print email comment close Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day URL: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/ceem-cced/jfa-ha/action-eng.cfm Description: Information about the Thanksgiving Day holiday in Canada, which has been celebrated on the second Monday of October since the 1930s. Also notes that "from 1921 to 1930, the Armistice Day Act provided that Thanksgiving would be observed on Armistice Day." Includes "a list of the dates of the proclamations and observance of General Thanksgiving Days, and reasons therefore" back to 1799. From Canadian Heritage, a division of the Canadian government. Publisher: Canadian Heritage Extra Keywords November 11 Library of Congress Subject Headings: Holidays -- Canada Remembrance Day (Canada) Thanksgiving Day LII Database Information: Record 6470 created by Maria Brandt on 11/23/2004 Last modification on 09/22/2009 Published: 11/23/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6470