October 6, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving!

I can't believe it is October.  The summer certainly flew by.  This coming Thanksgiving we are doing a potluck at my daughters in Victoria and as usual, I am making the pumpkin pies.  I use our old family recipe that was my Dad's sister's, Auntie Nearissa.  I will post it in the recipe section of the site as well a post an AgelessThrival cuisine video.  I have the recipe in my head after making it so many times but I am going to find it in my Gram's recipe book...So here is the history of Thanksgiving in Canada.  We celebrate the 2nd Monday of October while our American neighbours celebrate the third Thursday in November.  So Happy Turkey or Ham or both day.  I love you.

The first official, annual Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated on 6 November 1879, though Indigenous peoples in Canada have a history of celebrating the fall harvest that predates the arrival of European settlers. Sir Martin Frobisher  and his crew are credited as the first Europeans to celebrate a Thanksgiving ceremony in North America, in 1578. They were followed by the inhabitants of New France under Samuel de Champlain in 1606. The celebration featuring the uniquely North American turkey, squash and pumpkin was introduced to Nova Scotia in the 1750s and became common across Canada by the 1870s. In 1957, Thanksgiving was proclaimed an annual event to occur on the second Monday of October. It is an official statutory holiday in all provinces and territories except Prince Edward IslandNew Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.




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