Thanksgiving Day National Holiday, Canada

About Thanksgiving Day: Thanksgiving day is a national holiday in Canada and is all about thanking for the better harvest along with other fortunes in the past year. It is a national holiday and the people get the day off for the work along with all the schools and the post offices along with many organizations are closed. The public transport also runs less frequently and the people believe in making merry and enjoying the day whether in New Brunswick or the region of Nova Scotia. The thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October and people often go for the three-day.

With three days after the two days of weekend people generally plan out as the Thanksgiving day for spending time either with the family or enjoying the outing with the family and friends together. The city which are in their veins already get a look for the country-side and since October is the onset of many festivals in the row and winter approaching with it’s all hues the people start packing their bags for the nearest ski slopes. The entire atmosphere gets fun-filled and the food items or the spread is lavish which includes roast turkey along with the seasonal produce which are fruits and vegetables such as corn ears along with pecan nuts.

Thanksgiving Day Celebration: The roast turkey which is given more importance as food item is not only confined to U.S.A but it has got imbibed everywhere in the Christian Culture as well and with Thanksgiving day being synonymous to the Turkey eating people love the food in the best of the ways. The thanksgiving weekend gives people a way to enjoy various sports from where the person takes to short vacation and go for various sports activities such as Canadian Autumn sports rugby and baseball along with the Canadian football league where people spend watching matches with Thanksgiving Day Classic Matches either at the holiday homes or the cottages in the woods which they book prior to enjoy the life.

The native people of Americas held ceremonies along with festivals to celebrate the completion of the harvesting season and so does the Canada people also started following suit. The well known symbol of the Thanksgiving day in Canada is Cornucopia which is a horn and is filled with the seasonal fruits and vegetables. The festival is linked somewhere to the European tradition of harvest festivals where the common image is seen at this time of the year with bounty given by the nature and it remained as a symbol of plenty with food of lavish spread such as Turkeys, Pumpkins, the Ears of Corn along with food in abundance to give the mother nature a real thanks and also make the food an important aspect of life as food makes us what we are today.

So, Thanksgiving is all about celebrating the efforts of the farmers and the farm houses in our life and the food which they produce is served in the family and the dear ones who believe in getting united when it comes to follow the tradition.

Thanksgiving Day Canada Date and Day:-

2025 Festival Date: Monday, 13 October

2024 Festival Date: Monday, 14 October

2023 Festival Date: Monday, 9 October

2022 Festival Date: Monday, 10 October

2021 Festival Date: Monday, 11 October

2020 Festival Date: Monday, 12 October

2019 Festival Date: Monday, 14 October

Type : Cultural

Frequency: Annual