From Wikipedia

(note: Many Canadians do not know much of this either)

In Canada, Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October, and is a statutory holiday in all jurisdictions except New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island [1]

As a liturgical festival, Thanksgiving in Canada corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves and other harvest bounty, English and European harvest hymns sung on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend and scriptural lections drawn from the biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot.

While the actual Thanksgiving holiday is on a Monday, Canadians might eat their Thanksgiving meal on any day of the three day weekend. In Canada, Thanksgiving is often celebrated with family, it is also often a time for weekend getaways for couples to observe the autumn leaves, spend one last weekend at the cottage or participate in various outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing and hunting.

The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. Although this feast is considered by many to the very first Thanksgiving celebration, both in Canada and in North America, it was actually in keeping with a long tradition of celebrating the harvest and giving thanks for a successful bounty of crops.

(note: this is why Canadian Thanksgiving is earlier in the season)

Oh, and Crown Royal is alway in good tasts up north.

Hopefully we will start a new tradition durring the last week of November when we give thanks to KXL for unleasing outstanding share value to all shareholders :)