Slava Isusu Khrestu!
From the north of North America,
the wish for all Canadians and our neighbours to the south, on our calendar, is a
Happy Thanksgiving !
Some history of our First Thanksgiving in North America and on what would become the province of Newfoundland in Canada.
The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now called Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.
“ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever” (Psalm 106:1)
Kolya
