This is a list of mass shooting and shooting sprees in Canada. Shootings with four or more victims are included on this list, excluding perpetrators.
Date | City | Province | Dead | Injured | Total |
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October 10, 1902 [1] | Altona | Manitoba | 3 [n 1] | 5 | 8 |
June 20, 1918 | Grande Prairie | Alberta | 6 | 0 | 6 |
October 25, 1934 [2] | Quebec City | Quebec | 6 | 2 | 8 |
June 3, 1956 | Erskine | Alberta | 7 | 0 | 7 |
December 25, 1958 [3] | Ear Falls | Ontario | 5 | 0 | 5 |
March 16, 1959 [4] | Edmonton | Alberta | 1 | 5 | 6 |
June 1959 | Stettler | Alberta | 7 | 0 | 7 |
April 20, 1965 [5] | Coquitlam | British Columbia | 8 [n 1] | 0 | 8 |
June 25, 1972 [6] [7] | Montreal | Quebec | 4 | 1 | 5 |
May 28, 1975 [8] | Brampton | Ontario | 3 [n 1] | 13 | 16 |
October 27, 1975 [9] | Ottawa | Ontario | 3 [n 1] | 5 | 8 |
September 4, 1976 [10] | Toronto | Ontario | 1 [n 1] | 5 | 6 |
March 12, 1977 [11] | Montreal | Quebec | 5 | 3 | 8 |
September 19, 1980 [12] | Vancouver/Richmond | British Columbia | 4 | 1 | 5 |
January 18, 1983 [13] | Vancouver | British Columbia | 6 | 0 | 6 |
May 8, 1984 | Quebec City | Quebec | 3 | 13 | 16 |
July 29, 1988 [14] | Calgary | Alberta | 4 | 1 | 5 |
December 6, 1989 | Montreal | Quebec | 15 [n 1] | 14 | 29 |
August 24, 1992 [15] | Montreal | Quebec | 4 | 1 | 5 |
April 5, 1996 [16] | Vernon | British Columbia | 10 [n 1] | 2 | 12 |
April 6, 1999 [17] | Ottawa | Ontario | 5 [n 1] | 2 | 7 |
The A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse opened in 2000, and is located at 7755 Hurontario Street in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
In early 2009, a series of gang-related shootings occurred due to what police describe as a gang war in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Alleged participants include the Independent Soldiers, the Sanghera Crime Family, the Buttar Crime Family, the United Nations Gang, the Red Scorpions, and the Vancouver chapters of the Hells Angels.
The Musitano crime family is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as well as Platì in Southern Italy and Buccinasco and Bareggio in Northern Italy. Founded by Angelo Musitano in Canada in the 1940s, the family was one of three centralized Mafia organizations in Hamilton, with the other two being the Luppino crime family and the Papalia crime family. Unlike the other two Hamilton families, the Musitanos did not form a strong alliance with the Buffalo crime family, staying closer to their 'Ndrangheta cell.
Events from the year 2012 in Canada.
Michael Wayne McGray is a Canadian serial killer convicted of killing seven individuals between 1985 and 1998. He claims to have killed eleven others during the same time period.
Events from the year 2014 in Canada.
Indo-Canadian organized crime is made up predominantly of young adults and teenagers of Indian ethnic, cultural and linguistic background. Collectively, these groups are among the top 5 major homegrown organized crime hierarchy across the nation in Canada coming in 3rd place, after the Asian Triads and White biker gangs. The 2004 RCMP British Columbia Annual Police Report ranked them third in terms of organization and sophistication in British Columbia, ranked behind outlaw motorcycle clubs and aforementioned Chinese criminal organizations such as the Triads drug clans.
The Moncton shootings were a string of shootings that took place on June 4, 2014, in Moncton, in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The perpetrator, Justin Bourque, a 24-year-old Moncton resident, walked around the northern area of the city and shot five officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), killing three and severely injuring two. A manhunt for Bourque was launched and continued overnight and into June 5. On June 6, Bourque was found and taken into custody, ending a manhunt that lasted over 28 hours. The shooting was both Moncton's first homicide since 2010 and the deadliest attack on the RCMP since the Mayerthorpe tragedy in 2005, which left four RCMP officers dead. Bourque intended for the shootings to trigger a rebellion against the Canadian government. He was sentenced to 75 years in prison, with no eligibility for parole until after serving 25 years.
The Quebec City mosque shooting was an attack by a single gunman on the evening of January 29, 2017, at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood of Quebec City, Canada. Six worshippers were killed and five others seriously injured after evening prayers when the gunman entered the prayer hall shortly before 8:00 pm and opened fire for about two minutes with a 9mm Glock pistol. Approximately 40 people were reported present at the time of the shooting.
A terrorist vehicle-ramming attack occurred on April 23, 2018, when a rented van was driven along Yonge Street through the North York City Centre business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The driver, 25-year-old Alek Minassian, targeted pedestrians, killing 11 and injuring 15, some critically. The incident is the deadliest vehicle-ramming attack in Canadian history.
The 2018 Toronto shooting, known locally as the Danforth shooting, was a mass shooting that occurred on Danforth Avenue in the Greektown neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the night of July 22, 2018. Faisal Hussain killed two people and wounded thirteen using a Smith & Wesson M&P .40-calibre handgun. He died by suicide after a shootout with Toronto Police Service (TPS) officers. Despite a year long investigation, authorities were unable to determine a motive for the shooting. They noted that Hussain had mental health issues and a long time obsession with violence.
The Fredericton shooting was a mass shooting that occurred in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, on the morning of 10 August 2018, in which four people, including two police officers, were killed. The shooter, Matthew Raymond, was found not criminally responsible in 2020.
The Toronto machete attack was a misogynist terrorist attack in a Toronto erotic spa on 24 February 2020.
On June 28, 2022, a shootout occurred between two gunmen and responding police officers following a robbery of a Bank of Montreal branch in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Both gunmen, later identified as twin brothers Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie, were killed by police, while six officers were injured, three of them severely.
Kenneth Law is a Canadian man who was charged with shipping sodium nitrite, a potentially lethal substance, to people intending to kill themselves. He was arrested in May 2023 on two counts of counselling or aiding suicide. He was later charged with 14 counts of first-degree murder. By September 2023, he had become a suspect in 120 suicides worldwide, including 88 in the United Kingdom alone. Law, however, is not being prosecuted outside of Ontario.