Family Day 2026: what’s open and closed?

Courtesy Barrie360.com

By Dan Blakeley, February 13, 2026

Family Day is a provincial holiday. Most federal government offices will be closed; business as usual at Canada Post. 

CLOSED

• Municipal and provincial government offices
• Schools
• Banks
• Beer stores
• Liquor stores
• MOST grocery stores (see OPEN section below)
• SOME drug stores (see OPEN section below)
• Georgian Mall
• Bayfield Mall
• Kozlov Centre
• Orillia Square Mall

OPEN

Drug Stores

While some drug stores are closed, select locations are open. Click below to check for open locations and their hours:

• Shoppers Drug Mart
• Rexall
• Guardian

Grocery Stores

Click below to check for open locations and their hours:

Farm Boy Barrie 

Kennedy’s Lakeside Grocery Barrie

Food Basics

• Barrie 
• Bracebridge 
• Bradford 
• Midland 
• Orillia

Foodland

• Beeton 
• Coldwater 
• Craighurst 
• Elmvale 
• Haliburton 
• Midland 
• Minden 
• Orillia 
• Penetang 
• Port Carling 
• Stayner 
• Stroud 
• Tottenham 
• Victoria Harbour 
• Wasaga Beach 

FreshCo

• Alliston 
• Barrie 
• Collingwood 
• Huntsville 

Loblaws

• Collingwood 

Metro

• Barrie – Kozlov 
• Barrie – Mapleview 
• Collingwood 
• Huntsville 
• Newmarket – Davis Drive 
• Newmarket – Yonge and Mulock 
• Orillia 

NoFrills

• Barrie – Blake St 
• Barrie – Wellington St 
• Angus 
• Bradford 
• Innisfil 
• Midland 
• Newmarket – Leslie St 
• Newmarket – Davis Dr 
• Orillia 

Real Canadian Superstore

• Midland 
• Newmarket
• Wasaga Beach 

Sobey’s

• Alcona 
• Angus
• Barrie
• Bradford 
• Collingwood 

Malls

• Tanger Outlet Mall – Cookstown – 11 am to 7 pm
• Upper Canada Mall – Newmarket – 11 am to 6 pm
• Vaughan Mills – 11 am to 7 pm

source: mall websites

Gas Stations

Select gas stations are open around the city and surrounding areas.

Post Offices

• Canada Post delivery and collection as per usual
• Pharmacies that operate post offices and choose to close on Family Day will be inaccessible
• Stand-alone Post Offices will be open for business

Government Offices

• Federal government offices will be open

GARBAGE COLLECTION

• Simcoe County – regular collection; landfill sites closed
• Barrie – regular collection; landfill site closed
• Orillia – NONE; collection will be a day later this week; landfill site closed

PUBLIC TRANSIT

• Barrie Sunday schedule
• Bradford No service
• Colltrans No service
• Clearview No service
• Midland/Penetanguishene No service
• Orillia No service
• Simcoe County Linx No service except for Route 4 (Collingwood to Wasaga Beach), which will operate on a Sunday schedule
• GO Transit Saturday schedule