvest thank the gods eat too much and this year ride the Triumph.
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The Lions get to play on two Thanksgivings this year.
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Alright Paul... you asked for it. It's history lesson time!!! History and Origin of Canadian Thanksgiving
In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The harvest season falls earlier in Canada compared to the United States due to the simple fact that Canada is further north.
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 Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now called Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He 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 Indian neighbours.
After the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.
During the American Revolution, Americans who remained loyal to England moved to Canada where they brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada. There are many similarities between the two Thanksgivings such as the cornucopia and the pumpkin pie.
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.
Eventually in 1879, Parliament declared November 6th a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Over the years many dates were used for Thanksgiving, the most popular was the 3rd Monday in October. After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11th occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day.
Finally, on January 31st, 1957, 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.
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"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. Good thing too cause if we had waited for the Americans none of us would be riding on that day. Of course that might have something to do with our northern climate and the pumpkins ripening earlier.
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Interesting historic info there.
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good grief, its a day off with tons of munchies! :-) nuff said LOL
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good grief, its a day off with tons of munchies! :-) nuff said LOL
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Its good to know the USA is not the only country who celebrates having plenty by wasting tons of food.
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Oh, we don't waste it... we EAT it!!
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Oh, we don't waste it... we EAT it!!
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Sounds like a nation wide "potluck" to me Keith, Very  jh
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Like us we get so tired of turkey we only eat it once a year.
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I think Martin Frobisher also founded Frostbite Falls Minnesota.
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I think Martin Frobisher also founded Frostbite Falls Minnesota.
Ummmm...no Bill. I believe it was Jay Ward who did that.
(...and yeah, I think he also founded that great institution of higher learning, "Wossamotta U")
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Well. Martin Frobisher sure sounds like a character from the adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends. Like someone who would hang out with Peter Peachfuzz. Of course, it's possible the Sherman and Peabody may have visited Frobisher at some point 
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Yep, but now I'm wonderin' what kind of pun Mr. Peabody could've made with Frobisher's name at the end of their cartoon segment??? It always ended with one, ya know. Kinda like when they used the Wayback Machine to go back to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Peabody asked Sherman if he was familiar with the heroic rooster who foiled the plans of and apprehended British loyalists. When Sherman replies that he's never heard of such a thing, Peabody casually answered, "What, Sherman? You've never heard of chicken cacciatore?" – enunciated as "Chicken, catch a Tory".  (...and for the life o' me, and try as I might, I just can't think of a pun Mr. Peabody could've used with the name Frobisher!!!) 
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Like us we get so tired of turkey we only eat it once a year.
No, not like you... are you kidding? Once a year?! Try... 12 or so times a year. Yeah... Thanksgiving (+3 or so days), Christmas (+3 or so days), New Years (+3 or so days), Easter ((+3 or so days). Heck... they're live and alive and wild all around us here in the mountains of Western Canada, at least. Grab a bow or a shotgun and get yerself a turkey!! Heck, they're practically a STAPLE food in these parts! "Come on over for dinner," says a neighbour... "we just bagged a turkey!" Show up with wine and you got yerself a party undefined by Hallmark or some friggin' calendar date!
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Keith, I see lots of wild ones roaming the fields and crossing the roads (usually just before hunting season) but never tasted one are they like wild duck that gamey taste?
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Wow Dwight!  Your story takes me "way back".
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Keith, I see lots of wild ones roaming the fields and crossing the roads (usually just before hunting season) but never tasted one are they like wild duck that gamey taste?
Nope, Paul... not like duck in that they are not all fatty and not particularly gamey in taste. I suppose they taste is a bit stronger than a domestic bird but all in all they taste pretty much like... turkey. Mind you, fresh bird IS a bit gamey compared to one that's been in the freezer a while.
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