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Major Canadian shootings
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Centennial Secondary School shooting
Location: Brampton, Ontario
Death toll: 2
16-year-old gunman Michael Slobodian shoots and kills a fellow student, a teacher and injures 13 other students before committing suicide in a school hallway. -
St. Pius X High School schooting
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Death toll: 1
After raping and stabbing Kim Rabot, 17, Robert Poulin, an 18-year-old St. Pius student, opens fire on his classmates with a shotgun killing one and wounding five before turning the gun on himself. -
Sturgeon Creek High School shooting
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death toll: 1
A 17-year-old student shoots fellow student Kenneth Maitland, 16, to death, after he allegedly ridiculed the rock group KISS. He was found not guilty of first-degree murder by reason of insanity. -
Montreal Massacre at École Polytechnique
Montreal, Quebec
Death toll: 14
Known as the Montreal Massacre, it is the deadliest shooting in Canadian history. Armed with a legally obtained semi-automatic rifle and a hunting knife Marc Lépine, 25, entered an engineering classroom. He separated the men from the women and opened fire, killing fourteen women and injuring 14 others before killing himself. -
Concordia University shooting
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Death toll: 4
Dr. Valery Fabrikant, a former Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia shot and killed three colleagues before turning the gun on himself. -
OC Tranpso shooting
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Death toll: 4
Former employee Pierre LeBrun shoots six people at the St. Laurent garage, killing four, before turning the gun on himself. He had initially been fired in August 1997, but was later reinstated. He quit in 1998. An inquest discovered he had been teased about his speech impediment at work and his complaints to management had been ignored. -
W.R. Myers High School rampage
Taber, Alberta
Death toll: 1
Eight days after the deadly Columbine shooting in the U.S., in what is considered to be a copycat crime, a 14-year-old walks into his school and randomly shoots three students, killing Jason Lang and injuring another. -
RCMP ambushed on Rozko farm
Location Mayerthorpe, Alberta
Death toll: 4
James Roszco shoots four RCMP constables to death. Cpls. Peter Scheimann, Anthony Gordon, Lionide (Leo) Johnston and Brock Myrol were executing a property seizure of the farm, and grow-op, when they were gunned down. After being wounded by police fire, Rozko commits suicide. It is the worst one-day loss for the RCMP in 100 years. -
Dawson College shooting
Montreal, Quebec
Death toll: 1
Kimveer Gill, begins shooting outside one of the school entrances and makes his way into the school. One person is killed and another 19 are injured. Gill eventually commits suicide after being shot in the arm by police. -
C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute shooting
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Death toll: 1
After obtaining a judicial order to publish one of the suspect’s name and photograph in the name of public safety, two 17-year-olds are arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of 15-year-old Jordan Manners. They were later acquitted after an initial mistrial. -
Eaton Centre shooting
Toronto, Ontario
Death toll: 1
Ahmed Hassan, 24, is killed and six more are wounded after Christopher Husbands, 23, opens fire in the mall’s food court. Eight days later one of the men, Nixon Nirmalendran, 22, who was critically injured in the attack, dies from his injuries. Husbands has been formally charged with two counts of first-degree murder, and five counts of attempted murder. -
University of Alberta - HUB Mall
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Death toll: 3
Security guard trainee Travis Baumgartner, 21, opens fire on four colleagues while they’re emptying ATM machines. Three are killed, and one is critically injured. He then makes off with the cash, but is caught trying to cross the U.S. border. He has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and four counts of attempted robbery.
