Statutory holidays in Canada are not one national list. Federally regulated workplaces follow the Canada Labour Code, while everyone else follows their own province or territory’s employment standards — which is why your colleague in another province may be working on a day you have off.
Here is the full 2027 calendar, starting with the dates themselves.
2027 Statutory Holidays: The Complete List
- New Year’s Day — Friday, January 1, 2027
- Good Friday — Friday, March 26, 2027
- Easter Monday — Monday, March 29, 2027 (federal employees; not a general holiday in most provinces)
- Victoria Day — Monday, May 24, 2027
- Canada Day — Thursday, July 1, 2027
- Civic Holiday — Monday, August 2, 2027 (name and status vary by province)
- Labour Day — Monday, September 6, 2027
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — Thursday, September 30, 2027
- Thanksgiving — Monday, October 11, 2027
- Remembrance Day — Thursday, November 11, 2027
- Christmas Day — Saturday, December 25, 2027
- Boxing Day — Sunday, December 26, 2027
Every Long Weekend in 2027
Six holidays land on a Friday or Monday in 2027, producing a genuine three-day weekend:
- January 1–3 — New Year’s Day falls on a Friday
- March 26–29 — Good Friday plus Easter Monday makes this a four-day stretch for federal employees and anyone whose employer observes both
- May 22–24 — Victoria Day
- July 31 – August 2 — Civic Holiday
- September 4–6 — Labour Day
- October 9–11 — Thanksgiving
Two holidays fall mid-week and do not create long weekends on their own: Canada Day (Thursday, July 1) and Remembrance Day (Thursday, November 11). Truth and Reconciliation Day also lands on a Thursday.
The Christmas Problem in 2027
This is the detail worth planning around. Christmas Day falls on a Saturday and Boxing Day on a Sunday in 2027. When a statutory holiday lands on a non-working day, most employment standards legislation requires a substitute day off — typically the following Monday and Tuesday, which would be December 27 and 28, 2027.
The exact rule depends on your jurisdiction and, in many cases, on your employment contract or collective agreement. Federally regulated employees are generally entitled to a substituted day. Provincially regulated employees should check their own province’s rules rather than assume, because a few provinces treat the substitution as discretionary for employers who already provide a day off in lieu.
Which Holidays Your Province Actually Observes
Only a handful of days are statutory holidays essentially everywhere in Canada: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Canada Day, Labour Day, and Christmas Day. Beyond that, coverage splits:
- Victoria Day — observed in most provinces, but not a general holiday in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, or Newfoundland and Labrador in the same way
- Civic Holiday (August) — a general holiday in some provinces and a municipal or optional day in others; it carries a different name in several (Heritage Day, Natal Day, New Brunswick Day, Saskatchewan Day, British Columbia Day)
- Thanksgiving — statutory in most of the country, optional in the Atlantic provinces
- Remembrance Day — statutory in most provinces and territories, but notably not a general statutory holiday in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, or Nova Scotia in the standard employment-standards sense
- Boxing Day — a statutory holiday in Ontario, and observed federally, but not a general holiday across most other provinces
- Truth and Reconciliation Day — a federal statutory holiday and observed by several provinces and territories, but not all
Quebec runs a partly different list, including the National Holiday on June 24, and does not observe Boxing Day as a statutory day.
What This Means for Your Pay
If you work on a statutory holiday, or if the holiday falls on a day you would normally work, most jurisdictions require either holiday pay, premium pay, or a substitute day off. The calculation is not the same everywhere — it usually depends on your earnings over a defined period before the holiday and whether you worked your scheduled shifts around it.
