January 2024
1 - New Year’s Day
4 - World Braille Day
6 - Christmas (Armenian Apostolic Church)
7 - Christmas (Christian-Coptic and Eastern Orthodox)
14 - Orthodox New Year (Orthodox Christian)
17 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day* / Tu B’Shevat (Arbor Day)
18 - Bodhi Day (Buddhism)
24 - World Day for African and Afro-descendant Culture / International Day of Education
24-25: Tu B’Shevat (Jewish)*
27 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day
29 - National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia
February 2024
Black History Month
10 Chinese/Lunar New Year*
2 Groundhog Day
4 World Cancer Day
14 Vasant Panchami (Hindu)*
6 International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
11 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
14 Valentine’s Day
15 National Flag of Canada Day
24 Magha Puja (Buddhism)*
17 Louis Riel Day (MB)*
20 World Day of Social Justice (United Nations)
21 Family Day* / International Mother Language Day / Mi’Kmaq and Nova Scotia Heritage Day*
28 Pink Shirt Day*
March 2024
Women’s History Month (US)
Irish History Month
1: St. David’s Day / Zero Discrimination Day
3: Losar (Tibet)* / Chotrul Duchen (Tibetan Buddhists)*
8: International Women’s Day
8: Maha Shivaratri (Hindu)*
11: Eid ul Fitr (Islam)* to sundown April 8
14: Ash Wednesday, Start of Lent (Christianity)*
14: Commonwealth Day
17: St. Patrick's Day
19-20: Nowruz/New Year (Bahá’í)* / Persian New Year*
21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
23-24: Purim (Jewish)*
24: Right to Truth Day
24: Palm Sunday (Christianity)
25: Holi (Hindu)*
25: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
26: Birth Anniversary of Prophet Zarathustra (Zoroastrian)*
29: Good/Holy Friday (Christianity, Easter Orthodox)*/ Easter (Christian)* / Easter Monday (Christianity)*
31: International Trans Day of Visibility
April 2024
Sikh Heritage Month
Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month
2: World Autism Awareness Day
5: Laylatul Qadr (Night of Power)*
7: World Health Day
9: First day of Chaitra/New Year/Gudi Padwa/Puthandu/Ugadi (Hinduism)*
10-12: Eid-al-Fitr (Islam)* | Begins at sunset on April 9, 2024 and ends on Friday, April 12, 2024
13-15: Songkran (Thailand)*
13: Sinhala and Tamil New Year ((Buddhism; Hinduism)* / Vaisakhi (Sikh)*
13-15: Khmer New Year (Cambodia)*
14 International Day of Pink /
15-23 Passover/Pesach (Jewish)*
17: Ram Navami (Hindu)*
21-May 3: Feast of Ridvan (Bahá’i)*
22: Earth Day / Orthodox Good Friday*
24-26: Theravada New Year (Buddhism)*
27: Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)
May 2024
Asian Heritage Month
Canadian Jewish Heritage Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
4 - Holy Saturday (Coptic-Christian and Eastern Orthodox)*
5 -Easter/ Pasha (Coptic-Christian and Eastern Orthodox)*
5 - Yom Ha’atzmaut / Dutch Heritage Day
6 -Easter Monday (Coptic-Christian and Eastern Orthodox)*
12 - Mother’s Day*
17 - International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
21 - International Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
20 Victoria Day* (Canadian)
22 to 23 - Declaration of the Bab (Bahá’í)*
23 - Wesak/ Vesak (Buddhist)*
29 - Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh (Bahá’í)
June 2024
Indigenous History Month
Pride Month
Italian Heritage Month
Filipino Heritage Month
11 to 13 - Shavuot (Judaism)*
5 - World Environment Day
16 - Father’s Day*
16 to 19 - Eid ul Adha*
20 - World Refugee Day
21 - National Indigenous People’s Day
24 - Saint Jean Baptiste Day
27 - Canadian Multicultural Day
July 2024
1 - Canada Day (Canadian)
7 - Muharram (Islam)*
9 - Nunavut Day
10 - Huron Tract Treaty of 1827 Anniversary / Martyrdom of the Bab (Bahá’í)*
11 - Imamat Day (Isma’ili Islam)*
18 - Nelson Mandela Day
21 – Asalha Puja/Dharma Day (Theravada Buddhism)*
28 - Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval
August 2024
1 - Civic Holiday* (Canadian)/ Emancipation Day
9 -International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
13 to 15 - Obon (Japanese Buddhist)*
15 - National Acadian Day
17 - Marcus Garvey Day (Jamaica)
19- Raksha Bandhan (Hindu)*
19 - World Humanitarian Day
19 to 23 -Public Service Pride Week*
23 - International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition / Paryushan-Parvarambha (Jain)*
26 - Krishna Janmashtami (Hindu)*
September 2024
5 - Labour Day* (Canadian)
9 to 13 - Mennonite Heritage Week*
19 – Ganesh Chaturthi (Hinduism)*
10 - World Suicide Prevention Day
15 - International Day of Democracy
15 to 16 - Mawlid al Nabi (Islam)*
19 - Powley Day (Ontario (Métis Nation of Ontario; Métis communities across Canada)
20 to 26 - International Week of the Deaf
23 - Bisexual Awareness Day*
30 - National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (Canadian) / Orange Shirt Day
November 2024
Financial Literacy Month
1 All Saints’ Day
1 - Diwali (Sikh, Hindu, Jain)*
2 - Birth of the Bab (Bahá’í)*
2 - Aga Khan’s Birthday (Islam Ismaili)*
5 to 11 -Treaties Recognition Week (Ontario)*
7 Inuit Day (International) /
3 - Birth of Bahá’u’lláh (Bahá’í)*
8 National Indigenous Veterans Day
10 International Accounting Day
11 Remembrance Day (Canadian)
15 - Guru Nanak’s Birthday – Bikrami (Sikh)*
15 to 24 - Nativity Fast (Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic) *
19 Louis Riel Day (Ontario)*
20 Trans Day of Remembrance
22-28 Canada History Week*
24 - Holodomor Memorial Day*
25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women [start of 16 days]
26 to 27 - Ascension of Abdu’l-Bahá (Bahá’í)*
December 2024
3 International Day of Persons With Disabilities
2 - Last day of Hanukkah*
6 - National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
10 - Human Rights Day [end of 16 days]
18 International Migrants Day
24 Christmas Eve (Christian)
25 Christmas Day (Christian)
25 to Jan. 2 First day of Hanukkah* [starts in the evening] (Judaism)
26 Boxing Day / Death of Prophet Zarathustra (Zoroastrian)
26 - Kwanzaa (Pan-African cultural observance)
Legend
Statutory holidays (Canadian)
*date changes each year