On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:29:10 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2019-11-27 12:47 p.m., wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 05:59:58 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>
>>> On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 8:26:30 AM UTC-5, A Moose in
>>> Love wrote:
>>>> The other day Rachael Ray said that the US is the only country in
>>>> the world that celebrates this holiday. Maybe she meant that
>>>> other countries do not celebrate Thanksgiving on the same day?
>>>
>>> Or perhaps she's just ignorant. Many people are.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>> Strictly speaking she is accurate, you are celebrating the Pilgrim
>> Fathers arriving, the rest of us don't.
>
>Having grown up in Canada I can tell you that the common understanding
>about our Thanksgiving is that it is based on the Pilgrim fathers. That
>may be because the initial influx of settlers in this country were
>Loyalists coming here are refugees from the US. It may also be that most
>of us lived close to the American border so we were exposed to American
>culture.

It must be, no record here of PF's thank goodness! It's aligned to
the protestant church festival of Harvest Home and giving thanks for
the supplies from it.