The turkey comes first, golden and glistening, carried to the table like a small, edible crown.

Around it gather the faithful: mashed potatoes whipped with butter, gravy thick enough to stand a spoon in, sage-and-onion stuffing, buttery turnip, maple-glazed carrots,

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Brussels sprouts: few admit we like them — but out of politeness, we find space for them on a corner of our plate.

Cranberry sauce glows ruby in its dish. Buns steam under a cloth. Then come the pies — pumpkin, apple, pecan, and perhaps a butter tart or Nanaimo bar to settle old arguments.

Windows fog. Cousins crowd the kitchen. Somewhere, a grandmother says “sit, sit,” and the whole house obeys.

This weekend, Albertans and Canadians will celebrate Thanksgiving.

From the fishing wharfs of Newfoundland, where the Atlantic keeps its own........

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