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History

The Thanksgiving Day is a traditional celebration of the United

States and Canada. In Europe, festivals were held before and after

the harvest cycles to give thanks for a good harvest, and to

celebrate after hard work with the rest of the community. Native

Americans also celebrated the end of harvest .When the

Europeans came to America it would be the first time, brought

their own traditions (harvest festivals).

USA

Family Dinners

Most people in America celebrate this holiday with family

gatherings in their homes where they prepare a feast. In many

homes it is common to offer a prayer of thanks.

The traditional main course for dinner is a great roasted or baked

turkey. This turkey is traditionally served with a stuffing

made from cornbread and sage. It is traditionally served with jelly

or cranberry sauce.

Besides vegetable dishes are usually served like green beans,

sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes with gravy; also usually

served a variety of desserts, pie being the most popular pumpkin.

It is also common to prepare the pecan pie and apple.

Parade in Manhattan

Annually the department store chain Macy's makes a big parade

through the streets of Manhattan, New York City, which attracts

millions of people to the Broadway to see the huge giant balloons

and witness performances by guest artists.

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Start shopping season

Most businesses and offices are closed on this day. Some stores,

malls, restaurants and bars stay open. Next Friday is the party's

traditional opening of the holiday shopping season. This day is

known as Black Friday. Stores and shops all offer bargain prices.

CANADA

Canada Thanksgiving is a statutory holiday in most jurisdictions

of Canada.

As a liturgical festival, Thanksgiving corresponds to the English

and continental European Harvest festival, with churches

decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves, and

other harvest bounty, English and European harvest hymns sung

at the end of week Sunday Thanksgiving.

Although the Thanksgiving holiday actually on a Monday,

Canadians can reunite for their Thanksgiving holiday on any day

during the long weekend.

The foods that are traditionally served at Thanksgiving: roasted

turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes,

cranberry sauce, sweet corn, various vegetables and pumpkin pie.

Thanksgiving in Canada is also often a time for weekend

getaways.

Traditions as parades can be part of Thanksgiving in Canada. The

Kitchener- Waterloo Oktoberfest parade is the parade of the Day

of Action With best known in Canada and airs nationally on CTV.

The Canadian Football League has a national television

doubleheader, the Thanksgiving Day Classic. It is one of the two

weeks in which the league plays on Monday afternoon, the other

being the Labour Day Classic. Unlike the Labour Day games, the

teams playing in the Thanksgiving Day Classic vary each year.