CANADIAN THANKSGIVING
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving To my Canadian family, friends, clients and readers, a very happy Thanksgiving. I hope you were able to both celebrate and relax this weekend. I remind myself of the many blessings I have and the many things I have to be thankful for. A Canadian Thanksgiving The first Canadian Thanksgiving was celebrated on April 15, 1872 in thanks for the recovery of the future King Edward VII from a serious illness. The next Thanksgiving was not celebrated until 1879 when it was celebrated on a Thursday Canadian Thanksgiving Catholics and other non-Protestant Christians, workers, non-Christians, ethnic minorities and other groups excluded from the clergy's notions of Thanksgiving and Canadian identity democratized the holiday and adopted their own holiday Thanksgiving The first and original Thanksgiving comes from Canada. In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving, and the first Thanksgiving to have taken place in Canadian Thanksgiving The Canadian Thanksgiving celebration falls on the second Monday of October – more than a month ahead of the American Thanksgiving — Canada’s colder climate puts its harvest celebration well in advance of its southern neighbor’s. Happy Thanksgiving Canada Here’sa little more info about Canadian Thanksgiving’s origins:. Origin of Thanksgiving in Canada:. I found some great info on the origins of Canadian Thanksgiving at Wikipedia. The first and original Thanksgiving comes from Canada. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! The topic at hand was Canadian Thanksgiving. My question was why we celebrate it when the pilgrims never actually set foot in Canada. This then begs the additional question, why is it celebrated nearly two months before the American Canadian Thanksgiving This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He was later knighted and had an inlet off the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay. Thanksgiving Weekend in Canada Tucows' head office is located in Toronto, Canada, and this weekend is the Canadian Thanksgiving Long Weekend. Like many businesses in Canada, Tucows' head office will be closed. Some departments will be operating on holiday hours. What is Canadian Thanksgiving Anyway? Recently I was asked: where did Canadian Thanksgiving come from? I think most of us know the American Thanksgiving story, the pilgrims, the thanks for the But how many of us really know where Canadian Thanksgiving comes from?
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