Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2018-10-08 7:15 AM, wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 17:30:04 -0400, Dave Smith
>
> > > I will stand by my personal experience growing up in Canada that
> > > our holiday is very strongly linked to the Pilgrims. I asked my
> > > wife about it this after noon. She is into Thanksgiving in a big
> > > way, just like her mother, who was proud of her Loyalist roots.
> > > She mentioned that when she switched to a high Anglican church a
> > > few years ago she was a little disappointed that they did not do
> > > anything special for Thanksgiving and realized it was because
> > > they had done they Harvest Home thing the week before.
> >
> > Ball is in your court, YOU prove to me that the Canadian
> > Thanksgiving has even a little to do with the Pilgrim Fathers - I
> > can't imagine why you want to associate it with some religious
> > nutters anyway!
>
>
> Oh yeah. I aced that serve and you failed to return it. As I
> explained to you... twice.... I grew up here and I know the tradition
> that we were raised with. For some reason, you are more inclined to
> go with an author with the last name of Ali to argue about Canadian
> culture. While you came to the UK, many of us have roots in the
> American colonies and have ancestors who came here as Loyalists. How
> typical of you to try to bolster your lame argument with a slur
> against the people credited with organizing the first Thanksgiving.
> The fact remains that for those of us who were born and raised in
> this country, Canadian Thanksgiving is essentially the same
> celebration as the American Thanksgiving, sharing the same roots and
> the same traditional foods, but held on different dates.

For reason. The holiday (such as observed) was a feast of the harvest.
It was celebrated in what is NOW 2 countries but predates that. Same
ancestors, we just split ways later.

Pilgrims were just one set that came over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

The fact is both North and South North Americans celebrated it but as a
harvest issue, the southerly folks did it later because the final
harvest was later.

It's not rocket science here so not sure why the debate?