Religious and Special Days 2020JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH 1 New Year’s Day 2 Nineteen-Day Fast* - Baha’i (to Mar. 20) Gantan-sai (New Year’s Day) - Shinto Black History Month 2 Candlemas - Presentation of Christ in the Temple - Christian 8 International Women’s Day Feast Day of St. Basil - Orthodox Christian Imbolc* - Wicca/Pagan Orthodox Sunday - Orthodox Christian Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian Four Chaplains Sunday - Interfaith 9 Magha Puja Day - Buddhist 2 Day after New Year’s Day (Que.) 3 St. Blaise Day - Christian 10 Purim* - Jewish 5 Twelfth Night - Christian Setsubun-sai (beginning of spring) - Shinto Holi* - Hindu Guru Gobindh Singh birthday - Sikh 10 Tu BiShvat* - Jewish Hola Mohalla - Sikh 6 Epiphany - Christian 14 St. Valentine’s Day - Christian 16 St. Patrick’s Day (N.L., observed) Feast of the Epiphany (Theophany) - Orthodox Christian Memorial Marches for Missing and Murdered Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings’ Day) - Christian 17 St. Patrick’s Day - Christian Indigenous Women and Girls Nativity of Christ - Armenian Orthodox 19 Spring Equinox* - Wicca/Pagan 15 Nirvana Day - Buddhist 7 Orthodox Christmas Day - Orthodox Christian 21 Naw-Rúz (New Year)* - Baha’i 17 Family Day (B.C., Alta., Sask., Ont., N.B.), Heritage 8 Feast of the Holy Family - Catholic Christian Norooz (New Year) - Persian/Zoroastrian Day (N.S.; 2020 observes 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial 10 Mahayana New Year - Buddhist (to Jan. 12) Africville Apology), Islander Day (P.E.I.), Discrimination 12 Baptism of the Lord Jesus - Christian Louis Riel Day (Man.) 22 Laylat al Miraj* - Islam 13 Maghi - Sikh 21 Yukon Heritage Day 25 Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Christian 14 Orthodox New Year 23 Meatfare Sunday - Orthodox Christian Ramayana - Hindu (to Apr. 2) 17 Blessing of the Animals - Hispanic Catholic Christian Transfiguration Sunday - Christian 28 Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zarathushtra) - Zoroastrian 19 World Religion Day – Baha’i 25 Shrove Tuesday - Christian 31 International Transgender Day of Visibility 25 Chinese New Year - Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist 26 Intercalary Days begin – Baha’i (to Mar. 1) (Year of the Rat) Ash Wednesday - Lent begins - Christian Conversion of St. Paul - Christian APRIL MAY JUNE 2 Rama Navami - Hindu Asian Heritage Month LGBTQ2SIA+ Pride Month 5 Mahavir Jayanti - Jain Jewish Heritage Month Palm Sunday - Christian 7 Trinity Sunday - Christian 9 Passover (Pesach)* - Jewish (to Apr. 16) 1 Beltane* - Wicca 11 Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian Theravada New Year - Buddhist (to Apr. 11) International Workers’ Day - May Day 12 World Day Against Child Labour Maundy Thursday - Christian 7 Buddha Day - Visakha Puja - Buddhist 14 All Saints - Orthodox Christian 10 Good Friday (except Que.: Easter Monday as alternate) 10 Mother’s Day Good Friday - Christian 16 Guru Arjan Martyrdom - Sikh 12 Lag B’Omer* - Jewish 11 Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Christian 19 Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian 17 International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian 12 Easter - Christian and Biphobia Palm Sunday - Orthodox Christian 21 National Indigenous Peoples Day (N.W.T., Y.T.) 18 Victoria Day (except Que., N.S., P.E.I.), National Indigenous Peoples Day 13 Easter Monday (N.W.T. Nunavut, Que., N.B.) National Patriots’ Day (Que.) Baisakhi (Vaisakhi) - Sikh Summer Solstice* (Litha) – Wicca 19 Laylat al Kadr* - Islam Father’s Day 14 Lailat al Bara’ah* - Islam 21 Ascension of Jesus - Christian 22 Discovery Day (N.L.) 17 Holy Friday - Orthodox Christian 23 Declaration of the Bab* - Baha’i 24 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (Que.) 