Happy Thanksgiving!
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Before out U.S. counterparts asks what's with Canadian Thanksgiving (as often comes up every year), ours has nothing to do with the U.S.:
The history of Thanksgiving in Canada can be traced back to the 1578 voyage of Martin Frobisher from England in search of the Northwest Passage. In this, his third, voyage to the Frobisher Bay area of Baffin Island in the present Canadian Territory of Nunavut, it was also the intention to start a small settlement and his fleet of 15 ships were so fitted out with men, materials and provisions for this purpose. However, the loss of one of his ships through contact with ice along with much of the building material was to prevent him from doing so. The expedition was plagued by ice and freak storms which at times had scattered the fleet and on meeting together again at their anchorage in Frobisher Bay, a learned man, appointed by her Majesties Councell to be their minister and preacher, made unto them a godly sermon, exhorting them especially to be thankful to God for their strange and miraculous deliverance. They celebrated Communion and “The celebration of divine mystery was the first sign, scale, and confirmation of Christ's name, death and passion ever known in all these quarters.”
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Sorry, already drinking. :)ETM - How did I not know this. Thanks for the lesson.
ThisIsMe - well that explains all the roasted turkey and cranberry sauceFawnDog
- That part we might have borrowed... ;DETM
- In 1621, the first US Thanksgiving, it was said that in addition to turkey, waterfowl, venison, fish, lobster, clams, berries, fruit, and squash were offered.ETM
- 'Before, one of our U.S. counterparts...'