Holiday Calendar for Canada in NovemberCanadian traditions, notable events, festivals, special days and national holidays in Canada Help us National traditions, public holidays and notable observances for 2024-2025 yearNovember 2024Friday 1 November - Movember in Canada (also Lung Cancer Awareness Month; Osteoporosis Month; Fall Prevention Month; National Domestic Violence Awareness Month) Monday 4 November - Medical Radiation Technologist Week in Canada (November 4 to 11) Tuesday 5 November - Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada); World Romani Language Day; International Volunteer Managers Day Thursday 7 November - International Inuit Day; Men Make Dinner Day (celebrated on the first Thursday of November) Monday 11 November - Remembrance Day in United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada; Digital Health Week in Canada (date for 2024. Digital Health Week, as well as National Kinesiology Week - a discipline that studies muscle movement in all its manifestations) Monday 18 November - National Apple Cider Day (United States) December 2024Friday 13 December - Acadia Memorial Day (dedicated to the tragic event during the deportation of the Acadians, the ships of the Duke of William, Ruby and Violet, sunk in 1758) Saturday 21 December - International Rush Day (unofficial celebration of fans of the musical group) Thursday 26 December - Boxing day in Australia (also Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Great Britain, New Zealand, Canada, Kiribati, Nauru, Botswana, Ghana, Jamaica) January 2025Wednesday 1 January - Polar Bear Swim Day or Polar Plunge Day (Canada and United States); New Year’s Levee in Canada; New Year’s Day Saturday 11 January - Sir John A. Macdonald Day (Canada) Wednesday 29 January - Bell Let's Talk Day in Canada (Date for 2025) February 2025Saturday 1 February - The start of Black History Month (United States and Canada); Psychology Month in Canada; Eating Disorder Awareness Week in Canada; TD Bank Day Sunday 9 February - Food Freedom Day in Canada (date may vary) Saturday 15 February - National Flag of Canada Day (Canada) Monday 17 February - Family Day in parts of Canada (celebrated on the third Monday in February) March 2025Saturday 1 March - Professional Engineer's Day in Canada (Month of March); Nutrition Month in Canada and USA Tuesday 4 March - St. Thomas Charter Day in Ontario, Canada; World Tennis Day (International Tennis Federation) Monday 10 March - Commonwealth Day in Canada (is annually held on the second Monday of March) Sunday 16 March - Saint Urho's Day (Finnish Americans and Finnish Canadians) Tuesday 18 March - Sheelah's Day (Ireland, Canada, Australia) Wednesday 19 March - Dietitians Day in Canada (Celebrated on the third Wednesday of March) Friday 21 March - Senior Skip Day or Beach Day in the USA and Canada (The date for missing the lessons varies among different schools) Thursday 27 March - International Myeloma Action Day (Held on the last Thursday of March) Sunday 30 March - Bank of Nova Scotia Day (We help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets) April 2025Tuesday 1 April - Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month in Canada (also Rosacea Awareness Month and Be a Donor Month); Fossil Fools Day in United States and Canada (For those environmentally-minded pranksters out there, Fossil Fools Day is a strange mix of April Fools' day and Earth Day and it takes place each year on April 1. It began in 2004 in the United States and Canada to hold coordinated action against the not-so-funny use of fossil fuels to derive energy); Edible Book Day (The International Edible Book Festival) Sunday 6 April - Tartan Day (Canada and the United States) Monday 7 April - National Dental Hygienists Week in Canada (Held from Monday in the first full week of April) Thursday 10 April - Siblings Day (International observance) Sunday 13 April - FND Awareness Day in Canada (Functional Neurological Disorder [FND]/Conversion Disorder [CD]) Thursday 24 April - Kapyong Day (Australia, Canada, New Zealand) Friday 25 April - Parental Alienation Awareness Day (Parental alienation is a problem that most people don't know about. It is child abuse and needs to be stopped.) Sunday 27 April - International Sculpture Day (Held on the last Saturday of April) Monday 28 April - National Day of Mourning in Canada (Every year on April 28 we pay our respects to, and remember, the thousands of workers who have been killed, injured or suffered illness as a result of work-related incidents) May 2025Thursday 1 May - Asian Heritage Month (Canada); Vision Health Month in Canada (also Ankylosing Spondylitis; Awareness Month; Bladder Cancer Awareness Month; Brain Tumour Awareness Month; Celiac Awareness Month; Hemochromatosis Awareness Month; Hypertension Awareness Month; National Physiotherapy Month) Saturday 3 May - No Pants Day (It is held on the first Friday in May) Tuesday 6 May - Mental Health Week in Canada (Held in the first full week of May); National Nursing Week in Canada (Held from Monday to Sunday of the same week in which the date May 12 is located); Sun Awareness Week in Canada (Held from the first Monday in May) Sunday 11 May - Nisga'a Day (celebration of the effective date of the Nisga'a Final Agreement. Nisga'a Nation); National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day in US (Held on the second Saturday of