Was surfing friendsfriends and saw this, figured I'd tell you how my family does Thanksgiving. I couldn't answer your poll too accurately, mostly because my family doesn't -- and I suspect most Canadians don't either -- make a huge deal about the what/when/how of Thanksgiving. We're not as ritualised as Americans. When I was younger, I think we'd celebrate on the Monday. Now that we're older and busier and take the Monday to do our own stuff, we eat on Sunday.
We eat when the food is ready, no 5 pm deadline or whatever. My family had smoked turkey, stuffing, rack of lamb, veggies, salmon, etc. In previous years we've had sushi, traditional Chinese foods, a whole mish-mash of stuff. Now, I don't know if this is typical of all Canadians or if we're different because we're Chinese.
Canadian Thanksgiving is not particularly religious/Christian, though my family is Christian so we do give thanks and all that. My cousins just come for the food and company.
Thanksgiving is a somewhat important holiday, because we do get the Monday off and people have family dinners, etc. But it's not Christmas for sure.
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Date: 2005-10-10 03:27 pm (UTC)We eat when the food is ready, no 5 pm deadline or whatever. My family had smoked turkey, stuffing, rack of lamb, veggies, salmon, etc. In previous years we've had sushi, traditional Chinese foods, a whole mish-mash of stuff. Now, I don't know if this is typical of all Canadians or if we're different because we're Chinese.
Canadian Thanksgiving is not particularly religious/Christian, though my family is Christian so we do give thanks and all that. My cousins just come for the food and company.
Thanksgiving is a somewhat important holiday, because we do get the Monday off and people have family dinners, etc. But it's not Christmas for sure.