As a Canadian I can't imagine going to all the work of preparing Turkey in November and then a month later for Christmas. In Canada with Thankgiving in October we eagerly look forward to doing it again in December.
Many Americans do ham or a roast for Christmas, not just Turkey. In my family, Thanksgiving was the huge turkey dinner and extended family gathering. Christmas day was more of an intimate family day for parents and kids. Single adults might go home to their parents. There were many parties and gatherings with family and friends during the “Holiday Season” which is the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas. My experience in Canada has been that Thanksgiving is very low key while Christmas is the big event, and everyone is off/everything is closed for 2 weeks between Christmas and New Years.
@@JHabc most people get 2 maybe 3 days off at Christmas. Only Christmas day will you find 98% businesses closed. Only schools close for 2 weeks over Christmas.
Actually Tyler you are NOT a typical American. You are curious about other countries (in this case Canada) and are open minded enough to learn. Love your videos.
I will say that in maybe the last 10 years its become extremely common for Canadian stores to have black friday sales the same friday as the US. This is mainly to have Canadians buying from them instead of hopping the border and shopping for all their Christmas presents in the US.
Don’t forget the “pre-black Friday” sales that Canadian stores have. Lol. Entire week leading up the Black Friday is full of sales at stores like Walmart and other big box stores.
Yeah, black friday is huge here. Like boxing day it's become a week long event. There are many door crasher deals on if you're crazy enough to go on Friday, although we don't get the day off.
Canada's joined in on cyber Monday, giving Tuesday... Cyber week... It's become so big here that it has now eclipsed boxing day (week) sales. Some stores tried to make a big sales weekend out of our thanksgiving 🇨🇦, but it never really took off.
Canadian Thanksgiving has nothing to do with pilgrims, but it's a harvest festival. It's a stat holiday in most provinces, so yes, we get the day off. We generally have the same foods, turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, candied yams, pumpkin pie. One thing I notice that's different is that Canadian tables usually always have Brussels sprout dishes whereas American tables have something called green bean casserole. My American cousins tell me about it.
@@Trygvar13 Here in Ontario we use to do Ham and Turkey. But as our family started to bicker and we don't really do big family dinners anymore we just do a Turkey now. My American cousins always found it weird that we would have marsh mellows on our sweet potatoes. You cook the mashed sweet potatoes, when they are done, add a layer of marsh mellows on top and cook them till they turn golden and serve.
My family has never done the candied yams but we do the green bean casserole. Also our Christmas dinner features Ukrainian dishes as a family tradition, though we celebrate like most Canadians on December 25th and not January 7th.
@@canuckasaurus A Yam is different from a Sweet Potato. The Sweet Potato with Marshmallows from my experience comes from families with a British background that have been in Canada for generations. My Grandmother made it who learned it from her Grandmother and so on is how it goes when asked where it started.
Canadian Thanksgiving is an official statutory holiday, except in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It is certainly a big deal to us...a time to get together with family and friends and celebrate and give thanks with a feast of delicious food such as turkey, ham, brussel sprouts, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cabbage rolls, pumpkin pie, etc.
Not to all of us, it isn't. :P In my area, people barely mention it and many 'celebrate it' merely with a good dinner at their own home with a drink, if that much. Most just go 'ah cool, day off'.
In Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario, they begin the celebration of Thanksgiving by tapping the keg 'Oktoberfest' (beer) at noon, the Friday of that weekend! Then on the Monday, they have the Thanksgiving Day parade, which includes much of Oktoberfest traditions. The KEG tapping is the start of 10 days of Oktoberfest and TOO many fun times!
We do have black friday in Canada, it's just not linked to thanksgiving. It's on the same day as the American black Friday. So we do get some deals. It's not as intense as in the US in terms of instore shopping from what I can tell though.
I was dying listening to some of the things in the video! I work at a warehouse that supplies a very popular outdoor camping hunting store and we MOST DEFINITELY have black Friday sales! Also I grew up in Ontario and we had pumpkin pie EVERY YEAR!
@@jeffreycairns767 Fairly new indeed. BF didn’t exist when I was young. It started about 20 years ago in response to the throngs of canadian shoppers crossing the border when both currencies were at par. Lost sales prompted canadian retailers to move and create their own BF.
As a Canadian, there are two major things I love about our Thanksgiving: 1. Its at such a nicer time of year weather-wise, at least where I am in Southern Ontario. It's early October so the briskness of fall is just starting to hang in the air. Usually perfect weather, not too hot and not too cold. Light hoodie weather. In contrast to the US, which depending on where you are can be quite cold and miserable. Plus, you got a month till Christmas (sometimes less) and it just seems such a rush of holidays at the end of the year. 2. We don't go NEARLY as insane for it as the US does. Just a small get together with friends and family and still the extra day off. In the end it just sort of blends together with the rest of the fall activities like apple/pumpkin picking, etc.
It's thanksgiving weekend because Thanksgiving is on a Monday. So the Saturday and Sunday before is the weekend, But we don't get extra days off. We are back to work on Tuesday.
Thanksgiving is a national holiday ,im 65 and it has been my whole life ,a 3 day celebration for sure for some its 4 , its about family , food , and wonderful friends
Tyler I came across your channel about 2 weeks ago and love it. As a Canadian it's very entertaining and I appreciate the fact you don't cover any of the gaps in your knowledge about Canada and instead are honest with how little many American's know about us. I think it would be very interesting to see you travel up here and experience some of the things you are learning about in your videos firsthand and see what your reaction is to seeing them in person - do they live up to your expectations or fall short after what you've seen in the videos you've watched?
Yassssss! That is a brilliant idea! I too discovered your channel two weeks ago… as a Canadian in Halifax, Nova Scotia with many ties to the United States through relatives on both sides of the family, your videos reflect the debates we’ve had over the years. (Note that I don’t say, American ties because Canadians are Americans as well; we are - both countries - part of North America). If you ever decide to take up this brilliant suggestion, am happy to host for the Nova Scotia & Newfoundland contingency (I lived 30 years in Newfoundland… FYI Newfoundland rhymes with “understand”… do it 5x in a row and you will have it aced!) looking forward to more videos… hit me up for any suggestions! :)
Here in Ontario it is a very significant holiday. It could be different in other parts of the country, but here it certainly is a holiday where people travel to see their families. Also since Monday is a stat holiday here, we all have a long weekend. Keep it up Tyler, love the videos!
I love Canadian Thanksgiving, for practical reasons -- we have more time between gorging seasons. The waistline has a chance to recover. We also have a French-Canadian meat pie called Tourtiere. You have to try it.
I agree =) I'm Canadian but I live in the States with my American husband. I get 2 Thanksgivings as well =D. We don't celebrate CT though unless we/I go Home, since we both have to work that day. When my dad is able he comes down for AT. So yup, TWO Thanksgivings either way =) Although I did discover sweet potato pie since moving to MI, and I must say it is quite delicious =D I'll buy a pumpkin and sweet potato pie, and enjoy them equally =) Good video all around.
@@reggitwend7405 Not a fan sweet potatoes but I’m glad you found something you like. My wife is Hawaiian and her family all love sushi and seafood which I abhor… maybe I should go for a helping of those sweet potatoes after all next time 😅
Each province in Canada has a separate culture that may not be immediately noticeable but you’ll find varying accents, traditions, lifestyles, and more. At the base of it we are all definitely Canadian but the multicultural nature of Canada and influence of French heritage has created some unique pockets across Canada.
Our Thanksgiving is a harvest festival that celebrates the bounty of the land. It is also a time of great charity with many, many donations made to local food banks second only to Christmas.The only sport associated with Canadian Thanksgiving is wishbone pulling. We do have Black Friday (and Boxing Day) sales, but they last for a whole week so there is no need to swarm a store.
Thanksgiving is probably my favourite holiday. (Yep, i'm Canadian) We visit family and eat together, but there isn't the frenzy that can be associated with the Christmas season. It's nice and laid back.
I'm from Atlantic Canada more precisely The Maritimes (there's a story for you Tyler). Here in PEI I doubt that you'd find anyone who doesn't considering Thanksgiving a stat holiday it's probably one of the biggest holidays next to Christmas. When stores are closed especially liquor stores you know it's a serious holiday.
@@tazztower44 True but it's still a holiday. Even Government jobs like IT system support work 24/7. Most people would have a Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday.
@@tazztower44 I've never met a boss is Canada that is not giving you the day off on Thanks Giving. Even at a Meat shop that sold more turkeys than it had space for it was still my choice to work those days for extra money. If you want the extra holiday pay by all means for it, but don't complain about working holidays when you know you're probably doing it for the double pay. A lot of places will try to keep you on if there expect high volumes of work, like groceries and what not, but most of them will still have some understanding if you have an actual important dinner you want to attend with family you don't see often. Or if you get off before 5 anyways it's not going to affect your dinner.
@@Samuri5hit84 not complaining about nothing tbh...I've worked in warehousing for 20 yrs and if it wasn't a stat,you were expected to show up. it's true most bosses will meet you halfway but a day off for the most part doesn't help the bills get paid
FYI - The first Thanksgiving service known to be held by Europeans in North America occurred on May 27, 1578 in Newfoundland and Labrador, the English explorer Martin Frobisher landed here in 1578 in his quest for the Northwest Passage. The Thanksgiving service was held to give thanks for his safe arrival in the New World.
The notion of Frobisher's service being first on the continent has come into dispute, as Spaniards conducted similar services in Spanish North America during the mid-16th century, decades before Frobisher's arrival.
@@KOZMOuvBORG not relevant about the Spanish but rather thanks that Frobisher and his crew survived and we moved it to when our crops are in and so on. Nothing magical just being thankfull
@@KOZMOuvBORG not sure im reading this right but those dates dont make sense. Dispute that his 1574 was first when spanish were known to do the same in the next century 16th? Am i missing somthing here😅
@@lisat9707 the 16th century and the 1500's were the same time period; for example, the 1900's were called the 20th century. I hope this helps make sense of al Pearson's comment.
My family is from Newfoundland, we celebrate Thanksgiving and have Jigs dinner like they mentioned - it's a boiled salt beef dinner with carrots, turnips, potatoes and cabbage. But we also have a turkey to go with it, since it's not a ton of beef that gets boiled.
Our family always had pumpkin pie with our massive turkey dinner, also many stores now do have their own black Friday sales although the discounts aren't as big.
Turkey, ham, yams, mashed potatoes, stuffing, carrots, gravy, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie, apple crumble pie, cranberry sauce and for some wine depending on the place where you live in Canada.
