Fall Into Fun 🍂
What is the name of the holiday celebrated on October 31, when people dress up in costumes and go trick-or-treating?
What is Halloween?
What sweet Canadian favourite is made by boiling down the sap of maple trees?
What is maple syrup?
This orange-fleshed vegetable is commonly roasted, mashed, or served in pies at Canadian Thanksgiving dinners.
What is a pumpkin?
This Canadian professional football league features Thanksgiving weekend games that are often called its Thanksgiving Day Classic.
What is the Canadian Football League, or CFL?
Unlike American Thanksgiving, Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated in this month.
What is October?
What colourful part of a tree falls to the ground during Autumn?
What are leaves?
Which Canadian province is famous for its colourful fall scenery in the Laurentian Mountains?
What is Quebec?
This sweet, red berry is harvested in parts of Quebec and the Atlantic provinces and is commonly served as a sauce or relish alongside turkey.
What is the cranberry?
This Canadian province celebrates Thanksgiving in October, when the changing leaves often attract visitors to its forests, lakes, and national parks.
What is Ontario?
This bird is the traditional centrepiece of many Canadian Thanksgiving dinners, often served with stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce.
What is turkey?
What hot drink is a popular fall favourite, often flavoured with cinnamon and nutmeg?
What is apple cider?
Which colourful autumn fruit is often bobbed for during Halloween parties?
What are apples? 🍎
This French-Canadian meat pie, traditionally made with ground pork or other meats and spices, is often enjoyed during the winter holiday season and may appear at Thanksgiving gatherings.
What is tourtière?
This Canadian territory, known for its vast Arctic landscapes, has Indigenous communities with longstanding seasonal food traditions based on hunting, fishing, and gathering.
What is Nunavut?
This Canadian Thanksgiving staple is made from bread or breadcrumbs, herbs, and seasonings, and is often cooked inside the turkey or separately.
What is stuffing, also called dressing?
What do many animals, such as squirrels, collect and store in autumn to help them survive the winter?
What is food, such as nuts and seeds?
What Canadian animal grows a thick winter coat and is often spotted in forests during autumn?
What is a moose?
What popular Canadian dessert is made with a flaky pastry shell filled with butter, sugar, syrup, and sometimes raisins?
What is a butter tart?
What famous Canadian festival in Kitchener-Waterloo celebrates German heritage with beer, traditional food, and autumn festivities?
What is Oktoberfest? 🍂
Because Canadian Thanksgiving occurs earlier in autumn than American Thanksgiving, it generally takes place before this major Canadian winter holiday.
What is Christmas?
What is the name of the phenomenon that causes leaves to turn red, orange, and yellow before falling off trees?
What is fall foliage, or autumn leaf colour change?
What popular autumn activity involves walking through a farm or field to find your way out of tall crops arranged in confusing paths?
What is a corn maze?
This cooking technique involves cooking food slowly in liquid in a covered pot, making it useful for preparing tougher cuts of meat and hearty autumn stews.
What is braising?
What is the name of the famous Canadian landmark in Ontario that is especially popular to visit during the fall?
What are Niagara Falls?
Canada's Thanksgiving date was not always fixed to the second Monday in October. Before 1957, the holiday was frequently linked to this seasonal event.
What is the completion of the harvest?