Thanksgiving Forecast: Percé, Quebec

Current Weather Updated: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 0:00 EST - Gaspe Airport

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Overcast

• Feels Like: -
• Wind: E 4m/h
• Sunrise: 7:10
• Sunset: 15:29

• Relative Humidity: 100%
• Pressure: 993.60 mb
• Visibility: 9.9 miles
• Ceiling: 4000 ft

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Short Term ForecastUpdated: Monday, December 28, 2009, 23:00 EST

	Monday Overnight	Tuesday Morning	Tuesday Afternoon	Tuesday Evening
	Light snow	Light snow	Light snow	Scattered flurries
Temp.	32°F	29°F	27°F	15°F
Feels Like	23	19	12	-4
Wind	NE 9mph	N 19mph	NW 28mph	NW 31mph
Humidity	93%	92%	82%	79%
P.O.P.	80%	80%	80%	70%
Snow	close to 1 in	1-2 in	close to 1 in	less than 1 in

Long Term Forecast Updated: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 0:00 EST

	Wednesday Dec. 30	Thursday Dec. 31	Friday Jan. 1	Saturday Jan. 2	Sunday Jan. 3	Monday Jan. 4
	Few flurries	Mainly sunny	Cloudy periods	Scattered flurries	Scattered flurries	Scattered flurries
P.O.P.	40%	0%	20%	60%	60%	60%
High	15°F	18°F	22°F	34°F	34°F	32°F
Low	11°F	13°F	15°F	24°F	32°F	29°F
Wind	NW 25 mph	NW 6 mph	NE 12 mph	N 9 mph	NE 31 mph	N 28 mph
24-Hr Snow	0.4 in	-	-	2-3 in	close to 1 in	1-2 in

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Thanksgiving Facts

In Canada, Thanksgiving is a three-day weekend (although some provinces observe a four day weekend, Friday–Monday). Traditional Thanksgiving meals prominently feature turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes, though Canada's multicultural heritage has seen many families infuse this traditional meal with elements of their traditional ethnic foods.

As a liturgical festival, the Canadian Thanksgiving corresponds to the European harvest festival, during which churches are adorned with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves and other harvest bounty. English and other European harvest hymns are customarily sung on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, along with scriptural lections derived from biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot.

While the actual Thanksgiving holiday occurs on a Monday, Canadian families might eat their Thanksgiving meal on any day of the three day weekend. The holiday can also be a time for weekend getaways for couples to observe the autumn leaves, spend one last weekend at their summer homes, or participate in various outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing and hunting.

History of Thanksgiving in Canada

The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been futilely attempting to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did, however, establish a settlement in Canada. In the year 1578, Frobisher held a formal ceremony in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This event is widely considered to be the first Canadian Thanksgiving, and the first official Thanksgiving to occur in North America. More settlers arrived and continued the ceremonial tradition initiated by Frobisher, who was eventually knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him — Frobisher Bay now known as Iqualuit.

It should be noted that the 1578 ceremony was not the first Thanksgiving as defined by First Nations tradition. Long before the time of Martin Frobisher, it was traditional in many First Nations cultures to offer an official giving of thanks during autumnal gatherings. In Haudenasonee culture, Thanksgiving is a prayer recited to honor "the three sisters" (i.e., beans, corn and squash) during the fall harvest.

Source: Wikipedia.org