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Thanksgiving in America vs. Thanksgiving in Canada
Origins and Significance
Thanksgiving in Canada originated purely as a harvest festival. On January 31, 1957, the Canadian Parliament proclaimed:
A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed – to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.
English explorer Martin Frobisher hosted the first Canadian Thanksgiving.
It was held in what is now Newfoundland during his expedition's attempts to find the Northwest Passage to the Orient in 1578 and marked their safe arrival to the New World. So it was not hosted to celebrate a bountiful harvest.
With time, French, Scottish and German immigrants to Canada added some of their traditions to the harvest festival.
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American traditions like the turkey were added by the United Empire Loyalists around the time of the American Revolution.
The first American Thanksgiving was celebrated 43 years later in 1621 at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in Massachusetts.
The Wampanoag Native Americans helped the pilgrims who arrived in Massachus
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