Canadian statutory holidays 2026 and 2027: federal, Alberta, BC, Ontario and Quebec

Holidays shown: 2026, 2027. Dates checked against the official sources below on October 11, 2026. Make a calendar with these holidays and choose your state or province in the maker.

Federal or provincial holidays?

The ten federal general holidays in the Canada Labour Code apply to federally regulated workplaces such as banks, airlines, railways, telecommunications and the federal public service. Everyone else follows the employment standards of their province or territory, which set different lists: Family Day in February in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario; British Columbia Day in August; National Patriots’ Day and the Fête nationale in Quebec. Remembrance Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation are statutory in some provinces and not in others.

Choose the list that matches your workplace. Holidays for the other provinces and the territories will be added once they have been checked.

Holidays on a weekend

The rules differ. Under the Canada Labour Code, when New Year’s Day, Canada Day, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Remembrance Day, Christmas Day or Boxing Day falls on a non-working Saturday or Sunday, employees get the working day before or after instead; the calendar shows the day after, marked “(observed)”. Ontario gives each employee a substitute day off rather than a fixed date, so no observed day is shown. Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec do not move holidays to another date.

In Quebec, the employer chooses whether Good Friday or Easter Monday is the paid holiday; the calendar shows Good Friday with that note.

Canada holidays in 2026

Canada holidays in 2027

Where: Federal, AB, BC, ON, QC. “All” means every one of them.

Sources

• Canada Labour Code, sections 166 and 193, checked October 11, 2026
• Government of Alberta, General holidays, checked October 11, 2026
• Government of British Columbia, Statutory holidays, checked October 11, 2026
• Government of Ontario, Your guide to the Employment Standards Act: public holidays, checked October 11, 2026
• CNESST, List of paid statutory holidays (Quebec), checked October 11, 2026

Dates were generated with the open-source python-holidays library and then checked one by one against these sources; differences were corrected. Spot a holiday that has changed? Tell us at the address on the contact page.