Canada awareness days and key dates

Monday 4 January 2038

• 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.

Sunday 17 January 2038

• National Non-Smoking Week

  Awareness17 to 23 January 2038

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

• 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.

Wednesday 20 January 2038

• 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.

Thursday 21 January 2038

• 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.

Wednesday 27 January 2038

• 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.

Friday 29 January 2038

• 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.