Canadian Thanksgiving

[vaznetti]

So, Canadian Thanksgiving. Last year I was just trying to keep my head above water in the new job, and didn't have energy to pay attention to things like this, but this year the penny has finally dropped: Canadian Thanksgiving is not just an earlier version of American Thanksgiving, and not just because it's on a Monday.

So now I have some questions for the Canadians on my flist (and anyone else who knows the answers to these questions). Do you celebrate on Sunday or on Monday? Do you eat before or after 5 pm? Do you consider Thanksgiving a religious (or a Christian) holiday?

And in typical anal lj fashion, I decided to spam my flist with a poll. Except to be polite, I'll put it

[Poll #587298]



Please feel free to pimp this poll to other people, and please explain further in comments.

Comments

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

No idea about religious overtones to the holiday -- I'm a relentlessly secular person who was raised Catholic, and neither of those traditions makes a big deal of T'giving. Maybe Protestants assign more religious significance to the day.

[vaznetti]

A friend of mine claims that it's a religious holiday, but his mother is a minister of some sort, so that may colour his experiences of the holiday. But because in the US Thanksgiving is the great secular holiday (at least in my experience) it struck me as something woth asking about.