Canadian V. American
The reason why Canada celebrates Thanksgiving earlier than America.
What is: it gets colder in Canada earlier and therefore, our harvest season is earlier. Most Canadians embraced the change of date to October since that period better coincides with the actual completion of harvest in much of the country, and so that it doesn't coincide with Remembrance Day.
A sauce made by mixing the fat and juices exuded by meat during cooking with stock and other ingredients.
What is gravy?
This is what families do on Thanksgiving Day.
What is reuniting, having a feast together, and giving thanks?
True or False: Parliament officially declares Thanksgiving as “a day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.”
What is True.
While this mandate for Thanksgiving may not be observed by all Canadians in its entirety, the ideas of being thankful, spending time with family and sharing a delicious meal still remain.
Between the male and the female turkeys, this kind is the only one that gobbles.
What are male turkeys? Each gobbler has a unique call that he uses to attract females during breeding season. Female turkeys also make distinct noises, but they sound more like chirps and clucks.
This is the name of the day after the American Thanksgiving, which is also celebrated by Canadians.
What is Black Friday?
Traditionally, this sauce is the most popular fruit-related item served on Thanksgiving.
What is a cranberry?
This turkey bone that is broken in half for good luck.
What is a wishbone?
Forty-eight years after Martin Frobisher celebrated the first Canadian Thanksgiving, inhabitants of New France under this French explorer held huge feasts of thanksgiving between local Mi’kmaq and the French.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Also known as the horn of plenty, represents abundance and nourishment. It is particularly associated with the Thanksgiving holiday in North America.
What is a cornucopia?
The first country to begin celebrating Thanksgiving.
What is Canada? American's first thanksgiving dates back to 1621, whereas Canada's dates back to 1578.
The typical Thanksgiving dinner consists of roasted turkey, with stuffing, gravy, _________, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.
What is mashed potatoes?
Two of the most common pies that are baked and served during Thanksgiving.
What are pumpkin and apple pies?
Frobisher Bay (named after explorer and thanksgiving founder Martin Frobisher) is located in this modern day Territory.
What is Nunavut?
Turkey that is stuffed with a duck that is stuffed with a chicken.
What is a "turducken"?
The original American Thanksgiving was to give thanks for harvest after a drought, but what was the original reason of Canadian Thanksgiving?
What is: giving thanks for surviving the long journey through the North West passage through the perils of storms and icebergs. On his final voyage to the far north, Frobisher held a formal ceremony to give thanks to God, and in a service ministered by the preacher Robert Wolfall they celebrated Communion.
An edible substance or mixture, often a starch, is used to fill a cavity in another food item while cooking.
What is stuffing?
The day that Canadian Thanksgiving falls on every year.
What is the second Monday of October?
True or False: Champlain’s Thanksgiving feasts in the early days were more than an annual affair.
What is True.
To prevent the scurvy epidemic that had decimated the settlement at Île Sainte-Croix in past winters, the Ordre de Bon Temps (Order of Good Cheer) was founded, offering festive meals that involved serving cranberries every few weeks. Medical treatises recommended better nutrition (more food) and entertainment to combat scurvy.
If female turkeys are called hens, this is what you call a male turkey.
What is a "tom turkey" or "gobbler"?
Unlike the United States, Canadians don't celebrate Thanksgiving as elaborately as the Americans. In what part of Canada is it optional to celebrate and work during Thanksgiving?
What is the Maritimes Provinces. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland & Labrador
Name at least 1 of 3 food items the first Canadian Thanksgiving dinner consisted of.
What is Salted beef, biscuits, and mushy peas.
The province that raises Canada's turkeys.
What is Manitoba?
What year did Thanksgiving become an official holiday in Canada? (Closest decade)
What is 1957? Since then, the day has served as a way to give thanks for good fortunes in the past year.
This is the name of the skin that hangs from a turkey's neck.
What is the wattle?