Learn about Diwali, a festival of lights! Hindus, Sikhs and Jains worldwide celebrate Diwali for five days starting October 24. Diwali has a long history from the Indian sub-continent dating back 1400 years! Check out this book list to learn more. 

Celebrate German Heritage Month by learning about Germany and German communities. This complex, resilient nation at the heart of Europe is home to eighty-four million citizens. Kingston Frontenac is home to 1,000 German speakers, while over 300,000 people across Canada are fluent in German. 

October is Canadian Islamic History Month, an opportunity to honour and celebrate our country’s large and diverse Muslim communities. From science to business, academia to the arts, Muslim Canadians have helped shape modern-day Canada.

Le drapeau franco-ontarien a été hissé pour la première fois le 25 septembre 1975. La province a officiellement déclaré le 25 septembre comme date annuelle de la journée des Franco-Ontariens et Franco-Ontariennes 2022 en 2010, année qui a marqué le 400e anniversaire des francophones en Ontario. Célébrer avec ces livres !

Science Literacy Week celebrates the diversity of Canadian science and its culture. This year's theme is mathematics, the language of science. Explore mathematics, its modern applications and how this ancient science is the origin of all the technology we know and use today with these suggestions from KFPL staff and the Queen's University Department of Mathematics and Statistics.