Thanksgiving Forecast: Vancouver, British Columbia

Current Weather Updated: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 8:00 PST - Vancouver Airport

5

°C

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Partly cloudy

• Feels Like: -
• Wind: SE 7km/h
• Sunrise: 7:18
• Sunset: 16:34

• Relative Humidity: 81%
• Pressure: 101.43 kPa
• Visibility: 32.0 km
• Ceiling: 4200 ft

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Short Term ForecastUpdated: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 3:00 PST

	Thursday Morning	Thursday Afternoon	Thursday Evening	Thursday Overnight
	Mainly sunny	Sunny	Isolated showers	Rain
Temp.	2°C	7°C	5°C	6°C
Wind	N 5km/h	S 5km/h	E 5km/h	E 5km/h
Humidity	88%	76%	89%	87%
P.O.P.	10%	0%	40%	100%
Rain	-	-	less than 1mm	close to 15mm

Long Term Forecast Updated: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 8:00 PST

	Friday Nov. 13	Saturday Nov. 14	Sunday Nov. 15	Monday Nov. 16	Tuesday Nov. 17	Wednesday Nov. 18
	Rain	Snow-rain showers	Rain at times heavy	Rain	Rain	Cloudy with showers
P.O.P.	100%	90%	100%	100%	100%	90%
High	6°C	3°C	8°C	9°C	9°C	8°C
Low	0°C	-3°C	4°C	7°C	3°C	3°C
Wind	SE 10 km/h	NE 10 km/h	S 15 km/h	S 10 km/h	SE 20 km/h	E 25 km/h
24-Hr Rain	15-20 mm	20-30 mm	50+ mm	50+ mm	10+More than 10 mm of rain possible mm	10+More than 10 mm of rain possible mm
24-Hr Snow	-	10-15 cm	-	-	-	-

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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