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Thanksgiving in Canada

and for all you guys to lazy to click the link,

In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The harvest season falls earlier in Canada compared to the United States due to the simple fact that Canada is further north.

The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now called Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.

At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their Indian neighbours.

After the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.

During the American Revolution, Americans who remained loyal to England moved to Canada where they brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada. There are many similarities between the two Thanksgivings such as the cornucopia and the pumpkin pie.

Eventually in 1879, Parliament declared November 6th a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Over the years many dates were used for Thanksgiving, the most popular was the 3rd Monday in October. After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11th occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day.

Finally, on January 31st, 1957, Parliament proclaimed...

"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed ... to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.

Its a four day weekend from school i dont need a history lession.

i just ate my turkey and my stomach is hurting..lol my family had 6 pies, and apple crumble and someone brought a cake so we sang happy thanksgiving to the tune of happy birthday and blew out a number 9 candle



happy thanksgiving everyone

No shit, you need a god damn grammar lesson

eh?

Ugh Racism!

I plead insanity.

Accepted, i sentence you to 10 weeks of sucking my dur

death pls.

I sentence you to death, by choking on my dur!

I could have gone my whole life without knowing that Canadians had a Thanksgiving.

AHHHHHHHHHH.

some girl in school was talking bout how the canadians have a differnt thx giving. I can't really complain bout it though since i'm greek and we got a differnt easter. Then again since the greeks invented jesus maby it's everyone else whose differnt.

hahaha "invented jesus"



Knowlage is Power


Its also Columbus Day
Conmemoracion del Dia de Colon
Leif Erikson Day
aaaand. Fire prevention Day


woot!

I think you should take that lesson with me.

I love Leif Erikson! Best viking ever!
I need to go celebrate.

can somebody explain to me why the Canadians have a holiday with the exact same traditions as ours, on a different day for a different reason?

Think of original ideas, you syrup guzzling losers!

a holiday with a theme of togetherness and brining family together, I'm pretty sure the pagans celebrated the harvest way before the americans, so the question is why arn't you orginal?

... ... >> *goes to find a mad beaver and Fed'ex it to Gripster*



Ahaha, well it doesn't matter cus I'm an American living in Canada anyways...Happy Thanksgiving!

Eating a big turkey meal with pie on a holiday called "thanksgiving"? That's too much of a coincidence. More proof that Canada wishes they were us.

actually they are slowly shaping there country after ours that way when they infiltrate us and take over washington nobody will notice. This actually all happned yesterday.

w00t thx ya'll but i'm kinda a day late cause i was celebrating at my grandma's house

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