Not only is Thanksgiving about giving thanks but it is also about helping those who were not as fortunate as us. Today, Thanksgiving is also a time to help the needy. Multiple food banks hold Thanksgiving food drives to distribute food to those who need it. Donating to these food drives is one of the many ways you can help those in need. The idea of giving thanks is intertwined with helping people who are not as fortunate.
Speaking of food banks they are in desperate need of donations especially during the holidays and with the recession things are looking Bleek demand has never been higher and there are a lot of new familys to Canada arriving daily so please think about donating and get your schools and churches holding food drives ❤️
THANKS for mentioning this Lesley! I think it would be a wonderful “tradition” for everyone to start! I help my parents’ church via volunteering as well. The Salvation Army does a number of massive drives for most holidays, as well as, The Mustard Seed. So wonderful to hear others be so thoughtful, compassionate, and thankful in our glorious country!🇨🇦😎🇨🇦
Our local churches have turkey dinners around the date of Thanksgiving. The various church members cook the food and serve it buffet style. The cost of the dinner goes to charity. So many want to attend they sell tickets. The various churches organize all the dates to spread the dinners around different days. If the dinner is held on a Saturday there usually is two seatiings. ✝️⛪️🍗🥗🥧☦️
I grew up with the French Canadian version of Thanksgiving [Action de grâce]. Yup, turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce for sure. But also tourtière [savoury meat pie], mashed turnips flavoured with cinnamon along with the potatoes, tarte au sucre [a sort of gigantic butter tart], etc. My family nowadays is part Philipino, so now there's pancit, adobo and lumpia as well. As the video implies, the holiday is more low-key than in the U.S. Just a nice dinner with family and friends (usually immediate family, not every third cousin who lives 3,000 km away), after which people kick back and relax. It's not commercialized, and it's not hectic like Christmas. The religious component is either absent or confined to a blessing. It's not super-patriotic either... just a quiet affair to be thankful for what you've got. It varies from family to family how much effort they put into it, and there are some people who put on a big splash like Americans do, but usually not. That doesn't mean it's not important. It's precisely because it's NOT a big thing that it feels genuinely important. It's a time to ignore the demands made by Nation, Religion, and Commerce to run your life, and remember that you're an individual with a family and friends, not a "consumer" or a cog in a big machine..... and that's the thing that Canadians cherish the most, a deep part of their sense of freedom.
OMG sugar pie.... I grew up in northern ontario which has a heavy french influence, and sugar pie was the best thing about thanksgiving (made by my mom's friend, recipe was a secret) I've not found a recipe that matches the one that she made...
@@monicabender3943 I've given up trying to duplicate my mom's tourtière. What is it with les mamans canadiennes and their secret recipes? They guard them like nuclear response codes.
OH!!! My dad and his family are French Canadian, and I LOVED sugar pie! Sadly, my grandmother passed away without anyone getting her recipe. I don't suppose you have a good one? I've tried a few, and they just didn't taste the same. Also love tourtiere - my mom makes one at Thanksgiving and Christmas. So good! :)
Boxing day goes back to the old world. The wealthy boxed up food to give to the less fortunate on the 26th Dec. Servants would also receive boxed food and treats and given the day off.
Pumpkin pie is also used in Ontario, it's a big province (in size and population), so there's a lot of different kinds of food stuff that families traditionally ate. In the US, pumpkin pies became popular because American Thanksgiving happened after Halloween, and it made it easier to use the leftover pumpkins to make the pies. Buttertarts aren't a big deal where I live in Ontario, but it's often available throughout the year in stores. Its main ingredients are melted brown sugar and butter. Sometimes they have raisins or pecan nuts. My grandmother usually made buttertarts for Christmas, or if there was a church bake sale. The US used to have Thanksgiving in October as well, but considering November had nothing to celebrate and winter was coming, it was switched to that month. Not willing to get rid of a holiday, it was replaced by Columbus Day.
Ah no I don't believe that is true. You can tell because McDonald's and Walmart open at their regular time. If it was a stat holiday they would have to open at noon.
I'm French-Canadian and i have never celebrated Thanksgiving. I think it's more of an English thing. It is an official holiday, in French it's called "Action de grâce" (literally, an act of giving thanks)
As a Canadian I've been living in the USA for so many years with my American husband , I've forgotten so many things about my Canadian history. Thanks for the reminder. When I do visit my Canadian family, I have visited and had Thanksgiving there and it was pretty much the same foods except my mom adds a few of her own Ukrainian dishes. I didn't know about the black Friday. My brother never told me about that one going on Canada. I've been living in the USA so long I have to read up on my Canadian history now and then. I still watch my favorite hockey team in Winnipeg. Go Jets Go!!!
@@curfuffle7420 Why? The Leafs aew are the Toronto pro team that hasn't won the championship in its sport in the last 30 years but it's impossible to win when the odds are so strongly stacked against you and its set up well in advance to make sure you have a less then 0% chance of winning.
I love your honesty and your reactions and the way you comment and rewind. This is now one of my favourite channels. I’ve been a Canadian for 44 years. I was from Georgia before that. I love Canada and thanksgiving. The leaves are at their peak of colour on Oct 10th most years. So beautiful. Check out my grass hut settlement. Imagine having grass huts that can stand up against the snows of winter. The four to five foot tall grass certainly makes an easy wilderness shelter material. Love your videos. I’m glad you’re still making them. Very entertaining.
I love your videos! I live beside Niagara Falls and I used to frequently shop over the “river” as we say here. I used to cross for Black Friday every year when the deals were crazy. I grew up in Florida and the candied yams w It’s marshmallows may be a southern thing. That is what everyone wants me to make them when I go to another home for dinner. We also will have Thanksgiving dinner any day of Thanksgiving weekend. Thank you for caring enough to learn about Canada.
Brittlestar is good fun and lightheartedly pokes fun at the differences between Canada and U.S. traditions and culture. I am surprised you hadn't heard of candied yams (sweet potato casserole topped with mini marshmallows and roasted). I've seen it on the Thanksgiving editions of many U.S. television shows. Perhaps it's just not popular in your region (wherever you are!)?
Hello, back again the Caligal. Just returned from Thanksgiving in Canada. Great time visiting my in-laws and having good food. The focus of Thanksgiving is to celebrate family, friends, and good health. It started with the explorers being grateful for a safe journey and bountiful harvest. The good thing about having Thanksgiving in October is the rest of the year is focused on Christmas, so lots of time to prepare for Santa.
To me thanksgiving in the maritimes has been a day to have dinner with the people currently around you in your life. No huge family travelling. A meal to share together and connect with your community.
I live in Nova Scotia, since I remember, we always had a long weekend for thanksgiving. Monday was always a day off here and we have many meals for different sides of family, eating supper or dinner Saturday or Sunday but Monday is the big meal on thanksgiving day
Boxing Day is pretty big here though it used to be cooler in like the 90s before all the current inventory control came along. Stores used to greatly discount left over stock to sell it and you used to find great deals. I remember seeing all the empty shelves leading up to Christmas at stores, you don't see that these days. You still can find deals but I don't think it's the same.
Not only did Thanksgiving originate in 🇨🇦 but we LOVE our thanksgiving and it’s big here, start of fall, the smells of spice, turkey, ham and all the fixings mmmmm
While I agree it is a big deal in Canada, I can also say I think Thanksgiving is even a bigger deal in the USA. It is not unlike Labour (Labor) day. It is much more the symbolic end of summer in Canada and therefore a bigger weekend. Staggered starts to schools make Labor day less of a big deal.
Thanksgiving originates in England, from centuries before the new world was discovered. Its a harvest festival, which is exactly what we celebrate. The confusion comes from the fact there were many different occasions of giving thanks (or thanks giving) and the Americans adopted the term to only have a single meaning for a specific event. So our Thanksgiving is the traditional ancient one, and theirs stems from the pilgrims.
@@scottcameron5249 how do you measure the importance of such a thing to say it’s a bigger deal in the US? I beg to differ…… if anything both countries obviously love their Thanksgiving. Don’t know how your family is but in our European household (French/Hungarian) special occasions are a great excuse to get the family all together for good food, good company and good wine……
Just so you don't get caught out again Tyler, Canada also celebrates Dec 26 Boxing Day a British custom brought from the old country. Boxing Day is an official holiday. This holiday sort of makes up for your 4 day Thanksgiving long holiday by giving us an extra day off over that holiday. And oh yes, unfortunately Black Friday is a thing here too, after all big business isn't going to miss a chance to exploit early Christmas sales. All our big box stores have their crazy sales that last for weeks or pop up in July as an early start. One of our holiday foods is a French Canadian meat pie called a Tourtiere. And buddy we celebrate July 4th on the first. Where I live on the border we get two big fireworks displays in a four day period one on each side of the river that divides our two nations.
I have to add another comment! Several years ago in all seriousness some Americans who were visiting here in Canada asked me why we celebrated July 4 on July 1! Because I have a number of American friends who do live here in Canada we get to celebrate both thanksgivings! FYI The Americans always add sweet potatoes with marshmallows and maple syrup to the menu!
I enjoy watching you. Even I'm learning stuff from your channel about Cdn history. Lol. I didn't know about the turkey being pardonned either. We should do that here!! We eat usually 2 kinds of pie, like apple and pumpkin. Our family never ate buttertarts on Thanksgiving. OMG some lady asked me if we celebrated Xmas on December 25th. I was like whaaaat???? I was shocked and stunned.
We have Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales on the same days you guys do. The day after Christmas we also have Boxing Day which is a similar idea and I've seen that spread to parts of the U.S.
We still have black Friday but it's not held on our thanksgiving week. It's the same week as American black Friday. One of the traditions that flowed over to Canada.
It's a fair question and many Catholics do the big fest on the 24th and even open one gift that night and go to a midnight mass. I am not one but grew up in a french neighbourhood of St. Boniface in Winnipeg and many families did this.
I'm a Canadian from Ontario and the dishes we typically have for Thanksgiving include: Turkey, Ham and/or meat pie, mashed potatoes, cranberries, gravy, roasted root vegetables, green beans, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. We usually do Thanksgiving potluck style so everyone is responsible for one dish each.
I love the fact that our holiday in Canada is less centred on religion and colonialism and more on being grateful to whatever we want to be grateful of. As an atheist, I want to be grateful of life without having to have to through a God in it or having to think about how we can have wronged the Indigenous people. We have Reconciliation Day for that (which I embrace and respect).
