Public holidays in Canada 2026

About these dates

A public holiday does not always close every business. Essential services, shops and some industries keep working, and pay rules differ by country and contract.

Dates come from the open-source python-holidays project (0.106, MIT licence), which follows each country’s laws and official calendars; NonWorkingDays built these tables from it on October 15, 2026. Names are shown as the source gives them, in the local language and in English, without machine translation.

Dates marked “estimated” follow lunar or religious calendars and can move by a day when they are announced. Days off decreed at short notice, such as bridge days, may be missing. Check with an official source before you book.

Long weekends count the weekend (Saturday and Sunday) and nationwide public holidays only. “When” counts days by the local date in Ottawa.

! Checked against Canada Labour Code s.166 (general holidays), Ontario ESA guide: public holidays, BC statutory holidays, Alberta general holidays, Saskatchewan public holidays list, Manitoba general holidays fact sheet, Nova Scotia holiday pay, NL Labour Standards Act RSNL1990 c L-2, NWT Employment Standards FAQ, New Brunswick paid public holidays (page blocked, read via search summary), CNESST Quebec statutory holidays (page blocked, read via search summary), PEI paid holidays (page blocked, read via search summary), Yukon general holiday pay (page blocked, read via search summary), Nunavut Labour Standards Act consolidation (file blocked, read via search summary) on October 16, 2026, with caveats: Federal list and all 13 provinces and territories compared with their official lists (2026 and 2027); provincial days that are only optional are labelled optional; 2027 for some provinces was checked by rule.

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