When Is Canada Thanksgiving 2028?
Canada Thanksgiving 2028
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Rule: the 2nd Monday of October. See how weekday rules are calculated
About Canada Thanksgiving in 2028
Parliament fixed the second Monday of October as the official date in 1957, after the holiday had drifted across several different dates and months during the preceding decades.
Canada's holiday predates the country's 1957 fixed date in an organized national form by decades, with the federal government first officially proclaiming a Thanksgiving observance in 1879.
Canada Post and major banks typically close nationwide for the holiday, aligning with standard federal statutory holiday practice.
Canada Thanksgiving in 2028: October 9th, a Monday.
Grocery and travel patterns around this Canadian long weekend tend to mirror the scale of a typical Thanksgiving weekend, just five to six weeks ahead of the American one in November.
That overlap isn't a one-off coincidence tied to this particular year; it's a permanent structural fact of how both holidays are defined.
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