2024 Proclamations, Lighting Requests and Flag Raisings

Contacts


​Name of Request
​Observation Date
​Type of Request
Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day
​January 26, 2024
​Proclamtion - January 26, 2024
​International Holocaust Remembrance Day
​January 27, 2024
​Proclamation - January 27, 2024 
Lighting (Yellow) - January 26, 2024 
Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome Awareness Day
​January 28, 2024
​Lighting (Purple) - January 29, 2024
​World Optimist Day
​February 1, 2024
​Proclamation - February 1, 2024
Flag Raising - January 31, 2024
​Black History Month
​February 2024
​Proclamation - February 1 - 29, 2024 
Flag Raising - February 1 - 29, 2024
Lighting (Yellow and Green) - February 9, 2024 
​211 Day
​February 11, 2024
​Proclamation - February 11, 2024 
Lighting (Red) - February 12, 2024
​Sexual Health Week
​February 12, 2024
​Lighting (Green) - February 13, 2024
​International Angelman Syndrome Day
​February 15, 2024
​Lighting (Blue) February 15, 2024
​World Thinking Day
​February 22, 2024
​Lighting (Blue) - February 22, 2024
​Rare Disease Day
​February 29, 2024
​Lighting (Blue) - February 29, 2024
​March is Easter Seals Month
​March 1 - 31, 2024
​Proclamation - MArch 1 - 31, 2024
​Amyloidosis Awareness Month
​March 1 - 31, 2024
​Proclamation - March 1 - 31, 2024
Lighting (Red) - March 15, 2024
​Epilepsy Awareness Month and Purple Day
​March 1 - 31, 2024
​Proclamation - March 1 - 31, 2024
Lighting (Purple) - March 26, 2024 (Purple Day)
Flag Raising - March 20 - 27, 2024
​Global Lymphedema Day
​March 6, 2024
​Lighting (Teal) - March 6, 2024
​Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood Awareness Month
​March 21, 2024
​Lighting - March 21, 2024 (blue)
​World Down Syndrome Day
​March 21, 2024
​Proclamation - March 21, 2024
Lighting - March 21, 2024 (blue)
Flag Raising - March 19, 2024
​National Poison Prevention Week
​March 22, 2024
​Lighting - March 22, 2024 (Yellow)
​World Tuberculosis (TB) Day
​March 24 and 25, 2024
​Proclamation - March 24 and 25, 2024
Lighting - March 25, 2024 (red)
​Royal Canadian Air Force Centennial
​April 1, 2024
​Proclamation - April 1, 2024
Lighting - April 1, 2024
​World Autism Day
​April 2, 2024
​Proclamation - April 2, 2024
Flag Raising - April 2 to 9, 2024
​Dental Hygienists Week
​April 4 - 10, 2024
​April 4, 2024
​Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month
​April 5, 2024
​Lighting - April 5, 2024 (periwinkle / purple)
​Canadian Cancer Society Daffodil Month
​April 8, 2024
​Lighting - April 8, 2024 (yellow)
​World Parkinson's Awareness Day
​April 11, 2024
​Lighting - April 11, 2024 (blue)
​World Hemophilia Day
​April 17, 2024
​Lighting - April 17, 2024
Flag Raising - April 17, 2024
​Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Day
​April 19, 2024
​Proclamation - April 19, 2024
Lighting - April 19, 2024 (pink)
​Spanish Language Day
​April 23, 2024
​Proclamation - April 23, 2024
​Canadian Fertility Awareness Week
​April 25, 2024
​Lighting - April 25, 2024
​Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Awareness Month​May 2024
​Proclamation - May 2024
​May is Community Living Month
​May 1, 2024
​Lighting - May 1, 2024 (blue and green)
​Rotary Club of Newmarket 40th Anniversary
​May 1, 2024
​Flag Raising - May 1, 2024
​World Maternal Mental Health Day
​May 1, 2024
​Proclamation - May 1, 2024
​Guillain Barre Syndrome and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuriphathy (CDP) Awareness Month
​May 3, 2024
​Lighting - May 3, 2024 (blue)
​Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Awareness Day
​May 9, 2024
​Lighting - May 9, 2024 (yellow)
​World Lupus Day
​May 10, 2024
​Proclamation - May 10, 2024
​Lupus Awareness Day
​May 10, 2024
​Lighting - May 10, 2024
​Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
​May 12, 2024
​Proclamation - May 12, 2024
Lighting - May 13, 2024 (purple)
International Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) Awareness Day
​May 15, 2024
​Proclamation - May 15, 2024
Lighting - May 15, 2024 (blue)
​Global Porphyria Awareness Day
​May 17, 2024
​Lighting - May 17, 2024 (purple)
​Food Allergy Awareness Month
​May 20, 2024
​Lighting - May 20, 2024 (teal)
​World Menstrual Health Day 2024
​May 28, 2024
​Lighting - May 28, 2024 (red)
​Pride Month
​June 2024
​Proclamation - June, 2024
Flag Raising - June 3 and 4, June 13 to June 18 to June 30, 2024
Lighting - June 1, 14, and 15, 2024 (rainbow)
​Brain Injury Awareness Month
​June 2024
​Proclamation - June, 2024
​Deafblind Awareness Month
​June 2024
​Proclamation - June 2024
Lighting - June 3, 2024 (white)
​Bike Day
​June 1, 2024
​Proclamation - June 1, 2024
​June is Seniors Month- A Celebration of Seniors
​June 5 to 12, 2024
​Flag Raising - June 5 to 12, 2024
​NWMRKTproud​June 3, 2024
​Proclamation - June 3, 2024
Stanley Cup Viewing Party
​June 8 to 24
​Lighting - June 8 to 12 and 16 to 24, 2024 (Orange, Navy Blue, White)
​National Blood Donor Week and World Blood Donor Day
​June 14, 2024
​Lighting - June 13, 2024
​World Sickle Cell Awareness Day and Ontario Sickle Cell Awareness Day
​June 19, 2024
​Proclamation - June 19, 2024
Lighting - June 19, 2024 (red)
​World Kidney Cancer Day
​June 20, 2024
​Lighting - June 20, 2024 (green)
​National Injury Prevention Day
​July 5, 2024
​Proclamation - July 5, 2024
Lighting - July 5, 2024 (green)
​Canadian Paralympic Team and 50 Days to the Paralympic Games
​July 9, 2024
​Lighting - July 9, 2024 (red)
​Bahamas' 51st Independence
​July 10, 2024
​Lighting - July 10, 2024 (aqua and yellow)
​World Fragile X Awareness Day

