Turkey Day by Uncle Amon

Author:Uncle Amon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: childrens books, early readers, elementary books, beginning readers, gifts for kids, thanksgiving stories, kids thanksgiving books, thanksgiving books for children, thanksgiving jokes, i can read books
Publisher: Hey Sup Bye Publishing

Canadian Thanksgiving

My mom is from a country called Canada. She has a funny accent; she watches ice hockey on TV and has lots of clothes with pretty red maple leaves on them.

Dad says that Canada is a made up place like Neverland or Narnia and it doesn’t really exist. When he says that Mom usually laughs and calls him a “hoser.” Once I asked my dad what a hoser was and he said, “Just a made up word from a made up land.” Then Mom hit him gently with a hockey stick.

Mom sometimes points out Canada on a map or a globe to us, but Dad always says he could just as easily point out Middle Earth or The Land of Oz on a map, but that doesn’t prove anything because anyone can draw a map.

So this year for Thanksgiving Mom took us to visit her parents in Canada. She took us partly because she loves her parents and doesn’t get to see them often enough, but mostly I think she did it to prove it was a real place.

Canada is beautiful! The air is crisp and clean, there’s snow everywhere, everything is written in both English and French and everyone is so nice! And Canadians all seem to have donuts with them at all times!

Grandma told us that in Canada they had already celebrated Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October, because everything is harvested earlier in The Great White North, which is what she calls Canada sometimes. But since she loves us she said they would celebrate again in November.

She told us the story of the first Canadian Thanksgiving, too. It’s totally different from ours. It doesn’t have anything to do with pilgrims or Native Americans up here. Instead, in Canada, they remember the time an explorer named Martin Frobisher set sail from England to make a settlement in Canada and collect gold ore!

The trip was long and very hard; they hit ice many times and suffered strange storms, which scattered the fleet. They even lost one of their ships. When they finally did land in Canada they had a feast of Thanksgiving to celebrate their safe arrival!

The settlement didn’t really work out in the long run, and when Sir Frobisher returned to England in the fall he brought back over a thousand tons of gold ore he and his men had mined. Or at least he brought back what he thought was gold ore. Once it was all melted down, they found out it was all a totally worthless mineral called iron pyrite, which is also known as “fools gold.”

But they had over a thousand tons of it now, so they used it to make some of the roads in England. So the streets of England were sort of paved with gold!

As grandma told us the story I was very thankful to learn such interesting new things in a whole new world that actually does exist, despite what Dad says when he’s kidding around with us. I was thankful Grandma shared her wisdom and her cooking with us.

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