| 3rd Monday in January |
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (USA) (more information: 1 & 2) |
| February |
Black History Month |
| 2nd week of February |
Heritage Week (Canada) |
| March 8 |
International Women's Day |
| March 21 |
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
| March 21 |
Youth Day (New Brunswick) |
| March 21-28 |
Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination |
| April 17 |
Equality Day, anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms |
| April 29, 2003 |
Yom haShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) (New Brunswick, Ontario, USA) (being the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan, each year it falls on a different date of the Gregorian calendar) |
| Late May |
Disability Awareness Week (New Brunswick) |
| June 1 |
National Day Against Homophobia (Canada) |
| June 21 |
National Aboriginal Day (Canada) |
| Late June |
Gay Pride |
| August 9 |
International Day of Indigenous People |
| August 12 |
International Youth Day |
| August 15 |
National Acadian Day (Acadia) |
| August 23 |
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition |
| September 15 |
New Brunswick Human Rights Day |
| 3rd Tuesday of September |
International Day of Peace |
| October |
Women's History Month (Canada) |
| October 1 |
International Day of Older Persons |
| October 17 |
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty |
| October 18 |
Persons' Day (Canada) |
| October 24 |
United Nations Day |
| November 16 |
International Day for Tolerance |
| November 20 |
National Child Day (also Universal Children's Day) |
| December 2 |
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery |
| December 3 |
International Day of Disabled Persons |
| December 6 |
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Canada) |
| December 10 |
International Human Rights Day (anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written in large part by John Humphrey, who came from New Brunswick.) |
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