Historic 17th Century Feasts Highlight Gourmet Traditions
An account of a Quebec feast from the early 1600s describes cornbread cakes, kettled eels and beans, rich nut thickened soups, squash and beans, venison and birds, plus maple sugar desserts. A 1847 Fort Esmonton Christmas features buffalo meat, moose, beaver tails, wild goose, whitefish, and central produce. A Toronto Christmas at a wealthy home lists four soups, four boiled dishes, seven roasts, and multiple fowls with butter sauce, reflecting lavish holiday dining of early Canada. Noel means Christmas in French, literally Birthday or joy in usage.
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Canada
Quebec
Fort Esmonton
Toronto
Christmas Lives Anew and the First Christmas Story
The piece reflects on the two Gospel writers Matthew and Luke shaping the Christmas narrative. It links their accounts to carols, candlelight, and gifts of the Magi, urging churches and families to renew reverence, wonder, and joy as the wise men worship the Christ child.
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Mary
Joseph
Matthew
Luke
Christ
Bethlehem
Famous Christmas Babies: Newton Utrillo and Booth
Three celebrated figures share a Christmas Day birth. Evangeline Booth led the Salvation Army in London and later the United States. Maurice Utrillo, Montmartre painter, born 1883, became famed for his church domes. Isaac Newton, born 1642 in Lincolnshire, shaped physics and mathematics.
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England
Paris
Evangeline Booth
Maurice Utrillo
Sir Isaac Newton
Salvation Army
William Booth
London
United States
France
Maurice Utrifle
Montmartre
Maurice
Sacre Coeur
Isaac Newton
Lincolnshire
Chronology notes from ancient dating systems
The article surveys the origins of BC AD dating, noting Charles Ho of Germany first attached the symbols to years in 879, the Christian era begins on January 1 in the fourth Olympiad, and mentions Scaliger's Julian period design as well as ancient calendars from Egypt and Rome.
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Charles Ho
Germany
Aa Monk
Rome
Joseph Scaliger
Alexander
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Acton Free Press
United Church
Sandra van Fleet
Sandra Denny
Gay Nessett
Susan Shoemak
Pat Sampson
Fern Small
Barbara Symon
Christmas
the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada
Robert S. Hart
Orville Rd
Acton Bus
Acton Firefighters’ Association
Aing
Bill Toth
S Shell
Queen SY. E.- Act
Monk
Hotchen’s Bakery
Mans
Symon
Noel
F. L. Wright
Merry
Allan’s Collision Service
Crewson
Stitt
J. B. MacKenzie & Son Ltd
Acton
Georgetown
Grants Motors
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