Thanksgiving Traditions from Around the World
November is always an awkward month in the United States. The Halloween people are taking down their lawn decor while the Christmas people are setting theirs on display. There is a holiday in the middle that is quite often forgotten in the chaos. It might be due to the true problematic history of Thanksgiving, the vegan movement, or to the fact that the holiday just isn’t as marketable for commercial use as others are. Regardless of what it is, millions of Americans are still getting primed and ready for the day. While you gear up to cut the turkey and yell at your aunt Susan for hogging all the wine, let’s learn about some other Thanksgiving/harvest festival traditions!
Canada
Despite American Thanksgiving being the vastly commercialized one, Canadian Thanksgiving’s origin story takes place many years before the infamous American one. In 1578, English explorer named Sir Martin Frobisher, had been on a tough journey to find the northwest passage that would help connect Europe and Eastern Asia together for easier trading. Instead of making his way to Asia, he landed himself in Canada but was so grateful he and his shipmates survived the journey that he had a feast. However…
