The annual holiday is celebrated on the second Monday of October and is a chance for people to give thanks for a good harvest and other fortunes in the past year.
So, here we want to give thanks to some of the talent that has come out of Canada.
In alphabetical order:
Alanis Morissette – for giving us tunes such as ‘Jagged Little Pill’ and ‘Ironic’
Arcade Fire – for giving us album after album of great music
International superstar Bryan Adams who gave us ‘Summer of ‘69’ and this Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves single:
Celine Dion – for the world's best-selling single of 1998, the Titanic love song ‘My Heart Will Go On’
Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer – who, despite his huge catalogue of work, will be forever remembered as Captain von Trapp opposite Julie Andrews in the 1965 musical The Sound of Music
Dan Aykroyd – for Saturday Night Live, Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters and My Girl
Donald Sutherland, whose career spans over 50 years and 150 different shows and films – and of course who’s also responsible for giving us Kiefer Sutherland
Nova Scotia actress Ellen Page and her Juno co-star Michael Cera
Director James Cameron, whose work includes Avatar, Titanic and Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Comedian Jim Carrey: Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, Liar Liar, the list is endless
John Candy (who sadly passed in 1994) who will always be remembered as ‘Uncle Buck’
Dawson’s Creek heartthrob Joshua Jackson just for being gorgeous
Justin Bieber. Discovered via YouTube, the Beebs is still only 20 years old…
Singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen – who celebrated his 80th birthday last month
Michael J. Fox for introducing us to Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy
Mike Myers – for his own twist on Austin Powers and Wayne’s World
The Notebook stars Rachel McAdams and her on-off on-screen and off-screen ex boyfriend Ryan Reynolds
Funny man Seth Rogan for films such as Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Superbad
The list goes on and on...
Nelly Furtado, Shania Twain, Avril Lavigne, Neil Young, William Shatner and Pamela Anderson are all proud Canadians.
And finally a nod to our own Alison Curtis, born and raised Canadian but whom we are glad to call our own.
Catch her on Saturday Breakfast from 8am on Today FM
