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Subject: Query

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Ed Harris (Venezia)

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Date Posted: 01:28:48 11/26/04 Fri
In reply to: Jim (Canada) 's message, "Happy Thanksgiving Americans! We had ours a month ago" on 00:37:02 11/26/04 Fri

Why are the US and Canadian thanksgivings at different times? It can't be because of the climate, surely, because the Virginian harvest must come earlier than the Canadian one, since it is much further south... So it must be for historical reasons. What are they?

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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 03:15:24 11/26/04 Fri As far as I know, Canadian Thanksgiving is to celebrate the harvest in early October. American Thanksgiving celebrates the time when the Pilgrims first arrived in Massachusetts Bay in the 1620's and they were giving thanks for their new land. Perhaps they arrived in November. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Brent (Canada)
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Date Posted: 22:05:14 11/28/04 Sun

The rationale for both the US and Canadian Thanksgivings are the same event.

There was over 100 years between the Mayflower landing and the Revolution. The United Empire Loyalists, being drawn heavily from the same New England stock, are also quite often Mayflower descendants.

A bit of trivia. In 1912, Mayflower passenger Richard Warren could count two national leaders as descendants - US President William Howard Taft and Canadian Prime Minister Sir Robert Laird Borden.

The date difference is to accommodate the earlier arrival of winter up here...

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