We hope you enjoy the long weekend, good food, and this tour through parties and Thanksgivings past in our collections:

in 1888, the Regina Lodge in Vancouver was charging $4 to attend a Social Ball and Supper:

Turkey was the thing by 1913, as Women’s Words of Western Canada encourages a poultry raising cottage industry:

Enthusiastic conversation at an unidentified dinner party in the 1940’s:

Excellent fashions at a similar party:

A visually impressive Masonic Dinner:

And those who make it all happen, the cooks (from a 1959 Faculty Club dinner):

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Will you be celebrating Thanksgiving this year? What are your favourite traditions?