Yes, Canadians do essentially eat the same Thanksgiving fare as Americans - turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, etc. There's probably some regional variations. Sweet potatoes aren't as ubiquitous here but still exist & are sometimes used. Things like cornbread aren't.

Canadian Thanksgiving occurs in early-mid Oct about 5-6 weeks prior to the burger one. Historically because the harvest & frost north of 49 comes much, much earlier. The holiday for most people is celebrated on a Sunday, but the actual stat holiday is on a Monday. This allows fot travel and all government/banks/retail is closed on Monday the business day when few actual family gatherings are taking place.

There's no sports or other traditions associated with Leaf Thanksgiving. The Grey Cup, Canada's bizarro football Super Bowl, takes place on a separate weekend (and no one gives a shit about the league otherwise).

Canadian Thanksgiving also provides the first holiday weekend for those attending college away to return home after being gone for 4-6 weeks for the first time in their adult lives. It also unfortunately overlaps with the first semester's midterms.

I personally took the bus home when in uni for the first Thanksgiving away and then never again after having to ride the overnight red eye as a poor fag without a car. I ended up sleeping away all of Sat to recover, eat turkey Sunday then had to do it all over again Monday morning.

People do start transitioning to Christmas early up north, but not quite as early as Thanksgiving. It tends to start snowing a few weeks later around Halloween traditionally. People usually go big for Halloween after Thanksgiving a few weeks later.

There's also a scold position that used to be repeated a lot that Canucks shouldn't decorate for Xmas until Nov 12th, the day after Rememberance Day where the country honours their war dead (Canucks don't do both Veterans & Memorial Day, just this Nov 11th).

Nov 11th is a strange holiday as it's not a stat. Children remain in school, the private sector stays at work and only banks & civil servants get any leave.