The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is up for speculation however the earliest known celebration was on September 8, 1564 in Florida in what is now Saint Augustine. Some 600 Spanish settlers upon arrival celebrated a mass of Thanksgiving to celebrate their safe arrival to the New World.

Most people refer to what is talked about as being the most traditional Thanksgiving celebration in the Plymouth Plantation, in 1621. Most of our modern traditions on how we celebrate Thanksgiving Day is associated with the Pilgrims at Plymouth's Thanksgiving Dinner with the local Native Americans.

Other than the United States where it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November each year, Canada celebrates their Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October.

The celebration is usually a mixed gathering of friends and family.

Typical American Thanksgiving foods include a roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing of the turkey, gravy sauce, and others..