Happy Thanksgiving to Lynn and everyone in Canada. I think I will celebrate Thanksgiving today myself, just in case I don't feel like doing it in November. Please, everyone in the US, help prevent that, for your own sakes also — GET OUT THE VOTE!!
In the US, today is known as Columus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. But it is hard not to be aware of the controversy in the US over this day. Columbus was anything but a worthy person to be venerated, From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
"On 22 November [1493], Columbus returned to Hispaniola, where he intended to visit the fort of La Navidad, built during his first voyage and located on the northern coast of Haiti. Columbus found the fort in ruins, destroyed by the native Taino people. Among the ruins were the corpses of 11 of the 39 Spaniards who had stayed behind as the first colonists in the New World.
In retaliation for the attack on La Navidad, Columbus demanded that each Taino over 14 years of age deliver a hawk's bell full of gold powder every three months or, when this was lacking, twenty-five pounds of spun cotton. If this tribute was not delivered, the Taínos had their hands cut off and were left to bleed to death."
This is but one of the many horrific abuses of Columbus. I can certainly support the "dump Columbus" movement based on the atrocities perpetrated on the indigenous peoples.
In Canada, Thanksgiving dates back to 1578 and the exploration of the Northwest Passage by Martin Frobisher. Canada was untouched by Columbus but many non Canadian people associate Thanksgiving with the US Columbus Day. Rather our first contact with Europeans came in the 12th century with the arrival of the Norse explorer Leif Erikson of Iceland, and later Greenland. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(Canada)
"Years later, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, in 1604 onwards also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed the Order of Good Cheer and gladly shared their food with their First Nations neighbours."
The Canadian Thanksgiving "… corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves, and other harvest bounty, … drawn from biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot."
I know that my own church has large displays of harvest bounty and is often a time of supporting "modern bounty" with food donations that go to our local food bank.
Thanksgiving in our modern times are times for football (CFL) . . . maybe that is why I did not do so well in Fantasy Football this week (I think I was dethroned by the Teabag Trashers) . . . 3 day get aways, and family turkey feasts.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone in the spirit of Canadian Thanksgiving.
Oh, and TC, no you can't own a Canadian (Canuck) but you're invited to Thanksgiving dinner any time!
I haven't had my dinner yet (long ways away yet) but it will be some turkey (no I didn't cook it since there is just me), cranberries and roast acorn squash. Right now I am eating quinoa salad and fresh tomatoes. Yummmmm . . .
Lynn and to all of our Canadian Friends, do enjoy your Holiday.
Thanks for the History of Martin Frobisher. Norse explorer Leif Erikson of Iceland,
explorer Samuel de Champlain and First Nations.
Happy Thanksgiving, Lynn and all the rest of our neighbors to the North!
Happy Thanksgiving to Lynn and everyone in Canada. I think I will celebrate Thanksgiving today myself, just in case I don't feel like doing it in November. Please, everyone in the US, help prevent that, for your own sakes also — GET OUT THE VOTE!!
To Lynn and everyone in Canada, Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving Lynn. Hope you enjoy your day
To all my family in Canada. I love and miss you. Wish we were there. Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Welcome Kim! 🙂
Hope that all my Canadians have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
To all my fellow Canucks have a great Thanksgiving & enjoy.
Take care Coreen
Welcome Coreen! 🙂
Thanks for the Thanksgiving greetings!
In the US, today is known as Columus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. But it is hard not to be aware of the controversy in the US over this day. Columbus was anything but a worthy person to be venerated, From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
This is but one of the many horrific abuses of Columbus. I can certainly support the "dump Columbus" movement based on the atrocities perpetrated on the indigenous peoples.
In Canada, Thanksgiving dates back to 1578 and the exploration of the Northwest Passage by Martin Frobisher. Canada was untouched by Columbus but many non Canadian people associate Thanksgiving with the US Columbus Day. Rather our first contact with Europeans came in the 12th century with the arrival of the Norse explorer Leif Erikson of Iceland, and later Greenland. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(Canada)
The Canadian Thanksgiving "… corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves, and other harvest bounty, … drawn from biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot."
I know that my own church has large displays of harvest bounty and is often a time of supporting "modern bounty" with food donations that go to our local food bank.
Thanksgiving in our modern times are times for football (CFL) . . . maybe that is why I did not do so well in Fantasy Football this week (I think I was dethroned by the Teabag Trashers) . . . 3 day get aways, and family turkey feasts.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone in the spirit of Canadian Thanksgiving.
Oh, and TC, no you can't own a Canadian (Canuck) but you're invited to Thanksgiving dinner any time!
I haven't had my dinner yet (long ways away yet) but it will be some turkey (no I didn't cook it since there is just me), cranberries and roast acorn squash. Right now I am eating quinoa salad and fresh tomatoes. Yummmmm . . .
Cook it, luv. Raw turkey could give you worms. 😉
Happy Thanksgiving, Lynn. Hope you enjoyed your salad.
Lynn and to all of our Canadian Friends, do enjoy your Holiday.
Thanks for the History of Martin Frobisher. Norse explorer Leif Erikson of Iceland,
explorer Samuel de Champlain and First Nations.
Hugzzz…
Thanks all.
a Canuck today!
So tell us, which Canuck did you kiss today? I kiss a Canuck yesterday, my momma, and I kissed 3 Canucks today, my 3 kitties!
There is a Canuck import in my building. I kissed her hand.