Happy Thanksgiving, Canadians

[argonsagas]

Today is officially our day for all Canadians to give thanks for all our blessings, good health and good fortune.

For my family the last year has been a tough one, but it has also had some wonderful parts.

One is the very nice coincidence in timing as our twelfth anniversary was yesterday.


We are definitely thankful.

I hope all of you have much to appreciate.

[rphillips]

Congrats argon on the anniversary. I know little about Canada, wondering if ya'll call it Thanksgiving and do all the Turkey and dressing and cranberries as we do, or is there a different name and kind of celebration? It's been a unusually hard yr. for a lot of folks everywhere. The main thing to remember there's always things to appreciate and be thankful for, it's just that sometimes you need to look a little harder to find them.

[bccap]

Happy Thanksgiving all ......

[trevor]

Congrats argon on the anniversary. I know little about Canada, wondering if ya'll call it Thanksgiving and do all the Turkey and dressing and cranberries as we do, or is there a different name and kind of celebration? It's been a unusually hard yr. for a lot of folks everywhere. The main thing to remember there's always things to appreciate and be thankful for, it's just that sometimes you need to look a little harder to find them.

Traditional holiday

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As a liturgical festival, Thanksgiving corresponds to the British and continental European harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves, and other harvest bounty. While the actual Thanksgiving holiday is on a Monday, Canadians may gather for their Thanksgiving feast on any day during the long weekend; however, Sunday is considered the most common. Foods traditionally served at Thanksgiving include roasted turkey, roast beef, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, sweet corn, various autumn vegetables (including various kinds of squashes, but also Brussels sprouts), pumpkin pie, apple pie, and glazed yams. Various regional dishes and desserts may also be served, including salmon, wild game, Jiggs dinner with split-pea pudding, butter tarts, and Nanaimo bars.^[14]

In Canadian football, the Canadian Football League has usually held a nationally televised doubleheader, the Thanksgiving Day Classic. It is one of two weeks in which the league plays on Monday afternoons,^[15] the other being the Labour Day Classic.


Many communities in Canada hold events in the week prior to, and/or on the day of the holiday. For example, the Markham Fair is an annual agricultural and harvest festival held during the weekend before Thanksgiving,^[16] Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest holds an annual parade consisting of floats, civic figures in the region, local performance troupes and marching bands,^[17] and Fort Langley holds a widely attended neighbourhood festival celebrating the cranberry harvest, in which local crafts, produce, and artisan goods are sold.^[18]

The first Thanksgiving Day after Confederation was observed as a civic holiday on April 5, 1872, to celebrate the recovery of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) from a serious illness.^[27]

For many years before it was declared a national holiday in 1879, Thanksgiving was celebrated in either late October or early November. From 1879 onward, Thanksgiving Day has been observed every year, the date initially being a Thursday in November.^[28] After World War I, an amendment to the Armistice Day Act established that Armistice Day and Thanksgiving would, starting in 1921, both be celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11 occurred.^[27] Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays, and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day. From 1931 to 1957, the date was set by proclamation, generally falling on the second Monday in October, except for 1935, when it was moved due to a general election.^[24][27] In 1957, Parliament fixed Thanksgiving as the second Monday in October.^[27] The theme of the Thanksgiving holiday also changed each year to reflect an important event to be thankful for. In its early years, it was for an abundant harvest and occasionally for a special anniversary.^[24]

[rphillips]

Quite interesting trev, thanks. Just something I'd just never thought about before. Seems yall's and ours are quite similar. Ours is always on the 4th Thursday in Nov. and for most folks the day we have the big meal, followed by left-overs on Fri., Sat., and Sun. I think over the yrs. the date for ours has changed a few times like yall's has. Seems the eats are quite similar, I just didn't mention all the things you did, but I've seen all that stuff on our Thanksgiving tables. Like title says Happy Thanksgiving to all ya'll, enjoy yourselves and be safe.