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2. List of Christmas and winter gift-bringers - Wikipedia

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   Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. This is a list of Christmas and winter gift-bringer figures from around the world. The history of mythical or folkloric gift-bringing figures who appear in winter, often at or around the Christmas period, is complex, and in many countries the gift-bringer – and the gift-bringer's date of arrival – has changed over time as native customs have been ...

3. Thanksgiving (Canada) - Wikipedia

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   Thanksgiving (Canada) A celebration of being thankful for what one has and the bounty of the previous year. Thanksgiving (French: Action de grâce) or Thanksgiving Day (French: Jour de l'Action de grâce), is an annual Canadian holiday held on the second Monday in October. [1] Outside the country, it may be referred to as Canadian Thanksgiving ...

4. Ann Voskamp - Wikipedia

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   Ann Voskamp is a Canadian author, blogger, and memoirist on themes of Christian women's spirituality, and the author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestseller, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, as well as The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into the Abundant Life and WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of.

5. Culture of Canada - Wikipedia

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   Canadian sculpture has been enriched by the walrus ivory, muskox horn and caribou antler and soapstone carvings by the Inuit artists. [136] These carvings show objects and activities from the daily life, myths and legends of the Inuit. [137] Inuit art since the 1950s has been the traditional gift given to foreign dignitaries by the Canadian ...

6. List of Canadian inventions, innovations, and discoveries

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   Paint roller – invented by Norman James Breakey of Toronto in 1940 [7][18] Robertson screw – invented by Peter L. Robertson in 1908. Rotary vane pump – invented by Charles Barnes and patented in 1874. Toggling harpoon – an Inuit tool used by Inuit while whale or seal hunting to impale the animal when thrown.

7. Potlatch - Wikipedia

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   A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States, [ 1 ] among whom it is traditionally the primary governmental institution, legislative body, and economic system. [clarification needed][ 2 ] This includes the Heiltsuk, Haida, Nuxalk, Tlingit, [ 3 ] Makah, Tsimshian ...