Statutory holidays by province: closing your Canadian salon's booking page
Holidays in Canada are set province by province, so a salon in Moncton and a salon in Kelowna do not close on the same days. Slotora reads your province from your postal code, lists its statutory holidays for the next 18 months on your hours screen, and closes online booking on every day you tick.
Create your salon accountClosing for the holidays, step by step
Two minutes once or twice a year. The web and the app show the same list.
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Check your postal code first
Settings → Postal code. The first letter tells Slotora your province, so a missing or mistyped code means the wrong list, or a short one.
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Open Working hours
Below your weekly hours and the Date exceptions you will find a section headed “Statutory holidays (automatic closing)”. In the app it is the public holidays screen inside Working hours.
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Tick the days you close
Every statutory holiday in your province for the next 18 months is listed with its date. Tick each one you are closed; leave the ones you open. Nothing is closed for you without a tick, because plenty of salons do their best trade on a long weekend.
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Press Save holiday closures
Each ticked day becomes a closed date exception for the whole team. Clients no longer see free times on it, and you can still book someone in yourself if you decide to open after all.
05
Look again before the year turns
The list rolls forward on its own. Ticks you saved stay; new days appear unticked when they come inside the window, so a quick look each autumn keeps next year's closures in place.
What the list holds in each province
Five days are statutory everywhere outside Québec: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Canada Day, Labour Day and Christmas Day. The rest depends on where your salon is.
Ontario
Family Day, Victoria Day, Thanksgiving and Boxing Day are added to the shared five. Remembrance Day and the August civic holiday are not on the Ontario list.
British Columbia
Family Day, Victoria Day, B.C. Day, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day — eleven days in all.
Alberta and Saskatchewan
Both add Family Day, Victoria Day, Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day; Saskatchewan also has Saskatchewan Day in August.
Manitoba
Louis Riel Day in February, Victoria Day, Truth and Reconciliation Day and Thanksgiving. Remembrance Day is not on Manitoba's list.
The Maritimes
Nova Scotia adds Heritage Day. New Brunswick adds Family Day, New Brunswick Day and Remembrance Day. Prince Edward Island adds Islander Day, Truth and Reconciliation Day and Remembrance Day.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Six days: the shared ones, with Canada Day shown as Memorial Day, plus Remembrance Day. St Patrick's Day, Victoria Day and Thanksgiving are not labour-standards holidays there.
The three territories
Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut each have eleven, Truth and Reconciliation Day among them. Yukon and the Northwest Territories keep National Indigenous Peoples Day; Yukon adds Discovery Day; the Northwest Territories and Nunavut have an August civic holiday, and Nunavut its own Nunavut Day in July.
How the dates are worked out
Family Day, Louis Riel Day, Islander Day and Nova Scotia's Heritage Day fall on the third Monday of February. Victoria Day is the Monday before 25 May. B.C. Day, Saskatchewan Day, New Brunswick Day and the territories' civic holiday are the first Monday in August; Labour Day the first Monday in September; Thanksgiving the second Monday in October.
When 1 July is a Sunday, Canada Day is kept on Monday 2 July, as federal law sets, and the list marks it as a moved day so the date does not look like a mistake.
What Slotora deliberately leaves to you
Days in lieu are not added. When a holiday falls on a day you do not work, your employees may be owed another day off, but that is a payroll question about them, not a day the salon must close, so it is not put on the list.
Civic holidays that are not statutory are not listed: Ontario's and Manitoba's August long weekend, Alberta's Heritage Day, Easter Monday. If you close for one of them, add it yourself under Date exceptions as “Closed all day”.
Nova Scotia's Remembrance Day is left off as well. A separate provincial act closes some retail that day, and whether a salon counts is not something the software can answer; check with the province or your adviser and add it by hand if it applies to you.
Where the list stops being enough
The list helps you close the booking page; it is not employment advice.
- Unknown province, short list
- With no readable postal code, only the five shared days are offered, and the screen says so. A day closed on a guess costs a day's trade, so Slotora does not guess Ontario.
- Ticking is not paying staff
- Holiday pay, premium pay for working the day and days in lieu are set by your province's employment standards. Slotora does not calculate any of them.
- Some sources were second-hand
- A few provincial pages could not be read directly when the table was built, so a secondary source was used for New Brunswick, Yukon and Nunavut. If your province's own page disagrees with the list, trust the province and tell us.
- Québec is not covered
- Salons in Québec cannot register yet, so the Québec list is not offered to anyone.
Questions about holidays and closing
Does Slotora close my salon on statutory holidays automatically?
Only on the days you tick and save. The list is there to make closing quick, not to decide for you.
I open on Victoria Day. Will clients still be able to book?
Yes. Leave the day unticked and it is bookable like any other day you work.
My province shows only five holidays. Why?
Your postal code is missing or Slotora cannot read a province from it. Put the full code in Settings and the full list for your province appears on the hours screen.
Can I close for Easter Monday, which is not on the list?
Yes. Add a Date exception for that day and choose Closed all day. Days you set by hand are never changed by the holiday list.
What happens to bookings already made for a day I then close?
They stay in your diary. Closing stops new online bookings; move or cancel the existing ones yourself, and the client is emailed as usual.
Sources
Two provinces' own pages, re-read for this guide. The other provinces' lists follow their employment-standards pages, as recorded in the product's holiday table.
- Government of Ontario — Your guide to the Employment Standards Act: public holidays — https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/public-holidays · Read on
- Government of British Columbia — Statutory holidays in B.C. — https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/employment-standards/statutory-holidays · Read on
Tick them once, before the long weekends
A closed day on your booking page saves a client from booking a time you will not be there for.