<P> In Canadian football, the Canadian Football League holds a nationally televised doubleheader, the Thanksgiving Day Classic . It is one of two weeks in which the league plays on Monday afternoons, the other being the Labour Day Classic . Unlike the Labour Day games, the teams that play on the Thanksgiving Day Classic vary each year; the Montreal Alouettes have traditionally held permanent hosting of the Thanksgiving games in recent years . </P> <P> Kitchener - Waterloo Oktoberfest holds a Thanksgiving parade on the holiday; it is broadcast on CTV on tape - delay . The parade consists of floats, civic figures in the region, local performance troupes and marching bands . </P> <P> Canadian Thanksgiving coincides with the observance in the United States of Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day and has done so since the US implemented the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1971 (most countries in the Western Hemisphere fix Columbus Day to October 12). As such, American towns with high levels of Canadian tourism will often hold their fall festivals over Thanksgiving / Columbus Day weekend, in part to draw and accommodate Canadian tourists; Ellicottville, New York's Fall Festival has been identified as an "annual pilgrimage" for Canadians . Border towns also often experience an uptick in shoppers at grocery stores, as Canadian shoppers take advantage of lower sales taxes and commodity prices in the United States over the long holiday . The U.S. also has its own Thanksgiving, but on the fourth Thursday in November . </P> <P> According to some historians, the first celebration of Thanksgiving in North America occurred during the 1578 voyage of Martin Frobisher from England, in search of the Northwest Passage . His third voyage, to the Frobisher Bay area of Baffin Island in the present Canadian Territory of Nunavut, set out with the intention of starting a small settlement . His fleet of fifteen ships was outfitted with men, materials, and provisions . However, the loss of one of his ships through contact with ice, along with many of the building materials, was to prevent him from doing so . The expedition was plagued by ice and freak storms, which at times scattered the fleet; on meeting again at their anchorage in Frobisher Bay, "...Mayster Wolfall, a learned man, appointed by Her Majesty's Counsel to be their minister and preacher, made unto them a godly sermon, exhorting them especially to be thankful to God for their strange and miraculous deliverance in those so dangerous places ...". They celebrated Communion and "The celebration of divine mystery was the first sign, scale, and confirmation of Christ's name, death and passion ever known in all these quarters ." </P>

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