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2nd Monday in October

In 1957, the federal government declared that the second Monday in October would be designated as Thanksgiving Day. On January 31, 1957, Vincent Massey, the Governor General of Canada issued a proclamation stating: "A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed – to be observed on the second Monday in October." 

​Perhaps churches had made that proclamation sometime before that because the item below ran in the Submarine Miner of November 1954. 
In the photo above, William and Mary Healey of No. 6 Range show off some of the beet they grew in their back yard in the early 1940s. Photo courtesy of their grandson, Johnny Parsley. "They had a nice sized garden behind their home on the Green. He worked the mine and still grew a large garden each year."
Kathleen and Jim Power, East Track, display a harvest of large potatoes, c. 1950s. Photo courtesy of their son, Hubert Power.