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I want to know how long and when this holiday

2006-10-08 15:26:36 · 7 answers · asked by vip 1 in Society & Culture Holidays Thanksgiving

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The day after Halloween

2006-10-08 15:29:19 · answer #1 · answered by sloth665 3 · 0 0

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day holiday observed in Canada and the United States to give thanks. In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October and, in the United States, on the fourth Thursday of November.

Following a nineteenth century tradition, most Americans believe that the first American Thanksgiving was a feast that took place on an unremembered date, sometime in the autumn of 1621, at Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts. In 1620, a group led by separatists from the Church of England, who were heading for Virginia, instead landed at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, for uncertain reasons. In the autumn of 1621, they celebrated a three-day harvest feast with the native Wampanoag people, without whom they would not have survived the winter of 1620. This event was not viewed as a thanksgiving celebration at the time; the colony would not have a Thanksgiving observance until 1623 — and that was a religious observance rather than a feast.

The nineteenth century reinterpretation of the 1621 festival has since become a model for the U.S. version of Thanksgiving, but it was an established tradition before the popularization of the Pilgrim mythology. For example, the modern Canadian Thanksgiving was brought to Canada by United Empire Loyalists after the American War for Independence.

2006-10-08 22:36:38 · answer #2 · answered by mysticideas 6 · 0 0

The 4th Thursday in November always

2006-10-08 22:36:35 · answer #3 · answered by Mary C 2 · 0 0

It's the third Thursday in the month of November. ALWAYS!!!
Regardless of the day.

2006-10-08 22:35:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It's always the 4th thursday of November. It is only one day.

That person above me is being deported for not knowing this.(-:

2006-10-08 22:29:23 · answer #5 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0 0

I think it start it start on the 23

2006-10-08 22:29:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

as soon as Halloween is over

2006-10-09 15:39:34 · answer #7 · answered by gabby 5 · 0 0

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