>Actually Veterans Day in the US is the same as Remembrance Day in Canada which is the same day as the end of WWI. The history of Canadian Thanksgiving is as follows: (from http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/7214/canada.htm)
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>2. The first North American Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1578 when the English Navigator, Martin Frobisher, held a formal ceremony in Newfoundland. He did this to give thanks for surviving the long sea journey, and other settlers arrived in Newfoundland, and the tradition was continued by them.

Like I said, they were grateful because they *didn't* hit a rock....