Thanksgiving on thursday5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The German equivalent of Thanksgiving is Erntedankfest (“harvest festival of thanks”). Thanksgiving traditions in Canada look very similar to American ones, including eating turkey and watching football (the Canadian Football League holds an annual Thanksgiving Day Classic) with family. Canada’s Parliament formally established a national Thanksgiving Day (November 6) in 1879 as of 1957, the date was changed to the second Monday in October. Loyalists who moved to Canada during the Revolutionary War introduced turkey, along with some other customs from the American Thanksgiving. This is considered the first-ever Thanksgiving celebration in North America, though in fact First Nations (the indigenous peoples of Canada) and Native Americans had been holding harvest festivals long before Europeans arrived. In 1578, an expedition led by the English navigator Martin Frobisher held a ceremony in what is now Nunavut, giving thanks for the safety of their fleet. It may surprise you to learn that Canada’s first Thanksgiving celebration actually predates America’s-by more than 40 years. ![]()
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