Happy Thanksgiving to me!

[freyar]

And to you, too, if you're living in Canada! If you only check this when you're at work, hope you had a good one.

 

[Sutekh]

I keep forgetting that Canada basically cut and pasted an American holiday as their own. You guys want to claim anything else?

 

[Thunderfoot]

Ok... a REAL question about Canadian Thanksgiving.

Originally, Thanksgiving was a harvest festival, to include the end of hunting and harvesting seasons and the ensuing clean-up (reaping the chaff, getting rid of the now dying plants, tanning hides, etc.) So, the question is... Is Canada already to that point? I realize the climates are different due to relative location to the north, but I didn't think they were so diverse as to shave a full month off of harvest time. (Though it wouldn't surprise me as Germany's Octoberfest is also a harvest festival, which BTW begins in September and ends in October.)

Thanks in advance for the coming explanations and comments. Knowledge is power.

Oh, and happy belated Thanksgiving...

 

[freyar]

I'm not much of a farmer, so I can't say based on personal experience, but, no, I don't think the harvest is really a full month earlier. Leaf changes aren't, for example. Still, we have had several nights right down near freezing (even in Sept), so you start noticing the autumn pretty quickly even if the days stay reasonably warm and sunny.

 

[Shade]

I hope you had a great one, freyar!

 

[Agamon]

The harvest is earlier up here. It changes, depending on the spring/summer/autumn weather, but, yeah, the harvesting is done long, long before the end of November up here. We're often lucky if it's not in deep-freeze mode by then. Surprised freyer doesn't realize that, he's from the winter wonderland... (it's not nicknamed Winterpeg for its temperate climate)

On topic...way too much turkey and pumpkin pie. Ugh...

 

[Cor Azer]

On topic...way too much turkey and pumpkin pie. Ugh...

Blasphemy!

 

[Mark CMG]

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[freyar]

The harvest is earlier up here. It changes, depending on the spring/summer/autumn weather, but, yeah, the harvesting is done long, long before the end of November up here. We're often lucky if it's not in deep-freeze mode by then. Surprised freyer doesn't realize that, he's from the winter wonderland... (it's not nicknamed Winterpeg for its temperate climate)

On topic...way too much turkey and pumpkin pie. Ugh...

Heh, just moved here from Montreal this summer (and to Montreal from the LA area 5 years ago). But in Montreal, anyway, we'd get cool snaps and sometimes flurries in Oct and Nov but not continuously cold weather until Dec usually. I do suppose most crops are harvested well before the cold sets in, though. Really, I'm just too much of a city-slicker.

 

[Agamon]

Heh, just moved here from Montreal this summer (and to Montreal from the LA area 5 years ago). But in Montreal, anyway, we'd get cool snaps and sometimes flurries in Oct and Nov but not continuously cold weather until Dec usually. I do suppose most crops are harvested well before the cold sets in, though. Really, I'm just too much of a city-slicker.

Ah, that makes sense then. City guy, myself, but my dad's family is in farming.

The unfair part of all this is that Americans get Columbus Day during our Thanksgiving, but we don't get any holidays during their Thanksgiving...and no excuse to have Black Friday off either.