Happy Turkey Day, Canadians! 🦃

[Mumtobabyhavoc]

Any other Canadians here celebrating Thanksgiving today?
Post your location, menu and how you plan to spend your day!

Vancouver, rainy 9c
Just finished breakfast: chocolate chip pancakes, maple syrup, strawberries, orange juice, coffee

Dinner: roasted duck, baked salmon, prawns, roasted acorn squash, roasted carrots, scalloped potatoes, cranberry apple dressing, gravy

Dessert: brownies with ice cream and an apple pie if I can manage to get one made 🤞

Friend popping by to join us for dinner.
Will be tidying up and getting laundry done in between prepping/cooking. Have got kids parked in front of tv watching a movie.

Completely passed me by, but your say sounds lovely ☺️

Do you have any special traditions? Is it as big as Christmas? To my shame I know America have a Thanksgiving but I didn’t realise Canada did too. Do you exchange gifts?

Did not know Canada did this! What is it you’re thankful for? (Off to google).

Thanks for asking @snemrose @namechangedohmy 😀

Not as big as Christmas and no gifts. 😅
Meal might be as big as Christmas for some, though.
(It was for us!)
It is common to roast a Turkey for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter here. I got tired of turkey and changed it up a few years ago.
It's mostly about just getting together with family/friends on the day. As for being thankful... I am thankful that my kids are happy and healthy. Both had rough starts as newborns, now are 4 & 1, and they are doing great now. I'm thankful that it is beautiful and peaceful here, albeit not perfect. I'm thankful my dinner turned out well! 😄

Maritimes here!

Did our dinner yesterday, today is leftovers and naps 🤣

Menu: Turkey, stuffing, carrots, green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, homemade bread and rolls, apple pie, pumpkin pie and whipped cream.

Had all the kids, partners and gc home.

Do you have the day off work? As in is it a public holiday? I know I could google but I prefer to hear from actual people 😀
What about Christmas? How much time do you get off then? Do you get annoyed with people knowing about America’s thanksgiving but not so much about your own? Are you glad yours is earlier in Autumn so a good while until Christmas?

I have only been to Canada once -Toronto - and could not have met friendlier people. I really want to go back and do a trip spanning the whole country. Race Across the World did a season going from east to west and it looked so bloody beautiful

Hi @ChubbyMorticia You made bread?! 👏😋
@snemrose Yes, holiday today and we say, Thanksgiving Monday. Lots of businesses/gov'tu are closed today.
Not bothered that those outside Canada aren't aware we have our own, earlier, celebration. Glad ours isn't closer to Christmas!
Christmas Day and Boxing Day are stats here for most businesses, but lots of smaller businesses open like cafe's, restaurants as well, but not most of any gov't businesses unless essential. Shopping malls are always open in Boxing Day for sales, but shopping isn't nearly as good as when I was a kid.

Don't know how I managed to attach a gif to my last post! 😂

@Mumtobabyhavocah didn’t know you had Boxing Day too. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving 😀

Happy Thanksgiving @Mumtobabyhavocand the rest of Canadian mumsnet contingent! I’m in Scotland but I did know you have an earlier Thanksgiving than the US do. I always feel in some respects Canada and the US are treated in a similar manner to Scotland and England lol, people can sometimes assume you all have your holidays at the same time (thinking of our school summer holiday dates!) I hope you’re having a very happy day and I especially like the things you are thankful for. Nice to read something so happy on my commute home, I want to wish you a lovely evening ahead but I’ve no idea what time it is for you.

Happy Thanksgiving. I'm working later so we had our dinner on Sat so Turkey sandwiches for us today. South VI it's a little chilly @ 11 degrees. I'm taking my pooch out for a walk and quick paddle board. Feeling very Thankful of my surroundings even tho I'd give it all up tomorrow and move back to England.

We're 8hrs behind London here on the west coast @timesinpunai and yes, Canada is often conflated with the US. We don't like being referred to as American, either.
@snemrose much better today, thanks, not having to cook! Just stuffed my face with left-overs I microwaved. 😁
@DoubleDoubleDown I love the Island, but could never live there (again). It was 4c when I got up at 7am this morning. 🥶

Happy Thanksgiving! North Van here - sunny but a little colder than I've been accustomed to recently... Breakfast was cup of tea and PC frozen waffles, Thanksgiving meal with youngest DD and DS was hotdogs and frozen yogurt at Ikea, then Starbucks for me. I like the sound of your menu much better! Nothing else planned for rest of day except piles of laundry and lounging around on the couch. Just me and the younger ones today, as divorced from their dad. For my autonomy and freedom from a narcissistic control freak, I am eternally thankful!

What are you missing about the UK, @DoubleDoubleDown ?

Honestly everything. I do love Canada but they are just not my 'people'. I find a lot of the 'nice' is actually very passive aggressive. I feel like I will never quite fit.

Sorry to hear you are feeling homesick. I'm always depressed for a little while after my annual summer trip to visit my family. Mind you, the other night I had a dream that I had to move back to the UK and woke up feeling so relieved that it was just a dream. Do you find it very hard for friendships here to move past the 'shallow' phase? Especially in my city, I find that quite a lot of people have lived locally all their lives, and are very much of the "We're not interviewing for any new friends right now" attitude. It's hard to form meaningful connections.

Yes I do find the same friendship wise. I have found my best connections are with other people who have move here from Europe, we just ' get' each other. I'm very lucky that I have my husbands family around. You're right, a visit home does tend to shake up the emotions. I've got 2 kids left in highschool so not going anywhere for a few years but who knows after that.

I felt like that when I spent some time in Australia. There was always a sense of not quite fitting in

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Spent the weekend in a cabin at Jasper Park Lodge. Had Thanksgiving Dinner delivered yesterday - full bird and all the trimmings. It was so nice to have someone else cook it.

Eight hour drive back “up North” today. We’re in Alberta so DS has no school, as the teachers are on strike. DH is also taking leave this week, so DS’s plans for unlimited XBox are disappearing fast …

It was -11 this morning! It has tried to snow all weekend. Lots of snow on high peaks but nothing on the streets. I know Canmore had some snow settle, as did places east of Calgary.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Havoc your menu sounds amazing.

Thanks for popping by the thread, Math. 🩷

Hello!!! We had the whole wider family over last night. 8.5kg turkey, mashed potatoes, maple syrup candied Brussels sprouts, roasted carrots, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and lots of wine and tea. Today was spent watching the old 1985 Anne of Green Gables and making Halloween costumes.

👋 🇨🇦

I'm actually in Canada - Toronto - this year and spent yesterday catching up with cousins on my late mother's side. Ate out and I had salmon followed by pumpkin pie back at theirs.

Today we were hosted by family on my late father's side who I hadn't met before. They were brilliant! We had Thai take-out and then pecan pie.

Feeling very patriotic today 🍁

Are you living in the UK, then?
How nice you're here for the holiday. ☺️