May) Monday 12 May - Mother’s Day (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe) Monday 19 May - Energy Conservation Week in Ontario, Canada (is about the power of collective action) Tuesday 20 May - Victoria Day in Canada (Earliest possible date of the last Monday preceding May 25); National Patriots' Day or Journée nationale des patriotes (Quebec, Canada; celebrated on Monday on or before May 24); National Seal Day in Canada (In response to this, Bill S-208 was Royally Assented on May 16th, 2017, designating May 20th annually as National Seal Products Day, and to recognize the importance of the seal hunt for Canada’s Indigenous people, coastal communities and entire population) June 2025Sunday 1 June - Fei Fei Day (Vancouver - Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan has declared June 1, 2008 a day to commemorate Hong Kong comedienne Lydia Shum. Sullivan designated what would have been Shum's 63rd birthday "Ms. Fei-fei Day."); National Health and Fitness Day in Canada (the first Saturday in June); Brain Injury Awareness Month in Canada Monday 2 June - Canada Decoration Day (is an unofficial holiday that honors the veterans of the country's military. Decoration Day began as a protest in 1890 by forgotten Canadian veterans who had fought in Canada's first modern battle, the Battle of Ridgeway, on June 2, 1866); Canadian Forces Day (celebrated on the first Sunday in June) Tuesday 10 June - Canadian Men's Health Week (Held from the second Monday of June) Wednesday 11 June - Davis Day (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada); Men’s Mental Health Awareness Day in Canada (held annually on the Tuesday before Father's Day) Monday 16 June - Father's Day (Ñelebrated on the third Sunday of June øò Argentina, Aruba, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Kenya, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Venezuela, United Kingdom) Friday 20 June - International Slowness Day (Clémence Boucher, a Montreal community worker, got together with some friends in 2001 and picked June 21 — the longest day of the year — to kick off her movement.) Monday 23 June - National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism in Canada; Manulife Day (We are working hard to not only change ourselves, but to reshape our industry); Bank of Montreal Day Tuesday 24 June - National Holiday of Quebec (St. Jean Baptiste Day); June Day or Newfoundland and Labrador Discovery Day (observed on the nearest Monday to June 24) Friday 27 June - Canadian Multiculturalism Day (It’s about inspiring belonging in a strong integrated community); National Anthem Day in Canada July 2025Tuesday 1 July - International Tartan Day (Tartan Day is a celebration of Scottish heritage on 6 April, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. It originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s. In Australia the similar International Tartan Day is held on 1 July, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan. Tartan Days typically have parades of pipe bands, Highland dancing and other Scottish-themed events); Moving Day (Quebec, Canada); Newfoundland and Labrador Memorial Day; Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day); Canada Constitution Day (Also known as Fête du Canada) Saturday 12 July - The Twelfth, also known as Orangemen's Day (Northern Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland and Labrador) Friday 18 July - Hot Dog Day (United States, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. It has been celebrated since 1971, when students first proposed it. Hot Dog Day itself is usually the third Saturday in April, although many students celebrate the entire "hot dog week", running from that Wednesday to that Sunday. July 18 – based on when the North American Meat Institute hosts its annual Hot Dog Lunch on Capitol Hill.) Monday 28 July - Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval in Canada (The Royal Proclamation of 2003 is a document issued in the name of Queen Elizabeth II acknowledging the Great Upheaval (or Great Expulsion or Grand Dérangement), Britain's expulsion of French-speaking Acadians from Nova Scotia, beginning in 1755.) August 2025Sunday 3 August - Food Day Canada (Saturday of Civic Holiday weekend - August) Tuesday 5 August - Civic Holiday in Canada (celebrated on the first Monday of August); Heritage Day in Alberta, Canada (the first Monday of August each year); Nova Scotia's Natal Day in Canada (the first Monday of August each year); Terry Fox Day in Manitoba, Canada Saturday 9 August - National Peacekeepers' Day in Canada (celebrated on Sunday closest to the day) Tuesday 19 August - Discovery Day in Yukon, Canada (third Monday of August) Wednesday 20 August - MUTEK Montreal (International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music) September 2025Monday 1 September - Acne Awareness Month in Canada (also Craniofacial Awareness Month and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month) Monday 8 September - Grandparents Day in Canada (Second Sunday of September) Monday 22 September - Bladder Cancer Awareness Walk in Canada (This charity event began in 2006. It takes place every year on the fourth Sunday in September) Thursday 25 September - Maple Leaf Day in Canada (celebrated on the last Wednesday in September) Tuesday 30 September - Recovery Day in Canada (is an annual event, first