What is the origin of the Canadian Thanksgiving?

Answer 1

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remained loyal to EnglHow It BeganThe origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are more closely connected to the traditions of Europe than of the United States. Long before Europeans settled in North America, festivals of thanks and celebrations of harvest took place in Europe in the month of October.

What is a Harvest Festival?

Harvest Festival is a celebration of the food grown on the land.

Thanksgiving ceremonies and celebrations for a successful harvest are both worldwide and very ancient. In Britain, we have given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times. We celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating our churches with baskets of fruit and food in a festival known as 'Harvest Festival', usually during the month of September or October.

When is Harvest Festival?

Harvest festivals are traditionally held on or near the Sunday of the Harvest Moon. This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox (about Sept. 23). In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October.

Unlike the USA and Canada, the UK does not have a national holiday for Harvest Festival.

nowadays we have harvest festivals at the end of the season.

At the start of the harvest, communities would appoint a strong and respected man of the village as their 'Lord of the Harvest'. He would be responsible for negotiating the harvest wages and organising the fieldworkers.

The end of the harvest was celebrated with a big meal called a Harvest Supper, eaten on Michaelmas Day. The 'Lord of the Harvest' sat at the head of the table. A goose stuffed with apples was eaten along with a variety of vegetables. Goose Fairs were and still are held in English towns at this time of year.

Corn Dollies

and other harvest traditions and customs

Woodlands Junior School is in the south-east corner of England

The making of corn dollies goes back many thousands of years. It was a Pagan custom and evolved from the beliefs of the corn growing people who believed in theCorn Spirit.

In The Bible we have a Harvest Holy Day it is called the Feast of Tabernacles. Leviticus 23.. And it is a celebrations of the final havrvest and it is on the 15th day of the 7th month.

Any other Harvest festival is a conterfiet harvest feast to the original and Holy Feast of Tabernacles. Also it is well documented that the current Thanksgiving comes from Britain's Pagen Harvest festival which has its roots from Romes Pagen harvest festivals. Now Thanksgiving is portrayed as giving thanks to our Father in Heaven but is is not biblical and although the meaning is nice and sound christian. it is in vein because these customs or from pagen origin and should be avoided. I would sitck to the Biblical Harvest feast of Tabernacles, that is what a true christiian would do.

1Co 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

cus'Whatever I command you, you must be careful to do. You shall not add to, nor take away from it.' (Deuteronomy 12:28-32toms and

Answer 2

Martin Frobisher and his men celebrated in 1578 surviving a harsh winter near Baffin Bay in Canada. The French settlers under Champlain also had a fall harvest. The Loyalists who fled to Canada after the American Revolution brought the Thanksgiving custom with them along with the idea of turkey, and pumpkin pie. It became a national holiday in 1879 but in 1957, the date was changed to the second Monday in October.