[Healeys] Happy Thanksgiving [ Monday ]

E.A. Driver edriver at sasktel.net
Mon Oct 13 12:43:14 MDT 2014


No.No Rick. It was the Vikings who landed in Newfoundland in 1000AD, out 
of Meade
and finally sobering up enjoyed the willow leaves the natives supplied 
to relieve their
headache. They gave thanks as they discovered aspirin and became filthly 
rich ;-) :-P ;-)

Ed
Saskatoon


14 10:28 AM, Rick Swain wrote:
> the first. Thanksgiving in what's now Canada was celebrated by Martin
> Frobisher in Newfoundland in 1578 (incidentally 43 years before the Pilgrim
> Fathers) to give thanks for his successful voyage across the Atlantic.
>
> Sent from my iPad


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