A Brief Comment on America’s Thanksgiving Day by Niagara At Large reporter/publisher Doug Draper
Posted November 26th, 2025 on Niagara At Large
This is an exact replica of the Mayflower, that saled from England and landed in Plymouth Massachusetts near Cape Cod four hundred and five years ago where the first American Thanksgiving was celebrated. photo by Doug Draper
This Thursday, November 27th is Thanksgiving Day in the United States and not all that many years ago my family and I would have been down on Cape, Cod, Massachusetts celebrating it with a gathering of close American friends at a beautiful old inn two members of that group owned.
Unfortunately, thanks to the COVID pandemic and more recently, the second coming of Donald Trump, those days of getting together are gone.
Like many Canadians, my wife and I refuse to travel across the border to the United States or – as much as possible – spend our money on anything made there. But while we rightfully join many of you in doing that as a way of standing up for our country of Canada, it is important to remember at least one thing.
There are still many people south of the border who did not vote for Trump and who like Canadians and want to continue to be friends.
When I call them or encounter them when they venture across the border to our side, I, like many of you, hear them say; “We’re so sorry about all of this. We still love you people.”
The Plymouth Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims first made a landing before sailing on to Plymouth, is a huge attraction every American Thanksgiving Day.
They find that as strange, in a way, as we do since, in the minds of many Americans, saying; “I’m sorry” was always something Canadians used to do, often for no other reason than just being there.
Whoever says “I’m sorry” to who these days, let’s not forget that we still have many good friends and neighbours in the United States that we are going to need and that we should support to get through this awful, dark nightmare called Donald Trump.
So let’s wish our friends in the United States and warm and peaceful Thanksgiving and hope that next year at this time, the Trump nightmare with all of of the bad it poses to both our countries, is behind us
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Doug Draper, wishing our American neighbours and friends and Happy Thanksgiving.
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