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Religious, Cultural & Heritage Days

September 2024

2 Labour Day
7 Ukrainian Heritage Day
15 Milad un Nabi (Mawlid) (tentative date)
17 Mid-Autumn Festival
21 International Day of Peace
25 Franco-Ontarian Day
29 Michaelmas
30 National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

October 2024

German Heritage Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Islamic Heritage Month, Korean Heritage Month, Women’s History Month

2 Rosh Hashanah (sundown October 2 - nightfall October 4)
4 St. Francis Day
10 World Mental Health Day
11 Yom Kippur (evening October 11 - after nightfall October 13)
14 Thanksgiving
16 First day of Sukkot (evening of October 16th through October 23rd)
22 Hoshana Rabbah
23 Shemini Atzeret (begins the evening of October 23)
24 Simchat Torah (begins the evening of October 24)
31 Hallowe’en
31 Diwali/Deepavali

November 2024

Albanian Heritage Month, Hindu Heritage Month

1 All Saints' Day
2 Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
2 All Souls' Day
3 Daylight Savings Time Ends
4 Treaties Recognition Week
8 Indigenous Veterans Day
8 Viola Desmond Day
11 Remembrance Day
16 Louis Riel Day
25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

December 2024

1 First Sunday of Advent
1 Cayman Thanksgiving
6 National Day for Remembrance & Action on Violence Against Women
8 Bodhi Day
10 Human Rights Day
24 Christmas Eve
25 Christmas Day
26 First Day of Hanukkah (the first night of Hanukkah is December 25)
26 Boxing Day
26 Kwanzaa
31 New Year’s Eve

January 2025

Tamil Heritage Month

1 New Year’s Day
2 Last day of Hanukkah
6 Epiphany
7 Orthodox Christmas
17 Raoul Wallenberg Day
20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
21 Lincoln Alexander Day
26 Isra’ and Mi'raj
27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
29 Lunar New Year

February 2025

Black History Month

1 World Hijab Day
2 Groundhog Day
13 Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day)
14 Valentine’s Day
15 Nirvana Day
17 Family Day
20 World Day of Social Justice
26 Pink Shirt Day
26 Mahashivaratri
28 Ramadan begins

March 2025

Bangladeshi Heritage Month, Hellenic Heritage Month, Persian Heritage Month, Irish Heritage Month

4 Carnival / Shrove Tuesday / Pancake Day
5 Ash Wednesday
8 International Women's Day
9 Daylight Saving Time
11 World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
13 Purim (March 13 after sundown through March 14)
14 Holi
15 International Day to Combat Islamophobia
17 St. Patrick’s Day / Irish Heritage Day
20 Nowruz
20 Spring Equinox
21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
27 Laylat al-Qadr
29 Earth Hour
30 Eid ul Fitr (tentative date; evening of Mar 30 through Mar 31)
31 International Transgender Day of Visibility

April 2025

Sikh Heritage Month, Arab Heritage Month

5 Laylat al-Qadr
7 World Health Day
9 Vimy Ridge Day
12 First day of Passover
13 Palm Sunday
13 Theravada New Year
14 Vaisakhi
17 Maundy Thursday
18 Good Friday
20 Easter
20 Last day of Passover
20Orthodox Easter (Pascha)
21 Easter Monday
22 Earth Day
24Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Memorial Day
30 Denim Day

May 2025

Asian Heritage Month, Dutch Heritage Month, Jewish Heritage Month, South Asian Heritage Month

2Yom HaAtzmaut (evening May 2 - nightfall May 3)
5Cinco de Mayo
5MMIWG National Day of Remembrance / Red Dress Day
5Mental Health Week
11Mother’s Day
12Vesak / Buddha Day / Visakha Puja (sundown)
15Lag B’Omer (Lag BaOmer)
17International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia
19Victoria Day
29Ascension Day

June 2025

Launch of Pride Season, National Indigenous History Month, Filipino Heritage Month, Italian Heritage Month, Portuguese History and Heritage Month

1Shavuot
6Eid al-Adha
8Pentacost
15Trinity Sunday
15Father’s Day
18Juneteenth
19June Solstice
20National Indigenous Peoples Day
23St. Jean Baptiste Day
27Canadian Multiculturalism Day

July 2025

Egyptian Heritage Month

1 Canada Day
5 Ashura
6 Muharram/Islamic New Year
30 World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

August 2025

1 Emancipation Day
2 Tisha B’Av
4 Civic Holiday
9 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples