'I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual.'
Henry David Thoreau
Canada's Thanksgiving sneaks up on me every year. It seems summer is barely over, and it's already Turkey Day for Canucks. In a way, it's a nice way to begin the Autumn season and have a bit separation between Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are no pilgrims associated with the holiday in Canada, it's focus is a harvest celebration and expressing gratitude for the fruits and vegetables gathered and produced.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
to all those celebrating this weekend!
1 comment:
Thank you as a Canadian and more a «Québécois» (living in province of Quebec) in a French mainly Catholic faith (more or less now but.) and Thanksgiving is more a religious celebration to thank God for all what the land gives us and all what life is also giving us.
That «turkey» meal isn't in our costums though as in USA or in the English other provinces.
The term «Canucks» is more to qualify the anglophones of Canada.
Sadly, we francophones are more named «French Frogs» or «Pea Soups» by anglo Canadians.
Anyway, our Thanksgiving is a 3 days holiday and many will go to visit their relatives as the weather is nice and no snow as in Christmas holidays.
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