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Yankee Candle amazon. Sweet Water Decor amazon. There's no department store-sponsored parade broadcast nationwide in Canada, but there is the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Thanksgiving Day Parade. The German beerfest is televised on CTV with floats and plenty of costumed characters. Black Friday is out, Boxing Day is in. The Canadian equivalent of Black Friday takes place more than two months after Thanksgiving.
On December 26, stores cut prices and open early in honor of Boxing Day. The holiday originated in the UK -- and no, it's not a national celebration of pugilism.
According to Encyclopedia Britannica , upper-class employers would share boxes of leftover presents or money with their servants, who were required to work on Christmas. The act of charity has evolved into a day of discounted shopping and a convenient time to trade in an unwanted gift.
In — more than 40 years before the American pilgrims — English explorer Martin Frobisher held the first Thanksgiving celebration by a European in North America in Newfoundland. He and his crew were giving thanks for their safe return from a treacherous exploration of the Northwest Passage.
But since fighting about who held Thanksgiving first seems to go against the spirit of the holiday, I think we can all just shake hands and agree that the indigenous peoples of North America were giving thanks for good harvests and bountiful food long before the Europeans showed up. Thanksgiving was observed sporadically by Canadians in the 17th and 18th centuries and with more regularity in the 19th.
The day was finally formalized as a national holiday in In the U. The lights and wreaths start showing up the day after Halloween, if not before. The actual day of celebration has moved around several times throughout history, but today, Monday is officially Thanksgiving Day in Canada. As the second Monday of the month, it also lines up with the U.
Many people have the day off work and all schools and post offices are closed. Many stores and other businesses and organizations are also closed. Public transport services may run to a reduced timetable or may not run at all. In New Brunswick, Thanksgiving Day is a prescribed day of rest , meaning that businesses must be closed.
Nova Scotia treats this day as a retail closing day , when some retail businesses are not allowed to open and employees have a legal right to refuse to work. While this is not a public holiday in Prince Edward Island, it is a holiday for federal employees and institutions in the province, and many shops, businesses, and schools are closed. Many people have a day off work on the second Monday of October. They often use the three-day Thanksgiving weekend to visit family or friends who live far away, or to receive them in their own homes.
Many people also prepare a special meal to eat at some point during the long weekend. Traditionally, this included roast turkey and seasonal produce, such as pumpkin, corn ears and pecan nuts.
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