Today — Monday, October 12, 2009 — is the Thanksgiving hol­i­day 캐나다.

Canadians cel­e­brate the Thanksgiving hol­i­day roughly six weeks ear­lier than Americans do. 과 미국. expats 항상 물어,"왜?"

여기 내 책에서 발췌입니다, 캐나다에서 유학 생활, 에 대해 why Canadian Thanksgiving is in October:

동안 Canada doesn’t share the pil­grim leg­ends that infuse U.S. Thanksgiving tra­di­tions, the coun­try does have a his­tory of thanks­giv­ing feasts.…

The Canadian gov­ern­ment first pro­claimed an offi­cial hol­i­day for “the bless­ings of an abun­dant har­vest” in November 1879. For the next 40-​​some years, Canada cel­e­brated Thanksgiving on vary­ing dates in either October or November.…Finally, 에 1957, Parliament per­ma­nently declared that Thanksgiving would be cel­e­brated on the sec­ond Monday of October.

But why October? Historians don’t agree, although many say it’s because October is har­vest time in much of Canada. By late November, wide swaths of the coun­try are already cov­ered in snow.

Most Americans will find Canada’s Thanksgiving foods famil­iar. Canadians typ­i­cally load up their hol­i­day table with turkey, 물건-ING, mashed or sweet pota­toes, cran­berry sauce, at least of cou­ple of other veg­eta­bles, and some sort of pie.

캐나다 생활 탄창-- 잡지 high­lights some of the sub­tle dif­fer­ences between Thanksgiving din­ners in Canada and the U.S here.

Happy Turkey Day!

Photo by Shoshanah (플리커)