Re: OT Thanksgiving and Christmas was Re: Thoughts on Tarsyanian verbs

tomhchappell wrote:
> In order to stimulate the recovering-from-the-Great-Depression economy
> with an extra week of Christmas shopping, President Franklin D.
> Roosevelt decided to proclaim the National Day of Thanks-Giving on the
> second-from-last (or perhaps third?) Thursday in November.
It was indeed Third.  And many continued celebrating the traditional
date, and a few celebrated both.  :-)

> I do not know why Canada has a National Day of Thanks-Giving;
At least part of it, apparently, according to the English Wikipedia
article, is influence from Loyalists, particularly from New England,
leaving the US and bringing their traditions with them.