Why We Wee Where We Wee

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Canadians do a lot of things different. We pronounce our Us weird, we use the metric system, and we make celebrities out of men and women who throw heavy stones down a sheet of ice (Curling). 

Something many Americans might not know is that Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving almost a month and a half earlier than their neighbours to the south. Why? Let's ask Wikipedia:

The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean. Frobisher's Thanksgiving was not for harvest but homecoming. He had safely returned from a search for the Northwest Passage, avoiding the later fate of Henry Hudson and Sir John Franklin. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. The feast was one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations by Europeans in North America. Frobisher was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him — Frobisher Bay.

So Martin Forbisher was the first European to celebrate Thanksgiving in North America? Cool. At least, I think that's cool.

Either way, we here at Where to Wee are going to have a great time eating turkey, stuffing, ham, perogies, cabbage rolls, and anything else we can think of. Oh, and pumpkin pie. Yum yum yum yum. I love pumpkin pie!

Bloggin' will be picking up next week, so keep check back for some new and improved musings. Seriously!