19 Pascha (Easter) - Orthodox Christian 24 Eid al Fitr* (Ramadan Ends) - Islam 29 Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul - Christian 20 St. George’s Day (N.L., observed) Earth Day 28 Ascension of Baha’u’llah* - Baha’i 21 Yom HaShoah* - Holocaust Remembrance Day - Jewish 29 Shavuot* - Jewish (to May 30) First Day of Ridván* - (Baha’i Ninth Day: April 29, Last 31 Pentecost - Christian Day: May 2) 23 St. George’s Day - Christian 24 Ramadan Begins* - Islam 28 National Day of Mourning for Workers Injured AUGUST SEPTEMBER or Killed on the Job 1 Lammas - Christian 1 Ecclesiastical year begins - Orthodox Christian 29 Yom Ha’Atzmaut * - Jewish Lughnassad - Wicca/Pagan 2 Obon (Ullambana) - Buddhist/Shinto (to Sept. 5) 30 St. James the Great Day - Orthodox Christian 3 British Columbia Day (B.C.), Civic Holiday 7 Labour Day (N.W.T., Nunavut, Ont.), Natal Day (N.S.), Saskatchewan Day (Sask.), Terry Fox Day (Man.), 8 Nativity of Virgin Mary - Christian JULY New Brunswick Day ( N.B.), Heritage Day (Alta.) 14 Holy Cross Day - Christian 1 Canada Day, Memorial Day (N.L.) 6 Transfiguration of the Lord - Orthodox Christian 15 International Day of Democracy 4 Asalha Puja Day - Buddhist 11 Krishna Janmashtami - Hindu 19 Rosh Hashanah* - Jewish (to Sept. 20) 9 Nunavut Day 15 Assumption of Virgin Mary - Catholic Christian 22 Fall Equinox* - Wicca Martyrdom of the Bab* - Baha’i Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian 28 Yom Kippur* - Jewish Fast of the 17th of Tammuz* - Jewish 16 Paryushana Parva - Jain (to Aug. 23) 13 Orangemen’s Day (N.L.) 17 Discovery Day (Y.T.) 24 Pioneer Day - Mormon Christian 20 Hijra - New Year* - Islam 30 Tish’a B’av* - Jewish 21 Gold Cup Parade (P.E.I.) Waqf al Arafa* - Islam 29 Ashura* - Islam 31 Eid al-Adha* - Islam (to Aug. 3) Beheading of St. John the Baptist - Christian OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER Women’s History Month, 1 Samhain - Wicca 1 World AIDS Day Islamic Heritage Month (Ont.) All Saints’ Day - Christian 3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2 All Souls’ Day - Catholic Christian 6 National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence 3 Sukkot* - Jewish (to Oct. 9) 11 Remembrance Day (except Man., N.S., Ont., Que.) against Women 4 National Day to Commemorate Missing Remembrance Day 8 Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) - Buddhism and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 14 Diwali (Deepavali) - Sikh - Hindu - Jain Immaculate Conception of Mary - Catholic Christian St. Francis Day - Catholic Christian 15 Jain New Year - Jain 10 Human Rights Day 9 Hoshana Rabbah* - Jewish 20 Transgender Day of Remembrance 11 Hanukkah* - Jewish (to Dec. 18) 10 Shemini Atzeret* - Jewish (to Oct. 11) 22 Christ the King - Christian 12 Feast Day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic Christian 11 Simchat Torah* - Jewish 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence 18 International Migrants Day 12 Thanksgiving Day against Women 21 Yule - Christian 18 Birth of the Báb* - Baha’i Day of the Covenant* - Baha’i Winter Solstice* - Yule - Wicca/Pagan 19 Birth of Baha’u’llah* - Baha’i 29 Advent Begins - Christian (to Dec. 24) 25 Christmas Day 20 Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth - Sikh 30 Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Sahib - Sikh Christmas Day - Christian 25 Dasara - Hindu Feast of the Nativity - Orthodox Christian * Asterisk indicates holy days that usually begin at sundown the day before the date listed. 29 Mawlid an Nabi* - Prophet Muhammad’s birthday - Islam The dates cited represent either statutory holidays or the holiest days for that particular faith. 26 Boxing Day (Y.T., N.W.T., Nunavut, Ont., N.B., N.S., N.L.) 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