One thing I am thankful for on #CanadianThanksgiving is sufficient whipping cream, as this morning I trotted to the supermarket for orange juice and the whipped cream aerosol cans in the dairy case were all sold out, only the nondairy topping and 'lite' whipped cream remained.

I have been an enthusiastic amateur EFL instructor a couple of hours per week with a couple of new friends in #ukraine for nearly two years now. To mark the start of the #mapleleafs season and #canadianthanksgiving we're going to go all the way down the Bill Barilko/Tragically Hip rabbit hole this week. If you were wondering, yes, I am doing this with someone who is already super interested in Canadiana and Bashin Bill was Ukrainian. It doesn't get much better than this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxmPeV3urSs

We're cooking up a storm this afternoon.

Baked bread and buns, and K made scalloped potatoes while I put a cottage-roll ham on to cook.

I then made pastry while she made the pumpkin pie filling, from previously roasted pumpkin we'd froze. In there somewhere I tossed cauliflower with spices, lemon and oil to roast soon.

I overshot with the pastry a bit and so am making a couple of pie shells for the freezer too. Future quiche opportunities!

Happy #Thanksgiving to all!

#CanadianThanksgiving

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all the Canadians.

Or if you’re Michael Shanks, a famous Canadian, happy Shanksgiving.

#ThanksGiving #Canada #CanadianThanksgiving

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is CRANBERRY/GERANIUM #wotd #cranberry #geranium #CanadianThanksgiving #Thanksgiving

It's #CanadianThanksgiving & a good time to consider the colonialism & globalization lying behind the holiday & its traditional food, the turkey. Our video "Why do we eat Turkey at Thanksgiving?" is an etymological exploration of these issues https://youtube.com/watch?v=He-wNRtBuRM
#Thanksgiving

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #turkey

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.

#Canada #Thanksgiving #CanadianThanksgiving

Wishing a happy #Thanksgiving to our #Canadian #InfoSec fam! 🇨🇦🍁🦫 #CanadianThanksgiving

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, y'all!

#autumn #AutumnLeaves #CanadianThanksgiving #MapleLeaf #AutumnVibes

#Thanksgiving dinner is in the oven and the house smells great. #CanadianThanksgiving that is… :)

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian peeps! 🇨🇦

Hey everyone! NO LIVE drawing today! I completely forgot it was Thanksgiving (Canada) this weekend! Julián and I will be back next week in fine form! #grickledoodle #cartoon #drawing #funny #art #CanadianThanksgiving

Canadians will be celebrating their Thanksgiving this weekend. Here, @thecollector explains the holiday's origin, traditions and more. Click the second link to discover what satirical site The Beaverton says is the most popular side in your province (we're "Some bullsh** from their home garden").

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#Canada #Thanksgiving #CanadianThanksgiving #History #Culture #Satire

Oktoberfest began as a party to celebrate the marriage of Bavarian royalty in Munich in 1810. The marriage occurred on October 12 but the partying continued for the next few days. The participants had so much fun that they decided to do it again the next year, then the next year, etc.

Eventually the participants and organizers lost enough brain cells that they thought, “ You know what would make Oktoberfest even better? If it was in September so we had even better weather!” So it was moved to mid September to the first Sunday in October.

That’s how Munich’s Oktoberfest went, anyhow.

Kitchener- Waterloo’s Oktoberfest in Canada was made to wrap around Canadian Thanksgiving. The second Monday in October (Canadian Thanksgiving) was the center of the two weekends and one week of partying. This K-W Oktoberfest went as 9 days of partying for many years.

But too much beer drinking eventually led to two factions developing. One faction said let’s keep up the original Canadian Oktoberfest. While another said, let’s imitate the Munich Oktoberfest better and have a Septemberfest, too!

The Septemberfest makes more sense, some say. The weather is nicer. Did I mention dead brain cells from drinking too much beer? So that faction still calls it Oktoberfest.

The main takeaway from this is that K-W Oktoberfest now runs longer than the Munich one. With four weekends, because both factions are still present in K-W, it’s a longer festival than the busier Munich one.

I think there should be truth in advertising and both large Oktoberfests should be called Septemberfest-Oktoberfest.

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Speaking of names, in Southern Ontario, this year, we had a proper Summer Echo. Early fall contained a week or more of summer like temperatures. I’m a stickler for Summer Echoes. I believe we must be officially out of summer for the term to be applied properly.

Summer Echo used to be called Indian Summer. To not offend the sub continent of India, which has nothing to do with our weather in the great lakes region, we could call it Indigenous Summer. But then we might be offending the indigenous of this same great lake region. So with me, anyhow, Summer Echo has stuck.

https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/10/14/septemberfest/

#1810Origin #9DaysInOctober #Bavaria #Canada #CanadianThanksgiving #formerlyIndianSummer #Germany #India #IndigenousSummer #KitchenerWaterloo #Munich #October #Oktoberfest #September #SummerEcho

They tell actors never to work with dogs & children because they're such scene stealers... But when they're this cute, I say let them have the scenes! Here are a few scene stealers from the last few days: my twin nephbros, their golden retriever Cosmo, and my pal's mini Aussie named Floki who needed a little last minute pet-sitting for a few hours this morning while his owner was in town for a few days from the Sunshine Coast for some doctors' appointments. #SoManyGoodBoys #CanadianThanksgiving

#HappyThanksgiving (Monday) to all of you in Canada from Owl & Penguin! 🦉🐧🍂🥧🙏

#MastoArt #OwlAdventuresArt #canadianthanksgiving #cartoonart #kidlitart #illustration

Autumn reflections…reflecting on the fact that a Canadian I live in the best country on this planet, and no we are not broken. We are improving. Given the circumstances of this last 48 hrs. I am even more grateful that we do not allow religion to rule our country. Happy Thanksgiving! #canadianthanksgiving

Today, I'm thankful that the Kairos Blanket Workshop was created and it's available for people to experience. I think I might toss a little donation their way on this day of #CanadianThanksgiving and if you want to read more about it and potentially make a donation as well, you can check out their website here: https://www.kairoscanada.org

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Happy Thanksgiving from Cat News to all the cats of Canada. We hope you are having lots of lovely time with your humans. Thank you, as ever, to our repawters who have kept us up to date with their stories.

#cats #cat #CatNews #CatsOfMastodon #Thanksgiving #CanadianThanksgiving #Thanksgiving2023 #CatsOfCanada

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In honour of #CanadianThanksgiving, I'm reflecting on what I did for Truth and Reconciliation Week last year when I attended the Indigenous Rights Blanket Exercise Workshop held at #UVic. It's a workshops and exercise that uses Indigenous methodologies and ways of knowing to build an understanding of exactly what was taken away from the people who lived on this land before the White settlers got here.

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Today is #CanadianThanksgiving so the #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is HARVEST/SCARCE/SHARE #wotd #harvest #scarce #share #Thanksgiving #ThanksgivingCanada #thanksgiving2023