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On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for the observance of the fourth Tuesday of November as a national holiday. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday to the third Thursday of November (to extend the Christmas shopping season and boost the economy). After a storm of protest, Roosevelt changed the holiday again in 1941 to the fourth Thursday in November, where it stands today.

There are several differences between the two holidays; for example, Thanksgiving Day is the holiday that people give thanks to God for a plentiful harvest, it involves not only thanks but also usually a period when people help those who are poor and less fortunate than themselves. Thanksgiving promotes thankfulness and gratitude, but has a North American history clinging to those morals that alienate people outside of North America. The Canadians celebrate thanksgiving during the second Monday of October and while in the Americans, it being celebrated during the fourth Thursday in November every year. Christmas is the day Christians go to church where the take part in a special religious service in order to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. It is the day of spreading joy, good cheers, exchanging gift, family reunion, and eating special food. Christmas promotes certain morals of sharing and giving to others that people can easily identify with. Christmas may have initially been chosen to correspond with either the day exactly nine months after Christians believe Jesus to have been conceived which is the date of roman winter solstice or various ancient winter festivals.
both Thanksgiving and Christmas are time of giving thanks, merriments, gift exchange and family reunion but the clear differences are there purposes are not the same. Thanksgiving serves as pilgrim's celebration of harvest and Christmas as Jesus Christ birth day, and also, there dates are not the same. Since Christmas is generally known around the world as a renowned holiday for the birth of our savior Christ, the Thanksgiving is only known and recognized in Canada and the United States alone and is a symbol of a good harvest.

Garfield was first introduced into the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1984. A second version was later introduced in 2003.

The thanksgiving prayer said before or after a meal is simply "les grâces." An act of thanksgiving is called "une action de grâce(s)." Note that the word "grâce" can be singular or plural. When referring to the holiday held in the U.S. on the fourth Thursday in November and in Canada on the second Monday in October, only the initial "a" is capitalized.

- Thanksgiving prayer => prière d'action de grâces

- Thanksgiving hymns => cantiques d'action de grâces

- Thanksgiving (the holiday) => l'Action de grâces, la fête de l'Action de grâces

- Thanksgiving Day => le jour de l'Action de grâces

- Thanksgiving weekend => la fin de semaine/le week-end de l'Action de grâces

(Le jour de) l'Action de grâces OR Le Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving (Day)

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.

Several Presidents, including George Washington, made one-time Thanksgiving holidays.

. Although the demand for making it a regular national holiday came in from various quarters, but of little impact. In 1827, Mrs. Sarah Joseph Hale began lobbying.

several Presidents for the proclamation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday. It didn't see success until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln finally made it a national holiday with his 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation. Several Presidents, including George Washington, made one-time Thanksgiving holidays.

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In 1939, 1940, and 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt, seeking to lengthen the Christmas shopping season, proclaimed Thanksgiving the third Thursday in November. Controversy followed, and Congress passed a joint resolution in 1941 decreeing that Thanksgiving should fall on the fourth Thursday of November, where it remains.

Clarification: In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving to be the last Thursday in November. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1939, at the prompting of retailers who were concerned that Thanksgiving falling on November 30 would affect the amount that shoppers spent so wanted it moved one week earlier, declared Thanksgiving to be November 23, which was the fourth Thursday in November, not the third. In 1940, Roosevelt again moved Thanksgiving one week earlier - to the third Thursday in November, instead of the last (and, in this case, the fourth) Thursday.

POTATOES. They wouldn't eat them because they thought they were poisonous.

The NFL Thanksgiving night games began in 2006.

82% of the American homes have Turkey on Thanksgiving.

Traditional foods such as turkey or ham adorn the table much like they do in the USA. Some families have large elaborate feasts while others prefer to gather and go out to eat.

Vegetables are similar such as corn, squash, carrots etc. The foods eaten are very much the same all over North America.

The Canadian Thanksgiving is observed on the second Monday in October and celebrates "The Harvest" of the crops.

The traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Dinner is composed of a Roast Turkey with stuffing or what we call "dressing" if it is cooked outside of the "bird", Mashed Potatoes, Squash in some form, Green Beans, Gravy and Cranberry Sauce (not Jelly!).

The dessert is Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream.

the last thrusday in the month

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Not pilgrims, there weren't any of those in Canada. Canadian Thanksgiving like similar ceremonies worldwide celebrates a successful harvest. It was probably first celebrated as a Harvest Home celebration the first time settlers successfully brought in a crop. It was not an official holiday until 1957, but Harvest Homes were a well-established custom long before then. American immigrants even brought with them some of the American customs, particularly the eating of turkey.

We have stockings and Christmas trees and decorations.

We give our friends and family Christmas cards in the run up to Christmas and give presents on December the 25th.

The whole family goes to someones house for a massive meal of turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, sausages etc. followed by Christmas pudding, Christmas cake, trifle.

Some families watch the queen's speech at around 3pm.

Any pie that makes you think of love or any pie that is your favorite since you were little.

In the United States, turkey is traditionally served as the main course of Thanksgiving dinner. This tradition appears to date back to New England.

about 313,904,743 pounds of turkey per Thanksgiving

It originated in America. The grateful Pilgrims then declared a three-day feast, starting on December 13, 1621, to thank God and to celebrate with their Indian friends. While this was not the first Thanksgiving in America (thanksgiving services were held in Virginia as early as 1607), it was America's first Thanksgiving Festival. Source: www.christiananswers.net

Thanksgiving was made a national holiday during the Civil War and was held on the last Thursday of November. It was President Roosevelt who declared that it be held on the third Thursday in November in 1941.

The Plymouth colony in 1621.

No, Thanksgiving is celebrated at different times in Canada and the United States. In Canada, Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October. In the US, Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November.

There were 102 passengers on the Mayflower - 74 men and 28 women.

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