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How do Canadians celebrate their Thanksgiving?

Any traditional type celebrations today for Canadians?
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JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
Basically the same as American Thanksgiving. It's not as big here and does not have any nationalistic elements like pilgrims. It's more like a harvest festival and being thankful. It's earlier there because it actually occurs around our harvest and when fall in in full bloom (same as the nothern states I assume). Mid November is dreary here, all the coloured leaves have fallen from the trees and it's starting to feel more like the eve of winter.
Lilymoon · F
Turkey and beer 🦃 🍻
@Lilymoon I was thinking Canadian goose, as revenge.
hunkalove · 70-79, M
Boiled moose with maple syrup sauce.
@hunkalove um....moose is baked 🤪
swirlie · 31-35
Thanksgiving was originally Founded in northern Canada in the 1500's, about 80 years before that same annual tradition migrated south, eventually making its way into the USA and then into Europe and west Africa.

Back when Thanksgiving first got started, a Canada Goose was the chosen festive meal of Canada's northland because geese were everywhere and were more of a nuisance than anything.

Turkey eventually became the traditional meal as the tradition migrated into southern Canada where Canada Geese typically did not stay during the fall harvest. Canada Geese actually stayed up north all winter long in Canada.

Wild turkeys were plentiful during fall harvest in southern Canada, whereas Geese were very greasy to eat in comparison to wild turkey and were very difficult to catch by hand.

Eventually, turkeys as we know Thanksgiving today, were raised domestically in Canada for the exclusive traditions of Thanksgiving and Christmas, with that same tradition eventually migrating south into the northern USA but not into the deep south of the USA. This is because turkeys are not indigenous to hot climates found in the southern USA, but instead prefer colder temperatures.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@swirlie The nearest equivalent in Britain is probably the church event, Harvest Festival; and usually slightly earlier than this.

I have never heard of it being a reason for feasting and celebrating in the home, though.
swirlie · 31-35
@ArishMell
As I've mentioned in previous Thanksgiving posts I've made recently, Thanksgiving and Harvest Fest are synonymously used with each other among the more than a dozen countries around the world which celebrate either Thanksgiving or Harvest Fest, because they are both one-in-the-same in principle.

Harvest Fest is a celebratory festival among family wherever it is celebrated in the world, which is why it's called Harvest Fest... and is why Harvest Fest takes place after the annual fall harvest of farm crops in each country/region, which means not all regions harvest their crops in the northern hemisphere at the same time in the fall of the year. The further north a country lies, the earlier in the fall the celebrations begin. The further south a country lies, the later in the fall their Thanksgiving/Harvest Fest is celebrated.

If you've never heard of it being reason for feasting and celebrating in the home, it's because celebrations of this nature are not traditional annual events in Great Britain for example. This is because Brits don't typically celebrate anything to do with the annual harvest with friends and family anyway, unlike all other countries around the world who celebrate Harvest Fest because they are not bound by Colonial protocol.

Of interest you may find, Harvest Fest is technically recognized in Britain despite nothing ever being done about it from a social perspective.
JackDaniels · 46-50, M
@swirlie Real Thanksgiving coming next month.
@sunsporter1649 we can't buy that in my province because of the strike 😡

 
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