Nobody cares about reconciliation day though, it's mostly just guilt trips and half truths (fact is colonialism was an overall good, and the first nations treated people bad too). Our Thanksgiving has zero connection to the first nations, it goes back centuries before the new world was discovered, and traditionally may have evolved a bit of God thanking for the harvest.
@@tiffaniterris2886 um i don't mean to be rude but you do realize that Canada literally commited genocide right? like they had all these systems put in place to get rid of indigenous people and their cultures. your argument feels a bit weak. Its like if I punched you in the face and then said that you are a bad person to cause you stole a pencil or something. also even if something may have evolved from a religion it might not be religious anymore, like Christmas, yeah many religions celebrate something around this time but this also means that it has become a celebration that may no longer be associated with specific things or certain religions. Like santa and elves, where did they come from? (if anyone does know if Santa and elves came from a specific group please tell me i don't want to be rude)
@@evelazell-wright2051 - Genocide was committed everywhere when new people invaded other lands or wherever there were minorities. Same in the US (smallpox laden blankets, death marches like the "Trail of Tears", decimating the bison). Same in Australia. Same in South America. Same in African lands. Same in Europe in the middle ages and ever since. Same right now in Ukraine. Same in China at present. Native tribes eradicated other tribes in North America. I live in an area once occupied by the "Neutrals". They wouldn't side with confederations on either side of them (Huron and Iroquois) and were wiped out. Nothing unique. I'm also an Atheist. The holidays are based on fairy tales and have been distorted beyond their origins. I just enjoy the holidays because people actually associate with each other without (hopefully) being assholes.
Thanksgiving should have more of God and Jesus Christ in it. At the celebration of the harvest, it is God that gives you the great harvest. The fact that God has been removed from so many places is the reason Canada is going to hell in a hand basket.
In Alberta, we have a large population of Ukrainian-Canadians. Many celebrate Christmas on January 6 & 7. If they hold off on buying gifts until Boxing Day, they can get great deals when shopping. 🎉🎁🎄
I was talking to one of my friends in the US and he was surprised that we have Thanksgiving 6 weeks earlier than them. I've seen a few 'Black Friday' videos online and it looks scary, I'm happy that we can shop on Amazon and avoid the crowds and drama. We had turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, squash and mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner, as well as 3 different types of pie. Thank you for your videos, love watching them and seeing the differences.
Our Thanksgiving meal was the following: turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, veggies, salad, meatballs, cabbage rolls, perogies. Really, it’s hard to even fit on the plate. And yes, one of the desserts was butter tarts. Lol Depending on your job, things seem to slow down around Christmas. We pretty much close down between Christmas and New Years. It’s awesome! Ives you plenty of time to get together with family.
Yes, I think many families on the prairies will have cabbage rolls and perogies due to the Ukrainian heritage in the area, even families without that heritage sometimes. 😋
17:15 as mentioned in the video, it was the day after Christmas, Boxing Day, when the stores had their large clear-out sales. In some places, people would start forming lines the night before. More recently, has been diluted by Black Friday.
Butter tarts don't normally contain maple syrup. I've made butter tarts a few times. They're pretty easy, especially if you buy frozen tart shells. You can use regular size or mini. They contain butter, sugar egg which are creamed together, and a bit of vanilla is added. Raisins are also sometimes stirred in. The filling is put in a raw tart shell. Some have pecans on top before they're baked. Some store bought brands are pretty good too though they often contain corn syrup etc and vegetable oils.
Thanksgiving is a holiday here. It's always been as far as I know since i've been a kid. Oh, I'm from Canada BC and Alberta. It's about family 13:02 and having a fancy dinner together or a good dinner with turkey and stuffing and all the trimmings. And sharing together what you're thankful for. It's remembering the people of the Native canadians who gave Settlers corn and taught them how to do stuff and shared with them a feast. But my kids do do thanksgiving differently
I think that a day of Thanksgiving has been around for hunfreds of years. The people would get together to celebrate their harvest and thank God that they would have enough food to survive the coming winter.
Yes, growing up in the UK, we celebrated Harvest festival in school, and were asked to bring a small food contribution which was given to those in need. I don't know if this is still done in schools as it had a religious aspect to it, singing a hymn and song of gratitude, so it might only happen in churches now.
Canadian here. I occationally have had butter tarts at thanksgiving, but pumpkin pie and apple pie were there every year in our house. I don't think i've tried butter tarts with maple syrup before. the butter tarts i'm used to are just like pecan pie minus the pecans.
Butter tarts are great. I grew up my whole life not eating them, yet I would eat brown sugar and butter on bread. 🤡 Finding out that butter tarts was a common Canadian thing makes me like them that much more though.
It’s a holiday in my province in BC, but if you work in the service industries you often have to work, but if you do you get paid time & a half or double time. We mostly have turkeys like the US & we also do that at Christmas which I heard is not so in the states, yummy turkey😋
Folk Lore has the first Thanksgiving in Canada being celebrated by British Explorer Martin Frobisher and his crew in what is now Baffin Island Nunavut, along Frobisher Bay. The story says they were looking for the NW Passage, and stopped to feast on salted meat and mushy peas....in 1570 something, but I don't really see a couple boats exploring stopping to eat as a Thanksgiving Celebration. More traditional Canadian Thanksgiving has its roots as far back as the mid to late 16th century primarily in the French Settlements along the St Lawrence and Atlantic Canada, and the first celebrations of the Harvest actually came about 40 years before the US Plymouth Rock/Pilgrim Thanksgiving Story. One of the first detailed Thanksgivings in Canada was in Port Royal. After a harsh winter killed many settlers and led to a scourge of scurvy among survivors. Many fled to Port Royal in Acadia (now known as Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec). Samuel de Champlain held a series of feasts called Order de Bon Temps, or Order of Good Cheer. This celebration broke from the tradition of celebrating solely the Harvest, but also giving thanks for neighbours, families and the fact they survived another year in the harsh climate of the New World. These celebrations occurred in 1604, about 15-20 years before the Plymouth Rock Landing. While not called specifically "Thanksgiving" and very much still being tied to the time of Harvest, the inclusion of being thankful for all, and not just the food grew over the coming decades. Following the American Revolution and the arrival of the Loyalists fleeing the 13 Colonies, they brought their tradition of "Thanksgiving" with them as well, and the combination of French Canadian, Native American, British Canadian, and British Colonial cultures defined what Thanksgiving would become in Canada...and it is why we have some variance in how we celebrate a similar holiday than our Southern Neighbours. That being said....we all celebrate for the same reason... Our farms grew food, and Winter is coming. (And just an added note, Canada does do Black Friday now, and Cyber Monday. Businesses had to follow the US lead with this because for many many years Canadians would just go shopping in the US over the US Thanksgiving Weekend to take advantage of the shopping deals, in effort to keep customers in Canada, Canadian businesses do hold Black Friday/Cyber Monday but it is tied to US Thanksgiving not Canadian Thanksgiving.)
Hey Tyler. Love your posts, especially those about Quebec. Makes me feel homesick. The sites you visit are not always completely accurate but probably are for someplace in Canada. Keep up your initiatives. My wife and I enjoy them very much. Have liked and subscribed.
As a Canadian you spent a good number of my summers down in Oregon….. and who has 20 -30 American family members ( my mom is the youngest of 10 children. 8 stayed up in Canada & built their lives here and 2 moved down to the States & built their lives there……all went forth and multiplied. A great deal. lol)….I just wanted to say that I love your channel and reactions to all things ”Canadian”! A few of my American cousins came up to spend Thanksgiving with us at my moms this past weekend & we were all talking about the difference between American and Canadian Thanksgivings. We all came to the conclusion that Canada‘s Thanksgiving is like American Thanksgiving “lite”….. even though Thanksgiving is always a long weekend up here in Canada most people tend to have just one main day where they do a big Thanksgiving dinner and celebrate Thanksgiving. And it’s just more of a chill holiday up here/ less of a big deal, than it is down in the States. Hope you enjoy your own Thanksgiving in a month or so!
7:30 There is definitely a lot of travel, at least where I am. Most people wouldn’t fly out to meet family, but a four hour drive wouldn’t be a surprise for a lot of people. We have a longer weekend (here in BC), and it’s very big.
I love our "Canadian" Thanksgiving!!! It's the perfect time of year...We have our big meal on Sunday with family members often having both turkey and ham along with pumpkin and apple pie, never butter tarts but that's a great idea, and on Monday spend a day at the local pumpkin patch or apple orchard for apple picking and choosing Halloween pumpkins or a nice walk in the woods to splendor the fall colors on the trees, usually in very pleasant temperatures...It is my favourite time of year and Holiday...My husband and I got married on Thanksgiving weekend 35 years ago...Americans love their Thanksgiving because that's what they've always known and it's about family on both sides.
In Ontario, a lot of people do travel to see their families for the three day weekend of Thanksgiving, and it is a big event... just had it and was stuffed full. We also absolutely do have pumpkin pie, and sometimes other types of pie too and/or cheesecake. I love butter tarts, but I've never had them for Thanksgiving before. I don't know where the guy got that idea.
just about every family gathering in my wife and I's family had butter tarts along with other deserts. It just depends on family tradition.We might confuse Tyler wit dis one , EH? We from da Sault. So we from da north and sometime have duck or wild game instead or alongside da diner dere ,eh. Happy belated hope yours was less expensive we live just outside of Vancouver...organic 15pound turkey no joke $120.00...we went to Wal-mart after that. That was the local butcher at 120. Luckily freash produce is still cheap locally cause rent's astronomical. Good luck out dere!!
In Ontario it’s a big holiday. We get the day off work too. We don’t have a parade, but thanksgiving is like a mini Christmas. We get together with extended family for dinner. We also started having “Black Friday” week but it’s nothing like in the states. The deals aren’t as good, and people aren’t fighting lol.
This isn't regarding Thanksgiving but another holiday we sort of share. When I worked in the US my coworkers asked whether we had a 4th of July too. I would reply no, we skip from the 3rd to the 5th (LOL). I knew what they meant but it threw them off! Instead of celebrating "Independence Day" on the 4th of July, Canada celebrates "Canada Day" on July 1st. Since our city is directly across the Detroit River from Detroit, Michigan we have often celebrated our joint holidays with huge fireworks display on the River between us. These fireworks have been sponsored in recent years by Ford. Pretty awesome if you like HUGE fireworks displays!
The Freedom Festival between Detroit and Windsor Ontario was a wonderful international event. I doubt most Americans would believe that the iconic pictures of Detroits skyline were taken on the opposite side of the border in Canada.
