I don’t think they ever mention Canadian Thanksgiving in this strip, probably because they feel it would be confusing to people in the United States that it’s in the middle of October.
My parents got married in Montana, where Mom’s family was, and then drove to Kansas where their jobs were (they worked for Social Security which decentralized after WWII). That was the honeymoon. And Dad’s mother went with them.
Garbage collectors would be missed pretty soon if they went on strike.