Happy Turkey Day!!! Ill Be Getting Mine When I Get Home From Work Tonight. Yup, I Am Stuck At Work All Weekend
For Hxtr
as quoted from WIKI
The reason for the earlier Thanksgiving celebrations in Canada has often been attributed to the earlier onset of winter in the north, thus ending the harvest season earlier.[17] Thanksgiving in Canada did not have a fixed date until the late 19th century. Prior to Canadian confederation, many of the individual colonial governors of the Canadian provinces had declared their own days of Thanksgiving. The first official Canadian Thanksgiving occurred on April 15, 1872 when the nation was celebrating the Prince of Wales' recovery from a serious illness.[17] By the end of the 19th Century, Thanksgiving Day was normally celebrated on November 6. However, when World War I ended, the Armistice Day holiday were usually held during the same week. To prevent the two holidays from clashing with one another, in 1957 the Canadian Parliament proclaimed Thanksgiving to be observed on its present date on the second Monday of October.[5] Since 1971, when the American Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect, the American observance of Columbus Day has coincided with the Canadian observance of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving in the United States was observed on various dates throughout history. Much like in Canada, days of Thanksgiving in the era of the Founding Fathers were sporadic and by proclamation and date of choosing of whatever President was in office at the time. The first Thanksgiving which was celebrated on a fixed day was in 1863, in an effort by President Abraham Lincoln (who in turn was influenced by the campaigning of author Sarah Josepha Hale) to foster a sense of American unity between the Northern and Southern states.[15] By the beginning of the 20th century, the final Thursday in November had become the customary day of Thanksgiving in most U.S. states. It was not until December 26, 1941, however, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, after pushing two years earlier to move the date earlier to give the country an economic boost, signed a bill into law with Congress, making Thanksgiving a national holiday and settling it to the fourth (but not always final) Thursday in November.[18]