Dimitris 'sehh' Michelinakis wrote:
> Indeed nobody else other than the US celebrates thanksgiving.
>
> If i'm not mistaken its about killing the natives and taking their land.
That isn't quite true -- Canada also celebrates a Thanksgiving holiday,
however up here we celebrate it in October. I don't know the history of
the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday, however I imagine it came about due
to two events: it's in around the time of the fall harvest (harvest
time having long been a time for celebration in agrarian societies
around the world), and I presume that Loyalists who fled the US in two
large waves of refugeeism during the US Revolutionary War and the War of
1812 brought their US traditions with them when they arrived in Canada.
It is a rather North American centric celebration, and we do celebrate it
at different times, however the US isn't the only country to have a
holiday called "Thanksgiving".
Brad BARCLAY
