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Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day (Action de grâce in French), is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October.
Traditional celebration
In Canada, Thanksgiving is a three-day weekend. The Monday is a statuory holiday in all jurisdictions except New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island [1]
As a liturgical festival, Thanksgiving in Canada corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves and other harvest bounty, English and European harvest hymns sung on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend and scriptural lections drawn from the biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot.
While the actual Thanksgiving holiday is on a Monday, Canadians might eat their Thanksgiving meal on any day of the three day weekend. In Canada, Thanksgiving is often celebrated with family, it is also often a time for weekend getaways for couples to observe the autumn leaves, spend one last weekend at the cottage or participate in various outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing and hunting.
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day (Action de grâce in French), is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October.
Traditional celebration
In Canada, Thanksgiving is a three-day weekend. The Monday is a statuory holiday in all jurisdictions except New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island [1]
As a liturgical festival, Thanksgiving in Canada corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves and other harvest bounty, English and European harvest hymns sung on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend and scriptural lections drawn from the biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot.
While the actual Thanksgiving holiday is on a Monday, Canadians might eat their Thanksgiving meal on any day of the three day weekend. In Canada, Thanksgiving is often celebrated with family, it is also often a time for weekend getaways for couples to observe the autumn leaves, spend one last weekend at the cottage or participate in various outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing and hunting.
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