When is Christmas Day celebrated in Canada?

Discover Canada records this in one direct label. The guide writes: Christmas Day — December 25. The date the test wants is therefore December 25.

The date is fixed and global. Discover Canada commits Christmas Day to a specific calendar date — December 25 — meaning the holiday is on the same day in Canada as in most countries that observe Christmas. It is a fixed date (not moveable like Easter).

Christmas is paired with Boxing Day. Discover Canada places Christmas Day next to Boxing Day — December 26 in the Canadian holiday calendar. So the December 25–26 pair forms a back-to-back two-day Canadian holiday window — Christmas Day on the 25th and Boxing Day on the 26th. The two days together close out the Canadian holiday year.

Christmas Day closes the Canadian holiday calendar. Discover Canada places Christmas Day near the end of its National Public Holidays list — between Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day (November 20) and Boxing Day (December 26). The full Canadian calendar runs from New Year's Day (January 1), Sir John A. Macdonald Day (January 11), Good Friday and Easter Monday in spring, Vimy Day (April 9), Victoria Day (Monday preceding May 25 — the Sovereign's birthday), Fête nationale Quebec (June 24, Feast of St. John the Baptist), Canada Day (July 1), Labour Day (first Monday of September), Thanksgiving Day (second Monday of October), Remembrance Day (November 11), Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day (November 20), Christmas Day (December 25), and Boxing Day (December 26). So Christmas Day on the 25th is the second-to-last public holiday of the Canadian year. The guide notes elsewhere that Canada is a country with deep Christian heritage — "the largest groups" include "English-speaking and French-speaking Christian" communities — making December 25 a culturally significant date as well as a public holiday.

The question is testing whether new citizens know the date of Christmas Day. Discover Canada commits to one date: December 25. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each pick a different date. The first option is the day before Christmas, not Christmas Day. "December 26" is Boxing Day, not Christmas Day. "January 1" is New Year's Day. Only December 25 — the date the source explicitly names for Christmas Day — matches.