{"id":163,"date":"2024-11-14T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=163"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:04:28","slug":"24-november-2011-thanksgiving-day-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2024\/11\/14\/24-november-2011-thanksgiving-day-u-s-a\/","title":{"rendered":"TEC Holiday, 28 November 2024: Thanksgiving Day (U.S.A.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Thanksgiving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-165\" title=\"Thanksgiving\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Thanksgiving.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><strong>Thanksgiving Day <\/strong>is a holiday celebrated primarily in the\u00a0<a title=\"Thanksgiving (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving_(United_States)\">United States<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"Thanksgiving (Canada)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving_(Canada)\">Canada<\/a>. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in\u00a0<a title=\"Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\">Canada<\/a> and on the fourth Thursday of November in the\u00a0<a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a>. Thanksgiving in Canada falls on the same day as\u00a0<a title=\"Columbus Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbus_Day\">Columbus Day<\/a> in the United States. Because of the longstanding traditions of the holiday, the celebration often extends to the weekend that falls closest to the day it is celebrated.<\/p>\n<h3>In the United States<span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 24px;\">, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition traces its origins to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day<a title=\"Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts\">Massachusetts<\/a>. There is also evidence for an earlier harvest celebration on the continent by Spanish explorers in Florida during 1565, as well as thanksgiving feasts in the\u00a0<a title=\"Virginia Colony\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia_Colony\">Virginia Colony<\/a>. The initial thanksgiving observance at Virginia in 1619 was prompted by the colonists&#8217; leaders on the anniversary of the settlement.The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. In later years, the tradition was continued by civil leaders such as\u00a0<a title=\"William Bradford (Plymouth governor)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Bradford_(Plymouth_governor)\">Governor Bradford<\/a> who planned a thanksgiving celebration and fast in 1623.While initially, the Plymouth colony did not have enough food to feed half of the 102 colonists, the\u00a0<a title=\"Wampanoag people\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wampanoag_people\">Wampanoag<\/a> Native Americans helped the\u00a0<a title=\"Pilgrim\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pilgrim\">Pilgrims<\/a> by providing seeds and teaching them to fish. The practice of holding an annual harvest festival like this however, did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>In Canada, <span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 24px;\">the origins of the first Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer,\u00a0<a title=\"Martin Frobisher\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Frobisher\">Martin Frobisher<\/a>, who had been trying to find a\u00a0<a title=\"Northwest Passage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northwest_Passage\">northern passage<\/a> to the Pacific Ocean. Frobisher&#8217;s Thanksgiving celebration was not for harvest, but for homecoming. He had safely returned from an unsuccessful search for the Northwest Passage, avoiding the later fate of\u00a0<a title=\"Henry Hudson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Hudson\">Henry Hudson<\/a> and Sir\u00a0<a title=\"John Franklin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Franklin\">John Franklin<\/a>. In the year 1578, Frobisher held a formal ceremony in\u00a0<a title=\"Newfoundland (island)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newfoundland_(island)\">Newfoundland<\/a> to give thanks for surviving the long journey.\u00a0 Years later, the tradition of a feast would continue as more settlers began to arrive to the Canadian colonies.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the\u00a0United States and\u00a0Canada. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in\u00a0Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the\u00a0United States. Thanksgiving in Canada falls on the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2024\/11\/14\/24-november-2011-thanksgiving-day-u-s-a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director","category-tec-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}