I add my happy Thanksgiving wishes and hope that all enjoy family get togethers.

Spooky sends cheers to all the Canadians on the BB.

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada, eh! I'll be thinking of you all this afternoon as I eat Thanksgiving dinner with some Canadian friends.

Caitie, I hope you enjoyed your Canadian Thanksgiving, lucky you, you end up with 2 Thanksgivings.
Brenda I hope you had a good family Thanksgiving and that you are now getting ready for your upcoming trip. Have you started packing yet?

Marue: Thank you. It was very nice and I didn't have to do any of the work! (That never happens!) Hope you had a nice one, too.

Thanks for the thanks and happy thanksgiving to all my fellow canadians.
Sorry I am late but for good reasons.
This long weekend was the opening moose hunting season from my part of the country.
I've just got back from the bush.
Me and my younger brother caught a big old moose, sunday at 10h40 am. It was a fighter because it has no horns on its left side. Just on its right side.

Each quarters weighed more than 100 pounds each upon my father.
We will deliver it to the butcher next thursday. The butcher promised us that everything will be ready for our freezers the next day.

Yvon, why do you shoot Moose

Because we ate their meat.

So in our fall and winter season, we replace the beef with moose.

That's why I've tasted your kangaroo meat in july.

It is a family tradition. It is probably because my great grandmother from my father side, was a metis from the Atikamek nation. This french site gives you a good overview of the nation.
Attikameks
Their second language is french instead of english for other tribes elsewhere in Canada.
They used the algonquin language.

Nicole, my wife always said that I still have their small eyes and big cheek bones on my face.

I don't like the taste of other wild meats like black bear and beaver.

Me-Guish!

Yvon,it was quite an interesting read about the Attikameks. I never thought about it but I guess the maple sugar making was originated by the Natives. We used to ski in to a family operation north of St. Agathe who would boil some syrup in a large cauldron, just like the photo. I used to like to drink the sap straight from the tree. We don't have any maples here, but the French Association here holds an annual sugar party, where I think they just boil some syrup and do the "tire" on snow.

Missie hunting is quite popular in Quebec and maybe less restricted than here. Here we have lotteries for certain species including grizzly bears.
My father-in-law used to hunt when my husband was young and we have a deer head on the wall in the family room from about 40 years ago.
We have a friend who used to go elk hunting north of Calgary and he would always give us some meat, now he only goes pheasant hunting, these are raised pheasants. I think maybe the elk hunting has become more restricted. I don't know much about it, but I think it might be necessary to cull some species.

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