Canadian fall is truly a feast for the senses.
The rich smell and taste of harvest baking tickles taste buds, while eyes swim in the incomparable beauty of North Western fall. Indeed, by early October, not only will Canada be awash in vibrantly colored poplar, sumac and maple leaves, but Canadian farmers will have begun the hard work of clearing crops and preparing for a Thanksgiving feast. In 1957, the Canadian Parliament solidified the Canadian people's folk practice of giving thanks for a bountiful harvest by declaring the second Monday in October the official day of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving has a long history in Canada and is a holiday forged out of the Canadian people's history and desire to give thanks for all the good that surrounds their lovely land. Canadian Thanksgiving traces its roots across the Atlantic as definitively as it is rooted in its own heartland.