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Post by Kim on Oct 14, 2002 17:15:42 GMT -5
Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Canadians!
Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and eat so much that you have to roll yourself to work tomorrow! ;D
Kim
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Post by LHR02 on Oct 14, 2002 20:36:51 GMT -5
Hey Kim.....curious minds want to know.......what led to Canada's T'day and why on a Monday. (No odder than ours on a Thursday) And is it always on this Monday, or always on the 14th? (Which BTW happens to be my hubby's b'day....he would have been 54 today and has been on my mind all day.  ging |
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Post by Kim on Oct 14, 2002 22:21:33 GMT -5
Not sure why but it always falls on the second Monday in October. Lots of people have their dinner on the Sunday-it's always either on the Sunday or Monday.
Canadian Thanksgiving is actually due to a few traditions..
When the Europeans came to Canada, they gave thanks for a good harvest, which was adopted into their new country..
In 1578 English navigator Martin Frobisher arrived in Newfoundland and held a ceremony to celebrate his arrival there.
After your Thanksgiving was started in the 1621's , it was brought to Canada by American settlers in the 1750's and in 1763, when the 7 years war ended the people of Halifax held a special Thanksgiving.
Originally it was Nov.6th, but in 1957 it was put forward by parliament "that the 2nd Monday in October"........"be a Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.".
So there you go. By the way, don't be too impressed-I had to look up the dates! ;D
Kim
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