Thanksgiving Day initially was a holiday of expression of gratitude and appreciation to God, and is equal to a family and friends for material well-being and the kind relation. In traditional sense (inherent in agricultural cultures since the most ancient times), such holiday on an outcome of fall meant gratitude to heavens for a rich crop and for abundance of fruits. Since then in the USA and Canada this holiday substantially lost the religious roots and became civil, standard and public.
Thanksgiving Day initially was a holiday of expression of gratitude and appreciation to God, and is equal to a family and friends for material well-being and the kind relation. In traditional sense (inherent in agricultural cultures since the most ancient times), such holiday on an outcome of fall meant gratitude to heavens for a rich crop and for abundance of fruits. Since then in the USA and Canada this holiday substantially lost the religious roots and became civil, standard and public.