Is there a reason we must call today Canadian Thanksgiving?
Yes, it is a simple reason - American Thanksgiving is bigger, bolder, and more cherished. It seems to be next to sacred with its mythical beginning with the Pilgrims. Search for Thanksgiving and all manner of U.S. perspectives will be retrieved.
What about the Canadian perspective? I found this quote, without attribution, to describe it:
It's very dear to me, the issue of Canadian Thanksgiving. Or, as I like to call it: "Thanksgiving"... I had lunch this afternoon, not Canadian lunch. I parked my car. I didn't Canadian park it. The proximity to Christmas is portrayed in this visual joke:
Americans too complain about its placement in the calendar:
“Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” —Richard Roeper
“My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.” – Katharine McPhee
Given Thanksgiving's place in the calendar, we might find this joke especially funny:
I drive "down" Cherry Ave every week on my way from Elaine's Pear Blossom Orchard to pick up my vegetables. It is a great hill with a spectacular view of Toronto across the lake. That is where today's picture was taken. It was at the bottom of Cherry Ave and Highway 8 way back in October 2009. This corner is now a vineyard, but then it was a field of wildflowers. Lucky me that day that a person in a red jacket was riding their bicycle.
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