Thanksgiving Day

It’s Thanksgiving Day, and most Slawyers will be taking it easy like me, I hope. I’d like to thank you all, contributers and readers (I never say “lurkers”), for making Slaw something I really enjoy being part of.

And because this is a blog about law and IT, much of the time at least, I offer you an online list, courtesy of the federal government, dealing with the “Proclamation and Observance of General Thanksgiving Days and reasons therefore,” starting back in 1799 in Lower Canada (“In signal victory over our enemy and for the manifold and inestimable blessings which our Kingdoms and Provinces have received and daily continue to receive”) and ending with the fixing of our general Thanksgiving day (“For general thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessings with which the people of Canada have been favoured”), which had been ricocheting around from late November into early October in random fashion until 1957 when it was set as the second Monday in October. Which this is.