Kevin, did a little wiki research. It would appear that the date Thanksgiving is held in both countries has been kicked around for a long time. The U. S. did not finalize the last Thursday in November until Lincoln did so during the civil war in an effort (I assume) to polarize the country.Canada picked Armistice Day (Remembrance Day) as its anchor point only to seperate them 10 years later.Down here we still have crops coming off so I imagine that may have something to do with ours being celebrated later.