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DreamTheaterRules said:
So, how do Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving? And, how did the holiday originate for you? Do you have pilgrims?
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A celebration of being thankful for what one has and the bounty of the previous year. Thanksgiving has been officially celebrated as an annual holiday in Canada since November 6, 1879. While the date varied by year and was not fixed, it was commonly the second Monday in October.

This decision by the authorities appears to be why Canada's Thanksgiving is celebrated at a different time to the USA and other countries that celebrate the holiday in the region. The main factor in choosing that date is that the harvest tends to arrive earlier than it does in America.
It originated from English explorer Martin Frobisher's celebration of his safe arrival in Newfoundland.

It’s the wee hours of the morning and there is a piece of apple pie with real whipped cream in the fridge. Another late night snack. Lol
 
Lola said:
A celebration of being thankful for what one has and the bounty of the previous year. Thanksgiving has been officially celebrated as an annual holiday in Canada since November 6, 1879. While the date varied by year and was not fixed, it was commonly the second Monday in October.

This decision by the authorities appears to be why Canada's Thanksgiving is celebrated at a different time to the USA and other countries that celebrate the holiday in the region. The main factor in choosing that date is that the harvest tends to arrive earlier than it does in America.
It originated from English explorer Martin Frobisher's celebration of his safe arrival in Newfoundland.

It’s the wee hours of the morning and there is a piece of apple pie with real whipped cream in the fridge. Another late night snack. Lol
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Great answer Lola! Our local harvest is wrapping up and it's been grand weather for the farmers this fall. Bumper crops in our region, but not so good in Southern Alberta. Drought and hail have claimed a lot of cropland and hay crops down there this year.

DTR, there are a few of us left up here that have a history of the Quakers in family trees, but they all landed on American soil near as I know. We Canucks have the distinction of having the Norse landings prior to any other landings in North America (Columbus etc), or so the story goes. My family history contains some (from what I've been told anyway) Quaker roots though, but they all moved inland from there. After the Civil War (my Great-grandfather and his brother were Civil War Vets) and things settled down my Grand Parents on both sides moved from Iowa (Dad) and Minnesota (Mom) up into Saskatchewan and Alberta. I've seen Great Grampa Jones' grave site in Spencer during a motorcycle journey I made across the land in 2017, and had met several of the cousins and aunts/uncles over the years when my folks were still alive. Sadly, most of the contacts have been lost with the passage of time.
 
Daryl Jones said:
Great answer Lola! Our local harvest is wrapping up and it's been grand weather for the farmers this fall. Bumper crops in our region, but not so good in Southern Alberta. Drought and hail have claimed a lot of cropland and hay crops down there this year.

DTR, there are a few of us left up here that have a history of the Quakers in family trees, but they all landed on American soil near as I know. We Canucks have the distinction of having the Norse landings prior to any other landings in North America (Columbus etc), or so the story goes. My family history contains some (from what I've been told anyway) Quaker roots though, but they all moved inland from there. After the Civil War (my Great-grandfather and his brother were Civil War Vets) and things settled down my Grand Parents on both sides moved from Iowa (Dad) and Minnesota (Mom) up into Saskatchewan and Alberta. I've seen Great Grampa Jones' grave site in Spencer during a motorcycle journey I made across the land in 2017, and had met several of the cousins and aunts/uncles over the years when my folks were still alive. Sadly, most of the contacts have been lost with the passage of time.
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We did Ancestry.ca. For my husband’s side of the family. Just amazing the ppl he’s related to throughout the annals of history.

Pls share your heritage if you want to. We have such diverse backgrounds. It would be very interesting.

This is one of my ancestors i found.

The slide rule was invented by William Oughtred in the 1600's, but only began to be widely used in the mid 1800's after a French artillery officer named Amedee Mannheim developed a version that became popular among engineers
 
Lola said:
We did Ancestry.ca. For my husband’s side of the family. Just amazing the ppl he’s related to throughout the annals of history.

Pls share your heritage if you want to. We have such diverse backgrounds. It would be very interesting.

This is one of my ancestors i found.

