# Happy Thanksgiving **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving/36280 "2000-10-09T16:27:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving/36280/1 "2000-10-09T16:27:14Z")
… to all my fellow Canadian dopers! Any year we get by without the country breaking up is a good year. (Although I was sorely tried by Stockwell Day on a jet ski.) (Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a turkey to stuff.) ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving/36280/2 "2000-10-09T16:32:39Z")
To you too! I had supper part one last night, and now it’s the continued version with my grandparents. Hope you all enjoy your meals, and remember what Thanksgiving is really about. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving/36280/3 "2000-10-09T16:34:36Z")
I did Mr. turkey lurkey Saturday and Sunday nites, yum!! ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving/36280/4 "2000-10-09T19:16:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CanadianSue \* > \*\*I did Mr. turkey lurkey Saturday and Sunday nites, yum!! \*\* And I bet Mr. turkey lurkey is smiling now! ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving/36280/5 "2000-10-09T22:27:09Z")
I had enought ham at bro&sis-in-laws’s yesterday to clog the remaining arteries 😃 Happy thanksgiving! ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving/36280/6 "2000-10-09T22:36:58Z")
…looks at calendar… So it is! Happy Thanksgiving to the north-of-the-border SDMB contingent! Now I’m going to sit here and sulk over the fact that, here in the UK, I miss **two** Thanksgivings… ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving/36280/7 "2000-10-09T23:44:14Z")
At dinner after work on Friday night, the fact that it is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend came up. One of my (American) co-workers’ wives said to me, “Why do you have Thanksgiving? What, did you figure we had one, so you had to have one too?” :rolleyes: I was too polite to respond to the second half of her query, but the first actually does have me puzzled. While I can think of dozens of things for which Canada can be thankful, is there some specific occasion for which we celebrate Thanksgiving? I asked the relatives at dinner yesterday, but none knew. So I throw it out to the Teeming Millions. What was the original Canadian Thanksgiving in celebration of? ---
**Author:** ![Mirth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Mirth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving/36280/8 "2000-10-10T00:40:10Z")
Well, I’m not from Canada, but your question got me curious. So I got online and found an answer to your question at [http://kidexchange.about.com/kids/kidexchange/library/weekly/aa092898.htm?pid=2775&cob=home](http://kidexchange.about.com/kids/kidexchange/library/weekly/aa092898.htm?pid=2775&cob=home) ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving/36280/9 "2000-10-10T16:42:42Z")
Cool, \*\*Mirth, \*\*thanks!