Canada awareness days and key dates
Awareness days, weeks and months, with bank holidays and the big commercial dates. Pick a country and the types you need, then subscribe in your own calendar.
Showing only days marked in Canada. Tick "Include international days" to add worldwide days.
Running all month
- Alzheimer's Awareness Month (Canada) 1 to 31 January 2022
- Tamil Heritage Month 1 to 31 January 2022
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Tuesday 4 January 2022
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National Ribbon Skirt Day
National Ribbon Skirt Day on 4 January recognises the ribbon skirt as a symbol of Indigenous identity, womanhood and survival.
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National Ribbon Skirt Day
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Sunday 16 January 2022
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National Non-Smoking Week
A Canadian week held in the third full week of January that encourages people to quit smoking and vaping and promotes smoke-free spaces.
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National Non-Smoking Week
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Monday 17 January 2022
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Raoul Wallenberg Day
Marked in Canada on 17 January, honouring the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jewish people in Hungary in 1944.
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Raoul Wallenberg Day
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Wednesday 19 January 2022
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Weedless Wednesday
The Wednesday of Canada's National Non-Smoking Week in January, when smokers are challenged to go a full day without tobacco or cannabis.
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Weedless Wednesday
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Friday 21 January 2022
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Lincoln Alexander Day
Marked on 21 January, the birthday of Lincoln Alexander, the first Black Canadian elected to the House of Commons and appointed to Cabinet.
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Lincoln Alexander Day
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Thursday 27 January 2022
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International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
On 27 January the UN remembers the victims of the Holocaust, marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.
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International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
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Saturday 29 January 2022
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National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action against Islamophobia
Observed on 29 January, the anniversary of the 2017 attack on the Quebec City mosque, and a day to act against Islamophobia.
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National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action against Islamophobia