Why don we celebrate Harvest Festival in the UK the way Thanksgiving is celebrated in the USA?
First let’s look at the US history of the Holiday Thanksgiving started out as the major holiday in New England as the regions was settled by Puritans. Cromwell and his purtian parlament as you may know from British History baned the celebration of Christmas.Over time The Puritans in the new England colonies mellowed some and alowing feasts as they became the baptist Congregationalists and several other protestant churches. They started to assign the harvest festival more religious meaning- one of gratitude for the harvest family and life in general. When the New England loyalists moved to Canada they brought the Traditions with them. In the 19th century Thanksgiving regional in the US and Canada. The US was the first to make it a national holiday in 1863 when it became a national holiday. It became a national holiday in Canada after world war I and latter was moved to the second Monday in October.
