On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 3:00:11 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> 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.

Harvest Home is another one of those celebrations that the Church
got from the pagans.

Cindy Hamilton