Canada awareness days and key dates

Thursday 4 January 2035

• National Ribbon Skirt Day

  Awareness

  National Ribbon Skirt Day on 4 January recognises the ribbon skirt as a symbol of Indigenous identity, womanhood and survival.

Wednesday 17 January 2035

• Raoul Wallenberg Day

  Awareness

  Marked in Canada on 17 January, honouring the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jewish people in Hungary in 1944.

Sunday 21 January 2035

• Lincoln Alexander Day

  Awareness

  Marked on 21 January, the birthday of Lincoln Alexander, the first Black Canadian elected to the House of Commons and appointed to Cabinet.

• National Non-Smoking Week

  Awareness21 to 27 January 2035

  A Canadian week held in the third full week of January that encourages people to quit smoking and vaping and promotes smoke-free spaces.

Wednesday 24 January 2035

• Weedless Wednesday

  Awareness

  The Wednesday of Canada's National Non-Smoking Week in January, when smokers are challenged to go a full day without tobacco or cannabis.

Saturday 27 January 2035

• International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

  Awareness

  On 27 January the UN remembers the victims of the Holocaust, marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.

Monday 29 January 2035

• National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action against Islamophobia

  Awareness

  Observed on 29 January, the anniversary of the 2017 attack on the Quebec City mosque, and a day to act against Islamophobia.