On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 10:44:52 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>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?

I'm glad you posted that link, it again shows Dave is completely
wrong!! Our Thanksgiving has NOTHING whatsoever to do with Pilgrims.