Black Friday happens in Canada. It’s the same day as the States, but not nearly as crazy. Whether it’s the general demeanour of Canadians, so there’s a lot less pushing and shoving, or the fact that online shopping has made a huge impact on in person sales during Black Friday.
Less goods for everyone to fight over, and less demand for said goods. Stores are always trying to sell old tech. Canada is the market for US-old goods.
@@laurabailey1054 Major retail chains were like "we have too much stock leftover, people aren't buying as much new things. Oh I know lets dump them into Canada and resell em as new products!"
Plus idk about in other parts of Canada, but here in Quebec big chains do ''boxing week deals'', so it's not just one specific day. Plus prices are not that incredibly low I feel.
I do love butter tarts (preferably with pecans rather than raisins) but as someone from Ontario, I don't know that butter tarts are a replacement for pumpkin pie as dessert. Usually, dessert for thanksgiving is more likely pumpkin pie or apple pie. We also don't usually have sweet potato casserole. Usually there is a veggie dish, but it is less likely to be a casserole, and more likely to be cook/heated veggies. Also, in the small town in Ontario where I grew up, Thanksgiving weekend is also when the town's fall fair is held. Throughout the fall town's hold fall fairs having to do with the harvest, (each is somewhat unique) but ours is the last each fall, and is the lead up to the Royal Winter Fair held in Toronto. Winners of different competitions at the different fall fairs, in many categories, including food, and animals can go on to larger competitions at the Royal Winter fair each year.
Because Canada is a multicultural country, the Thanksgiving dinner will vary by family traditions. The turkey is pretty consistent, but side dishes might include anything from perogies to aloo gobi to bannock/fry bread. And there's likely to be an apple or berry pie beside the pumpkin one. This year we broke with tradition entirely and had salmon as the main course! Still had potatoes, carrots and brussels sprouts, though. :)
It is very different to memorial day in the states. In Ontario it is not a holiday (unless you work for the federal government). We also keep it very sacred, everything stops for the moment of silence at 11 AM (even transit). Some American companies tried having a remembrance day sale and were very harshly shut down because it is seen as disrespectful. I remember traveling in the states in November and being horrified that they used the death of soldiers to sell stuff, my American friends didn't understand where I was coming from...any excuse for a sale.
It's a holiday in Manitoba. I remember as a kid you were only allowed to sell bread, milk, and eggs that day. Now businesses can open after 1pm if I'm right about the time. My husband works evenings and everyone MUST leave work by midnight prior.
Well, now you have plenty of time to resurch Boxing Day (Canada's Black Friday) and other Canadian statutory holidays 😉 P. S. We absolutely serve pumpkin pie after our traditional turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams etc.
The origins of Boxing Day are from Great Britain where the domestic staff would trade duties with the family that employed them for one day. The family would cook and clean for the staff, while the staff would be waited upon.
Growing up I celebrated Thanksgiving in both October and November. For Canadian Thanksgiving my Aunt and her family would travel to Hamilton ON for our Thanksgiving and in November my family would travel to Rochester NY for US Thanksgiving. We always had both baked maple ham and turkey with stuffing and gravy, mashed potatoes and roasted potatoes, peas and carrots, brussel sprouts, cauliflower cheese, and green beans. Desserts were apple pie, mincemeat tarts and chocolate eclairs. My Mum made the pies and my Dad did everything else. At my aunts we had the same main course, but dessert included pumpkin pie no eclairs. And again at Christmas we ate the same meal but also had my Dad's homemade Christmas pudding. We would alternate the year for whose house we did Christmas at.
I am usually in Canada for Candian Thanksgiving and in the USA for American Thanksgiving. To be honest the only noticeable difference is that it is a bigger deal the in the USA. The foods at the Thanksgiving dinner are exactly the same except for the variations due to individual personal preferences in both countries. American Thanksgiving, as a family event is more like Christmas in Canada whereas many Canadian families come together at Christmas time. My experience in Canada is that Thanksgiving is more for just local family to get together and save the long distant travel for Christmas get together.
Alot of the stores here have adopted Black Friday, but it is for weeks around your day. Yes we do Boxing day, Dec 26. It's a day off, and crazy wait in line sales
I know thanksgiviing is big thing with the english community, but here in Quebec, it is just another day off. I have had some diner in the past with my family, but nothing special. I think we had ham instead of Turkey. When I had a girlfriend from Toronto, we celebrated thanksgiving!
Schools are usually closed in eastern Canada for Thanksgiving Monday. University students have their first weekend home after the semester started. Especially important for first year students away from home the first time .
We do have Black Fridays in Canada, but just not during the holidays. Candy yams or Sweet potatoes as we them here in Canada. I guess some Canadian households has them at their Thanksgiving Day feast, probably by American expats living in Canada. Making sweet potatoes with miniature marshmallows will make it extra sweet. In Canada that would be considered a dessert and not a side dish at Thanksgiving Day feast...In Newfoundland they do have turkey meals for Thanksgiving too. Some Canadian households would have both a turkey and a ham for Thanksgiving my parents did that, especially if you're from a really large family. And then they would do it all over again for the Christmas day meal. As a Canadian I am just as surprised as you about Canada have the Thanksgiving Day meal first before the American Thanksgiving Day meal. What I remember about the American Thanksgiving Day was the Macy's Day parade in NYC and watching it on television and having the Santa Clause parade from Toronto shown in the Macy's Day parade. BTW the Toronto Santa Clause parade is older than the American Macy's Day parade. The Toronto Santa Clause parade started in 1905 that's 117 years ago whereas the Macy's Day parade started in 1924 and that's 98 years ago.
I always love tuning in to these videos I always learn new things I didn't know about my own country 🇨🇦 we did Tyler in the comments. Where I live in Ontario it's also the start of Octoberfest and thanksgiving is a national holiday and nothing is open everybody get it off while it's more low key it's still important to Canadians lives. While we don't have black Friday we do have boxing day sales and it can get really crazy but we are reserved and don't resort to the fighting. Oh and stop bying into the black Friday hype you can find better sales during the year . Plus we got that high alcohol content in our beer! 🍺🍻
I have no idea why you would think it wouldn't be a holiday in Labrador. 🤔 Labrador is a part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and, as such, has the same holidays as the island portion of the province. And yes, Thanksgiving is a holiday here. 🙂🦃🥔🥕🥦🍞🥧🍽🍷
@@carolmurphy7572 I googled it because that didn't sound right and it said pei and I thought Labrador but I'm old and can't remember my name most days lol might be nova Scotia
@@Bottemlessdrunk Haha! You may be old and your memory may not be as crisp as it once was, but your sense of humour is still razor sharp! Well said, my dear! 😄😅 Cheers!
Our family always celebrates Thanksgiving with many different roasts, most years it is a huge ham or roast beef, not often turkey. But most important all of the vegetables and fruits from our gardens. It is a feast to celebrate the harvest and long before the government fixed it's date, most communites had a harvest supper.
As a Canadian I can't imagine going to all the work of preparing Turkey in November and then a month later for Christmas. In Canada with Thankgiving in October we eagerly look forward to doing it again in December.
Many Americans do ham or a roast for Christmas, not just Turkey. In my family, Thanksgiving was the huge turkey dinner and extended family gathering. Christmas day was more of an intimate family day for parents and kids. Single adults might go home to their parents. There were many parties and gatherings with family and friends during the “Holiday Season” which is the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas. My experience in Canada has been that Thanksgiving is very low key while Christmas is the big event, and everyone is off/everything is closed for 2 weeks between Christmas and New Years.
@@JHabc most people get 2 maybe 3 days off at Christmas. Only Christmas day will you find 98% businesses closed. Only schools close for 2 weeks over Christmas.
@@luvcampinbc and for new year as well there will be an official day off. Well in Quebec at least
@@allister.trudel in BC as well
@@luvcampinbc most law offices close down for at least a week where I am.
Actually Tyler you are NOT a typical American. You are curious about other countries (in this case Canada) and are open minded enough to learn. Love your videos.
YEAHHHH!!!
I will say that in maybe the last 10 years its become extremely common for Canadian stores to have black friday sales the same friday as the US. This is mainly to have Canadians buying from them instead of hopping the border and shopping for all their Christmas presents in the US.
Don’t forget the “pre-black Friday” sales that Canadian stores have. Lol. Entire week leading up the Black Friday is full of sales at stores like Walmart and other big box stores.
I live in a border town to Michigan and guilty as a chocolate cream puff for cross border shopping😻
Yeah, black friday is huge here. Like boxing day it's become a week long event. There are many door crasher deals on if you're crazy enough to go on Friday, although we don't get the day off.
Also, don't forget Cyber Monday
Canada's joined in on cyber Monday, giving Tuesday... Cyber week... It's become so big here that it has now eclipsed boxing day (week) sales. Some stores tried to make a big sales weekend out of our thanksgiving 🇨🇦, but it never really took off.
I live in Ontario. Some people may serve butter tarts at Thanksgiving but pumpkin pie is the most common desert served.
Same in Alberta
And apple pie. 😊
Yeah, I don't know where this "instead of pumpkin pie" idea came from. In addition to pumpkin pie, sure, but instead of?
We always have pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving.
Canadian Thanksgiving has nothing to do with pilgrims, but it's a harvest festival. It's a stat holiday in most provinces, so yes, we get the day off. We generally have the same foods, turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, candied yams, pumpkin pie. One thing I notice that's different is that Canadian tables usually always have Brussels sprout dishes whereas American tables have something called green bean casserole. My American cousins tell me about it.
In my part of the country (Québec) it's usually ham instead of turkey.
@@Trygvar13 Here in Ontario we use to do Ham and Turkey. But as our family started to bicker and we don't really do big family dinners anymore we just do a Turkey now.
My American cousins always found it weird that we would have marsh mellows on our sweet potatoes. You cook the mashed sweet potatoes, when they are done, add a layer of marsh mellows on top and cook them till they turn golden and serve.
My family has never done the candied yams but we do the green bean casserole. Also our Christmas dinner features Ukrainian dishes as a family tradition, though we celebrate like most Canadians on December 25th and not January 7th.
@@canuckasaurus Interesting. My American family is Italian American so they often do lasagne as well.
@@canuckasaurus A Yam is different from a Sweet Potato. The Sweet Potato with Marshmallows from my experience comes from families with a British background that have been in Canada for generations. My Grandmother made it who learned it from her Grandmother and so on is how it goes when asked where it started.
Canadian Thanksgiving is an official statutory holiday, except in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It is certainly a big deal to us...a time to get together with family and friends and celebrate and give thanks with a feast of delicious food such as turkey, ham, brussel sprouts, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cabbage rolls, pumpkin pie, etc.
makes me hungry!
