Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian Friends… May you have a great day… 
Andy Clarke said:
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Ya what Andy said!
Thanks guys, as you may or may not know this weekend was also the advance polls for the Canadian election. I was working the polls and we have had a record turnout. One gentleman after waiting close to an hour finally made it to my station and I was shocked to see his year of birth was 1911 making him 104 years old. When I asked if he had his identification ready, his reply was: “Will the menu from the Titanic do?” Got to love them.
??? My ignorance. In the US the big traditional thing is turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Never giving it a thought I just assumed that it was also in Canada. Is it?
Dave, it is essentially the same with turkey, stuffing etc although ham sometimes replaces the bird. The first Thanksgiving celebration in Canada was in 1578 to celebrate the successful arrival at Baffin Island in the north in 1578 by Martin Frobisher in an expedition to find the Northwest Passage-his third. Harvest Festivals were celebrated in England from the time of King Henry VIII in the 1500’s so the Plymouth Pilgrim celebration could be seen as a growth of that. French Canadians celebrated a harvest festival with the indigenous Indians sharing food in the 17th century so with the coming of the Empire Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution in the late 1700’s, Canada’s thanksgiving was strengthened. It became a national celebration in 1879 and more structured in the 20th Century. It is a national holiday but is not a statutory holiday in Atlantic Canada. Most of the above is from Wikipedia; but I did know of the 1578 celebration.
Myron
Thank you…
Fred Mills
Happy Thanksgiving guys!
Our members celebrated Saturday by running trains, the final Narrow Gauge operation of the season.
If the weather holds, our last Standard Gauge operations will be next Saturday.
The following Wednesday we will pack the building away for the winter.
It has been a great year, with only one rain out.
Mike Hamer took 153 pictures of Saturday’s operations and posted them on his blog.
Events kept me from my offer of congratulations for the day of Thanks to our Canadian friends. Jan and I certainly want to join, even belatedly (is that word?) in the offer of celebration. Glad to hear the report it was a good.