Canada celebrates Thanksgiving first because, well, Canada celebrated Thanksgiving first. It can be traced back to either a 1578 dinner that Martin Frobisher served to his crew upon their reaching the New World, or a 1614 dinner where the Order of Good Cheer celebrated their survival -- with Indigenous people's help -- on an island in the Bay of Fundy. (The Wampanoag people would help out some colonists at Plymouth in 1621.)
Eagleland Osmosis has affected the traditional dinner, though; most folks end up with turkey on the table. But only "most". Here's a photo of a typical Newfoundland Thanksgiving dinner (or, for that matter, a typical Newfoundland Sunday dinner), called a "Jiggs dinner". Yes, that's root vegetables and salt beef... and they were likely boiled together. Image from Wikimedia Commons:
![[Image: 483px-Jiggs_Dinner.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Jiggs_Dinner.jpg/483px-Jiggs_Dinner.jpg)
Eagleland Osmosis has affected the traditional dinner, though; most folks end up with turkey on the table. But only "most". Here's a photo of a typical Newfoundland Thanksgiving dinner (or, for that matter, a typical Newfoundland Sunday dinner), called a "Jiggs dinner". Yes, that's root vegetables and salt beef... and they were likely boiled together. Image from Wikimedia Commons:
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Rob Kelk
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
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Boycotting all products from the USA as long as that country's leader continues to threaten to annex my native country.
Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Government of Canada: Claiming refugee protection (asylum) from within Canada
Rob Kelk
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
Boycotting all products from the USA as long as that country's leader continues to threaten to annex my native country.
Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Government of Canada: Claiming refugee protection (asylum) from within Canada