Canadian Thanksgiving is a holiday in Canada, which
celebrates the harvest and blessings of the past year. This is a day Canadians
thank God for all the blessings the previous year brought to them as a
nation. This usually occurs annually on the
second Monday in October. I followed my curiosity and did a little research on the history of this Thanksgiving. This is what I found.
Martin Frobisher an Explorer from England set out from
England in search of the North West Passage . He had a lot of challenges on his
way . His journey was plagued by ice and storm which eventually lead to the loss
of one of his ships. He finally arrived Newfoundland a large island in the
Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of Canada in 1578. Mayster Wolfall a preacher made a sermon and told them to be
thankful to God for delivering them from dangerous places. Martin Frobisher
gave thanks for his safe arrival. This was how the Thanksgiving tradition
started in Canada. For a few hundreds of years, Thanksgiving was celebrated
either on late October or late November in Canada. On 31st 1957 the Canadian
Parliament announced that on the second Monday in October, Thanksgiving will be
celebrated and it will be a general holiday Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful
harvest with which Canada has been blessed.
Source: Wikipedia.org
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