The slide rule was invented by William Oughtred in the 1600's, but only began to be widely used in the mid 1800's after a French artillery officer named Amedee Mannheim developed a version that became popular among engineers
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I'm predominantly Welsh/German (Dad's side) and Irish/French (Mom's). The German on Dad's side is actually Pennsylvania Dutch but Dad always said that was our Quaker ancestry. I've never delved into it much to say one way or the other. I did the Ancestry.ca thing before our trip to Ireland in 2011, but never got very far before the money thing got stupid for more info. I did trace both the Jones and Murphy lines back to landing in New York though. The Culvers (Great Grandma Jones) I never got very far with at all. Grandma Murphy (Lessor) was Parisian French. I get a kick out of speaking with my French Canadian brother-in-law when I tell him my Grandmother was from a "real French" family. I identify very strongly with my Celtic roots obviously. I love twisting the knife when I can, I am my father's son.;)
 
Daryl Jones said:
I'm predominantly Welsh/German (Dad's side) and Irish/French (Mom's). The German on Dad's side is actually Pennsylvania Dutch but Dad always said that was our Quaker ancestry. I've never delved into it much to say one way or the other. I did the Ancestry.ca thing before our trip to Ireland in 2011, but never got very far before the money thing got stupid for more info. I did trace both the Jones and Murphy lines back to landing in New York though. The Culvers (Great Grandma Jones) I never got very far with at all. Grandma Murphy (Lessor) was Parisian French. I get a kick out of speaking with my French Canadian brother-in-law when I tell him my Grandmother was from a "real French" family. I identify very strongly with my Celtic roots obviously. I love twisting the knife when I can, I am my father's son.;)
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That’s so interesting. Would you venture to travel back in time any further? Are you fluent in French? I know some but very far from being fluent.
 
Lola said:
That’s so interesting. Would you venture to travel back in time any further? Are you fluent in French? I know some but very far from being fluent.
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When I was very young I spoke mostly French since I spent lots of time at Gram's. Her English was very broken (dunno how her and Grampa Murphy got together!) so she taught me to speak French with her. I never took French in school until I was in my teens and then I let it slide for many years, something I'm not proud of these days. I still understand it well, and can read quite easily, just the conversational dialogue is too fast for me to keep up anymore. Certainly not fluent now.
I sort of have a yearn to dig further into our family past, but I got turned off Ancestry.ca as everything I was looking for seemed to be a money grab and that cheeses me off big time. I would like to get back to the UK and discover Wales some, and Ireland is simply wonderful to visit and travel around. My wife is of Swedish/French/Cree ancestry (she is registered Metis but doesn't really get involved in the politics of it) and she's not really big on going to Sweden. In all honesty, I'm not interested in going to France either.
 
OK, so this is pretty random. I called a new client of mine earlier and got his wife on the phone, who told me he was "busy out in the shop" and would have to call me back, as they were getting ready for a guitar show this weekend.

Wait...guitar show?!?!?!?!?!?! "Oh, a guitar show?" says I, "That's cool!" She goes on to tell me that they do guitar inlays. And suddenly the lightbulbs go off and I realize who my client in Maryland actually is. May have to make a site visit for this project, I'd like to get a close up look at all those PS Birds and Dragons and other fancy stuff!!!
 
I don’t understand the rules and the football vernacular. I won’t even try. Sorry to say this, football doesn’t interest me. Rather be doing then watching = Rock climbing. My youngest son and I are going quite soon.I just have to start working out more consistently to get get my upper body strength back. It will be like a reward for me.

Wish us luck. My husband is going in for his 4 th surgery on his feet. There is a snag. They cannot use cadaver bone with this medication he’s on it has to be alive. So another painful bone graft from the hip bone will replace the cadaver bone. He was in so much pain with the last bone graft. Just another one of life’s hurdles to overcome. One more surgery end if this year and we are officially done. After rehab he won’t need a cast, a cane, and crutches not to mention all the drugs. It will be a tough road to hoe but I am definitely up for the challenge. And because I can walk home from work in 8 minutes( yes I timed myself one day) I can leave work anytime my husband needs me. That in itself is gold.

I can see how relationship dynamics change in stressful events and over the course of years. Very insightful! Things are A-okay.
 
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DreamTheaterRules said:
I really enjoyed that answer, because I’d always wondered the parallels and differences between ours and yours. Sounds similar, but two main ingredients are missing… (You know what’s coming).

What about turkey and football?
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Yep, turkey is pretty much the traditional main dish for most families. Although some will serve goose, beef, ham etc; or combinations of such fare. Personally, given that I live in a community that has a large Ukranian population, we also have cabbage rolls, perogies, nalesniki and other old country dishes on the table. Plus I make my own studnetz (pan headcheese) for festive occasions. Of course, one cannot leave out the required pumpkin and/or apple pie!
Football isn't big in my house but baseball playoffs certainly are (even though my beloved Jays fell short again this year), or an NHL game if Thanksgiving falls on a game day. Duh, it's Canada, eh?.
I haven't watched an NFL game since the Ditka/McMahon/Perry Bears disgrace in 1986. I was huge Walter Payton fan and giving the ball to the "fat" man instead of (arguably) the best running back in the game was just plain shameful. Yeah, I can hold a grudge.:mad:
 
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