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  Same in name only. Although we Canucks have only made our Thanksgiving a federal Holiday since 1957, the reason and time we celebrate it is actually older than the US and very different.

  The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean.[7] Frobisher's Thanksgiving was not for harvest but homecoming. He had safely returned from a search for the Northwest Passage, avoiding the later fate of Henry Hudson and Sir John Franklin. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony in Newfoundland to give thanks for surviving the long journey. The feast was one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations by Europeans in North America.

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  • Now where do the turkeys come in?Peter
  • Oh, we didn't start speaking to the USA citizens until much later.Jaline
  • It's not like the natives brought turkeys to Plymouth. Something incorporated over time.ETM

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