Talk:Thanksgiving (Canada)

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[edit] Mexican Thanksgiving Recipes

I have removed the External Link to Mexican Thanksgiving recipes as it doesn't seem relevant to Canadian Thanksgiving.

  • Mexican Thanksgiving Recipes]

--Bdoserror 06:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] French Canadians Don't Enjoy Thanksgiving?

I edited text "Although in English Canada Thanksgiving is often celebrated with family, it is also often a time for weekend getaways for couples to observe the autumn leaves, spend one last weekend at the cottage or participate in various outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing and hunting. The holiday is not as significant a family occasion amongst French Canadians, however."-- This is pure conjecture. As a French Canadian, I enjoy "l'Action de Grâce" just as much as any English Canadian, in every aspect mentioned above. To conclude that we don't appreciate Thanksgiving as the rest of Canada is completely invented and racist in its very nature. Cplbeaudoin 15:44, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New photo

This article needs a new main photo. The current image of "The First Thanksgiving" is U.S.-specific. --thirty-seven 04:01, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I thought the same, it refers to the American Thanksgiving and was painted by an American. Perhaps a Canadian would be more fit to this fix. To each its own ;)
Kind regards,
Zack Holly Venturi 19:50, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parades?

I've never heard of there being Thanksgiving parades - could someone back this up? KdeK2 18:29, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Extending categories

Should this also be categorised as an October observance? ACEOREVIVED 21:01, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

There appears to be some ambiguity about the date. Patricia Morrell (1977) Festivals and Customs. Pan. ISBN: 0 330 25215 1 gives October 11 as the date of Canadian Thanksgiving Day - she does not say too much on it, other than that Canadians eat turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie, and have church services similar to the harvest festival in the United Kingdom. However, according to this article, Canadian Thanksgiving is always on a Monday. Can some one explain this discrepancy? Either way, we could still categorise this as an October observance. ACEOREVIVED 20:09, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if it was the case back in 1977, but for as far as I can remember, it's always been the second Monday of October.--Boffob 21:23, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Discussion at Talk: Thanksgiving#Merge(?) Needed.--Boffob (talk) 13:44, 11 March 2008 (UTC)