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4th Thursday in November
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Today Americans join with friends and family to declare thanks for the past year’s blessings. Though scholars argue over the first true Thanksgiving in North America, we traditionally attribute the holiday to the three-day feast of the Plymouth Rock Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians who showed them [...] Second Monday of October
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia each lay claim to Thanksgiving celebrations even older than the Pilgrims of Massachusetts. English navigator Martin Frobisher enjoyed a Thanksgiving meal on Baffin Island in 1578, and Samuel de Champlain established an “Order of Good Cheer” in 1606, after most of his men died out the previous [...] This weekend I shared something with my one year-old niece: our first Canadian Thanksgiving. She was born just after Thanksgiving last year. The most glaring difference I’ve noticed between Thanksgiving in the U.S. and in Canada is that Canadian Thanksgiving is on a Monday. Other than that, it’s pretty much the same. In the process of celebrating Canadian [...] |
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