In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October - that would be this Monday 13th and its a stautory holiday, so we can enjoy a long weekend and get together with family. Do you know how Thanksgiving in Canada started? Here's what Wikipedia says The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This feast is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving celebration in North America, although celebrating the harvest and giving thanks for a successful bounty of crops had been a long-standing tradition throughout North America ...
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