FILE - Barrie's Five Points intersection is seen from above, Dec. 28, 2025. Photo—Julius Hern/Barrie360
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:
Grocery Stores
Click below to check for open locations and their hours:
Kennedy's Lakeside Grocery Barrie
Food Basics
Foodland
- Beeton
- Coldwater
- Craighurst
- Elmvale
- Haliburton
- Midland
- Minden
- Orillia
- Penetang
- Port Carling
- Stayner
- Stroud
- Tottenham
- Victoria Harbour
- Wasaga Beach
FreshCo
Loblaws
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
Sobey's
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
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