2022 Proclamations, Lighting Requests and Community Flags

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​Name of Request
​Observation Date
​Type of Request
​International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD)
​January 27
Lighting - January 27 (yellow)
​Black History Month
​February
Proclamation - February
​Lighting - February 17 (yellow and green)
Flag Raising - February 1 - 28
​211 Day
​February 11
​Lighting - February 11 (red)
​World Thinking Day​February 22
​Proclamation - February 22
Lighting - February 22 (blue)
​Epilepsy Awareness Month & Purple Day
​March
​Proclamation - March
Lighting - March 28 (purple)
​​Endometriosis Awareness Month
​March
​Proclamation - March
Lighting - March 25 (yellow)
​World Down Syndrome Day
​March 21
​Proclamation - March 21
Lighting - March 18 (blue)
Flag Raising - March 18 - 21
​World Water Day
​March 22
​Lighting - March 22 (blue)
​World Tuberculosis Day​March 24
​Lighting - March 24 (red)
​National Dental Hygienists Week​April 4 - 10
​Proclamation - April 4 - 10
Lighting - April 4 (purple)
​Green Shirt Day
​April 7
​Proclamation - April 7
Lighting - April 7 (green)
​Education & Sharing Day​April 12
​Proclamation - April 12
​World Hemophilia Day​April 17
​Lighting - April 17 (red)
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Day
April 22
Proclamation - April 22
Lighting - April 22 (blue)
Canadian Infertility Awareness Week
​April 27
​Lighting - April 27 (green)
​National Day of Mourning
​April 28
​Proclamation - April 28
Flag Lowering - April 28
​Jewish Heritage Month
​May
​Proclamation - May
​Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) Awareness Month
​May
​Proclamation - May
​Syringomyelia Awareness Month​May
​Proclamation - May
Lighting - May 2 (blue)
​Food Allergy Awareness Month​May
​Proclamation - May
Lighting - May 26 (teal)
​Light it Up for Huntington Disease​May 6
​Lighting - May 6 (blue)
​Lupus Ontario Day
​May 10
​Proclamation - May 10
Lighting - May 10 (purple)
​Fibromyalgia Awareness Day​May 12
​Lighting - May 12 (purple)
​International Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) Awareness Day​May 13
​Lighting - May 13 (blue and yellow)
​World Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Day
​May 19
​Proclamation - May 19
Lighting - May 19 (purple)
​Menstrual Health Day
​May 27
​Lighting - May 27 (red)
Flag Raising - May 26 - 31
​National Deaf Blind Awareness Month
​June
​Proclamation - June
Lighting - June 1 (blue)
​Brain Injury Awareness Month
​June
​Proclamation - June
​Action Anxiety Day
​June 10
​Proclamation - June 10
Lighting - June 10 (blue)
​York Pride Festival
​June 13-20
​Proclamation - June 13 - 20
Lighting - June 17 (rainbow)
Flag Raising - June 13 - 20
​World Blood Donor Day
​June 14
​Lighting - June 14 (red)
​World Sickle Cell Day
​June 19
Proclamation - June 19
​Lighting - June 20 (red)
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Canada THH Global Recognition Day

​June 23
​Lighting - June 23 (red and blue)
​National injury Prevention Day​July 5
​Proclamation - July 5
Lighting - July 5 (green)
​Raising Awareness for Fragile X Syndrome
​July 22
​Proclamation - July 22
Lighting - July 22 (teal)
Food Day Canada 2022 - Shine a Light on Canadian Cuisine
​July 30
​Proclamation - July 30
Lighting - July 29 (red and white)
230th Anniversary: 15 Ships to Sierra Leone: Black Loyalist Exodus
​August 1
​Proclamation - August 1
​Emancipation Day
​August 1
​Proclamation - August 1
Lighting - August 2 (green)
Flag Raising - August 2
Never Give Up Day
August 18
​Proclamation - August 18
Make Canada Gold
​September
​Proclamation - September
Lighting - September 1 (yellow)
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
​September 1 - 30
Proclamation - September 1-30
​Lighting - September 2 (blue)
National Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Day
​September 4
​Proclamation - September 4
Lighting - September 6 (teal)
Flag Raising - September 6
​World Duchenne Awareness Day
​September 7
Proclamation - September 7
Lighting - Sept 7 (red)
Craniofacial Acceptance Month
​September 8
Lighting - September 8 (red, blue & yelllow)
International FASD Awareness Day
​September 9
​Lighting - September 9 (red)
​Terry Fox Week
​September 11 - 18
​Proclamation - September 11 - 18 
Flag Raising - September 12 - 18
National Coaches Week
​September 17 - 25
​Proclamation - September 17 - 25
​National Forest Week
​September 11-18
​Proclamation - September 11 - 18
World Alzheimer's Day
​September
​Proclamation - September
Lighting - September 21 (dark blue)
​Show Your Local Love Day
​September 23
​Proclamation - September 23
World Mitochondrial Disease Week
September 24
​Proclamation - September 24
Lighting - September 23 (green)
​Toastmasters Month
​October
​Proclamation - October
​National Disability Employment Awareness Month
​October
​Proclamation - October
​Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Month
​October
​Proclamation - October
​International Trigeminal Neuralgia Day
​October 7
​Proclamation - October 7
Lighting - October 7 (teal)
​Fire Prevention Week
​October 9 to 15
​Proclamation - October 9 to 15
​Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
​October 15
​Proclamation - October 15
Lighting - October 13 (pink)
Lighting - October 15 (purple, pink, and blue)
​Town of Newmarket Municipal Election
​October 15 - 24
​Lighting - October 15 - 24 (teal)
​Waste Reduction Week
​October 17 - 23
​Proclamation - October 17-23
​Annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day
​October 18
​Proclamation - October 18

​World Polio Day
​October 24
​Proclamation - October 24
Lighting - October 25 (red)
Flag Raising - October 21 to 28
​National Duty Counsel Day
​October 27
​Lighting - October 27 (red and white)
​Shine a Light Teal Campaign
​October 31
​Lighting - October 31
​Show Your 4-H Colours Day
​November 2
​Lighting - November 2 (green)
​Light the World in Teal
​November 3
​Lighting - November 3 (teal)
​Eczema Awareness Month

​November 8
​Lighting - November 8 (blue)

​World Prematurity Day
​November 17
​Proclamation - November 17
Lighting - November 16 (purple)
​National Children's Grief Awareness Day
​November 17
​Lighting - November 17 (blue)
​National Child Day
November 18
​Lighting - November 18 (cyan)
​200th Year Anniversary Christian Baptist Church
​November 20
​Proclamation - November 20
Lighting - November 21 (white)
​My Gut Feeling

November 30

Lighting - November 30
​World AIDS Day
​December 1
​Lighting - December 1 (red)
​National Day of Remembrance on Action on Violence Against Women
​December 6
​Proclamation - December 6
Lighting - December 6 (purple)
Flag Raising - December 6