Whats the difference between American Thanksgiving and Canadian, and what is Boxing Day?
In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second monday of each October. In the US, because of the longer growing season in the south eastern US where the tradition started, it’s celebrated on the fourth Thursday of each November. In both countries, the reason for the holiday is to give thanks to the Almighty, Mother Earth, or whomever or whatever for providing a bountiful harvest. I’m posting this from my sister’s computer. The whole family is at her house for Thanksgiving Dinner. And, where I live, if a crop hasn’t been harvested by now, then the farmer intends to plow it under in the spring. We had an early snow a few days ago, and my mother pulled all the flowers out of her flower garden yesterday because they’ve all been killed by that early snow. This is the end of our growing season. Boxing Day is the day after Christmas, and is only celebrated as a holiday in Commonwealth countries. That is, only predominantly Catholic countries that maintained the British king or queen as t
