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Old Thu Nov 27, 2008, 04:27pm
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Originally Posted by BillyMac View Post
Sorry. I was very busy that day, and forgot about it.

Jour d'action de grāce is a day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October. The first Thanksgiving celebration by Euro-peoples in North America was not in New England, but in Newfoundland, forty-two years before the Pilgrims.
Good to know!

Is it New-foundland, or, Newf-fundlund? Canadians want to know!
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