Thanksgiving 2020 Canada Why Do We Celebrate. Action de grâce or thanksgiving day french. Thanksgiving day is today monday october 12 for canadians.
Thanksgiving day is today monday october 12 for canadians. Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the united states canada brazil grenada saint lucia and liberia and the sub national entities leiden norfolk island and puerto rico it began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. The plymouth colony thanksgiving feast of 1621 that is now considered to be the first thanksgiving was in fact just one of many and many.
What i found both did and didn t surprise me.
So in this blog post i m going to talk about why we celebrate thanksgiving in canada what distinguishes canadian and american thanksgiving and what the holiday has to do with how we remember and forget our collective histories. What i found both did and didn t surprise me. President abraham lincoln wrote a proclamation declaring that all states in the union would celebrate the day in 1863. Believe it or not thanksgiving in canada or at least the land that would become canada has its own history separate from our american counterparts.