July 22, 2024
​Lighting - July 22, 2024 (teal)
​World Drowning Prevention Day
​July 25, 2024
​Lighting - July 25, 2024 (blue)
​Emancipation Day
​August 1, 2024
​Lighting - August 1, 2024 (green)
Flag Raising - August 1, 2024 (Peace Park Flag Pole on Cane Parkway)
​Autoinflammatory Awareness Month
​August 3, 2024
​Lighting - August 2, 2024 (orange)
​Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
​September 2024
​Lighting - September 1, 2024 (blue)
​World PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) Awareness Day
​September 1, 2024
​Lighting - September 2, 2024 (teal)
​Make Canada Gold in honour of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
​September 2024
Proclamation - September 2024
​Lighting - September 3, 2024 (gold)
​Duchenne Awareness Day
​September 6, 2024
​Lighting - September 6, 2024
​Terry Fox Week
​September 8 to 15, 2024
​Proclamation - September 8 to 15, 2024
Flag Raising - September 9 to 16, 2024
​Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day
​September 9, 2024
​Lighting - September 9, 2024
​Living Donation Week
​September 8 to 14, 2024
​Lighting - September 10, 2024
​World Sepsis Day
​September 13, 2024
​Lighting - September 13, 2024 (pink)
​World Mitochondrial Disease Week
​September 16 to 22, 2024
​Proclamation - September 16 to 22, 2024
Lighting - September 21, 2024 (green)
​National Forest Week
​September 22 to 28, 2024
​Proclamation - September 22 to 28, 2024
Lighting - September 23, 2024 (green)
​Jour des Franco-Ontariens et des Franco-Ontariennes / Franco-Ontarian Day
​September 25, 2024
​Proclamation - September 25, 2024
Lighting - September 25, 2024 (green)
Flag Raising - September 24 to 27, 2024
​British Home Child Day
​September 28, 2024
​Proclamation - SEptember 27 to 29, 2024
Lighting - September 27, 2024 (red)
Flag Raising - September 27 to 29, 2024

​National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
​September 30, 2024
​Lighting - September 30, 2024 
Flags to half-mast
​Circular Economy Month
​October 2024
​Proclamation - October 2024
​International Dyslexia Awareness Month
​October 2024
​Proclamation - October 2024
Lighting - October 25, 2024 (red)
​64th Anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus Independence Day
​October 1, 2024
​Lighting - October 1, 2024 (white, orange, and green)
​Light it Up! For NDEAM (National Disability Employment Awareness Month)
​October 2024
​Proclamation - October 2024
Lighting - October 17, 2024 (purple)
​World PANS PANDAS Awareness Day
​October 9, 2024
​Lighting - October 9, 2024
​Public Library Week
​October 20 to 26, 2024
​Proclamation - October 20 to 26, 2024
Lighting - October 22, 2024 (purple)
​Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day
October 24, 2024
​Proclamation - October 24, 2024
​Raising of the Poppy Flag
​October 25, 2024
​Flag Raising - October 25 to November 1, and November 1 to November 11, 2024
​World Occupational Therapy Day
​October 28, 2024
​Lighting - October 28, 2024 (blue)
​Shine a Teal Light for Food Allergy Halloween Campaign
​October 31, 2024
​Lighting - October 31, 2024 (teal)
​Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Canada's Project Red Ribbon
​November 1, 2024
​Lighting - November 1, 2024 (red)
​Shine a Light on Women Abuse
​November 2, 2024
​Lighting - November 2, 2024 (purple)
​Light the World in Teal
​November 4, 2024
​Lighting - November 4, 2024 (teal)
​International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
​November 25, 2024
​Lighting - November 25, 2024