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• Celebrated in Canada and the United States, Thanksgiving is a fall harvest festival that has become traditionally linked with food, family and football.

• Fast Facts

  1. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving the second Monday of OctoberThanksgiving November: Thanksgiving Facts
  2. American Thanksgiving takes place the fourth Thursday in NovemberThanksgiving November: Thanksgiving Facts
  3. 2009: November 26th
  4. Traditional dinners often include turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie
  5. 1541: Coronado celebrated one of the earliest recorded Thanksgiving feasts in TexasLibrary of Congress: Thanksgiving Timeline
  6. 1863: Declared national holiday in AmericaInfoplease: Thanksgiving Proclamation

• What is Thanksgiving

  In America the first Thanksgiving is often attributed to the feast shared between the surviving Mayflower pilgrims and their Wampanoag neighbors in 1621. However, an even earlier Thanksgiving celebration had occurred in Canada in 1578, when explorer Martin Frobisher hosted a formal feast to give thanks after surviving the difficult journey to Newfoundland.Scholastic: The First Thanksgiving Feast Twilight Bridge: History and Origin of Canadian Thanksgiving

  Thanksgiving has come to mean many different things to different people over the centuries. Many bring families and friends together to give thanks for the little things, while others focus on the feast! It is often treated as a time to express thankfulness for life's blessings.

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