Reflections
Whose Holiday Is It: Tracing Roots of Thanksgiving Traditions
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Thanksgiving in Canada has a checkered history, so Joeita Gupta set out on a mission to learn more about it.
She spoke with Peter Stevens, a Professor of Liberal Studies at Humber Polytechnic. Peter talks about the religious histories of the widely celebrated holiday, and describes how settlers wrote Indigenous peoples out of the story of Thanksgiving in the early 1800s.
Brian Rice offers…