Happy Thanksgiving Canada

[bigboydan]

I just want to wish all our Canadian posters here at SBR a Happy Thanksgiving.

[cobra_king]

Thanks Dan. Always appreciate your knowledge of Canada!

[SPECULATOR 13]

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Thank you Dan,i am also very thankful for going 3/3 this week-end on top of 2/3 NHL (since Thursday) after A disastrous week 4:where i went 0/3 NFL +A DALLAS Star lost right after on Wednesday of last week

BUT LET'S BE HONEST THERE IS ONLY 1 REAL THANKSGIVING DAY, IT IS FOOTBALL THURSDAY ON THE LAST WEEK OF NOVEMBER

[20Four7]

Thanks Dan, had the family over and filled them with turkey and sent them home. Now to clean up and recover.

[Thomasha7]

Happy ThanksGiving to my parents and sister who still live in Alberta. I grew up there, but now live in the states. It was good to talk to them yesterday for a while on the phone.

good day Eh.

[BatemanPatrickl]

Why is there a Thanksgiving in Canada? Canadians thanking God that America is their neighbor?

[michael777]

montreal -9 this afternoon

[20Four7]

Why is there a Thanksgiving in Canada? Canadians thanking God that America is their neighbor?

Thanking god we are not BatemanPatrickl or American. My apologizes to those Americans who actually don't piss me off

[BatemanPatrickl]

Thanking god we are not BatemanPatrickl or American. My apologizes to those Americans who actually don't piss me off

Looks like a Canadian can't even answer the question. Hope that national healthcare plan covers brain transplants as well

[Tchocky]

Did the Canadiens get their land by screwing over the Indians as well? How does a Canadien go about celebrating Thanksgiving?

[jjgold]

Canadians are like Italians

[20Four7]

Looks like a Canadian can't even answer the question. Hope that national healthcare plan covers brain transplants as well

OK fine let's give you a history lesson

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.


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."

No brain transplant required.

[BatemanPatrickl]

OK fine let's give you a history lesson

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.


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."

No brain transplant required.

Thank you; in the future when I never move to Canada and never visit, I will keep this information handy. Have a nice holiday.

[betbetter]

in the future when I never move to Canada and never visit,

30 million people were hoping you'd feel that way.

[BatemanPatrickl]

30 million people were hoping you'd feel that way.

Feeling is mutual

[20Four7]

30 million people were hoping you'd feel that way.

[BatemanPatrickl]

Feeling is mutual

[chano]

BatemanPatrickl,
You are giving the rest of us a bad rep. Please act with a little more class and not as an ass. Happy Thanksgiving Canada. Sorry for the jerk off comments from BatemanPatrickl.

[forex]

don't diss canada its a cool place to go to and up there weed is legal and the ladies are liberal

[BatemanPatrickl]

BatemanPatrickl,
You are giving the rest of us a bad rep. Please act with a little more class and not as an ass. Happy Thanksgiving Canada. Sorry for the jerk off comments from BatemanPatrickl.

I have the right to state my opinion on any country I want. If you notice, I did not "diss" Canada at first. Action, reaction...simple as that...