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Canada's National Family Week is tied to Thanksgiving. Which week is it?Answer: The week before Thanksgiving. Source: Wikipedia: Public holidays in Canada
Fort Langley, a village in British Columbia, holds a festival every October that celebrates the harvest of which fruit?Answer: Cranberries. Source: Wikipedia: Fort Langley
In which group of provinces is Thanksgiving an optional holiday and not a statutory one?Answer: The Atlantic provinces. Source: Wikipedia: Public holidays in Canada
Kitchener, the city that hosts the parade on Thanksgiving Day, was known by which other name until a pair of referendums in 1916?Answer: Berlin. Source: Wikipedia: article on the city of Kitchener
The Markham Fair in Ontario, one of Canada's oldest country fairs, is held on the weekend before Thanksgiving. In which year was it established?Answer: 1844. Source: Wikipedia: Markham Fair
The Oktoberfest of Kitchener and Waterloo is timed by Thanksgiving. On which day does the festival open?Answer: The Friday before Thanksgiving. Source: Wikipedia: Kitchener–Waterloo Oktoberfest
The only major parade held on Canadian Thanksgiving belongs to an Oktoberfest in the twin cities of Kitchener and Waterloo. In which province are they?Answer: Ontario. Source: Wikipedia: Kitchener–Waterloo Oktoberfest
Thanksgiving in Canada is a Monday. On which day is the big dinner most often eaten?Answer: Sunday. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
Thanksgiving in Canada is the second Monday in October. What is the earliest date in the month on which that Monday can fall?Answer: October 8. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
What is Thanksgiving called in French on the list of Canada's public holidays?Answer: Action de grâce. Source: Wikipedia: Public holidays in Canada
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Frobisher's fleet in the Arctic 10
Frobisher shipped more than a thousand tons of black ore home from the Arctic, sure that it held gold. What did it turn out to be?Answer: Worthless rock. Source: Wikipedia: Martin Frobisher
How many ships sailed in the fleet of Frobisher's third voyage?Answer: Fifteen. Source: Wikipedia: Martin Frobisher
On which Arctic island did the chaplain of Frobisher's fleet hold his service on land, beside Frobisher Bay?Answer: Baffin Island. Source: Wikipedia: Robert Wolfall
Until another explorer's voyage in 1861, which kind of waterway did Europeans believe Frobisher Bay to be?Answer: A strait. Source: Wikipedia: Frobisher Bay
What had Frobisher's third voyage set out to found in the Arctic?Answer: A small settlement. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
What were Frobisher's crews giving thanks for when the fleet met again at its anchorage?Answer: Coming safely through ice and storms. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
Which Latin name did the Queen give to the land that Frobisher claimed for her on his second voyage?Answer: Meta Incognita. Source: Wikipedia: Meta Incognita Peninsula
Which queen hung a chain of fine gold round Martin Frobisher's neck before his third voyage to the Arctic?Answer: Elizabeth I. Source: Wikipedia: Martin Frobisher
Who preached the sermon of thanks to the men of Frobisher's fleet?Answer: Robert Wolfall. Source: Wikipedia: Robert Wolfall
Why is it disputed that the service held for Frobisher's fleet was the first thanksgiving on the continent?Answer: Spaniards held such services decades earlier. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
The Order of Good Cheer 11
A Canadian province has revived the Order of Good Cheer. What is the least that a new member must pledge?Answer: To visit the province. Source: Wikipedia: Order of Good Cheer
At a dinner of the Order of Good Cheer, what did each member do when his turn came round?Answer: Served as steward and supplied the feast. Source: Wikipedia: Order of Good Cheer
At whose suggestion was the Order of Good Cheer founded?Answer: Samuel de Champlain. Source: Wikipedia: Order of Good Cheer
During which season did the Order of Good Cheer hold its feasts?Answer: Through the winter. Source: Wikipedia: Order of Good Cheer
The first meeting of the Order of Good Cheer included a play. Which god of the sea is named in its title?Answer: Neptune. Source: Wikipedia: Order of Good Cheer
The French called it the Baie Française when they crossed it to settle at Port-Royal. By which name is that bay known today?Answer: The Bay of Fundy. Source: Wikipedia: Order of Good Cheer
In 1606 the Mi'kmaq introduced the French settlers at Port-Royal to a fruit that the settlers described as small red apples. What was it?Answer: Cranberries. Source: Wikipedia: Cranberry sauce
In the early 1600s idleness was believed to cause which sickness, so the Order of Good Cheer added entertainment to its feasts?Answer: Scurvy. Source: Wikipedia: Order of Good Cheer
Marc Lescarbot, who wrote the play staged at Port-Royal in 1606, followed which profession in Paris?Answer: Lawyer. Source: Wikipedia: Marc Lescarbot
Port-Royal, where the Order of Good Cheer was founded in 1606, stood in which present-day province?Answer: Nova Scotia. Source: Wikipedia: Port-Royal (Acadia)
Which chief, called the greatest sagamore of the land, was treated as a guest and an equal at the feasts of the Order of Good Cheer?Answer: Membertou. Source: Wikipedia: Order of Good Cheer
From days of thanks to a fixed Monday 15
After Confederation, the first Thanksgiving Day came in April 1872. What did it celebrate?Answer: The Prince of Wales's recovery from illness. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
From 1921 Thanksgiving in Canada was held on the same Monday as which other observance?Answer: Armistice Day. Source: Wikipedia: Remembrance Day
