{"id":16523,"date":"2015-10-12T03:51:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T10:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16523"},"modified":"2015-10-12T03:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T10:51:48","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/happy-thanksgiving-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Thanksgiving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thanksgiving\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16524\" height=\"173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Thanksgiving-300x173.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Thanksgiving-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Thanksgiving.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Canada, Thanksgiving dates back to 1578 and the exploration of the Northwest Passage by Martin Frobisher. &nbsp;Canada was untouched by Columbus but many non Canadian&nbsp;people associate Thanksgiving with the US Columbus Day. &nbsp;Rather our first contact with Europeans came in the 12th century with the arrival of the Norse explorer Leif Erikson of Iceland, and later Greenland. &nbsp;From Wikipedia &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving_(Canada)\" target=\"_blank\">Thanksgiving in Canada<\/a> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Years later,&nbsp;French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer&nbsp;Samuel de Champlain, in 1604 onwards also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed the&nbsp;Order of Good Cheer&nbsp;and gladly shared their food with their First Nations neighbours.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Canadian Thanksgiving&nbsp;&quot;&hellip;&nbsp;corresponds to the English and continental European&nbsp;Harvest festival, with churches decorated with&nbsp;cornucopias,&nbsp;pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves, and other harvest bounty, &hellip; drawn from biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of&nbsp;Sukkot.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I know that my own church has large displays of harvest bounty. We support others with a&nbsp;&quot;modern bounty&quot; . . . &nbsp;food donations that go to our local food bank.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color:#FF8C00\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:48px\"><span style=\"background-color:#008000\">Happy Thanksgiving!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Canada, Thanksgiving dates back to 1578 and the exploration of the Northwest Passage by Martin Frobisher. &nbsp;Canada was untouched by Columbus but many non Canadian&nbsp;people associate Thanksgiving with the US Columbus Day. &nbsp;Rather our first contact with Europeans came in the 12th century with the arrival of the Norse explorer Leif Erikson of Iceland, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/happy-thanksgiving-canada\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-145-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}