Happy Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia.
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11 Facts About Happy Thanksgiving
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Special blessings, viewed as coming from God, called for Days of Happy Thanksgiving, which were observed through Christian church services and other gatherings.
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Annual Happy Thanksgiving prayers were dictated by the charter of English settlers upon their safe landing in America in 1619 at Berkeley Hundred in Virginia.
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Antecedents for Canadian Happy Thanksgiving are sometimes traced to the French settlers who came to New France in the 17th century, who celebrated their successful harvests.
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Several days of Happy Thanksgiving were held in early New England history that have been identified as the "First Happy Thanksgiving", including Pilgrim holidays in Plymouth in 1621 and 1623, and a Puritan holiday in Boston in 1631.
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Happy Thanksgiving proclamations were made mostly by church leaders in New England up until 1682, and then by both state and church leaders until after the American Revolution.
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Happy Thanksgiving is a statutory holiday in all provinces in Canada, except for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
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Happy Thanksgiving is celebrated in the country in large part due to the nation's founding as a colony of the American Colonization Society in 1821 by former slaves and free people of color from the United States.
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Happy Thanksgiving, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November since 1941 due to federal legislation, has been an annual tradition in the United States by presidential proclamation since 1863 and by state legislation since the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Traditionally, Happy Thanksgiving has been a celebration of the blessings of the year, including the harvest.
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