In 1763 Halifax kept a special thanksgiving day. The end of which war did it mark?Answer: The Seven Years' War. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
In 1816 Upper Canada kept its day of thanksgiving on June 18. Which battle's anniversary is that date?Answer: Waterloo. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
In 1838 Lower Canada used a day of thanksgiving to mark the end of what?Answer: A rebellion in the colony. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
In 1935 Thanksgiving was moved off its usual Monday. Why?Answer: A general election was held. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
In its early years as a holiday, what was Thanksgiving in Canada most often held to give thanks for?Answer: An abundant harvest. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
In the late 1800s, what did the militia stage for the public on Thanksgiving Day?Answer: Sham battles. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving
In which year did Parliament fix Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October?Answer: 1957. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
Thanksgiving has been a yearly holiday in Canada since 1879. On which date was it kept that year?Answer: November 6. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
Thanksgiving once shared its Monday with another observance. In which year did the two become separate holidays again?Answer: 1931. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
The united Province of Canada kept Thanksgiving only now and then. How many times did it observe the day from 1850 to 1865?Answer: Six times. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
Vincent Massey, the Governor General who issued the proclamation that fixed Thanksgiving's date, was the first holder of his office to be what?Answer: Born in Canada. Source: Wikipedia: Vincent Massey
When Thanksgiving became a yearly holiday in 1879, on which day of the week was it at first kept?Answer: Thursday. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
Which Governor General declared the first of Canada's yearly Thanksgivings, in 1879?Answer: The Marquis of Lorne. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving
On the Canadian table 11
A Nanaimo bar has three layers. What is in the middle?Answer: Custard icing. Source: Wikipedia: Nanaimo bar
How does the cranberry sauce of North America typically differ from the kind made in Europe?Answer: It is more heavily sweetened. Source: Wikipedia: Cranberry sauce
Italian Canadian families might serve which bird as the main course of the Thanksgiving meal?Answer: Capon. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving dinner
Jiggs dinner takes its name from Jiggs. Who was he?Answer: A comic strip character. Source: Wikipedia: Jiggs dinner
Jiggs dinner, which also goes by boiled dinner and cooked dinner, is a traditional meal of which province above all?Answer: Newfoundland and Labrador. Source: Wikipedia: Jiggs dinner
Many Canadians would call Thanksgiving dinner incomplete without stuffing, cranberry sauce and which other dish?Answer: Mashed potatoes with gravy. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving dinner
The regional dishes of a Canadian Thanksgiving include Jiggs dinner. With which pudding is it listed?Answer: Split-pea pudding. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
What has a Thanksgiving dinner made up entirely of side dishes, with no turkey, been called?Answer: Sidesgiving. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving dinner
Which add-in to the filling of a butter tart is a matter of national debate in Canada?Answer: Raisins. Source: Wikipedia: Butter tart
Which dessert is named beside pumpkin pie among the foods traditionally served at a Canadian Thanksgiving?Answer: Apple pie. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
Which meat is boiled with the potatoes, carrot, cabbage and turnip of a Jiggs dinner?Answer: Salt beef. Source: Wikipedia: Jiggs dinner
Harvest home 10
As a church festival, Canadian Thanksgiving corresponds to which British and European celebration?Answer: The harvest festival. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
In British churches, and in some Canadian ones, what is often done with the produce people bring in for the harvest service?Answer: It is given to the poor and the elderly. Source: Wikipedia: Harvest festival
In some parts of England the harvest celebration itself came to be known by which name?Answer: Hockey. Source: Wikipedia: Harvest festival
In the Canada of the late 1800s and early 1900s, what was a harvest excursion?Answer: A trip west by train to work the prairie harvest. Source: Wikipedia: Harvest excursion
The modern British custom of a harvest festival in church began in 1843, when a vicar held a special thanksgiving service in which county?Answer: Cornwall. Source: Wikipedia: Harvest festival
Red Fife, Canada's leading wheat between the mid-1800s and the early 1900s, takes its name from what?Answer: Its ripe color and a farmer named David Fife. Source: Wikipedia: Red Fife wheat
Until the 20th century most English farmers ended the harvest with a big meal for everyone who had helped. What was it called?Answer: The harvest supper. Source: Wikipedia: Harvest festival
We Plough the Fields and Scatter, a staple of harvest services, was translated into English from which language?Answer: German. Source: Wikipedia: We Plough the Fields and Scatter
Which grain, also called Canada rice, is usually harvested in Canada from natural bodies of water?Answer: Wild rice. Source: Wikipedia: Wild rice
Which machine, by the late 1920s, had sharply cut the number of hands needed for the fall harvest on the Canadian prairies?Answer: The combine harvester. Source: Wikipedia: Harvest excursion
