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BruinwerksHappy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadian TT'ers!
:pray: Have a wonderful weekend- we have so much to be thankful for :pray:
( To our American friends...we celebrate much earlier, as its harder to be thankful when its -40 and blizzarding! LOL)
Baird'sBears
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Cheryl, in the US Thanksgiving has always meant the official opening of the Christmas season. Here it's the prelude to Halloween--and I'm still not quite used to it.
However, I get to celebrate both American and Canadian Thanksgivings, Huzza! The more turkey and pumpkin pie the better 
Newcastle, OntarioHAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL CANADIANS ON TT! It is my hubby's favourite holiday, next to Xmas and he has been bringing home so much food, our fridge is about to pop (he manages a big Loblaws so it's easy to feed his food addiction LOL!)
Lisa, ours is a bit more low key than yours - no parades etc. We always like to take a drive to see the fall colours of the leaves on Thanksgiving weekend. It will be nice this year as it's the first holiday we have been so close to our daughter and family. It feels wonderful.
hugs,
Brenda
Past Time BearsHAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF YOU CANADIANS FROM ME TOO!!! Eat well!
My turkey is cooking as I'm typing!
Happy Thanksgiving to every Canadian!
Jane
WienLike Lisa I wonder: is turkey somehow involved???
Gaby 
Country BearsSounds wonderful!! I'm going to sound very thick now - but what does 'Thanksgiving' celebrate - it's only 'cos I'm dead jealous that we don't get one here in the UK, well and the fact I obviously didn't listen in history class!! :doh:
BruinwerksSounds wonderful!! I'm going to sound very thick now - but what does 'Thanksgiving' celebrate -
Hi Clare
I copied the 'official' definition of Thanksgiving from Wikipedia:
Following a nineteenth century tradition, most Americans believe that the first American Thanksgiving was a feast that took place on an unremembered date, sometime in the autumn of 1621, at Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts. In 1620, a group led by separatists from the Church of England, who were heading for Virginia, instead landed at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, for uncertain reasons. In the autumn of 1621, they celebrated a three-day harvest feast with the native Wampanoag people, without whom they would not have survived the winter of 1620.
Although, I can't speak for all Canadians, we tend to sort of ignore the 'pilgrim' aspects of the day and concentrate on the change of seasons and a general remembrance of the year. Oh yeah, did I mention the big roast turkey? YUM!!!!!!!!!! 
Cheryl 
MMMMMM.....Can't wait for Turkey tomorrow!!!
Happy Thanksgiving
Bear Hugs,
Krista
Baird'sBears It's a Harvest Festival--in Canada's colder climate, harvest comes earlier. In Canada, it's also the weekend when people shut down their cottages, beach their boats, etc. But since it falls on a Monday, not a Thursday, Thanksgiving here is a shorter long weekend.
In the US, it's a Harvest Festival (later because of the later harvest in warmer climes), but it's also a patriotic holiday (pilgrims at Plymouth Rock surviving their first winter . . . or did they?) and the opening of the Christmas season. I think Abraham Lincoln established the holiday. Somebody help--I'm too tired to check.
I spent most of my youthful Thanksgivings participating in school pageants, dressed as a prim pilgrim lady in black-and-white crepe paper, usually married to the creepiest male pilgrim in the school. I always wanted to be the Indian. Or the turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian friends - have a very happy weekend and even if you are not
celebrating thanksgiving... there is so much to be thankful for.
Hugs
Carolyn
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Bears by EdieHappy Thanksgiving fellow Canadians! We're having our turkey tomorrow (Sunday) but have been eating WELL all weekend with our daughter down visiting - so I am already STUFFED - 
Newcastle, OntarioHi Renae,
Yes, pumpkin is part of the tradition, although I can't stand it. There are however, two of them in our fridge, waiting for Monday's feast. There is of course, whipped cream to go with them - I like the whipped cream!
hugs,
Brenda
Terries BearsHAPPY THANKSGIVING to everyone in Canada!! The turkey is in the oven and pumpkin pie is my favorite part. Brenda, my daughter is like you....she just wants the whipped cream!
Bears by Jodi!!!
Posts: 3,540I spent most of my youthful Thanksgivings participating in school pageants, dressed as a prim pilgrim lady in black-and-white crepe paper, usually married to the creepiest male pilgrim in the school. I always wanted to be the Indian. Or the turkey.
:crackup: Sorry to be heartless, but that really summed up school! LOL
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all our lovely Canadian TTers!!!!
Enjoy an extra slice of pumpkin pie with whipped cream...especially since I'm on a diet and can't
Baird'sBears:crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
Sorry to be heartless, but that really summed up school! LOL
It certainly did for me too, Debbie--I don't remember a thing about lessons, but all those moments of dread, humiliation, despair . . . I'll never forget any of it.
Renae--I'd totally forgotten that scene. Absolute Perfection. I love the Addams Family in any form!
I actually got to see an exhibit of Charles Addams' original work at the New York Public Library a few years back. Blisssssssss.
