Monday, October 11, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving/Columbus Day!



The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are more closely connected to the traditions of Europe than of the United States. Long before Europeans settled in North America, festivals of thanks and celebrations of harvest took place in Europe in the month of October. The very first Thanksgiving celebration in North America took place in Canada when Martin Frobisher, an explorer from England, arrived in Newfoundland in 1578. He wanted to give thanks for his safe arrival to the New World.

For a few hundred years, Thanksgiving was celebrated in either late October or early November, before it was declared a national holiday in 1879. It was then, that November 6th was set aside as the official Thanksgiving holiday. But then on January 31, 1957, Canadian Parliament announced that on the second Monday in October, Thanksgiving would be "a day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed." Thanksgiving was moved to the second Monday in October because after the World Wars, Remembrance Day (November 11th) and Thanksgiving kept falling in the same week.
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41 comments:

  1. anontcotrolOctober 11, 2010 at 4:07 AM

    Oh, exciting times!

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  2. Victor M.October 11, 2010 at 6:06 AM

    Did not know there was a different day for thanksgiving. Huh....

    http://quarterqwerty.blogspot.com/

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  3. The Greater SpartanOctober 11, 2010 at 6:24 AM

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  4. The Greater SpartanOctober 11, 2010 at 6:58 AM

    HEHE NICE ! it's on my b day !

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  5. Atheos_CirnoOctober 11, 2010 at 7:14 AM

    i love thanksgiving it's pretty much eat lots of food day.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 11, 2010 at 7:59 AM

    yay happy thanksgiving

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  7. BarnacleOctober 11, 2010 at 8:17 AM

    No celebrating thanksgiving in sweden ;)

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  8. Nerd LifeOctober 11, 2010 at 8:21 AM

    awesome info here... good job!

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  9. WillowOctober 11, 2010 at 8:35 AM

    Happy Thanksgiving to you!

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  10. nickOctober 11, 2010 at 8:45 AM

    didnt know anything about thanksgiving until now

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  11. OlimpikyOctober 11, 2010 at 9:00 AM

    always my dad wants me to read your posts to him its a bit annoying but it makes him happy i guess.

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  12. loveblogginOctober 11, 2010 at 9:22 AM

    happy columbus day

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  13. Barry WhiteOctober 11, 2010 at 9:43 AM

    Great post! keep up the great work!

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  14. BubblesOctober 11, 2010 at 9:53 AM

    happy thanksgiving

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  15. AnonymousOctober 11, 2010 at 10:14 AM

    I don't celebrate Columbus day, only thanksgiving, and I only like that they because we eat Turkey.

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  16. GoodfellaOctober 11, 2010 at 10:38 AM

    Happy thanksgiving.

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  17. Light Weight Baby!October 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM

    Great read! Looking forward to reading your next post.

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  18. ZohrlaffOctober 11, 2010 at 1:12 PM

    Damn I didnt you guys had a different day for this

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  19. Discerning GentlemanOctober 11, 2010 at 1:35 PM

    cool, this works for me!

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  20. befashionistic.blogspot.com/October 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM

    thank you, you too have a happy thanksgiving

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  21. Jimmy VolmerOctober 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM

    I see what you did here...

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  22. thecatzpajamasOctober 11, 2010 at 4:12 PM

    columbus day sucks

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  23. Insurance Advice GuyOctober 11, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    happy columbus day!

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  24. Home Alone StonedOctober 11, 2010 at 4:53 PM

    yay columbus

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  25. Lewis ChanOctober 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM

    i forgot its thanksgiving!

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  26. DrFreshOctober 11, 2010 at 6:23 PM

    happy thanks giving :) i just finished eating my turkey.

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  27. AnonymousOctober 11, 2010 at 6:26 PM

    nice dude, make a new post

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  28. -ITW-October 11, 2010 at 6:47 PM

    columbus day fuck yeah, no class

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  29. comradejoker.blogspot.com/October 11, 2010 at 8:39 PM

    a blog about Canada! awesome!
    following~

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  30. Nerd LifeOctober 11, 2010 at 8:43 PM

    interesting post!

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  31. The Square CircleOctober 11, 2010 at 8:56 PM

    holidays are meaningless to me right now.... no school. :]

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  32. SC2 StratsOctober 11, 2010 at 10:28 PM

    Neat, I had no idea!

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  33. JehabbiOctober 12, 2010 at 1:03 AM

    Canada>USA

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  34. dolan duckOctober 12, 2010 at 2:41 AM

    I didn't know Canada celebrated thanksgiving on a different day than the USA, thanks for the info looking forward to more.

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  35. 3milelimitOctober 12, 2010 at 4:33 AM

    interesting, I prefer the thanksgiving that I celebrate though

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  36. Stevie SmallsOctober 12, 2010 at 7:30 AM

    gobble gobble gobble!

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  37. Barry WhiteOctober 12, 2010 at 7:37 AM

    Great post!

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  38. Light Weight Baby!October 12, 2010 at 8:13 AM

    interesting, I didn't know that...

    GTL4life!

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  39. Pope SmurfOctober 12, 2010 at 11:11 AM

    Happy columbus day!

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  40. Discerning GentlemanOctober 12, 2010 at 11:30 AM

    this is relevant to just what I was thinking about

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  41. BattlecrabOctober 12, 2010 at 11:52 AM

    Canadian thanksgiving!!!

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