Canadian Thanksgiving is Monday, October 9, 2006. American Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 23, 2006.
Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving every second Monday in October. Thanksgiving is celebrated to commemorate a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the native Indians.
Most of North America celebrates the Thanksgiving holiday as an expression of gratitude, usually to God. Thanksgiving is a day marked to give thanks to God for the bounty of the autumn harvest. Thanksgiving Day in America is a time of turkeys, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. But the table would be incomplete without a Thanksgiving Flower centerpiece or cornucopia (horn of plenty) in red, yellow and orange colors of autumn. Read more on Thanksgiving Flowers
