Do you observe Thanksgiving?

[dbolack]

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[TheAlkaizer]

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.

 

[Morrus]

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[jian]

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.

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]

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.

Correct. I used to date a Canadian Ukrainian lady (anglophone Ontario) in the 80s and Thanksgiving was observed.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Santa at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and maybe the closest thing to the an official start of the Christmas season in the US?

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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]

Correct. I used to date a Canadian Ukrainian lady (anglophone Ontario) in the 80s and Thanksgiving was observed.

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.

 

[The Soloist]

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.

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.