Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends in Canada!

[Guest guest]

Thanks Barb,

With winter coming sooner up here in Canada we have thanksgiving earlier than down in the states, but we all should be thankful always.

Ian

The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, 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. Frobisher was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him — Frobisher Bay.

Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight - Whatever it Takes!

P.S. To Leona, PSC may have taken you from us, but we will always remember you! Today more than anything, you would have been happiest in your kitchen, cooking for the whole family and enjoying (most of all) your sons being home and the grandkids running in and out. We miss you….

-- Ian Cribb P.Eng.