Category:Canadian Food Traditions and Festivals

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Canada has also a thanksgiving festival but it is different than the American Thanksgiving Day and this difference refers to the fact that, instead turkey, Canadians have lamb or ham and in the countryside they have le Tourtiere, which is a pastry pie filled with potatoes, partridge or pheasant, and rabbit or hare. Canadian thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. A long time ago, before the first Europeans came to North America, European farmers held celebrated at harvest time and, in order to give thanks for their good fortune and food, they filled a curved goat’s horn with grain and fruit. This symbol was named cornucopia or horn of plenty and once these farmers arrived in Canada they brought the tradition with them. In 1578, Martin Frobisher, an English navigator, held a formal ceremony in what is known nowadays as Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving. After being knighted, a part of the Atlantic Ocean from North Canada became known as Frobisher Bay. In 1763, once the Seven Year’s War ended, the inhabitants of Halifax held a special Thanksgiving Day.