By Parliamentary proclamation enacted in 1957 Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October every year. In 2011, the date was October 10. The date in 2012 is October 8.
Thanksgiving was made a national holiday by President Lincoln, but it wasn't celebrated until much later in the 1900's. The date of the holiday has also changed off and on.
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Thanksgiving Day is not a national holiday in England.
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I don't think England celebrates Thanksgiving because it's an American holiday. The pilgrims came to America and ate dinner with the Indians.
Thanksgiving has not stopped being a holiday in the United States or Canada.
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October 3, 1789 was the date on which first U.S. President George Washington [February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799] proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving. He identified that day as November 26th. The holiday continued to be observed, but not on a national level. Its observance tended to be in New England. But the date varied widely, from sometime in October to sometime in January.
Technically Washington did however it did not become a federal holiday with a set date until Lincoln.