Click on the image above to download the January calendar of dates important to communities in Chatham-Kent. Click on the text in the calendar to learn more about each date. The calendar can also be found under the 'Resources' section of the DEIJ Employee Portal.

If you are printing the calendar, please print on Legal size paper.

If you are sharing with partners, please use our external website version.

Please contact us if you notice dates missing or errors DEIJ@chatham-kent.ca or x. 2447

Outlook Calendar

Did you know you can access a DEIJ calendar through Outlook? See and learn about important dates to communities in CK with the click of a button.

To get access to the calendar, email DEIJ@chatham-kent.ca or call x. 2447

How to Use the DEIJ Calendar

Along with many other important days, in the middle of January, there are a number of harvest-related festivals honoured across India. The names, celebrations, and traditions vary by region. In addition, people who practice Sikhism will honour the 10th Guru on the 17th. And people who are Mahayana Buddhists will honour the New Year on the 25th day of the Gregorian calendar.

Use this calendar to inform programming, scheduling, and to better understand colleagues and communities we serve. For example:

• Avoid scheduling events (for staff or community) on days important to communities in CK to ensure everyone can participate and show respect for each other.
• Supervisors: People may ask for time off in honour of some of these dates. Employers have a duty to accommodate employee's creed to the point of undue hardship, including providing time off for religious holidays. Learn more from the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
• Outside of these holidays, people may have regular prayer or reflection practices that we can work to support. For example, Friday afternoons are a significant time of prayer for some people of Muslim faith.

We encourage you to get to know your team - find out what days and holidays are important to each other, if and how these days should be acknowledged.

Community Events:

Find information about some of the events to honour important days in our community in the 'Engage' section of the DEIJ Employee Portal.