[BITList] Canada's First Thanksgiving

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Frobisher sailed under Elizabeth I, whose reign was marked by gratitude from beginning to end. For her first 20 years she held public thanksgiving simply for having lived to ascend the throne -- having escaped the fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn, at the hand of her sister, "Bloody Mary," in the previous reign. 


Thirty years before they banned Christmas carols, feasting and dancing in Britain, the Puritans 
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