in what month does canada celebrate thanksgiving?
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Second Monday of October is correct.  And also as another poster indicated, that is harvest time in most of Canada.
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Thanks giving day  is on  Thursday, November 23, 2006 in the United States this year.  Thanksgiving is a U.S. holiday in late November that commemorates the good harvest of the Pilgrims in 1621.
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July 1, 1867 - Called Canada Day
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This year, US Thanksgiving is on Nov. 23.
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It is an Americans celebrating of passing the first hard winter at Plymouth, then having a bountiful harvest. \nOtherwise, sit round, eat too much, burp, be thankful, watch American football (a game with no real sense to me), and be thankful for the things life has given. Apparently like Christmas it is a day when some people must put up with in-laws and distant relatives they can not stand, and otherwise can't stand. BLAH!
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I'm not American either, but I'll explain anyways.\nThanks giving is the day that the Americans give thanks.\nIt dates back from the time the first English people (or the pilgrims) who came to America on the 'Mayflower' and got on land on Plymouth. Those pilgrims were having problems to survive, due to the irregular harsh weather and were dying.\nThey met with a few native americans, who helped them out and thought them how to grow harvest like corn, beans ect.\nAnd because of that, the pilgrims were grateful and in this same time, they decided to make a feast, thanking God and the native Americans for all they got.\nAnd that's Thanksgiving.\nHope that helps!!
944187
No, you're wrong.  Thanksgiving has been here since Labor Day.  CHRISTmas has been here since Halloween.
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celebration of Thanksgiving is a memory of the time when the british voyager had a good harmony with the american natives. it was also a thanks giving to God for the british and native american friendsip
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Thanksgiving is a day that we set aside here in America to give thanks to God for the bountiful blessings that He has bestowed upon us.  It is the Harvest season and we also give thanks for a abundant harvest that we have.  We give thanks for family, friends and this wonderful country that we live in. \nThe first Thanksgiving was when the Native Americans(Indians) and Pilgrims had a feast to celebrate the wonderful harvest that they had.
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http://www.ivillage.com/?nlcid=sw|11-23-2006|\n\nHope you have a great Thanksgiving!!
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This year it is November 23
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The roots of this holiday go as far back as 1621 when the Pilgrims who arrived in the New World from England celebrated a particularly bountiful harvest following a very harsh winter earlier in the year.  \n\nThanksgiving was originally intended to be just that – a day of giving thanks for all that we have been blessed with:  homes to shelter us, food to sustain us, friends and family to support us, and the freedom to worship and live in any way that we might choose.   I could tell you that this warm and fuzzy sentimental tradition is still carried out today, but I would be lying.  Thanksgiving has become all about the food, and it is viewed as the final hurdle we must cross in order to unabashedly start reveling in the Christmas season. \n\nThe Pilgrims were members of the English Separatist Church, and sailed to Holland in order to flee from religious persecution.  They did experience more religious freedom while there, but became disillusioned with the Dutch way of life, viewing their way of living as ungodly.  Eventually, the Pilgrims managed to strike up a deal with a London stock company, who helped to finance this pilgrimage to America.  Oddly enough, only about one-third of those aboard the ship (for those of you who don’t know it was called the Mayflower) were actually religious Puritans.  The remainder of the men on board were hired by the stock company to protect their interests.  \n\nSo as the story goes, the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620.  The Pilgrims were unprepared for the harsh New England winter that lay ahead of them, and by the following fall 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower had perished.  However, the harvest of 1621 was bountiful, and the Pilgrims decided to celebrate with a feast, including the Indians who had helped them to survive through that first year.  The feast lasted for three days, and did not include the traditional items we think of when we think of Thanksgiving dinner today.  The meal included wild duck and geese, venison, boiled pumpkin, fish, berries, clams, lobster, dried fruit, and watercress.  \n\nThanksgiving was celebrated off and on over the next few hundred years until it was finally established as a legal holiday by Congress to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November every year in 1941.
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So you read my answer, didn't you? Thanks...\n\nWe don't celebrate it coz our Great Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) didn't celebrate it, so as his followers, we don't celebrate it too. \n\nIf we'd like to thank to God, we dont have to wait until thanksgiving or other holidays. We can do that in our Shalat, in our pray, or by sharing with the others, at anytimr
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Nov 23 (Thanksgiving): http://www.experiencela.com/Calendar/eventlist.asp?start=1&day=yes&day1=23&monthly_view=11%2F23%2F2006&monthname1=11&month=11&year=2006\n\nNov 24: http://www.experiencela.com/Calendar/eventlist.asp?start=1&day=yes&day1=24&monthly_view=11%2F24%2F2006&monthname1=11&month=11&year=2006\n\nNov 25: http://www.experiencela.com/Calendar/eventlist.asp?start=1&day=yes&day1=25&monthly_view=11%2F25%2F2006&monthname1=11&month=11&year=2006\n\nNov 26: http://www.experiencela.com/Calendar/eventlist.asp?start=1&day=yes&day1=26&monthly_view=11%2F26%2F2006&monthname1=11&month=11&year=2006
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What's wrong with you? Thanksgiving is a commemoration of the first successful harvest of the Mayflower Pilgrims in New England. If you knew anything at all, you would know that they travelled to the New World to escape religious intolerance in England. But still you ask how we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the UK. The USA and UK may have the same language, but that does not mean that they will necessarily have the same traditions.\n\nThe nearest thing we have to the USA's Thanksgiving is Harvest Festival celebrated in churches, and usually in September. See this website for more details: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Harvest.html\n\nHalloween was hardly celebrated in the UK before the 1980s. There were some kids' parties, with children dressed as witches, and apple bobbing. Swedes (Swedish turnips) were used for making lantern faces illuminated by a candle. Some older kids would remove garden gates from their hinges, and hide them - all trick and no treat. And that was about it.\n\nThe reason for that is that the UK has a more established celebration on November 5th - Guy Fawkes Night (aka Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night). See this website for further information: http://www.bonefire.org/guy/ . Furthermore children used to collect money in the street - see the "Penny for the guy" tradition as outlined in this webpage:  http://homepages.tesco.net/~derek.berger/holidays/guyfawkes.html\n\nHowever things changed in the 1980s following the release of the films E.T. and Halloween. As a result of the 1982 film, E.T., (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/) more children began dressing up in spooky costumes and knocking on doors for sweets. A consequence of the 1978 film, Halloween (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/), was that a public demand for pumpkins was created, and they are now used for making lantern faces. Adults also have costumed Halloween parties. Nowadays Halloween here is no different from the USA.\n\nI hope this answers your query.
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I celebrate thanksgiving to \n1. Spend time with my family\n2. To look back at my life and realize how lucky I am to be able to have a feast every year while some people are scrounging for food.\n3. To give thanks for what I have and to pray that, at least that one day, The people who aren't as lucky find some hapiness
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Thanksgiving is the national day of...thanksgiving.  It was made a holiday by President Lincoln to help heal the scars of the Civil War.  Meant to symbolize the thanksgiving feast the Pilgrims had with the Native Americans after the winter and near-drought of the first year of settlement (the Native Americans basically kept the settlers alive, introducing them to native crops such as corn and lima beans and regional seafood like lobster and cod), the feast is actually an invitation for families to come back together and for the nation itself to put aside the bickering for just one day and eat and enjoy each other just for the sake of family.  Unfortunately, the pureness of the day is tainted by the fact that it marks the beginning of the Christmas buying season, but what can we do about that?  Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November.\n\nI'm not sure what I'm thankful for yet; I haven't made up my mind.  There are so many things I am grateful for, but that one thing I am thankful for...I need to put more thought into it.