January 2019 1 2 3 4 5 New Year s Day* Gantan-Sai (New Year s) (Shinto)* 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Epiphany* (Christian) Nativity of Christ* (Armenian Orthodox Christian) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Twelfth Night* (Christian) Women s March 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Int l Day to Commemorate Memory of Victims of Holocaust*
February 2019 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Setsubun-sai* (Shinto) Chinese New Year (Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Valentine s Day* National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - Strawberry Ceremony* (NWAC) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Family Day World Day of Social Justice* International Mother Language Day* 24 25 26 27 28 Pink Shirt Day Black History Month
March 2019 1 2 Zero Discrimination Day (UNAIDS) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Shrove Tuesday (Christian) Ash Wednesday (Lent Begins) (Christian) Hindu New Year International Women s Day* 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Lent (Orthodox) Sikh New Year 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 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* 26 27 28 29 30
April 2019 1 2 3 4 5 6 World Autism Awareness Day* 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 World Health Day* Mahavir Jayanti (Jain) International Day of Pink 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Baisakhi (New Year)* (Sikh) Palm Sunday (Christian) Good Friday (Christian) Pesach (Passover to April 27) (Judaism) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Easter (Christian) Palm Sunday (Orthodox Christian) Easter Monday 28 29 30 National Day of Mourning* (CLC/Gov t of Canada) Pascha (Easter) (Orthodox Christian) World Day for Safety and Health at Work Good Friday (Orthodox)
May 2019 1 2 3 4 Beltane and Samhain* (Wicca/Pagan) May Day/Int l Worker s Day* (CLC) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Ramadan Begins (Islam) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Mother s Day Int l Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia* (IDAHO) (Fondation Émergence) Visakha Puja Buddha Day (Buddhism) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Victoria Day World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development* Declaration of the Bab* (Baha i) 26 27 28 29 30 31 Ascension of Baha u llah* (Baha i) Asian Heritage Month
June 2019 Pride Month 1 National Indigenous History Month 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Eid al Fitr (sunset to June 7) (Islam) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Pentecost (Christian) World Day Against Child Labour* 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Father s Day World Refugee Day* National Indigenous Peoples Day* 23/30 24 25 26 27 28 29 United Nations Public Service Day* (June 23) Multiculturalism Day* (Gov t of Canada)
July 2019 1 2 3 4 5 6 Canada Day* 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Obon* (to July 15) (Shinto- Buddhism) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Asalha Puja Day (Buddhism) Nelson Mandela International Day* 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Caribana and Caribbean Festivals across Ontario July to August
August 2019 Caribana and Caribbean Festivals across Ontario July to August 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Civic Holiday International Day of World s Indigenous People* 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 International Youth Day* Eid al Adha (to August 15) (Islam) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 World Humanitarian Day* Internationall Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition* 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
September 2019 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Labour Day Paryushana Parva (Jain) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 International Literacy Day* (UNESCO) 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 International Day of Democracy* International Day of Peace* 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Krisha Janmashtami (Hindu) 29 30 Navaratri (to Oct. 7) (Hindu) Rosh Hashanah (to Oct. 1 (Judaism) Orange T-Shirt Day* (Indigenous)
October 2019 1 2 3 4 5 International Day of Older Persons* Sisters in Spirit Vigil to honour the memory of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls* (NWAC) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Yom Kippur (Judaism) World Mental Health Day* International Day of the Girl Child* 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Thanksgiving Day International Day for the Eradication of Poverty* 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 United Nations Day* 27 28 29 30 31 Diwali (Hindu-Jain-Sikh) Halloween* Women s History Month
November 2019 1 2 Samhain Litha* (Wicca/Pagan) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Remembrance Day* Guru Nanak Dev Sahib Birthday (Sikh) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Universal Children s Day* Transgender Day of Remembrance* Louis Riel Day* (Métis) International Day for Tolerance* (UNESCO) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women*
December 2019 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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)* 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Human Rights Day* 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 International Migrants Day* International Human Solidarity Day* 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Hanukkah (to Dec. 30) (Judaism) Christmas Eve* Christmas Day* (Christian) Boxing Day* 29 30 31 New Year s Eve*