@@slv72 Especially for shopping!
Yeah!! Stuffing!!!
Not to all of us, it isn't. :P In my area, people barely mention it and many 'celebrate it' merely with a good dinner at their own home with a drink, if that much. Most just go 'ah cool, day off'.
New Brunswick also doesn't have it as a paid holiday - I've been googling now lol.
I live in Ontario and we have pumpkin pie. Cant have thanksgiving without pumpkin pie!!
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In Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario, they begin the celebration of Thanksgiving by tapping the keg 'Oktoberfest' (beer) at noon, the Friday of that weekend! Then on the Monday, they have the Thanksgiving Day parade, which includes much of Oktoberfest traditions. The KEG tapping is the start of 10 days of Oktoberfest and TOO many fun times!
We do have black friday in Canada, it's just not linked to thanksgiving. It's on the same day as the American black Friday. So we do get some deals. It's not as intense as in the US in terms of instore shopping from what I can tell though.
I was dying listening to some of the things in the video! I work at a warehouse that supplies a very popular outdoor camping hunting store and we MOST DEFINITELY have black Friday sales! Also I grew up in Ontario and we had pumpkin pie EVERY YEAR!
Black Friday is still fairly new. Before that it was Boxing Day that was the big day for sales.
Our deals are not as good either
@@DJ-rv3ew Yeah same, in ontario and I've never had butter tarts for thanksgiving. Always pumpkin pie and occasionally pecan pie
@@jeffreycairns767 Fairly new indeed. BF didn’t exist when I was young. It started about 20 years ago in response to the throngs of canadian shoppers crossing the border when both currencies were at par. Lost sales prompted canadian retailers to move and create their own BF.
As a Canadian, there are two major things I love about our Thanksgiving:
1. Its at such a nicer time of year weather-wise, at least where I am in Southern Ontario. It's early October so the briskness of fall is just starting to hang in the air. Usually perfect weather, not too hot and not too cold. Light hoodie weather. In contrast to the US, which depending on where you are can be quite cold and miserable. Plus, you got a month till Christmas (sometimes less) and it just seems such a rush of holidays at the end of the year.
2. We don't go NEARLY as insane for it as the US does. Just a small get together with friends and family and still the extra day off. In the end it just sort of blends together with the rest of the fall activities like apple/pumpkin picking, etc.
Thanksgiving in Canada is often called 'Thanksgiving Weekend' more than 'Thanksgiving Day' so it IS more than just one day and it's official here.
It's thanksgiving weekend because Thanksgiving is on a Monday. So the Saturday and Sunday before is the weekend, But we don't get extra days off. We are back to work on Tuesday.
Exactly, it's always on a Monday so most people will have 3 days off.
Dont understand why they're saying it isnt stauatory holiday it is abd there is a black Friday but not till Nov.
@@faiththrower7951 Today as a matter of fact.
Thanksgiving is a national holiday ,im 65 and it has been my whole life ,a 3 day celebration for sure for some its 4 , its about family , food , and wonderful friends
Tyler I came across your channel about 2 weeks ago and love it. As a Canadian it's very entertaining and I appreciate the fact you don't cover any of the gaps in your knowledge about Canada and instead are honest with how little many American's know about us. I think it would be very interesting to see you travel up here and experience some of the things you are learning about in your videos firsthand and see what your reaction is to seeing them in person - do they live up to your expectations or fall short after what you've seen in the videos you've watched?
Tim Hortons. He LOVES any Tim Hortons!
Yassssss! That is a brilliant idea! I too discovered your channel two weeks ago… as a Canadian in Halifax, Nova Scotia with many ties to the United States through relatives on both sides of the family, your videos reflect the debates we’ve had over the years. (Note that I don’t say, American ties because Canadians are Americans as well; we are - both countries - part of North America). If you ever decide to take up this brilliant suggestion, am happy to host for the Nova Scotia & Newfoundland contingency (I lived 30 years in Newfoundland… FYI Newfoundland rhymes with “understand”… do it 5x in a row and you will have it aced!) looking forward to more videos… hit me up for any suggestions! :)
Yes! Do a vlog about it !!
agreed to everything fellow Canuck here
I agree, I have been watching for about a month and really appreciate the fact that Tyler is open to learning 😊.
I love how you learn things about our country. In such an amusing and loving way. I enjoy your videos.
Here in Ontario it is a very significant holiday. It could be different in other parts of the country, but here it certainly is a holiday where people travel to see their families. Also since Monday is a stat holiday here, we all have a long weekend.
Keep it up Tyler, love the videos!
Very similar in BC
Same in Alberta
Same in NB, we have the Monday off as well and many families travel across the country to visit loved ones!
Same in SK
Same in Quebec
I love Canadian Thanksgiving, for practical reasons -- we have more time between gorging seasons. The waistline has a chance to recover. We also have a French-Canadian meat pie called Tourtiere. You have to try it.
The best part of having an American wife here in Canada is that we celebrate both each year! Double the fun
I agree =) I'm Canadian but I live in the States with my American husband. I get 2 Thanksgivings as well =D. We don't celebrate CT though unless we/I go Home, since we both have to work that day. When my dad is able he comes down for AT. So yup, TWO Thanksgivings either way =) Although I did discover sweet potato pie since moving to MI, and I must say it is quite delicious =D I'll buy a pumpkin and sweet potato pie, and enjoy them equally =) Good video all around.
@@reggitwend7405 Not a fan sweet potatoes but I’m glad you found something you like. My wife is Hawaiian and her family all love sushi and seafood which I abhor… maybe I should go for a helping of those sweet potatoes after all next time 😅
Each province in Canada has a separate culture that may not be immediately noticeable but you’ll find varying accents, traditions, lifestyles, and more. At the base of it we are all definitely Canadian but the multicultural nature of Canada and influence of French heritage has created some unique pockets across Canada.
Our Thanksgiving is a harvest festival that celebrates the bounty of the land. It is also a time of great charity with many, many donations made to local food banks second only to Christmas.The only sport associated with Canadian Thanksgiving is wishbone pulling. We do have Black Friday (and Boxing Day) sales, but they last for a whole week so there is no need to swarm a store.
In Montréal it was traditional for the football players ( Les Alouettes) to go to food banks and distribute food and meals to the homeless.
As far as I know, Thanksgiving is a national holiday across Canada. I'm from New Brunswick and it certainly is here! 😊
Yes, the Monday is a holiday in Alberta.
it's a statutory holiday in Saskatchewan
In Canada Thanksgiving is a celebration of the harvest. In the US Thanksgiving looks to be the kickoff to the Christmas season.
I'm a proud Canadian and Thanksgiving is my favourite holiday. We recently hosted my husband's family (11 of us) and we are outdoors on the deck. 💛🦃🧡
Thanksgiving is probably my favourite holiday. (Yep, i'm Canadian) We visit family and eat together, but there isn't the frenzy that can be associated with the Christmas season. It's nice and laid back.
We definitely DO have pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. Yes, we love out butter tarts, but I don't remember EVER having them for Thanksgiving.
I'm from Atlantic Canada more precisely The Maritimes (there's a story for you Tyler). Here in PEI I doubt that you'd find anyone who doesn't considering Thanksgiving a stat holiday it's probably one of the biggest holidays next to Christmas. When stores are closed especially liquor stores you know it's a serious holiday.
some of us don't have government jobs and still have to put the day in
@@tazztower44 True but it's still a holiday. Even Government jobs like IT system support work 24/7. Most people would have a Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday.
@@tazztower44 I've never met a boss is Canada that is not giving you the day off on Thanks Giving. Even at a Meat shop that sold more turkeys than it had space for it was still my choice to work those days for extra money. If you want the extra holiday pay by all means for it, but don't complain about working holidays when you know you're probably doing it for the double pay.
A lot of places will try to keep you on if there expect high volumes of work, like groceries and what not, but most of them will still have some understanding if you have an actual important dinner you want to attend with family you don't see often. Or if you get off before 5 anyways it's not going to affect your dinner.
@@Samuri5hit84 not complaining about nothing tbh...I've worked in warehousing for 20 yrs and if it wasn't a stat,you were expected to show up. it's true most bosses will meet you halfway but a day off for the most part doesn't help the bills get paid
The liquor stores closed has to be a big reason here in Canada
Thanks giving is more than a holiday. Cultivating gratitude is always a worthy pursuit.
FYI - The first Thanksgiving service known to be held by Europeans in North America occurred on May 27, 1578 in Newfoundland and Labrador, the English explorer Martin Frobisher landed here in 1578 in his quest for the Northwest Passage. The Thanksgiving service was held to give thanks for his safe arrival in the New World.
The notion of Frobisher's service being first on the continent has come into dispute,
as Spaniards conducted similar services in Spanish North America during the mid-16th century, decades before Frobisher's arrival.
@@KOZMOuvBORG not relevant about the Spanish but rather thanks that Frobisher and his crew survived and we moved it to when our crops are in and so on. Nothing magical just being thankfull
@@KOZMOuvBORG not sure im reading this right but those dates dont make sense. Dispute that his 1574 was first when spanish were known to do the same in the next century 16th? Am i missing somthing here😅
@@lisat9707 the 16th century and the 1500's were the same time period; for example, the 1900's were called the 20th century. I hope this helps make sense of al Pearson's comment.
My family is from Newfoundland, we celebrate Thanksgiving and have Jigs dinner like they mentioned - it's a boiled salt beef dinner with carrots, turnips, potatoes and cabbage. But we also have a turkey to go with it, since it's not a ton of beef that gets boiled.
Our family always had pumpkin pie with our massive turkey dinner, also many stores now do have their own black Friday sales although the discounts aren't as big.
Black Friday sales is fairly new in Canada. Before that, Boxing day was the big one.
Turkey, ham, yams, mashed potatoes, stuffing, carrots, gravy, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie, apple crumble pie, cranberry sauce and for some wine depending on the place where you live in Canada.
Not only is Thanksgiving about giving thanks but it is also about helping those who were not as fortunate as us. Today, Thanksgiving is also a time to help the needy. Multiple food banks hold Thanksgiving food drives to distribute food to those who need it. Donating to these food drives is one of the many ways you can help those in need. The idea of giving thanks is intertwined with helping people who are not as fortunate.
