What do they celabrate?
2006-09-14 02:40:13 · 14 answers · asked by BOOTS! 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The harvest season falls earlier in Canada compared to the United States due to the simple fact that Canada is further north.
The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now called Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.
At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their Indian neighbours.
After the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.
2006-09-14 02:42:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Canadian Thanksgiving marks the comparable experience because of the fact the U. S. Thanksgiving - and the two began as harvest fairs. the version is, using climatic situations, harvest is earlier in Canada than it is in maximum US states, so the quicker date merely reflects that. Why is it unusual that Canada's Thanksgiving is on Columbus day? the two activities are not related, and Canada does not rejoice Columbus day for the easy reason that Columbus had no longer something to do with the invention or founding of Canada. isn't it unusual that the U. S. does not rejoice Boxing Day (Dec. twenty 5th)? or Burns' Day (Jan. 26)? or Dominion Day (July a million)?
2016-12-12 08:16:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd imaging they celebrate the same thing, seeing as at the time when the "pilgrims" (what a stupid term for a bunch of incompetent dimwitted yokels) arrived in what is now the US and for over 100 years afterwards, the colonies which became Canada and the US were considered to be one in the same. They were the new world colonies, and thus shared a history. The early European immigration to the eastern US and Canada happened at pretty much the same time, from pretty much the same sources. Both places were ruled by the same nation, and both share a history until the war of Independence.
2006-09-14 02:45:19 · answer #3 · answered by Entwined 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Pilgrims had shot a mountain lion instead of a turkey,would we all eat puzzy for Thanksgiving??
2006-09-14 02:43:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They celebrate the fact that they defeated the Americans during the War of 1812 and did not become us.
2006-09-14 03:04:56 · answer #5 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't celebrate anything, they just copied Thanksgiving from the US, just like the did Christmas.
2006-09-14 03:16:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why Not - Do you think only the US should be the only country ALLOWED to have thanksgiving?
What's the big deal!!
2006-09-14 05:41:32 · answer #7 · answered by brenny_boo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not being America
2006-09-14 02:41:03 · answer #8 · answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To thank God that Americans have not attacked them.
2006-09-14 02:42:06 · answer #9 · answered by Dr Dee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they celebrate that fact that the U.S. puts up with them.
2006-09-14 02:41:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