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

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 3:46
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.