Do you observe Thanksgiving?
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TheAlkaizer
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It's not really a thing in the french-speaking part of Canada. We do have a holiday for it, but I've never met french-Canadian actually having a Thanksgiving day like the Americans do (family, food, etc). I think it's does happen in the anglophone part though.
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Yeah, it's not a huge thing here in Vancouver but it's a reason for White Spot and other places to offer turkey dinners to cook at home, for cafes to offer turkey cranberry croissants, that sort of thing.
The Soloist
Hero
Correct. I used to date a Canadian Ukrainian lady (anglophone Ontario) in the 80s and Thanksgiving was observed.
We did Thanksgiving lunch at Fogo de Chao today. Part of the decor over the salad bar included a tree & sign in traditional Thanksgiving/fall hues of browns, yellows, oranges and reds that said “Merry Christmas”.
Clint_L
Legend
I think they meant the Anglophone part of Quebec. There are still some distinct cultural differences between the primarily French-speaking majority and the primarily English speaking minority in that province. It's a whole thing that has significantly shaped Canadian history and politics since there's been a Canada. By and large, Thanksgiving is seen as an English-speaking holiday.
It's pretty widely observed in Ontario and other primarily English speaking provinces, but not remotely in the way that the US celebrates it. But it's a statutory holiday everywhere in the country, including Quebec.
British Columbia, where I live, recently added two more statutory holidays so that there is at least one for every month except June, and 13 total. I'm assuming June gets a holiday added soon.
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The Soloist
Hero
I'm Québécois and the lady I was talking about studied with me at Concordia University in Montréal. A lot of Ontario anglophones study in Québec because it costs less than in their own province.
There are many cultural differences between the primarily French-speaking majority and the primarily English speaking minority in Québec. We are far from being culturally assimilated into the ocean of English speakers of North America.
/end derailing.
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Paul Farquhar
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Yeah, harvest festival first Sunday in October in UK as well, and I suspect most of Europe. But it’s not a big deal and will probably pass by unnoticed if you don’t go to church.
What I don’t understand is why American Thanksgiving is so late. If your harvest isn’t in by October it will be wrecked.
I have no idea what the harvest dates were back in 1863 when Lincoln picked a date, or the earlier festivals. But I was surprised to learn just now that corn (edit: maize for much of the world), for example, does finish getting harvested a lot later than I thought:
from: A Visual Look at Typical U.S. Corn Harvest Dates | MachineFinder
And a variety of others go through late November:
from: Harvest Calendar
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