Citizenship Week: May 26 to June 1, 2025: Take part in Canadian citizenship
Every year, we take a week to celebrate the rights and responsibilities shared by all Canadian citizens. During Citizenship Week, Canadians across the country and around the world show their pride in their history, culture, achievements and shared citizenship.
Celebrating Citizenship Week
How to celebrate Citizenship Week:
Become a Canadian citizen
If you’re a permanent resident (PR), you should consider becoming a part of the Canadian family!
- With a Canadian passport, you can visit many countries without a visa.
- You can shape the future of Canada at the federal, provincial or municipal level by
- voting in an election
- running as a political candidate
- Once you become a Canadian citizen, you don’t need to renew your PR Card!
Welcome new citizens
Find out how you can welcome new citizens!
Attend an in-person citizenship ceremony
Successful citizenship applicants become new citizens when they take the oath of citizenship at ceremonies across the country. Most are open to the public. Welcome new Canadians by attending a ceremony!
Welcoming new citizens into our Canadian family: Your success is our success
This video is also available in HD on YouTube where you can leave a comment, share it on your social network or embed it into your site.
Citizenship Judge Suzanne Carrière speaks of the importance of immigration and of immigrants becoming Canadian citizens. Canada’s strength is its diverse population. Canada’s new citizens’ success is its success as a country.
Get inspired by citizenship stories
Find inspiration from the citizenship stories of Canada’s immigrants!
How immigrants who became Canadian citizens make a difference
Saving lives and sharing medical knowledge
Known to his patients as a compassionate and dedicated physician, Dr. Khorshid Mohammad has also invented several technologies that are helping nurses and doctors save infants’ lives.
Flying to the rescue in Nunavik
From refugee to lifesaving pilot, Nour Utayim has delivered food and essential medical supplies to remote northern communities, and captains medical evacuation flights.
Enhancing food and beverage shelf life while leading women in STEM
Interested in the science of food, Natasha Dhayagude co-founded Chinova Bioworks, a startup made up of 90% women in STEM that’s created jobs in Fredericton.
Find out what Canada means to new citizens
Watch and read as new Canadians reflect on their citizenship in their own words.
Celebrate citizenship values
Find out how you can celebrate the values, history and culture of Canada!
Help newcomers
Get involved with your community to make Canada a stronger and more inclusive country.
Learn about Indigenous peoples
The history of Canada began far earlier than European settlement. Find out more about Indigenous peoples and cultures.
Learn about Canadian identity and symbols
Get a better understanding of Canadian identity, history, culture and symbols.
Choose Canada everyday
Find out how you can support Canada, from buying Canada-made to travelling locally.
Share the celebration
Use the hashtags #CitizenshipWeek and #MyCitizenship to share your story and Canadian pride!
You can tag
- @CitImmCanada on X or Instagram
- @CitCanada on Facebook
- Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on LinkedIn
Images and messages to share
You can use the following guidelines to share your Citizenship Week celebration on social media.
For individuals
You can use your own photos and create your own message to share on social media!
Image
Share your citizenship photos! For example, you can use the photo you took at your citizenship ceremony.
Message
We encourage you to share your story in your own words.
If you want, you can use the following message:
Being a Canadian means [talk about your exciting journey to citizenship or what now being a Canadian means to you or your family, or share photos of you at your citizenship ceremony or engaging in your community]. #MyCitizenship
For institutions, service provider organizations (SPOs) and civic leaders
Encourage your followers and clients to celebrate Citizenship Week! You can use and customize (with exception) these sample image and messages:
Image
Download Facebook or Instagram image (JPG, 260 KB)
Download X or LinkedIn image (JPG, 519 KB)
Alt text (image description)
2025 Citizenship Week. An illustration of one hand holding a Canadian flag on different colour shades.
Messages
You can use these messages:
- To [organization name, city name, etc.], being a Canadian means [add your thoughts about what being a Canadian means to your organization or city]. Join us by celebrating #CitizenshipWeek, May 26 to June 1!
- Being a Canadian means [talk about your exciting journey to citizenship or what now being a Canadian means to you or your family, or share photos of you at your citizenship ceremony or engaging in your community]. #MyCitizenship
- At [organization name, city name, etc.], we support new Canadian citizens by [give examples of services your organization or city provides, events it hosts, or stories about new citizens succeeding after they used your services]. #CitizenshipWeek
If your message has a link, make sure the message is no more than 256 characters long before the link. For example:
“[Your message followed by ‘Learn more: ’ maximum 256 characters + link]”.
Don’t change the Government of Canada wordmark
Our social media image has the Government of Canada wordmark:
You must not crop, modify or remove it from the image.
Share in both official languages
If you can, we encourage you to share in English and French.
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