Check out important dates in the school year! Plan now for Christmas holidays and spring break.
Fall
Saturday, Sept. 1
Collège Boréal students arrive at residence.
Tuesday, Sept. 4
Back to class for Sudbury high school students.
First day of classes at Cambrian College.
Orientation Day at Boréal.
Wednesday, Sept. 5
Winter session classes begin at Laurentian U.
Monday, Oct. 8
Thanksgiving
Oct. 22 to 26
LU Study Week
Saturday, Oct. 27
Fall convocation at LU
Friday, Dec. 14
Fall semester ends at Cambrian and Boréal.
Winter
Dec. 21
Winter arrives at 6:12 am. AccuWeather predicts a particularly frigid season.
High school Christmas holidays begin.
Sunday, Dec. 23
Festivus
A day for people who don’t celebrate religious holidays, a festival made up by the writers for the Seinfeld show in 1997.
Tuesday, Dec. 25
Merry Christmas
Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013
Happy New Year!
Monday, Jan. 7
Set the alarm. Everybody’s back in class.
Jan. 13
Deadline for Ontario secondary school students to submit completed university applications to the OUAC.
Friday, Jan.18
Winnie the Pooh Day
This day celebrates the birth of Winnie’s creator A.A .Milne in 1882.Winnie has a Canadian connection. He gets his name from the city of Winnipeg and was born in White River, Ont.
Jan. 25 to 31
High school examinations
Tuesday, Feb. 5
Recommended last date for students to submit information to OUAC to be eligible for consideration for early admission. This includes university and program changes as well as additional active choices.
Feb. 18 to 22
LU Study Week
March 4 - 9
Reading Week at Cambrian and Boréal.
March 8 - 15
High school mid-winter break.
Spring
Friday, March 29
Good Friday
Sunday, April 1
Easter Sunday
April 8
Last day of winter semester classes at LU.
Saturday, April 13
Open house at Cambrian College
Wednesday, May 29
Latest date secondary school applicants can expect a positive or negative response from an Ontario university.
May 22, 23, 24
Class of ’13 graduates from Cambrian. Congratulations!
June 3, 2013 (June 1, 2012)
Earliest date Ontario universities may require a response to an offer of admission and a financial commitment of any kind (e.g., registration deposit, residence deposit, etc.) from an Ontario secondary school student.
Summer
June 21
Summer starts today!
June 21 to 27
High school finals
June 27
Last day of class for secondary students.
Monday July 1
Canada Day
Tuesday, July 2
World UFO Day. On July 2, 1947, a rancher in northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, discovered wreckage of a metallic object identified as a mysterious Unidentified Flying Object.
Monday, Aug. 5
Civic Holiday
Aug. 6-9
Online registration for Fall semester begins at Cambrian.
Monday, Sept. 2
Labour Day
Tuesday, Sept. 3
Another year begins. Good luck!!