Speaking of food banks they are in desperate need of donations especially during the holidays and with the recession things are looking Bleek demand has never been higher and there are a lot of new familys to Canada arriving daily so please think about donating and get your schools and churches holding food drives ❤️
THANKS for mentioning this Lesley! I think it would be a wonderful “tradition” for everyone to start! I help my parents’ church via volunteering as well. The Salvation Army does a number of massive drives for most holidays, as well as, The Mustard Seed. So wonderful to hear others be so thoughtful, compassionate, and thankful in our glorious country!🇨🇦😎🇨🇦
We also have many charity, Thanksgiving dinners usually staggerd around so people can join in on more than one dinner.
Our local churches have turkey dinners around the date of Thanksgiving. The various church members cook the food and serve it buffet style. The cost of the dinner goes to charity. So many want to attend they sell tickets. The various churches organize all the dates to spread the dinners around different days. If the dinner is held on a Saturday there usually is two seatiings. ✝️⛪️🍗🥗🥧☦️
I grew up with the French Canadian version of Thanksgiving [Action de grâce]. Yup, turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce for sure. But also tourtière [savoury meat pie], mashed turnips flavoured with cinnamon along with the potatoes, tarte au sucre [a sort of gigantic butter tart], etc. My family nowadays is part Philipino, so now there's pancit, adobo and lumpia as well. As the video implies, the holiday is more low-key than in the U.S. Just a nice dinner with family and friends (usually immediate family, not every third cousin who lives 3,000 km away), after which people kick back and relax. It's not commercialized, and it's not hectic like Christmas. The religious component is either absent or confined to a blessing. It's not super-patriotic either... just a quiet affair to be thankful for what you've got. It varies from family to family how much effort they put into it, and there are some people who put on a big splash like Americans do, but usually not. That doesn't mean it's not important. It's precisely because it's NOT a big thing that it feels genuinely important. It's a time to ignore the demands made by Nation, Religion, and Commerce to run your life, and remember that you're an individual with a family and friends, not a "consumer" or a cog in a big machine..... and that's the thing that Canadians cherish the most, a deep part of their sense of freedom.
OMG sugar pie.... I grew up in northern ontario which has a heavy french influence, and sugar pie was the best thing about thanksgiving (made by my mom's friend, recipe was a secret) I've not found a recipe that matches the one that she made...
@@monicabender3943 I've given up trying to duplicate my mom's tourtière. What is it with les mamans canadiennes and their secret recipes? They guard them like nuclear response codes.
OH!!! My dad and his family are French Canadian, and I LOVED sugar pie! Sadly, my grandmother passed away without anyone getting her recipe. I don't suppose you have a good one? I've tried a few, and they just didn't taste the same. Also love tourtiere - my mom makes one at Thanksgiving and Christmas. So good! :)
Tourtiere! Yum
Oh, wow. I always assumed the US had a Boxing day sale. Shocking! (Thanks for reacting to all of these Canadian-inspired videos, Tyler!).
I was very surprised to learn they don’t have Boxing Day!
It's because they have a better version. Black Friday.
Boxing day goes back to the old world. The wealthy boxed up food to give to the less fortunate on the 26th Dec.
Servants would also receive boxed food and treats and given the day off.
So in the US, you have to go back to work the day after Christmas?
BoxingDay comes from the British.
Pumpkin pie is also used in Ontario, it's a big province (in size and population), so there's a lot of different kinds of food stuff that families traditionally ate.
In the US, pumpkin pies became popular because American Thanksgiving happened after Halloween, and it made it easier to use the leftover pumpkins to make the pies.
Buttertarts aren't a big deal where I live in Ontario, but it's often available throughout the year in stores. Its main ingredients are melted brown sugar and butter. Sometimes they have raisins or pecan nuts.
My grandmother usually made buttertarts for Christmas, or if there was a church bake sale.
The US used to have Thanksgiving in October as well, but considering November had nothing to celebrate and winter was coming, it was switched to that month. Not willing to get rid of a holiday, it was replaced by Columbus Day.
The video author is wrong. Thanksgiving is a statutory holiday in Canada
Actually they are correct. It is not a stat holiday in the Atlantic provinces but I think they do recognize it.
We do recognise it in Nova Scotia but it's not a stat, many people have it off and many businesses are closed but it's not a give in
Western Canada has Thanksgiving as a stat holiday.
I worked as a RN in 2 of the Atlantic Provinces Nova Scotia and New Brunswick for 40 + years and it was always recognized as a STAT holiday.
Ah no I don't believe that is true. You can tell because McDonald's and Walmart open at their regular time. If it was a stat holiday they would have to open at noon.
I'm French-Canadian and i have never celebrated Thanksgiving. I think it's more of an English thing. It is an official holiday, in French it's called "Action de grâce" (literally, an act of giving thanks)
As a Canadian I've been living in the USA for so many years with my American husband , I've forgotten so many things about my Canadian history. Thanks for the reminder. When I do visit my Canadian family, I have visited and had Thanksgiving there and it was pretty much the same foods except my mom adds a few of her own Ukrainian dishes. I didn't know about the black Friday. My brother never told me about that one going on Canada. I've been living in the USA so long I have to read up on my Canadian history now and then. I still watch my favorite hockey team in Winnipeg. Go Jets Go!!!
I'm so sorry for you. I feel sorry for any Jets Fan, except Jesse Pollack.
@@jeffreycairns767 We feel sorry for any Toronto fan.
@@curfuffle7420 Why? The Leafs aew are the Toronto pro team that hasn't won the championship in its sport in the last 30 years but it's impossible to win when the odds are so strongly stacked against you and its set up well in advance to make sure you have a less then 0% chance of winning.
Sens fan here!! Go Sens GO!!
I knew I'd get a hard time about being a Jets fan🤣, to bad you guys. Weall have our teams we support eh lol
I love your honesty and your reactions and the way you comment and rewind. This is now one of my favourite channels. I’ve been a Canadian for 44 years. I was from Georgia before that. I love Canada and thanksgiving. The leaves are at their peak of colour on Oct 10th most years. So beautiful. Check out my grass hut settlement. Imagine having grass huts that can stand up against the snows of winter. The four to five foot tall grass certainly makes an easy wilderness shelter material. Love your videos. I’m glad you’re still making them. Very entertaining.
I live in Ontario, and love homemade butter tarts....and if you are to try one, avoid the flat looking store bought ones, homemade is the way to go.
we always celebrated with walnut tarts or pies, flavoured with maple syrup.
@@karmelicanke yeah, my mom made these awesome homemade butter tarts...which could enjoy them again, but she lives across the country now.
I love your videos! I live beside Niagara Falls and I used to frequently shop over the “river” as we say here. I used to cross for Black Friday every year when the deals were crazy. I grew up in Florida and the candied yams w
It’s marshmallows may be a southern thing. That is what everyone wants me to make them when I go to another home for dinner. We also will have Thanksgiving dinner any day of Thanksgiving weekend. Thank you for caring enough to learn about Canada.
Brittlestar is good fun and lightheartedly pokes fun at the differences between Canada and U.S. traditions and culture. I am surprised you hadn't heard of candied yams (sweet potato casserole topped with mini marshmallows and roasted). I've seen it on the Thanksgiving editions of many U.S. television shows. Perhaps it's just not popular in your region (wherever you are!)?
Hello, back again the Caligal. Just returned from Thanksgiving in Canada. Great time visiting my in-laws and having good food. The focus of Thanksgiving is to celebrate family, friends, and good health. It started with the explorers being grateful for a safe journey and bountiful harvest. The good thing about having Thanksgiving in October is the rest of the year is focused on Christmas, so lots of time to prepare for Santa.
To me thanksgiving in the maritimes has been a day to have dinner with the people currently around you in your life. No huge family travelling. A meal to share together and connect with your community.
I live in Nova Scotia, since I remember, we always had a long weekend for thanksgiving. Monday was always a day off here and we have many meals for different sides of family, eating supper or dinner Saturday or Sunday but Monday is the big meal on thanksgiving day
Boxing Day is pretty big here though it used to be cooler in like the 90s before all the current inventory control came along. Stores used to greatly discount left over stock to sell it and you used to find great deals. I remember seeing all the empty shelves leading up to Christmas at stores, you don't see that these days. You still can find deals but I don't think it's the same.
Brittlestar is a treasure, all of his videos are a fun with a dash of commentary.
Not only did Thanksgiving originate in 🇨🇦 but we LOVE our thanksgiving and it’s big here, start of fall, the smells of spice, turkey, ham and all the fixings mmmmm
While I agree it is a big deal in Canada, I can also say I think Thanksgiving is even a bigger deal in the USA. It is not unlike Labour (Labor) day. It is much more the symbolic end of summer in Canada and therefore a bigger weekend. Staggered starts to schools make Labor day less of a big deal.
Thanksgiving originates in England, from centuries before the new world was discovered. Its a harvest festival, which is exactly what we celebrate. The confusion comes from the fact there were many different occasions of giving thanks (or thanks giving) and the Americans adopted the term to only have a single meaning for a specific event. So our Thanksgiving is the traditional ancient one, and theirs stems from the pilgrims.
@@scottcameron5249 how do you measure the importance of such a thing to say it’s a bigger deal in the US? I beg to differ…… if anything both countries obviously love their Thanksgiving. Don’t know how your family is but in our European household (French/Hungarian) special occasions are a great excuse to get the family all together for good food, good company and good wine……
Just so you don't get caught out again Tyler, Canada also celebrates Dec 26 Boxing Day a British custom brought from the old country. Boxing Day is an official holiday. This holiday sort of makes up for your 4 day Thanksgiving long holiday by giving us an extra day off over that holiday. And oh yes, unfortunately Black Friday is a thing here too, after all big business isn't going to miss a chance to exploit early Christmas sales. All our big box stores have their crazy sales that last for weeks or pop up in July as an early start. One of our holiday foods is a French Canadian meat pie called a Tourtiere. And buddy we celebrate July 4th on the first. Where I live on the border we get two big fireworks displays in a four day period one on each side of the river that divides our two nations.
I have to add another comment! Several years ago in all seriousness some Americans who were visiting here in Canada asked me why we celebrated July 4 on July 1! Because I have a number of American friends who do live here in Canada we get to celebrate both thanksgivings! FYI The Americans always add sweet potatoes with marshmallows and maple syrup to the menu!
I enjoy watching you. Even I'm learning stuff from your channel about Cdn history. Lol. I didn't know about the turkey being pardonned either. We should do that here!! We eat usually 2 kinds of pie, like apple and pumpkin. Our family never ate buttertarts on Thanksgiving. OMG some lady asked me if we celebrated Xmas on December 25th. I was like whaaaat???? I was shocked and stunned.
We have Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales on the same days you guys do. The day after Christmas we also have Boxing Day which is a similar idea and I've seen that spread to parts of the U.S.
