Family Day 2025 – What’s Open & Closed

Changes to garbage collection, public transit, retail hours and more

Courtesy Barrie360.com

By Newsroom, February 14, 2025

Family Day is a provincial holiday – here’s a list of what’s open and closed February 17, 2025.

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 on Family Day, select locations are open. Click below to check for open locations and their hours:

• Shoppers Drug Mart
• Rexall
• Guardian

Grocery Stores

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

FOODLAND

• Beeton – 8 am – 6 pm
• Coldwater – 9 am – 5 pm
• Craighurst – 8 am – 8 pm
• Elmvale – 9 am – 5 pm
• Midland – 7 am – 7 pm
• Orillia – 9 am – 6 pm
• Penetanguishene – 7 am – 10 pm
• Stayner – 9 am – 6 pm
• Stroud – 7 am – 9 pm
• Tottenham – 7 am – 11 pm
• Victoria Harbour – 7 am – 8 pm
• Wasaga Beach – 7 am – 10 pm

FRESHCO

• Alliston – 9 am-6 pm
• Barrie – Closed
• Collingwood – 9 am – 6 pm

LOBLAWS

• Collingwood – 8am-6pm

METRO

• Barrie – Closed
• Collingwood – Closed
• Newmarket – Yonge and Mulock – 9 am-6 pm
• Newmarket – Davis Drive – Closed
• Orillia – 9 am-6 pm

NO FRILLS

• Barrie – Blake Street – Closed
• Barrie – Wellington Street – Closed
• Bradford – 8am – 6pm 
• Innisfil – Closed
• Newmarket – Davis Drive – 8 am – 9 pm
• Newmarket – Leslie Street –
• Orillia – 8 am – 6 pm

REAL CANADIAN SUPERSTORE

• Midland – 8am-8pm
• Newmarket – 8am – 8 pm
• Wasaga Beach – 8am-8pm

SOBEYS

• Alcona – 7 am – 10 pm
• Angus – 9 am – 6 pm
• Bradford – 7 am – pm
• Collingwood – 7am – 9 pm

ZEHRS

• Alliston – Closed
• Barrie (all locations) – Closed
• Bradford – Closed
• Orillia – Closed

source: store websites

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 waste collection; landfill sites closed
• Barrie – regular waste collection; landfill site closed
• Orillia – NO collection pick up; 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