held on September 30, 2012, which demonstrates and celebrates the ability of those with drug, alcohol and behavioral addictions to achieve long-term sobriety and live productive and healthy lives); Orange Shirt Day in Canada October 2025Wednesday 1 October - Occupational Therapy Month and Rett Syndrome Awareness Month in Canada; Mental Illness Awareness Week and Human papilloma virus Prevention Week in Canada (October 1 to 7) Tuesday 7 October - Fire Prevention Week in United States and Canada (observed on the second week in October) Thursday 9 October - Fire Prevention Day (Canada, United States); Leif Erikson Day (United States, Canada, Iceland and Norway) Monday 13 October - No Bra Day (On this day women are encouraged to forgo wearing no bra as a means to encourage breast cancer awareness) Tuesday 14 October - Thanksgiving in Canada (observed on the second week in October) Wednesday 15 October - Memorial Day for the loss of a child during pregnancy or a newborn (noted in Ohio, USA, Canada, France, Britain and Italy); Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in Canada, the United States, the UK and Italy; Pharmacy Technician Day (PTDay was first endorsed by Pharmacy Technician Educators Association, American Association of Pharmacy Technicians, Inc. – AAPT and Pharmacy Technician Certification Board in 2015. It has been observed the third Tuesday in October since 1991); National Shawarma Day in Canada Saturday 18 October - Persons Day (Canada) Sunday 19 October - Sweetest Day in Great Lakes region (is celebrated on the third Saturday in October); National Psoriatic Arthritis Day in Canada Monday 20 October - Respiratory Therapists Week in Canada (Held in the last week of October); International Mastocytosis & Mast Cell Diseases Awareness Day Thursday 30 October - Mischief Night (United States and Canada) - Beggars Night (certain regions of the United States) some Canadian traditionsCanadians to greet each other with a kiss on each cheek (left then right), while handshaking is the tradition in the rest of Canada. When attending dinner parties, purchasing high-quality wine and sending flowers beforehand are both common occurrences. A few flowers have specific symbolic meaning in Canada. Roses are very strongly associated with romantic love, particularly on Valentine’s Day, poinsettias are a symbol of Christmas rarely seen outside the holiday, poppies are a symbol of war veterans and Remembrance Day, and white calla lilies are a somewhat old-fashioned symbol of death. “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth”—that’s the Calgary Stampede, an annual extravaganza that happens every July in Calgary, Alberta. The Stampede’s core purpose is “to preserve and celebrate western heritage, culture and community spirit.” They celebrate through concerts, rodeo events (with big money prizes), carnival rides, exhibitions, a parade, and agricultural competitions. The Stampede is one of Canada’s biggest traditions, as over one million people from around the world visit every year. In 2014, Halloween became a billion dollar industry in Canada alone... All Saints’ Day in LouisianaAll Saints’ Day, also known as All Hallows, Day of All the Saints, Solemnity of All Saints, or Feast of All Saints is a festival celebrated on 1..→
D. Hamilton Jackson Day in U.S. Virgin IslandsDavid Hamilton Jackson (1884-1946) was a United States Virgin Islands civil rights leader. At the time of his birth, the Territory was under the..→
List of commemorative months in November in OhioEpilepsy awareness month; Omega psi phi month; Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness Month and Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Awareness Month..→
All Souls’ Day in GuamAll Souls’ Day, in Christianity, is a day commemorating the faithful departed, in particular but not exclusively one’s relatives. In Western Chr..→
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against JournalistsIn 2014, 61 journalists lost their lives as a result of their profession. More than 137 journalists have been killed in the OSCE region since 19..→
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Election Day or Democracy DayElection Day in the United States is the day set by law for the general elections of public officials. It occurs on the Tuesday right after the ..→
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International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed ConflictThough mankind has always counted its war casualties in terms of dead and wounded soldiers and civilians, destroyed cities and livelihoods, the ..→
World Town Planning Day (World Urbanism Day)The international organisation for World Urbanism Day, also known as "World Town Planning Day", was founded in 1949 by the late Profes..→
International Day Against Fascism and AntisemitismAfter the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Jews were subjected to increasingly discriminatory treatment accompanied by organised violence..→
International Guinness World Records DayGuinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1998 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous U.S. editions as The Guinnes..→
Armed Services, Peace Officer, First Responder, and Dual Service Recognition Day in OhioEvery day we are blessed to live in a free land where someone is always looking out for our safety. Peace and freedom are something we don’t hav..→
