Today, Google is celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving with special Doodle. To mark this day as an annual holiday has been observed since the year 1879, search engine commissioned this illustration depicting a pumpkin, a turkey, squashed and maple leaves.

What’s Canadian Thanksgiving?

In French, Canadian Thanksgiving is known as 'Action de Grace', it is an annual holiday which is being celebrated in the North American country. The celebrations on this day were inspired by the European tradition and are being marked by those families who gather to feast on food like pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, stuffing and turkey.

This day is also a very big occasion for the sports fans, with millions of people watching Canadian Football League games on their televisions.
 

When Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated?

Canadian Thanksgiving always is being celebrated on the second Monday of October, it is because Canadians have a much time period of a three-day weekend to get relaxed with their family and friends.

How Canadian Thanksgiving is different from the American Thanksgiving?

Canadian Thanksgiving takes place around eight weeks before The American Thanksgiving. American Thanksgiving is being celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. Canadian Thanksgiving celebration is less commercialised as comparative to the American Thanksgiving, as you will not get major shopping sales like Black Friday.

Some of the Canadians don’t even observe this event, because it is an optional holiday in the Atlantic provinces of Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

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