List of massacres in Canada

A massacre is a specific incident which involves the deliberate slaughter of a large number of people in a violent way, especially when they cannot defend themselves. The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Canada and its predecessors. Some events in which numerous individuals were wounded were also included.

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Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Lachine massacre	August 5, 1689	Lachine, Quebec	72	part of King William's War
Port-la-Joye Massacre	July 11, 1746	Port-la-Joye, Ile St. Jean (Hillsborough River (Prince Edward Island))	34	part of King George's War
Grand Pre Massacre	February 10–11, 1747	Grand Pre, Nova Scotia	67	part of King George's War
Dartmouth Massacre	May 13, 1751	Dartmouth, Nova Scotia	20	part of Father Le Loutre's War
Bloody Falls Massacre	July 17, 1771	The location now known as Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park near Kugluktuk, Nunavut	20
Chilcotin War	April 30, 1864	Bute Inlet, British Columbia	19
Cypress Hills massacre	June 1, 1873	Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan	23
Black Donnellys massacre	February 4, 1880	Lucan Biddulph, Ontario	5
Frog Lake Massacre	April 2, 1885	Frog Lake, Alberta	9	part of the North-West Rebellion
Shell Lake murders	August 15, 1967	Shell Lake, Saskatchewan	9
Dale Nelson murders	September 4, 1970	Creston, British Columbia	8	participated in cannibalism, necrophilia, and pedophilia
Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting	May 28, 1975	Brampton, Ontario	3
National Assembly shootings	May 8, 1984	Quebec City, Quebec	3	3 killed and 13 wounded in an attack on the Quebec National Assembly
Lennoxville massacre	March 24, 1985	Lennoxville, Quebec	5	part of the Quebec Biker war
École Polytechnique massacre	December 6, 1989	Montreal, Quebec	15	Perpetrator killed 14 people and injured 14, before taking his own life
Sydney River McDonald's murders	May 7, 1992	Sydney, Nova Scotia	3	1 disabled
Concordia University massacre	August 24, 1992	Montreal, Quebec	4	1 injured
Mark Chahal massacre	April 6, 1996	Vernon, B.C.	9	Estranged husband murders wedding party.
Mayerthorpe tragedy	March 3, 2005	Mayerthorpe, Alberta	5	Perpetrator shot and killed four armed RCMP officers who were exercising a property seizure on the perpetrator's farm before killing himself.
Shedden massacre	April 8, 2006	Shedden, Ontario	8	Gang related killing of own gang members.
Dawson College shooting	September 13, 2006	Montreal, Quebec	2	Man shoots and kills 1 and injures 19, before taking own life.
Claresholm highway massacre	December 15, 2011	Claresholm, Alberta	4	Man shoots and kills ex-girlfriend and two others, wounding a fourth, before taking own life.
2014 Calgary stabbing	April 15, 2014	Calgary, Alberta	5	Five students stabbed to death at house party.
2014 Moncton shootings	June 4, 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.
2014 Edmonton killings	December 29, 2014	Edmonton, Alberta	9	52-year-old Phu Lam shot and killed his wife at a house in south Edmonton and then killed eight other relatives, including two children, and drove to a restaurant in Fort Saskatchewan that he owned, and committed suicide inside it.
La Loche shootings	January 22, 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.

See alsoEdit

• List of conflicts in Canada
• Richardson family murders