List of mass shootings in Canada

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This is a list of mass shootings and shooting sprees in Canada. Shootings with four or more victims are included on this list, excluding perpetrators.

Contents

20th century

DateCityProvinceDeadInjuredTotal
October 10, 1902 [1] Altona Manitoba 3 [n 1] 58
June 20, 1918 Grande Prairie Alberta 606
October 25, 1934 [2] Quebec City Quebec 628
June 3, 1956 ErskineAlberta707
December 25, 1958 [3] Ear Falls Ontario 505
March 16, 1959 [4] Edmonton Alberta 156
June 1959 Stettler Alberta 707
April 20, 1965 [5] Coquitlam British Columbia 8 [n 1] 08
June 25, 1972 [6] [7] Montreal Quebec 415
May 28, 1975 [8] Brampton Ontario 3 [n 1] 1316
October 27, 1975 [9] Ottawa Ontario 3 [n 1] 58
September 4, 1976 [10] Toronto Ontario 1 [n 1] 56
March 12, 1977 [11] Montreal Quebec 538
September 19, 1980 [12] Vancouver/Richmond British Columbia 415
January 18, 1983 [13] Vancouver British Columbia 606
May 8, 1984 Quebec City Quebec 31316
July 29, 1988 [14] Calgary Alberta 415
December 6, 1989 Montreal Quebec 15 [n 1] 1429
August 24, 1992 [15] Montreal Quebec 415
April 5, 1996 [16] Vernon British Columbia 10 [n 1] 212
April 6, 1999 [17] Ottawa Ontario 5 [n 1] 27

21st century

DateCityProvinceDeadInjuredTotal
September 18–20, 2001 [18] Montreal Quebec 7 [n 1] 07
March 11, 2002 [19] Quatsino British Columbia 6 [n 2] 06
March 3, 2005 [20] near Mayerthorpe Alberta 5 [n 1] 05
September 13, 2006 [21] Montreal Quebec 2 [n 1] 1921
October 19, 2007 [22] Surrey British Columbia 606
July 26, 2009 [23] Smith Alberta 4 [n 1] 04
August 25, 2010 [24] Toronto Ontario 044
December 12, 2010 [25] Vancouver British Columbia 01010
August 14, 2011 [26] Kelowna British Columbia 145
December 15, 2011 [27] Claresholm Alberta 4 [n 1] 15
June 2, 2012 [28] Toronto Ontario 257
June 15, 2012 [29] Edmonton Alberta 314
July 1, 2012 [30] Calgary Alberta 134
July 16, 2012 Toronto Ontario 224 [n 3] 26
February 21, 2013 [31] Whitby Ontario 055
September 22, 2013 [32] TorontoOntario055
April 30, 2014 [33] Nanaimo British Columbia 224
May 30, 2014 [34] Toronto Ontario 044
June 4–6, 2014 [35] Moncton New Brunswick 325
October 22, 2014 [36] Ottawa Ontario 2 [n 1] 35
December 29, 2014 [37] Edmonton Alberta 9 [n 1] 09
January 1, 2015 [38] Calgary Alberta 167
April 16, 2015 [39] Toronto Ontario 055
August 4, 2015 [40] Toronto Ontario 235
January 22, 2016 [41] La Loche Saskatchewan 5611
January 31, 2016 [42] Toronto Ontario 235
April 16, 2016 [43] Hamilton Ontario 4 [n 1] 04
April 23, 2016 [44] Mississauga Ontario 134
January 3, 2017 [45] Guysborough County Nova Scotia 4 [n 1] 04
January 29, 2017 [46] Quebec City Quebec 6511
July 10, 2017 [47] Calgary Alberta 404
July 23, 2017 [48] Toronto Ontario 055
July 31, 2017 [49] Toronto Ontario 145
September 3, 2017 [50] Thorold Ontario 055
January 19, 2018 [51] Toronto Ontario 224
February 25, 2018 [52] Ryerson Township Ontario 4 [n 1] 04
June 2, 2018 [53] Pickering Ontario 044
July 1, 2018 [54] Toronto Ontario 134
July 22, 2018 [55] Toronto Ontario 3 [n 1] 1316
August 8, 2018 [56] Hamilton Ontario 134
August 10, 2018 [57] Fredericton New Brunswick 41 [n 1] 5
April 15, 2019 [58] Penticton British Columbia 404
August 24, 2019 [59] Toronto Ontario 044
April 18–19, 2020 [60] Multiple Nova Scotia 23 [n 1] 326
July 10, 2020 [61] Toronto Ontario 145
May 29, 2021 [62] Mississauga Ontario 145
August 8, 2021 [42] Toronto Ontario 224
June 28, 2022 [63] Saanich British Columbia 2 [n 3] 68
July 25, 2022 [64] Langley British Columbia 3 [n 1] 25
September 12, 2022 [65] Mississauga and Milton Ontario 3 [n 1] 36
December 18, 2022 [66] Vaughan Ontario 6 [n 1] 17
June 10, 2023 [67] Ottawa Ontario 044
July 1, 2023 [68] Mississauga Ontario 044
September 2, 2023 [69] Ottawa Ontario 268
October 23, 2023 [70] Sault Ste. Marie Ontario 5 [n 1] 16
November 26, 2023 [71] [72] Winnipeg Manitoba 415

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Including the perpetrator
  2. ↑ 4 by gunfire
  3. 1 2 Including the two perpetrators

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