List of massacres in Canada
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This is a List of Massacres in Canada; events for which one of the commonly accepted names includes the word Massacres. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers". It also states that the term is used "ies of certain massacres of history".Thomas W. Gallant definition of Massacres; deliberate slaughter of a large number of people in a violent way, especially when they cannot defend themselves.[1][2] The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Canada and its predecessors. Some events in which numerous individuals were wounded are also included.
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- For Single perpetrator events and shooting sprees, see Lists of rampage killers and Category:Spree shootings in Canada
- For School shootings, see Category:School shootings in Canada/Category:School killings in Canada
- For Indian massacres, see Indian massacres.
- For Terrorism, see Terrorism in Canada.
- For Serial killers, see List of serial killers in Canada.
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| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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| Lachine massacre | 5 August 1689 | Lachine, Quebec | 72 | part of King William's War |
| Port-la-Joye Massacre | 11 July 1746 | Port-la-Joye, Ile St. Jean (Hillsborough River (Prince Edward Island)) | 34 | part of King George's War |
| Grand Pre Massacre | 10–11 February 1747 | Grand Pre, Nova Scotia | 67 | part of King George's War |
| Dartmouth Massacre | 13 May 1751 | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia | 20 | part of Father Le Loutre's War |
| Bloody Falls Massacre | 17 July 1771 | The location now known as Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park near Kugluktuk, Nunavut | 20 | |
| Chilcotin War | 30 April 1864 | Bute Inlet, British Columbia | 19 | |
| Cypress Hills massacre | 1 June 1873 | Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan | 23 | |
| Black Donnellys massacre | 4 February 1880 | Lucan Biddulph, Ontario | 5 | |
| Frog Lake Massacre | 2 April 1885 | Frog Lake, Alberta | 9 | part of the North-West Rebellion |
| Shell Lake murders | 15 August 1967 | Shell Lake, Saskatchewan | 9 | |
| Buffalo Narrows axe slayings | 30 January 1969[3] | Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan | 7 | |
| Dale Nelson murders | 4 September 1970 | Creston, British Columbia | 8 | participated in cannibalism, necrophilia, and pedophilia |
| Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting | 28 May 1975 | Brampton, Ontario | 3 | |
| National Assembly shootings | 1984 May 8, | Quebec City, Quebec | 3 | 3 killed and 13 wounded in an attack on the Quebec National Assembly |
| Lennoxville massacre | 24 March 1985 | Lennoxville, Quebec | 5 | part of the Quebec Biker war |
| École Polytechnique massacre | 6 December 1989 | Montreal, Quebec | 15 | Perpetrator killed 14 people and injured 14, before taking his own life |
| Sydney River McDonald's murders | 7 May 1992 | Sydney, Nova Scotia | 3 | 1 disabled |
| Concordia University massacre | 24 August 1992 | Montreal, Quebec | 4 | 1 injured |
| Giant Mine bombing | 18 September 1992 | Yellowknife, Northwest Territories | 9 | 48-year-old striking gold miner set explosives inside the mine, which killed nine strikebreaking workers. |
| Mark Chahal massacre | 6 April 1996 | Vernon, B.C. | 9 | Estranged husband murders wedding party |
| Shedden massacre | 8 April 2006 | Shedden, Ontario | 8 | Gang related killing of own gang members. |
| Richardson family murders | 22 April 2006 | Medicine Hat, Alberta | 3 | 12-year-old girl and her 23-year-old boyfriend kill girl's parents and 8-year-old son. |
| Claresholm highway massacre | 15 December 2011 | Claresholm, Alberta | 4 | |
| 2014 Calgary stabbing | 15 April 2014 | Calgary, Alberta | 5 | 22-year-old man stabbed five other young people to death at a party celebrating the end of classes at the University of Calgary. |
| 2014 Moncton shootings | 4 June 2014 | Moncton, New Brunswick | 3 | 24-year-old from Moncton, shot five armed officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), killing three and severely injuring two.[4] |
| 2014 Edmonton killings | 29 December 2014 | Edmonton, Alberta | 9 | 53-year-old man shot eight of his relatives to death (including two children), before taking his own life. |
| La Loche shootings | 22 January 2016 | La Loche, Saskatchewan | 4 | An unidentified 17-year-old student allegedly shot and killed two of his cousins at their home, then went to La Loche Community School and continued firing, killing a teacher and an assistant and wounding several others. |
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References
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