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It's the same in Canada (as it is in the USA)...everything is pretty much the same between these two countries...we're joined at the hip! 
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Lilie, dear, no ignorance whatsoever! We do have Thanksgiving, but we celebrate it the second Monday of October. The other notable difference is:
July 1st is Canada birthday; whereas July 4th is USA's birthday. 
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Nov/21/2005, 8:05 pm
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@Jewels - do you guys have fireworks like we do for your July 1st celebration?
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This is so interesting and yeah Christy, we do eat all day for Thanksgiving or Turkey Day. I love watching the football games too...tradition.
Love the COSTUMES girls!! I think Halloween is my favorite holiday, I love watching the kids all dressed up, they are so cute! I did not greet any trick-or-treaters this year though because it freaks the dogs out, next year I am going to lock them in a closet so I can enjoy it!!
My mom is from Canada, but she has lived here so long we do all the American traditions. I really can't stand pumpkin pie or fruit cake...we have a couple of extra things that other Americans don't have that my mom has made a tradition for the holiday seasons that was passed on to her by her Ukranian parents. She makes her halupchees (spelled totally wrong), which are cabbage rolls. They are soooooo good!
It is interesting how we all celebrate different things at different times or maybe not at all and yet we all still share Christmas!
Oh well, enough of my boring traditions. I need to go to bed any ways...
KAZ, please, please get us pictures of ya'll dressed as Pilgrims... 
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Thanks very much girls for explaining us your Xmas traditions.
I'm learning a lot! 
Here you are Christmas in Italy:
In Italy, most celebrations begin on December 24, Christmas Eve, continue in full force on Christmas Day and extend to the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, for a full 14 days
The tradition of making the Christmas crib (presepe) is very popular. As for Christmas presents, the traditions vary from S.Lucia, through Santa Claus (most popular) to Befana.
The Christmas crib
The first crib was made by St. Francis of Assisi, who, visiting Betlehem on Christmas of 1222, was very impressed by the spirit of simplicity, so far from the luxury of occidental Christmas. He asked the pope for permission to celebrate the following Christmas in a similar way. As it was prohibited by the Church to represent drama with religious contents, the pope gave permission only for celebrating the mass in a cavern instead of a church. So St. Francis prepared a cave with straw, put a crib and live animals there and celebrated the mass for the people arrived from the neighbourhood.
The first real crib, as we mean it today, was made by Arnolfo di Cambio of marble in 1283 and is exposed in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. This example was followed by many churches, giving way to a competition.
In the baroque age making cribs became a fashion, not only in churches, but in houses as well, loosing much of the religious content. New, secondary figures were added, their clothes represented the actual fashion, their actions were connected to everyday's life, etc. The original figures sometimes were quite hidden by the big number of richly decorated, very life-like secondary figures. Making cribs became a well-paid profession, appreciated particularly in the centres of crib-making: Genova, Naples and Sicily. The rich and the clerical people competed to make the more expensive crib, often forgotting about good taste. These cribs were made sometimes of gold and precious stones. In the popolar versions less expensive materials were used: wood in Genova, terracotta in Naples, terracotta, plaster, wax in Sicily. Some works are real pieces of art.
Italian Christmas cakes and their origin
Panettone
A high round cake, with raisin and pieces of candied fruit. The story tells that it was invented in the court of Ludovico il Moro, by a servant, named Toni, who improvising himself as a cook, made this cake as a fruit of his fantasy. The cake had a big success, the guests were cheering Toni's cake. It's name comes from pane di Toni - bread of Toni.
Pandoro
A high cone-like cake, whose base is a star. It comes from Verona and gets its name (pandoro = golden bread) from the vivid yellow color. Others think that was named so because in Venice in the houses of the rich people it was decorated with leaves of real gold.
Torrone
A long and low, brick-like sweet: almonds imbedded in sugar mass. There are more variants, hard or soft ones; covered with chocolate or very thin wafer; other type is haselnuts imbedded in chocolate. The legend says that is was made the first time by the confectioners of Cremona as a wedding present for Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza (1441). The name comes from the tower of the city called Torrazzo.
Panforte
A large, low cake, very spicy (that's why it is called forte = strong). Was made the first time in the monasteries of Siena in the 12th century.
Befana
The Befana (from the word Ephiphany = birth) is an ugly but kind witch that brings her presents (especially sweets in a stockings-like pack) on 6. January. According to the legend she was too busy (or lazy) to go to visit the baby Jesus together to the shepherds, lost her way, so she arrived too late, finding the place empty. Since then she is looking for baby Jesus in every child, distributing her presents.
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Don't you see them??? 
You're part Canuck!!! 
My parents told me about the Befana...I've just never seen a picture of it. Thank you. 
