On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:44:23 -0400, 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.
>
I mentioned this at the club this afternoon, NOT ONE Canadian agreed
with you. You are not giving me a link to it, because you can't. You
prefer instead to make racist comments. You are a very poor
Canadian that you don't know Canadian Thanksgiving is linked to a
church festival, even Megatron knows that now, not the Pilgrims.