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This weekend is Thanksgiving long weekend in Canada. Today, Monday October 12 is thanksgiving, 2020 has been a real shit storm of tragic news and economic revelation and no signs of improvement in the horizon. Even though it seems like there might not be much to be thankful for, it’s there you just have to look. Being optimistically positive is a real hard thing to do, hell being positive is hard. You have to search for It sometimes, but I’m always a glass half full kind of guy. I see a bone dry empty glass and see it as the glass is full, yes FULL, the glass is full of oxygen, we need it to breath. Let’s get a little Canadian history before I tell you what I’m thankful for.

The American thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November, while in Canada ours gobble gobble day is the second Monday in October. It all started back in 1575 and Martin Frobisher, an English explorer was on his third and final expedition through northeastern Canada water ways in search of the Northwest Passage, which he never did find.

Fun fact : he found a mountain of gold on his trips, he brought it all back home but turns out it was all pyrite- fools gold . So you could say he was the first Canadian fool 🤣

This third trip was met with terrible weather even for Canada. They fought through high winds and mounds of ice, and he even lost of one of his ships to furious Mother Nature. A freak storm in July, yes July, it is Canada after all and we can get terrible weather at the drop of a hat. This storm separated his army of 15 ships, to now 14, for weeks they battled through the weather conditions and they were able to reunite in August in the area that would become known as Frobisher’s Bay in present day.

A celebration to God for reuniting them all safely was held by Robert Wolfall who was a priest and the chaplain of the voyage. He congregated everyone together for a meal and a mass. No turkey on the menu, they most likely dined on salted beef, some crackers and mushy peas. I dunno how tasty that would be ? Thankfully the USA introduced their northern neighbor to turkey on this holiday. I love turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce blog from a can, don’t let me forget to mention pumpkin pie......

Fun fact : The name Canada most likely comes from the Aboriginal word “kanata,” meaning village or settlement. Two Aboriginal youths told French explorer Jacques Cartier about the route to kanata; they were actually referring to the village of Stadacona, the site of the present-day City of Québec.

Before the makings of the first thanksgivings in the US and Canada, long before our ancestors would celebrate a great harvest. Indigenous people have been celebrating the fall harvest that predates the arrival of European settlers for 12,000 to 48000 years, yes that’s true..... The US thanksgiving is about the 1621 harvest and a huge celebration that lasted three days and members of the Wampanoag tribe were in attendance to celebrate. This celebration featuring the uniquely North American turkey, squash and pumpkin was then introduced to Nova Scotia in the 1750s and became common across Canada by the 1870s. God bless the turkey on this day.

Today is a day of thanks, many things I am happy and thankful for this year. Yes the world in it’s current state is a little unsettling, but I urge you to find those thankful things. A positive mind has a positive life. A few things I’m grateful for in the subscriber only section.

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