Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

[Nicole Fortunaso]

Being an Australian in Canada I am excited to celebrate a Canadian Thanksgiving! It’s a great time to get all your friends and family involved.
For all the Canadian Affiliates, and Canadian Merchants the Share Results Team would like to wish you and your families a Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Enjoy your long weekend!

[Linda Buquet]

Happy Thanksgiving Nicole!

How do you celebrate up there?
Do you have a big family dinner?
What's the standard tradition?

Enjoy!

[Nicole Fortunaso]

Thanks Linda .... for me it just finished... lol... I just stopped eating!
When you cook-up one of the big birds and you are eating with a small crew - it lasts all week! Now that I have fully finished and experienced a Canadian Thanksgiving I can share my views .

We celebrate with an adopted family here, considering most of the family is in OZ . However it is truly a fun affair!

From what I have experienced so far it is similar to the American one, how is your experience Linda, with your thanksgiving coming up what do you like to do?

Canadian's have it earlier as its focus is on giving thanks to the harvest and because the winter comes sooner than the folks south of the border, that means the harvest time is earlier.... if any other Canadian forum members can add some extra stories about thanksgiving in Canada would love to hear it!

Being an outsider coming into thanksgiving it is a lovely celebration of sharing and appreciation with people that are in your life.

It is a also a great practice run for Christmas... stretching the tummy muscles to eat all that delicious food and to put you in good spirits for the festive season.

[Linda Buquet]

Sounds like you had a good one.

Here as you probably know the standard meal typically consists of a big old Turkey,
mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, green bean casserole sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie.

Down where I am now I have lots of extended family including my
son-in-law's family so we always have at least 1 and sometimes
2 big family events for each Holiday. Sometimes 3.

[Rachna06]

I used to live in the States for 6ish years, so I'm familiar with Thanksgiving on both sides of the border.

I have really great Thanksgiving memories, particularly my ex-boyfriend's family cooking little vegetarian meals for me as I was unable to partake in the turkey goodness. One year, it was the best spinach lasagna EVER! yum!

Since my return to Canada, I cooked a little dinner for my roommate and I last year. This year, I got together with some friends and we had a potluck with a large number of people - low tables, seated on the floor on little pillows - it was a little hippie gathering.

But the food was phenomenal! I was in a food coma for hours after that.

Can't wait for Halloween!! Actually, I think I'll ask everyone on 5star what their ideas are for halloween costumes this year, or whether they'd like to suggest something for me as I'm rather clueless this year!