Canada celebrates its Thanksgiving holiday in October.
Canadian Thanksgiving is observed on the second Monday of October, placing it several weeks before the United States celebrates Thanksgiving in November. Many Canadians gather for a meal over the preceding weekend, but the official holiday date is Monday.
The celebration is associated with the autumn harvest, family gatherings, turkey, stuffing, and seasonal foods such as squash and cranberries. Its history is not identical to the American holiday. European harvest observances, Indigenous traditions, and colonial ceremonies all form part of the broader background, while the modern Canadian date was standardized nationally in the twentieth century.
A frequent mistake is to answer November because American Thanksgiving is more internationally familiar. Another mix-up is treating the second Monday as a fixed calendar date; it can fall anywhere from October 8 through October 14. Canadian Thanksgiving also shares a weekend with observances in some other countries, but its official Canadian month remains October.