We still have black Friday but it's not held on our thanksgiving week. It's the same week as American black Friday. One of the traditions that flowed over to Canada.
Lol, I've literally had an American ask me if Christmas was on the same day when they found out Thanksgiving was on a different day.
Now that’s funny.
It's a fair question and many Catholics do the big fest on the 24th and even open one gift that night and go to a midnight mass. I am not one but grew up in a french neighbourhood of St. Boniface in Winnipeg and many families did this.
I guess you don’t know that in parts of Eastern Europe and in all of Russia that Christmas is celebrated on January 6.
I'm a Canadian from Ontario and the dishes we typically have for Thanksgiving include: Turkey, Ham and/or meat pie, mashed potatoes, cranberries, gravy, roasted root vegetables, green beans, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. We usually do Thanksgiving potluck style so everyone is responsible for one dish each.
I love the fact that our holiday in Canada is less centred on religion and colonialism and more on being grateful to whatever we want to be grateful of. As an atheist, I want to be grateful of life without having to have to through a God in it or having to think about how we can have wronged the Indigenous people. We have Reconciliation Day for that (which I embrace and respect).
Nobody cares about reconciliation day though, it's mostly just guilt trips and half truths (fact is colonialism was an overall good, and the first nations treated people bad too). Our Thanksgiving has zero connection to the first nations, it goes back centuries before the new world was discovered, and traditionally may have evolved a bit of God thanking for the harvest.
@@tiffaniterris2886 um i don't mean to be rude but you do realize that Canada literally commited genocide right? like they had all these systems put in place to get rid of indigenous people and their cultures. your argument feels a bit weak. Its like if I punched you in the face and then said that you are a bad person to cause you stole a pencil or something. also even if something may have evolved from a religion it might not be religious anymore, like Christmas, yeah many religions celebrate something around this time but this also means that it has become a celebration that may no longer be associated with specific things or certain religions. Like santa and elves, where did they come from?
(if anyone does know if Santa and elves came from a specific group please tell me i don't want to be rude)
@@evelazell-wright2051 - Genocide was committed everywhere when new people invaded other lands or wherever there were minorities. Same in the US (smallpox laden blankets, death marches like the "Trail of Tears", decimating the bison). Same in Australia. Same in South America. Same in African lands. Same in Europe in the middle ages and ever since. Same right now in Ukraine. Same in China at present. Native tribes eradicated other tribes in North America. I live in an area once occupied by the "Neutrals". They wouldn't side with confederations on either side of them (Huron and Iroquois) and were wiped out. Nothing unique. I'm also an Atheist. The holidays are based on fairy tales and have been distorted beyond their origins. I just enjoy the holidays because people actually associate with each other without (hopefully) being assholes.
@@susieq9801 wow this is a very well written and educated response and was very informative thank you.
Thanksgiving should have more of God and Jesus Christ in it. At the celebration of the harvest, it is God that gives you the great harvest. The fact that God has been removed from so many places is the reason Canada is going to hell in a hand basket.
In Alberta, we have a large population of Ukrainian-Canadians. Many celebrate Christmas on January 6 & 7. If they hold off on buying gifts until Boxing Day, they can get great deals when shopping. 🎉🎁🎄
Sneaky!
I celebrate both in Dec and January (I live in Edmonton)
I was talking to one of my friends in the US and he was surprised that we have Thanksgiving 6 weeks earlier than them. I've seen a few 'Black Friday' videos online and it looks scary, I'm happy that we can shop on Amazon and avoid the crowds and drama. We had turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, squash and mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner, as well as 3 different types of pie. Thank you for your videos, love watching them and seeing the differences.
Watched a few of your videos. I like that you are always positive and nice. Thank you for your posts!
Our Thanksgiving meal was the following: turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, veggies, salad, meatballs, cabbage rolls, perogies. Really, it’s hard to even fit on the plate. And yes, one of the desserts was butter tarts. Lol
Depending on your job, things seem to slow down around Christmas. We pretty much close down between Christmas and New Years. It’s awesome! Ives you plenty of time to get together with family.
The Ukrainian food is the best part of the holidays.
Yes, I think many families on the prairies will have cabbage rolls and perogies due to the Ukrainian heritage in the area, even families without that heritage sometimes. 😋
17:15 as mentioned in the video, it was the day after Christmas, Boxing Day, when the stores had their large clear-out sales.
In some places, people would start forming lines the night before. More recently, has been diluted by Black Friday.
There is also a tradition to donate to different charities on thanksgiving (at lesast in Quebec)
Butter tarts don't normally contain maple syrup. I've made butter tarts a few times. They're pretty easy, especially if you buy frozen tart shells. You can use regular size or mini.
They contain butter, sugar egg which are creamed together, and a bit of vanilla is added. Raisins are also sometimes stirred in. The filling is put in a raw tart shell. Some have pecans on top before they're baked.
Some store bought brands are pretty good too though they often contain corn syrup etc and vegetable oils.
Keep 'em coming, Tyler. This one was great.
Thanksgiving is a holiday here. It's always been as far as I know since i've been a kid. Oh, I'm from Canada BC and Alberta. It's about family 13:02 and having a fancy dinner together or a good dinner with turkey and stuffing and all the trimmings.
And sharing together what you're thankful for. It's remembering the people of the Native canadians who gave Settlers corn and taught them how to do stuff and shared with them a feast.
But my kids do do thanksgiving differently
I think that a day of Thanksgiving has been around for hunfreds of years. The people would get together to celebrate their harvest and thank God that they would have enough food to survive the coming winter.
You are so right, Deuteronomy 14:22 - 29
Yes, growing up in the UK, we celebrated Harvest festival in school, and were asked to bring a small food contribution which was given to those in need. I don't know if this is still done in schools as it had a religious aspect to it, singing a hymn and song of gratitude, so it might only happen in churches now.
this one had me smiling more than i have in decades for that reason I have subscribed
Canadian here. I occationally have had butter tarts at thanksgiving, but pumpkin pie and apple pie were there every year in our house.
I don't think i've tried butter tarts with maple syrup before. the butter tarts i'm used to are just like pecan pie minus the pecans.
Butter tarts are great. I grew up my whole life not eating them, yet I would eat brown sugar and butter on bread. 🤡 Finding out that butter tarts was a common Canadian thing makes me like them that much more though.
Yes the French changed it
Thanks for getting to know us. Canadians appreciate this, since we know more about America than they know about us.
It’s a holiday in my province in BC, but if you work in the service industries you often have to work, but if you do you get paid time & a half or double time. We mostly have turkeys like the US & we also do that at Christmas which I heard is not so in the states, yummy turkey😋
One of my daughters was born on Thanksgiving Sunday. And the provinces I have lived in all celebrated this holiday.
Folk Lore has the first Thanksgiving in Canada being celebrated by British Explorer Martin Frobisher and his crew in what is now Baffin Island Nunavut, along Frobisher Bay. The story says they were looking for the NW Passage, and stopped to feast on salted meat and mushy peas....in 1570 something, but I don't really see a couple boats exploring stopping to eat as a Thanksgiving Celebration.
More traditional Canadian Thanksgiving has its roots as far back as the mid to late 16th century primarily in the French Settlements along the St Lawrence and Atlantic Canada, and the first celebrations of the Harvest actually came about 40 years before the US Plymouth Rock/Pilgrim Thanksgiving Story. One of the first detailed Thanksgivings in Canada was in Port Royal. After a harsh winter killed many settlers and led to a scourge of scurvy among survivors. Many fled to Port Royal in Acadia (now known as Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec).
Samuel de Champlain held a series of feasts called Order de Bon Temps, or Order of Good Cheer. This celebration broke from the tradition of celebrating solely the Harvest, but also giving thanks for neighbours, families and the fact they survived another year in the harsh climate of the New World. These celebrations occurred in 1604, about 15-20 years before the Plymouth Rock Landing. While not called specifically "Thanksgiving" and very much still being tied to the time of Harvest, the inclusion of being thankful for all, and not just the food grew over the coming decades.
Following the American Revolution and the arrival of the Loyalists fleeing the 13 Colonies, they brought their tradition of "Thanksgiving" with them as well, and the combination of French Canadian, Native American, British Canadian, and British Colonial cultures defined what Thanksgiving would become in Canada...and it is why we have some variance in how we celebrate a similar holiday than our Southern Neighbours.
That being said....we all celebrate for the same reason... Our farms grew food, and Winter is coming.
(And just an added note, Canada does do Black Friday now, and Cyber Monday. Businesses had to follow the US lead with this because for many many years Canadians would just go shopping in the US over the US Thanksgiving Weekend to take advantage of the shopping deals, in effort to keep customers in Canada, Canadian businesses do hold Black Friday/Cyber Monday but it is tied to US Thanksgiving not Canadian Thanksgiving.)
Hey Tyler. Love your posts, especially those about Quebec. Makes me feel homesick. The sites you visit are not always completely accurate but probably are for someplace in Canada. Keep up your initiatives. My wife and I enjoy them very much. Have liked and subscribed.
As a Canadian you spent a good number of my summers down in Oregon….. and who has 20 -30 American family members ( my mom is the youngest of 10 children. 8 stayed up in Canada & built their lives here and 2 moved down to the States & built their lives there……all went forth and multiplied. A great deal. lol)….I just wanted to say that I love your channel and reactions to all things ”Canadian”!
A few of my American cousins came up to spend Thanksgiving with us at my moms this past weekend & we were all talking about the difference between American and Canadian Thanksgivings. We all came to the conclusion that Canada‘s Thanksgiving is like American Thanksgiving “lite”….. even though Thanksgiving is always a long weekend up here in Canada most people tend to have just one main day where they do a big Thanksgiving dinner and celebrate Thanksgiving. And it’s just more of a chill holiday up here/ less of a big deal, than it is down in the States.
Hope you enjoy your own Thanksgiving in a month or so!
7:30 There is definitely a lot of travel, at least where I am. Most people wouldn’t fly out to meet family, but a four hour drive wouldn’t be a surprise for a lot of people. We have a longer weekend (here in BC), and it’s very big.
Someone needs to book this man a trip to Canada.
Seriously all I want is a travel blog
please-
I love our "Canadian" Thanksgiving!!! It's the perfect time of year...We have our big meal on Sunday with family members often having both turkey and ham along with pumpkin and apple pie, never butter tarts but that's a great idea, and on Monday spend a day at the local pumpkin patch or apple orchard for apple picking and choosing Halloween pumpkins or a nice walk in the woods to splendor the fall colors on the trees, usually in very pleasant temperatures...It is my favourite time of year and Holiday...My husband and I got married on Thanksgiving weekend 35 years ago...Americans love their Thanksgiving because that's what they've always known and it's about family on both sides.
