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1 January New Year s Day* Gantan-Sai (New Year s) (Shinto)* Epiphany* (Christian) Nativity of Christ* (Armenian Orthodox Christian) Twelfth Night* (Christian) Women s March Int l Day to Commemorate Memory of Victims of Holocaust*

2 February Setsubun-sai* (Shinto) Chinese New Year (Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist) Valentine s Day* National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - Strawberry Ceremony* (NWAC) Family Day World Day of Social Justice* International Mother Language Day* Pink Shirt Day Black History Month

3 March Zero Discrimination Day (UNAIDS) Shrove Tuesday (Christian) Ash Wednesday (Lent Begins) (Christian) Hindu New Year International Women s Day* Lent (Orthodox) Sikh New Year St. Patrick s Day* (Christian) Journée internationale de la francophonie* UN French Language Day Naw Ruz* (Baha i) Magha Puja Day (Buddhism) Int l Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination* World Water Day 24/31 Int l Day for Truth Regarding Gross Human Rights violations and dignity of victims* Trans Day of Visibility (March 31) 25 Int l Day of Remembrance to Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade*

4 April World Autism Awareness Day* World Health Day* Mahavir Jayanti (Jain) International Day of Pink Baisakhi (New Year)* (Sikh) Palm Sunday (Christian) Good Friday (Christian) Pesach (Passover to April 27) (Judaism) Easter (Christian) Palm Sunday (Orthodox Christian) Easter Monday National Day of Mourning* (CLC/Gov t of Canada) Pascha (Easter) (Orthodox Christian) World Day for Safety and Health at Work Good Friday (Orthodox)

5 May Beltane and Samhain* (Wicca/Pagan) May Day/Int l Worker s Day* (CLC) Ramadan Begins (Islam) Mother s Day Int l Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia* (IDAHO) (Fondation Émergence) Visakha Puja Buddha Day (Buddhism) Victoria Day World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development* Declaration of the Bab* (Baha i) Ascension of Baha u llah* (Baha i) Asian Heritage Month

6 June 2019 Pride Month 1 National Indigenous History Month Eid al Fitr (sunset to June 7) (Islam) Pentecost (Christian) World Day Against Child Labour* Father s Day World Refugee Day* National Indigenous Peoples Day* 23/ United Nations Public Service Day* (June 23) Multiculturalism Day* (Gov t of Canada)

7 July Canada Day* Obon* (to July 15) (Shinto- Buddhism) Asalha Puja Day (Buddhism) Nelson Mandela International Day* Caribana and Caribbean Festivals across Ontario July to August

8 August 2019 Caribana and Caribbean Festivals across Ontario July to August Civic Holiday International Day of World s Indigenous People* International Youth Day* Eid al Adha (to August 15) (Islam) World Humanitarian Day* Internationall Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition*

9 September Labour Day Paryushana Parva (Jain) International Literacy Day* (UNESCO) International Day of Democracy* International Day of Peace* Krisha Janmashtami (Hindu) Navaratri (to Oct. 7) (Hindu) Rosh Hashanah (to Oct. 1 (Judaism) Orange T-Shirt Day* (Indigenous)

10 October International Day of Older Persons* Sisters in Spirit Vigil to honour the memory of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls* (NWAC) Yom Kippur (Judaism) World Mental Health Day* International Day of the Girl Child* Thanksgiving Day International Day for the Eradication of Poverty* United Nations Day* Diwali (Hindu-Jain-Sikh) Halloween* Women s History Month

11 November Samhain Litha* (Wicca/Pagan) Remembrance Day* Guru Nanak Dev Sahib Birthday (Sikh) Universal Children s Day* Transgender Day of Remembrance* Louis Riel Day* (Métis) International Day for Tolerance* (UNESCO) International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women*

12 December World Aids Day* Advent (to December 24) (Christian) International Day for the Abolition of Slavery* International Day of Persons with Disabilities* National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Status of Women)* Human Rights Day* International Migrants Day* International Human Solidarity Day* Hanukkah (to Dec. 30) (Judaism) Christmas Eve* Christmas Day* (Christian) Boxing Day* New Year s Eve*

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