World Science Day for Peace and DevelopmentHow many bones are in your body? Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children. The human eye blin..→
Armistice Day in Mississippi (Veterans Day)The Legislature has designated the eleventh day of November as the day for the observance of Armistice Day (VETERANS DAY) , and under the provis..→
Barack Obama Day in Perry County, AlabamaIn central Alabama’s Perry County, government workers already get a day off for President’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, and Veterans Day. In 20..→
World Pneumonia DayPneumonia kills more children under the age of five than any other disease, claiming a young life every 20 seconds. That’s 4,300 young lives los..→
World Diabetes DayFacts about diabetes: There is an emerging global epidemic of diabetes that can be traced back to rapid increases in overweight, obesity and phy..→
World Quality DayThe CQI’s first World Quality Day conference took place on 13 November 2008 at the Imarsat Conference Centre in London and proved to be the foru..→
World Usability DayOn the second Thursday of November, organizers create a single day of events occurring around the world that brings together communities of prof..→
International Day for ToleranceHe that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. (Proverbs 16:32)
In 1996, the UN ..→
International Students’ DayInternational Students’ Day is an international observance of student community, held annually on November 17. Originally commemorating the Nazi..→
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic VictimsAbout 1.25 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes. Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young pe..→
George Rogers Clark Day in OhioLt. Col. George Rogers Clark and his frontiersmen captured Fort Sackville from British Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton and his soldiers on February ..→
International Men’s DayIf you find dirty socks and underwear near-to or semi-near the hamper, there is a man nearby. Men like gadgets with lots of fancy shiny black bu..→
Puerto Rican Culture and Puerto Rico Discovery DayCelebration of Puerto Rican Culture and Puerto Rico Discovery Day is connected with the fact of discovery of the land by Christopher Columbus in..→
World Toilet DayMore People In The World Have Mobile Phones Than Toilets. Mobile phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles. Americans spend 5 cents..→
Africa Industrialization DayUnderstanding Africa and understanding the whole context surrounding the crisis the continent has been through for decades is crucial to deciphe..→
Universal Children’s DayMankind owes to the child the best it has to give - UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Worldwide, the average woman gives birth to an es..→
Great American SmokeoutEvery year, on the third Thursday of November, smokers across the nation take part in the American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout. They ..→
World Fisheries DayThis Day celebrations serve as an important reminder that we must focus on changing the way the world manages global fisheries to ensure sustain..→
World Philosophy DayIt was around 470 BC when Socrates was born in Athens, Greece. According to Xenophon, Socrates was far more interested in intellectual upbringin..→
World Television DayIn 1997, a monkey was arrested in the African state of Benin for stealing a television aerial. It has been calculated that the average American ..→
Family Day in NevadaUntil the late 17th century, ‘family’ included not only relatives but also the servants of a household. The word derives from the Latin ‘famulus..→
Robert E. Lee’s Birthday in GeorgiaRobert Edward Lee, who would become known as one of the most brilliant military commanders in American history, was born to Revolutionary War he..→
Adoption day in OhioThe Saturday immediately preceding Thanksgiving day is designated as "Adoption Day."
(ORC 5.2259 Adoption day. Effective Date: 2008 S..→
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against WomenBy resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Eliminatio..→
Day before Thanksgiving in Virginia (noon)The first documented thanksgiving services in territory currently belonging to the United States were conducted by Spaniards and the French in t..→
Thanksgiving DayThanksgiving Day (Thanksgiving) is an important public holiday, celebrated by Americans on the fourth Thursday in November. One of the four most..→
Day after Thanksgiving or Black Friday (shopping)Thinking about shopping women appear almost as often as men in thinking about sex. 74% of women admitted that they think about shopping every mi..→
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian PeopleWhere did the name come from? In an effort to rid Judea of its Jewishness, the Romans renamed the area Filistia (Palestine) in the mid-130s CE. ..→
Native American Heritage Day in MarylandIn 1990, former President George H.W. Bush approved a Joint Resolution of Congress designating November as National American Indian Heritage Mon..→
Presidents’ Day in New Mexico (Lincoln’s Birthday)Some states observe the day as part of Presidents’ Day, which is officially known as Washington’s Birthday.
Although Lincoln’s birthday, Februa..→
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