Thanksgiving Day Date In Canada, What To Know About Canadian Thanksgiving

List of dates for other years.

Zion national park during thanksgiving. Today it is celebrated by pulling the family together in a huge thanksgiving meal or feast for dinner. And great britain with lower canada marking the day on may 21 and upper canada on june 18 waterloo day. Is set to take place on the fourth thursday in november this year thats november 26 2020 to you.

For example in 1816 both celebrated thanksgiving for the termination of the war of 1812 between france the us. However not everyone sees thanksgiving day as a cause for celebration. Thanksgiving in canada is celebrated each year on the second monday of october.

It also involves playing games and activities with loved ones and the community. It is a chance for people to give thanks for a good harvest and other fortunes in the past year. Lower canada and upper canada observed thanksgiving on different dates.

Parliament officially declares thanksgiving as a day of general thanksgiving to almighty god for the bountiful harvest with which canada has been blessed. Most canadians embraced the change of date to october since that period better coincides with the actual completion of harvest in much of the country. The weeks before belong to the busiest shopping days of the year so make sure your thanksgiving shopping list is done on time.

If you had a hunch that canadian thanksgiving might take place on a different date than american thanksgiving youre right. From 1863 onwards thanksgiving it replaced evacuation day on november 25 the day that british troops departed from new york city. Thanksgiving day in canada has been a holiday on the second monday of october since 1957.

As always thanksgiving in the us. In fact it doesnt even take place during the same month as our holiday. Gift giving is part of the thanksgiving tradition and for that reason it is an important shopping day for canadians.

In 1939 president roosevelt changed the tradition of the last thursday of november to the next to last thursday in order to lengthen the holiday season between thanksgiving and christmas. The holiday came to be in 1879 as a national holiday but the beginning dates back to the time of martin frobisher when he discovered canada. Thanksgiving day has been an annual holiday in the united states since 1863.

Beginning in 1970 a group of native americans and their supporters have staged an annual protest for a national day of mourning at plymouth rock in plymouth massachusetts on thanksgiving day. Theres no department store sponsored parade broadcast nationwide in canada but there is the kitchener waterloo oktoberfest thanksgiving day parade. Thanksgiving became a nationally recognised holiday in canada in 1879.