Thanksgiving Day: Canada
Mon, Oct 10
|Location is TBD
In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on a different date to the US holiday. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October, as that is when the Canadian harvest would be complete.
Time & Location
Oct 10, 2022, 1:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. PDT
Location is TBD
About the event
Thanksgiving (French: Action de grâce) or Thanksgiving Day (French: Jour de l'Action de grâce), is an annual Canadian holiday and harvest festival, held on the second Monday in October, which celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Outside of Canada it is sometimes called Canadian Thanksgiving to distinguish it from Thanksgiving in the United States, held in late November.
Thanksgiving has been officially celebrated as an annual holiday in Canada since November 6, 1879.[2] While the date varied by year and was not fixed, it was commonly the second Monday in October.
On January 31, 1957, the Governor General of Canada Vincent Massey issued a proclamation stating: "A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed – to be observed on the second Monday in October."