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Tuesday, October 04, 2005This coming long weekend many Canadians across Canada will be getting together with family, friends from near and afar and tucking into their turkey (our family like them big, last year's was 19 pounds!) feasts tradiontally at least in the Neal family also including squash, mashed potatoes with a healthy helping of gravy and fresh Ontario beans as well as both crushed and jellied cranberry sauce with the turkey stuffed with lots of flavourful stuffing with a multitude of herbs and spices! To finish off the meal we then tuck into the seemingly mandatory seconds and then pumpkin pie, apple pie or a combination of both with lots of whipped cream. We also attend a Thanksgiving church service in the town where my family farm is in the countryside an hour or so outside the Toronto area. The minister always says something similar to "Well here are all the Neals who come to Elora (Ontario) each and every year to celebrate Thanksgiving we would like to warmly welcome them". When then stand up all; 15 + of us! Unlike our American friends and family in addition to celebrating our Thanksgiving the 2nd weekend of October we also celebrate not for the Pilgrims arrival to North America in 1620 but to celebrate happiness and the bounty of what Canada's Fall harvest brings to Canadians and our points across the globe who import our food and products. Read more about Canadian Thanksgiving on this tourism site of Canada's capital; Ottawa, Ontario at: http://www.ottawaplus.ca/portal/profile.do?sectionID=95&categoryID=16&contentType=1&profileID=1032602 Here are a eye pleasing series of photos of Toronto & Montreal in the Fall as well as a Canadian Thanksgiving charachter An awesome cartoon in the Canadian Thanksgiving spirit, check this webpage out at: http://www.mahuffer.com/New_Folder-1/canadian_thanksgiving-1.gif and http://www.willowbrookdesigns.com/animations/thanksgiving00-can.gif A Toronto park overlooking the world's tallest building the CN Tower in Fall An forest of foliage on Mount Royal overlooking Montreal, Quebec, where I stayed for 4 days in August for my brother's soccer tournament in Montreal suburb Brossard More Montreal woods in the Fall Another shot of Montreal during the Fall Teague Neal blogged on 11:48 PM
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