In Ontario, a lot of people do travel to see their families for the three day weekend of Thanksgiving, and it is a big event... just had it and was stuffed full. We also absolutely do have pumpkin pie, and sometimes other types of pie too and/or cheesecake. I love butter tarts, but I've never had them for Thanksgiving before. I don't know where the guy got that idea.
Have you tried Breyers butter tart ice cream, it's sooo good
just about every family gathering in my wife and I's family had butter tarts along with other deserts. It just depends on family tradition.We might confuse Tyler wit dis one , EH? We from da Sault. So we from da north and sometime have duck or wild game instead or alongside da diner dere ,eh. Happy belated hope yours was less expensive we live just outside of Vancouver...organic 15pound turkey no joke $120.00...we went to Wal-mart after that. That was the local butcher at 120. Luckily freash produce is still cheap locally cause rent's astronomical. Good luck out dere!!
In Ontario it’s a big holiday. We get the day off work too. We don’t have a parade, but thanksgiving is like a mini Christmas. We get together with extended family for dinner.
We also started having “Black Friday” week but it’s nothing like in the states. The deals aren’t as good, and people aren’t fighting lol.
This isn't regarding Thanksgiving but another holiday we sort of share. When I worked in the US my coworkers asked whether we had a 4th of July too. I would reply no, we skip from the 3rd to the 5th (LOL). I knew what they meant but it threw them off! Instead of celebrating "Independence Day" on the 4th of July, Canada celebrates "Canada Day" on July 1st. Since our city is directly across the Detroit River from Detroit, Michigan we have often celebrated our joint holidays with huge fireworks display on the River between us. These fireworks have been sponsored in recent years by Ford. Pretty awesome if you like HUGE fireworks displays!
The Freedom Festival between Detroit and Windsor Ontario was a wonderful international event. I doubt most Americans would believe that the iconic pictures of Detroits skyline were taken on the opposite side of the border in Canada.
I do respect your honesty & find your videos very informative & interesting to watch.
Black Friday happens in Canada. It’s the same day as the States, but not nearly as crazy. Whether it’s the general demeanour of Canadians, so there’s a lot less pushing and shoving, or the fact that online shopping has made a huge impact on in person sales during Black Friday.
Less goods for everyone to fight over, and less demand for said goods.
Stores are always trying to sell old tech.
Canada is the market for US-old goods.
It was imported from the US. Our black fridays are boxing days on December 26th.
I remember when Canada didn’t have Black Friday. We didn’t start having it until sometime in the late 1990’s
@@laurabailey1054 Major retail chains were like "we have too much stock leftover, people aren't buying as much new things. Oh I know lets dump them into Canada and resell em as new products!"
Plus idk about in other parts of Canada, but here in Quebec big chains do ''boxing week deals'', so it's not just one specific day. Plus prices are not that incredibly low I feel.
I do love butter tarts (preferably with pecans rather than raisins) but as someone from Ontario, I don't know that butter tarts are a replacement for pumpkin pie as dessert. Usually, dessert for thanksgiving is more likely pumpkin pie or apple pie. We also don't usually have sweet potato casserole. Usually there is a veggie dish, but it is less likely to be a casserole, and more likely to be cook/heated veggies. Also, in the small town in Ontario where I grew up, Thanksgiving weekend is also when the town's fall fair is held. Throughout the fall town's hold fall fairs having to do with the harvest, (each is somewhat unique) but ours is the last each fall, and is the lead up to the Royal Winter Fair held in Toronto. Winners of different competitions at the different fall fairs, in many categories, including food, and animals can go on to larger competitions at the Royal Winter fair each year.
Because Canada is a multicultural country, the Thanksgiving dinner will vary by family traditions. The turkey is pretty consistent, but side dishes might include anything from perogies to aloo gobi to bannock/fry bread. And there's likely to be an apple or berry pie beside the pumpkin one.
This year we broke with tradition entirely and had salmon as the main course! Still had potatoes, carrots and brussels sprouts, though. :)
I worked as a RN in 2 of the Atlantic Provinces Nova Scotia and New Brunswick for 40 + years and it was always recognized as a STAT holiday.
I worked as a RN in 2 of the Atlantic Provinces Nova Scotia and New Brunswick for 40 + years and it was always recognized as a STAT holiday.
You are such a joy to watch! Keep it up!
Remembrance Day might be interesting for you, our version of Memorial Day. Having fun with these, ty for doing these!!
It is very different to memorial day in the states. In Ontario it is not a holiday (unless you work for the federal government). We also keep it very sacred, everything stops for the moment of silence at 11 AM (even transit). Some American companies tried having a remembrance day sale and were very harshly shut down because it is seen as disrespectful. I remember traveling in the states in November and being horrified that they used the death of soldiers to sell stuff, my American friends didn't understand where I was coming from...any excuse for a sale.
It's a holiday in Manitoba. I remember as a kid you were only allowed to sell bread, milk, and eggs that day. Now businesses can open after 1pm if I'm right about the time. My husband works evenings and everyone MUST leave work by midnight prior.
Not a version of US Memorial Day. Akin to US Veterans Day
@@marthafast4583 Remembrance day is kind of both those holidays put together.
LOLOLOL! Your reaction too the no black friday sales.. was HILARIOUS
Well, now you have plenty of time to resurch Boxing Day (Canada's Black Friday) and other Canadian statutory holidays 😉
P. S. We absolutely serve pumpkin pie after our traditional turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams etc.
As a note, Boxing Day in Canada (Dec 26) is a holiday while in the US it is not.
The origins of Boxing Day are from Great Britain where the domestic staff would trade duties with the family that employed them for one day. The family would cook and clean for the staff, while the staff would be waited upon.
@@michaelsims1160 Don't forget boxing up food for the less well off, hence the name, Boxing Day.
Growing up I celebrated Thanksgiving in both October and November. For Canadian Thanksgiving my Aunt and her family would travel to Hamilton ON for our Thanksgiving and in November my family would travel to Rochester NY for US Thanksgiving. We always had both baked maple ham and turkey with stuffing and gravy, mashed potatoes and roasted potatoes, peas and carrots, brussel sprouts, cauliflower cheese, and green beans. Desserts were apple pie, mincemeat tarts and chocolate eclairs. My Mum made the pies and my Dad did everything else. At my aunts we had the same main course, but dessert included pumpkin pie no eclairs. And again at Christmas we ate the same meal but also had my Dad's homemade Christmas pudding. We would alternate the year for whose house we did Christmas at.
I am usually in Canada for Candian Thanksgiving and in the USA for American Thanksgiving. To be honest the only noticeable difference is that it is a bigger deal the in the USA. The foods at the Thanksgiving dinner are exactly the same except for the variations due to individual personal preferences in both countries. American Thanksgiving, as a family event is more like Christmas in Canada whereas many Canadian families come together at Christmas time. My experience in Canada is that Thanksgiving is more for just local family to get together and save the long distant travel for Christmas get together.
exactly. We travel long distance for Christmas family gatherings when there is extra days off work. Local family for Thanksgiving.
Alot of the stores here have adopted Black Friday, but it is for weeks around your day. Yes we do Boxing day, Dec 26. It's a day off, and crazy wait in line sales
I know thanksgiviing is big thing with the english community, but here in Quebec, it is just another day off. I have had some diner in the past with my family, but nothing special. I think we had ham instead of Turkey. When I had a girlfriend from Toronto, we celebrated thanksgiving!
Schools are usually closed in eastern Canada for Thanksgiving Monday. University students have their first weekend home after the semester started. Especially important for first year students away from home the first time .
In PEI, the potato harvest can go until the end of November depending on inclement weather
We do have Black Fridays in Canada, but just not during the holidays. Candy yams or Sweet potatoes as we them here in Canada. I guess some Canadian households has them at their Thanksgiving Day feast, probably by American expats living in Canada. Making sweet potatoes with miniature marshmallows will make it extra sweet. In Canada that would be considered a dessert and not a side dish at Thanksgiving Day feast...In Newfoundland they do have turkey meals for Thanksgiving too. Some Canadian households would have both a turkey and a ham for Thanksgiving my parents did that, especially if you're from a really large family. And then they would do it all over again for the Christmas day meal. As a Canadian I am just as surprised as you about Canada have the Thanksgiving Day meal first before the American Thanksgiving Day meal. What I remember about the American Thanksgiving Day was the Macy's Day parade in NYC and watching it on television and having the Santa Clause parade from Toronto shown in the Macy's Day parade. BTW the Toronto Santa Clause parade is older than the American Macy's Day parade. The Toronto Santa Clause parade started in 1905 that's 117 years ago whereas the Macy's Day parade started in 1924 and that's 98 years ago.
they do still have black friday in canada the deals are here too it's just not the day after thanksgiving here lol
I always love tuning in to these videos I always learn new things I didn't know about my own country 🇨🇦 we did Tyler in the comments. Where I live in Ontario it's also the start of Octoberfest and thanksgiving is a national holiday and nothing is open everybody get it off while it's more low key it's still important to Canadians lives. While we don't have black Friday we do have boxing day sales and it can get really crazy but we are reserved and don't resort to the fighting. Oh and stop bying into the black Friday hype you can find better sales during the year . Plus we got that high alcohol content in our beer! 🍺🍻
I have no idea why you would think it wouldn't be a holiday in Labrador. 🤔 Labrador is a part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and, as such, has the same holidays as the island portion of the province. And yes, Thanksgiving is a holiday here. 🙂🦃🥔🥕🥦🍞🥧🍽🍷
@@carolmurphy7572 I googled it because that didn't sound right and it said pei and I thought Labrador but I'm old and can't remember my name most days lol might be nova Scotia
@@Bottemlessdrunk Haha! You may be old and your memory may not be as crisp as it once was, but your sense of humour is still razor sharp! Well said, my dear! 😄😅 Cheers!
Our family always celebrates Thanksgiving with many different roasts, most years it is a huge ham or roast beef, not often turkey. But most important all of the vegetables and fruits from our gardens. It is a feast to celebrate the harvest and long before the government fixed it's date, most communites had a harvest supper.
Meanwhile in Quebec, thanksgiving is pretty much just a day off
I live in Nova Scotia and had to work lots of thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Monday is a paid💲holiday 🇨🇦 🦃🥧🍷
Entertaining how amazed you are to figure out things going on outside USA. And it's nice you seem so openminded.