SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING

First Thanksgiving service
was held in Canada’s arctic

Was gold the reason for thanks?

BELIEVE IT or not, there are aspects to the Thanksgiving
holiday that make it uniquely Canadian.

inundated with American media
as we are, it shouidn't surprise us
that we automatically associate
Thanksgiving with pilgrims and
pumpkins. But it is about time
that our own contribution to the
celebration was brought to light.

Perhaps most notable is the fact
that the first North American
Thanksgiving service pre-dated the
Pilgrims’ feast by several decades
and was held, not in New
England, but in Canada’s eastern
Arctic,

Northwest Passage-searcher and
sometimes-pirate Martin Frobisher
held a religious service of
Thanksgiving in August 1578,
during his third trip from England
to Canada's frozen north.

_ While the ‘‘goid’’ he and his
crew had discovered may have
provided the primary motivation
for the Thanksgiving service, and
was later found to be fool’s gold,
the service nonetheless goes down
in history as a forerunner to the
celebration at Plymouth.

. And the Harvest Festival service
in the Book of Common Prayer
of the Anglican Church of
Canada was unique to Anglican
churches throughout the world
when it was first included in the
prayer book, says Rev. Fred
Thirkell of St. Monica’s Church
in West Vancouver.

But now is when Canadians
have the most to offer the cele-
bration of Thanksgiving, which
has always hovered uneasily be-
tween being a religious and a
secular celebration.

Given the many assorted ethnic
backgrounds of our citizens, it is
important to have a holiday that
is spiritual in nature, yet not par-

_ ticularly affiliated with any one
deity or religious event.

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