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Topic: hey noitall
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nia
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posted October 15, 2002 14:38
Yeah I saw it. I hate vocals on tv, bleah. I love the Donnas drummer tho, but I always think girl drummers are cool. I wonder how they're going to deal with being on a major? Wait and see, I guess.As for Canadian Thanksgiving: quote: The first formal Canadian Thanksgiving was held just over 40 years prior to the pilgrims landing in Massachusetts. An English explorer named Martin Frobisher had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Northern America and he did celebrate a harvest feast. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving.The Americans who remained faithful to the government in England were known as Loyalists. At the time of the American revolution, they moved to Canada and spread the Thanksgiving celebration to other parts of the country. Many of the new English settlers from Great Britain were also used to having a harvest celebration in their churches every autumn. Eventually in 1879, Parliament declared November 6th a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Over the years many dates were used for Thanksgiving, the most popular was the 3rd Monday in October. After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11th occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day.
And now you know. Btw, if you watch the movie The Black Robe you'll see that it was little harder to swipe land from the Indians here, but they did it anyway.
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