Naut's Tidbits & Snippets for Sunday, December 23, 2007

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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Christmas Dinner in the Early Days...

According to the Toronto Star, back in 1793 turkey wasn’t on people’s minds when they thought of Christmas dinner. According to the diaries of Elizabeth Simcoe, the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, the feast would include such delicacies as “boiled black... Sign in to see full entry.

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