Find the correct school calendar for your province, territory and school board.
Canada does not have one national school-holiday calendar. Provinces and territories set education rules while school boards publish the dates families should actually use.
Education is organised provincially and territorially in Canada, and local school boards then publish calendars for their schools. A March break in Ontario, for example, should not be assumed to match a break in British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec or another province. Even boards in the same province can have different professional-development days or local closures.
Families commonly need the winter holiday, spring or March break and the summer vacation, along with shorter closures around statutory holidays. Professional-development days can also leave students at home on an otherwise normal working day. When arranging care, note those board-specific days rather than copying only the large holiday blocks.
School-holiday dates are useful for coordinating annual leave, camps, trips and visits with relatives. If family members live in different provinces, compare both local calendars before assuming children are free at the same time. Different break weeks can affect airfare, road traffic and accommodation prices as well as whether a visit is practical.
Canadian schools may close because of severe weather, but those one-off closures do not automatically alter the published holiday calendar in the same way everywhere. Boards may have their own rules for make-up days or instructional time. For important end-of-year travel, check the current board calendar rather than an old saved copy.
Identify the student's province or territory, then the school board, and use the board or school's current calendar. This page is a navigation and planning guide. It deliberately avoids presenting one nationwide list because that would be misleading for families making real bookings or care arrangements.