no all busy cooking actually I'm typing one-handed so it took forever to answer

so is it a public holiday day then, like a bank holiday?

and is it still a massive tradition done by nearly everyone?

yes to both

Great, id love to have a special day to eat lots of food...but it'd be like any other day for me!!

I want to have thanksgiving! I want to eat lots of food on a special day other than xmas lol

Here's the lowdown on Canada Thanksgiving:

http://www.kidzworld.com/article/261...n-thanksgiving

This is what I was always taught:

Yonks ago, a bunch of people decided to settle in the "new world" which was Canada and the USA. These pilgrims were all British, and many felt that they would have a better life in thie new world than they would in England as there was a lot of poverty and hardship in England.

So these settlers went across, but massively underestimated what winters were like in Canada and the North East States. Hundreds of them died from cold, and a lack of food and supplies. That was until the local native americans started helping the settlers. They showed them how to grow food, hunt, find herbs, use local medicine, etc. So these native americans in fact saved the fledgling settlements.

The next year, once the harvests had come in before the winter these settlements threw huge banquets in order to show their appreciation and thanks that they had made it in this "new world"

Hence "Thanks Giving" and now I believe it's a long standing tradition where people celebrate what they are thankful for in their lives.

In the USA we also get the day after Thanksgiving off (also known as Black Friday) so that gives us a 4 day weekend! There are always HUGE HUGE sales in the stores the day after Thanksgiving.