Thanksgiving Community Meal Returns to Vancouver Harbour Light

Posted on 5th October 2023, by SalvationArmy.ca
Staff ready to hand out Thanksgiving meals
After a three-year absence, the Thanksgiving Community Meal is returning to The Salvation Army’s Harbour Light in Vancouver. This event provides a Thanksgiving celebration and meal for people experiencing hardship. In the past few years, the Thanksgiving event at Harbour Light had been modified due to the pandemic. Instead of hosting the usual large holiday  […]

Hotel Executive Volunteers with The Salvation Army

Posted on 7th October 2019, by SalvationArmy.ca
Roydell (right) volunteers at Salvation Army soup kitchen
“The Salvation Army treats people like human beings―family,” says volunteer, Roydell. “This keeps me coming back.” During the season of Thanksgiving in 2018, Roydell’s employer, one of Bermuda’s luxury resorts, offered to supply The Salvation Army’s soup kitchen in Hamilton with a traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner. Wanting to support the vulnerable in her community, Roydell,  […]

Salvation Army Provides Thousands of Thanksgiving Meals and Food Hampers

Posted on 7th October 2016, by SalvationArmy.ca
thanksgiving feature
Thanksgiving should be a time for sharing and celebration. But four million people in Canada can barely scrape enough together to put dinner on the table every day. Across the country, The Salvation Army is striving to make sure everyone has something to eat this holiday. Whether providing nutritious supplies from our food banks, or,  […]

Salvation Army Serves up Food and Dignity

Posted on 5th October 2015, by SalvationArmy.ca
Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and many of us will sit down to a traditional Thanksgiving feast. But, for vulnerable people such as low-income earners, the elderly on fixed incomes and people experiencing homelessness, Thanksgiving is a day where limited food and lack of money and resources is even more obvious. “Four million Canadians  […]

Food Bank Reduces Thanksgiving Stress

Posted on 9th October 2014, by SalvationArmy.ca
Having access to a food bank keeps single mom calm and hopeful
Barbara, 33, doesn’t want to be a statistic. However, she is one of 850,000 Canadians assisted by food banks each month. This Thanksgiving, when we consider our many privileges and opportunities, let’s take a minute to think about the hundreds of thousands of Canadian families who struggle to put food on the table. “Sometimes my  […]

How You Can Help Hungry Families This Thanksgiving

Posted on 2nd October 2014, by SalvationArmy.ca
Help fill Salvation Army food banks. No one wants to know how hunger feels.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and as many Canadians prepare for their traditional holiday feast, we are reminded that there is someone on almost every corner of this vast country who simply can’t afford to have a big turkey dinner. One in eight Canadian families struggle to put food on the table and, each  […]

One in Five Canadians Skip Meals to Help Make Ends Meet

Posted on 10th October 2013, by SalvationArmy.ca
Hunger hits closer to home than many of us realize. Over the next several days, as we gather with family around tables for a traditional holiday feast, we need to remember those who struggle to put food on the table. According to a recent Angus Reid Public Opinion survey commissioned by Food Banks Canada, last  […]

Needs are Great as Thanksgiving Food Drive Kicks Off

Posted on 8th October 2013, by SalvationArmy.ca
The Ottawa Sun sat down with Michael Maidment days into his new role heading the Ottawa Food Bank. Q. What has surprised you in your first week? A. Going into the warehouse and seeing 21,000 square feet of food and starting to appreciate and understand, looking at those boxes, what that really means to nearly  […]