Thanksgiving Day in Canada

Continuing on, let us see the Thanksgiving Day in Canada.

Although British rule in Canada was only firmly established in the early 1700s, Thanksgiving in Canada dates back to 1578, when explorer Martin Frobisher explored the Northwest Passage in the Arctic Circle. Frobisher’s Thanksgiving is not a day of thanksgiving for a good harvest, but for Frobisher himself who managed to survive the dangerous voyage from England to Canada, full of storms and icebergs. On his third and final voyage to the north, he held a formal celebration of thanksgiving on Baffin Island in Frobisher Bay to thank the Christian God, and with Pastor Robert Wolfall to perform communion.

Thanksgiving in Canada is also sometimes traced to the French rulers who came to New France with Samuel de Champlain in the 17th century and celebrated the grain harvest. The rulers of New France often held banquets after the harvest season, and the celebrations often lasted through the winter, and sometimes they even distributed food to the local aborigines. Late fall celebrations of thanksgiving became common as the rulers of New England arrived in Canada. This festival is mainly to commemorate the successful settlement of the first immigrants from England to the United States, that is, the Christian “Puritans”. Thanksgiving in the United States is a bit like the Spring Festival in China. It is a day for family reunion, and they will definitely gather together for a reunion banquet. The reunion dinner includes traditional dishes such as turkey, creamed onions, and mashed potatoes.

But because Canada enters winter earlier and the harvest date is earlier, the Thanksgiving date in early Canada is also earlier. Later, with the outbreak of the American Revolution, American royalists also came to Canada and introduced American elements of Thanksgiving to Canada.

It wasn’t until the 19th century that Canada’s official Thanksgiving date was fixed. The first official Thanksgiving was set on October 14, 1876, and this Thanksgiving was to celebrate the recovery of King George V of England from illness. Until the end of the 19th century, Thanksgiving was usually celebrated on the first Monday in October.

But after World War I, Memorial Day and Thanksgiving often fell on the same week. In order to avoid the conflict between the two festivals, the Canadian Parliament adjusted the date of Thanksgiving to the second Monday in October in 1957, and this date has remained so far.

After the U.S. Uniform Holiday Act of 1971 went into effect, Columbus Day in the U.S. and Thanksgiving in Canada would fall on the same day. Thanksgiving is now an official holiday in most of Canada. Only “Thanksgiving” in Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the Atlantic Province is not a statutory holiday.

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