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Canada (NorthAmerica)
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Thanksgiving
Monday 10 October 2005
(the date changes according to the year)
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*The first formal celebration was held by an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who attempted to establish a settlement on Baffin Island, after failing to discover a northern passage to the Orient in 1576.
**The Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock held their Thanksgiving in 1621 as a three-day "thank you" celebration to the leaders of the Wampanoag Indian tribe and their families for teaching them the survival skills they needed to make it in the New World.
***Canada established the second Monday in October as a national holiday, "a day of general thanksgiving," in 1957.
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