North and south of the border 9
By the usual explanation, why does Canada keep Thanksgiving earlier in the fall than the United States?Answer: Winter comes sooner in the north, so the harvest ends earlier. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving
The day after American Thanksgiving is a day of early-morning sales. Which contrasting movement began in Canada in 1992?Answer: Buy Nothing Day. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (United States)
The day after Thanksgiving opens the sales in the United States. Which holiday was historically the largest shopping day of the year in Canada?Answer: Boxing Day. Source: Wikipedia: Boxing Day
Descendants of the Loyalists who settled in Canada may put which letters after their names?Answer: U.E. Source: Wikipedia: United Empire Loyalist
Football is a Thanksgiving custom on both sides of the border, but the rules differ. How many downs does a team get in the Canadian game?Answer: Three. Source: Wikipedia: Canadian football
In Canadian football, a ball kicked into the other team's goal area that goes dead there can score a single point. What is that point called?Answer: A rouge. Source: Wikipedia: Canadian football
Settlers from which region made late autumn thanksgivings commonplace in Nova Scotia after 1700?Answer: New England. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving
Which American federal holiday has fallen on the same Monday as Canadian Thanksgiving since 1971?Answer: Columbus Day. Source: Wikipedia: Columbus Day
Who carried the turkey, pumpkin and squash of the American Thanksgiving north into Canada?Answer: Loyalists who left the new United States. Source: Wikipedia: Thanksgiving (Canada)
How this list was compiled: Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. Every question, wrong choice and explanation is our own wording. Each answer, and every extra fact in an explanation, agrees with a sentence, caption or table row in the English Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org) named and linked beside the question, read on October 13, 2026; Wikipedia's text is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. The 76 questions rest on 31 articles, and the article on the holiday itself gives 20 of them. One answer is our arithmetic from the rule the article gives (the earliest and latest dates of a second Monday in October). Where the articles disagree, the point is not asked: the year of the service held for Frobisher's fleet is 1578 in most and 1579 in one, so no question asks it; the day in April 1872 is given as the 5th and the 15th, so only the month is asked; the wording of the 1957 proclamation is quoted two ways, so it is not quoted. Where an article reports a claim, the question says so (it is called, by the usual explanation, by Lescarbot's account). Where a question ties another article's fact to the holiday (the city of the parade, the Governor General of the proclamation, football), the tie is from the article on Thanksgiving in Canada. Left out on purpose: living people, team, league, company and broadcaster names, attendance and production figures and anything else that changes from year to year, and the grimmer pages of the voyages. Levels are our estimate for a table of adults and older children. Licence: own work
How it works
This Canadian Thanksgiving trivia game is about the October holiday itself, not the American one: 76 questions with four choices each, from a service of thanks in the Arctic to the Monday that Parliament fixed. Each answer links the article it was checked in.
Read the full guide
Seven rounds, from the Arctic to the dinner table
The long weekend today has the parade, the fall fairs and the day most families eat. Frobisher's fleet in the Arctic follows the ships through the ice and a cargo that was not gold. The Order of Good Cheer dines with Champlain's men. From days of thanks to a fixed Monday runs from Halifax in 1763 to the proclamation. On the Canadian table, Harvest home and North and south of the border finish the set.
Trivia questions about Canadian Thanksgiving, read aloud
Give one reader the phone between dinner and pie. The reader says each question and its four choices aloud, and the table votes before the tap.
On the Canadian table is the gentlest round by our estimate, so start a table of kids and grandparents there.
With guests from the United States, play North and south of the border: it sets the two holidays side by side.
Questions and answers
When is Canadian Thanksgiving?
The second Monday in October, so the date falls between October 8 and October 14. Parliament fixed that Monday in 1957. The first yearly Thanksgivings, from 1879, were in November, and from 1921 to 1931 the day shared a Monday with Armistice Day.
Why is Canadian Thanksgiving in October?
The usual explanation is the climate. Winter sets in sooner in the north, so the harvest is over earlier than in the United States.
What was the first Thanksgiving in Canada?
Historians point to a service of thanks held for Martin Frobisher's fleet at Frobisher Bay, after ice and storms had scattered the ships. Others note that Spaniards held such services in Spanish North America decades earlier.
How is Canadian Thanksgiving different from American Thanksgiving?
It falls on a Monday in October, not a Thursday in November, and many families eat the big dinner on the Sunday. It grew out of harvest festivals, and in the Atlantic provinces it is an optional holiday.
What do Canadians eat on Thanksgiving?
Roast turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, squash, Brussels sprouts and pumpkin or apple pie. Regional tables add wild game, salmon, butter tarts, Nanaimo bars and Jiggs dinner with split-pea pudding.