Canadian Thanksgiving !

Thanksgiving is the harvest festival which is celebrated to express gratitude in general for the harvest. In Canada the second Monday of October is a statutory or public, holiday. Canada thanks the God for the harvest and celebrates the day eating turkey and smashed potatoes. The Canadian Thanksgiving holiday is officially observed on the second Monday of October, however people generally get together for their Thanksgiving meal on any one of the three days of this three-day holiday weekend.
Thanksgiving was originally observed in Newfoundland and other parts of the country by new European settlers. Over the years it moved between various dates, sometimes being observed in November and sometimes in October. It was not until the 1950's that the current date was proclaimed as being the official date for Canadian Thanksgiving.
The first thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated on 15th April 1872 to thank the recovery of King Edward VII from serious illness. The next thanksgiving was The next thanksgiving was celebrated after a few years in 1879 on a Thursday. In later years, thanksgiving came to be celebrated on 'Armistice Day'. This was however, amended in 1931. Finally on January 31, 1957, Parliament announced the second Monday in the month of October as the official 'Thanksgiving Day'. It was declared as "a day of general Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed."
Another reason for Canadian Thanksgiving arriving earlier than its American's is that Canada is geographically further north than the United States,causing the Canadian harvest season to arrive earlier than the American harvest season. And since Thanksgiving for Canadians is more about giving thanks for the harvest season than the arrival of pilgrims,thus the holiday is celebrated in October.