When do the Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving and does it have anything to do with the American celebration?

Question

I was trying to do business with a company in Canada yesterday and they were closed for canadian thanksgiving -- that's when I thought of this question!

Answer 1

Second Monday in October, and I'm glad you asked that. I'm a Canadian living in Switzerland and I like to do Thanksgiving. For Monday I invited two American vegetarians and a family from Australia. We did our best to explain the concept to the Australians but they didn't quite follow.

Comes down to this: Canadians get annoyed when Americans have holidays we don't, and we couldn't come up with another one so we took the date of Columbus day and combined it with the name of Thanksgiving and there you go. I think a fair number of Ontarians and Prairie people do celebrate Thanksgiving à la américaine but basically Quebecers and Atlantic Canadians go, great a day off, eh? I don't know about BC.

Oh and FYI most stores in Quebec are OPEN on Thanksgiving. Found that out when my assistant manager called to ask why I hadn't shown up to work.

Answer 2

Our Thanksgiving falls on the second monday of October. It is alot like the traditional thanksgiving that Americans celebrate; including turkey and all of the trimmings, pumpkin pie and that sort. It's generally focused on family, so for the long weekend most companies are closed or have alternate holiday hours.
As a side note what is regarded as the first Thanksgiving in North America occured in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland back in 1578. This celebration was thrown by English explorer Martin Frobisher who wanted to give thanks for surviving the long journey from Great Britain.

Answer 3

No we merely have fun our Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is unquestionably purely a custom stemming from a harvest competition, so in Canada the becoming season is many times shorter... for this reason why maximum farmers in Canada harvest into October, while down interior the U. S. you get harvests into November (or 365 days around in some spots). Canadian thanksgiving is unquestionably an analogous because of the fact the yank one merely celebrated a month and a 0.5 earlier.

Answer 4

The American Thanksgiving has to do with the original Pilgrims. Ours is the same on the surface ( turkey, family etc) but a totally different reason for it. It's to celebrate a successful harvest. Right about now, most of our crops are either in or about to be.

Answer 5

well that was yesterday...

i never had turkey before.. on thanksgiving i have chicken in stead..

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

the reason why we celebrate thnksgiviging well.. i'm not sure.. but ithink it's generalltyy the same reason why you guys do too..

Answer 6

Well I guess I don't have to tell you when we celebrate it then. But it has nothing to do with your american customs. We simply like turkey and wanted a day to celebrate it. Plus, it's another day that we don't have to work! We call it thanksgiving day because we wanted the guy who thought it up to know we thanks him for giving it to us. really. Others may tell you differently, but that's just how it goes.

Answer 7

Canadian Thanksgiving is what we call Columbus day. They do not treat their Thanksgiviong like we treat ours. Most companies close but that is the extent of the celebration.

Answer 8

we just celebrated our thks giving yesterday october 9th. the us has theirs in late november the 22nd i believe.