Canadian Thanksgiving

Canadian Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday of October, more than six weeks earlier than its American counterpart, reflecting Canada’s earlier harvest. It is a statutory holiday in most provinces, though not in the Atlantic provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, where it is optional. Canada spans six timezones from Newfoundland at UTC−3:30 to the Pacific coast at UTC−7, so the holiday begins in St John’s three and a half hours before it starts in Vancouver.