List of Canadian supercentenarians

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This article lists Canadian supercentenarians (people from Canada who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The oldest verified Canadian person ever was Marie-Louise Meilleur, who died in 1998 aged 117 years, 230 days. As of 10 November 2024, the oldest living person in Canada is Hazel Skuce, born on 7 February 1912 in Manitoba, aged 112 years, 277 days. [1]

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100 oldest known Canadians

  Deceased  Living

RankNameSexBirth dateDeath dateAgeBirthplacePlace of death
or residence
1 Marie-Louise Meilleur [2]
F
29 August 188016 April 1998117 years, 230 days Quebec Ontario
2Mary Ann Rhodes [2]
F
12 August 18823 March 1998115 years, 203 daysOntarioOntario
3Julie Winnefred Bertrand [2]
F
16 September 189118 January 2007115 years, 124 daysQuebecQuebec
4Mary Josephine Ray [3]
F
17 May 18957 March 2010114 years, 294 days Prince Edward Island United States
5Cecile Klein [2]
F
15 June 190713 January 2022 [4] 114 years, 212 daysQuebecQuebec
6Phyllis Ridgway [2]
F
10 March 19074 June 2021 [5] 114 years, 86 days United Kingdom Ontario
7Ellen Gibb [2]
F
26 April 19055 June 2019 [6] 114 years, 40 days Manitoba Ontario
8 Merle Barwis [2]
F
23 December 190022 November 2014113 years, 334 daysUnited States British Columbia
9Anne Samson, [2]
aka Sister Cecile-Marie [7]
F
27 February 189129 November 2004113 years, 276 days Nova Scotia New Brunswick
10Shige Mineshiba [2]
F
18 May 19096 January 2023 [8] 113 years, 233 days Japan British Columbia
11Mabel Mah [2]
F
4 July 191030 January 2024 [9] 113 years, 210 daysBritish ColumbiaBritish Columbia
12Lillian Ross [2]
F
24 August 187920 March 1993113 years, 208 daysOntarioOntario
13Reita Fennell [2]
F
20 November 190717 April 2021 [10] 113 years, 148 days Saskatchewan Saskatchewan
14Zelda McCague [2]
F
28 March 18886 August 2001113 years, 131 daysOntarioOntario
15Margaret Fitzgerald [2]
F
16 September 189620 October 2009113 years, 34 daysNew BrunswickNew Brunswick
16 Cora Hansen [2]
F
25 March 189918 April 2012113 years, 24 daysUnited States Alberta
17Alice Sjöquist [2]
F
25 October 18787 November 1991113 years, 13 daysUnited KingdomBritish Columbia
18Fanny Martland [2]
F
19 November 18881 December 2001113 years, 12 daysUnited KingdomBritish Columbia
19Sarah Patenaude-Bruyère [2]
F
20 February 190717 February 2020 [11] 112 years, 362 daysOntarioQuebec
20Hazel Campbell [3]
F
7 December 19037 November 2016112 years, 336 daysQuebecUnited States
21 Sum Ying Fung [12]
F
27 January 18996 December 2011112 years, 313 days China [a] British Columbia
22Flora Thibodeau [2]
F
20 March 190122 January 2014112 years, 308 daysNew BrunswickNew Brunswick
23Hazel Skuce [1]
F
7 February 1912Living112 years, 277 daysManitobaManitoba
24Pearl Lutzko [2]
F
15 February 18992 November 2011 [13] 112 years, 260 days Ukraine [b] Saskatchewan
25Adéa Pellerin-Cormier [2]
F
11 September 190124 May 2014112 years, 255 daysNew BrunswickNew Brunswick
26Margaret Romans [1]
F
16 March 1912Living112 years, 239 days Latvia [c] Quebec
27Henrietta Irwin [2]
F
27 May 190615 January 2019112 years, 233 daysUnited KingdomOntario
28Gertruda Gorecka [2]
F
12 November 191125 June 2024 [14] 112 years, 226 days German Empire [d] Ontario
29Helen Doan [2]
F
18 September 191118 April 2024 [15] 112 years, 213 daysOntarioOntario
30Alexina St. Pierre-Loyer [2]
F
21 November 190722 May 2020112 years, 183 daysQuebecQuebec
31Yvonne Delorme-Martel [16]
F
22 October 19097 April 2022 [17] 112 years, 167 daysQuebecQuebec
32Mary Roberts [18]
F
5 October 190611 March 2019112 years, 157 daysUnited KingdomBritish Columbia
33Clara Mackenzie [3]
F
7 October 18855 March 1998112 years, 149 days Newfoundland [e] United States
34Fannie Greenberg [3]
F
24 May 18955 October 2007112 years, 134 daysOntarioUnited States
35Marie-Laure Nadon [2]
F
12 April 188918 August 2001112 years, 128 daysQuebecQuebec
36Mary MacIsaac [2]
F
27 December 189310 March 2006112 years, 73 daysNew BrunswickSaskatchewan
37Tilly Oslender [2]
F
24 March 19071 June 2019 [19] 112 years, 69 daysUkraine [b] Ontario
38Julia Houde [2]
F
18 September 189418 November 2006112 years, 61 daysQuebecQuebec
39Mamie Smith [2]
F
1 March 188925 April 2001112 years, 55 daysOntarioOntario
40Orma Slack [2]
F
19 February 190313 April 2015 [20] 112 years, 53 daysOntarioOntario
41Mary Ellen Swan [2]
F
24 June 189210 August 2004112 years, 47 daysUnited KingdomOntario
42Margherita Buttiri [2]
F
8 May 190823 June 2020 [21] 112 years, 46 days Croatia [f] Alberta
43Maria Mallozzi [2]
F
25 September 188726 October 1999112 years, 31 days Italy Ontario
44Emma Galode [2]
F
22 August 18829 September 1994112 years, 18 daysNewfoundland [e] Ontario
45Simonne Leduc [2]
F
31 October 191126 October 2023111 years, 360 daysQuebecQuebec
46Elizabeth Buhler [2]
F
8 February 189923 January 2011111 years, 349 daysUkraine [b] Manitoba
Marie-Blanche Portelance [2]
F
21 March 19095 March 2021QuebecQuebec
48Colombe Benoît-Leclerc [2]
F
5 February 190314 January 2015 [22] 111 years, 343 daysQuebecQuebec
49Agnes Munce [2]
F
17 January 187717 December 1988111 years, 335 daysOntarioOntario
50Hazel Schultz [1]
F
12 January 1913Living111 years, 303 daysSaskatchewanUnited States
51Arthur Nash [2]
M
7 January 18854 November 1996111 years, 302 daysUnited KingdomManitoba
52James McCoubrey [3]
M
13 September 19015 July 2013111 years, 295 daysNewfoundland [e] United States
53Molly Schmidt [3]
F
22 July 19058 May 2017111 years, 290 daysAlbertaUnited States
54Marguerite Wabano [2]
F
28 January 190413 November 2015111 years, 289 daysOntarioOntario
55Isabel Dryden [2]
F
16 October 188820 July 2000111 years, 278 daysOntarioBritish Columbia
56Foon Hay Lum [23]
F
30 July 190824 April 2020 [24] 111 years, 269 daysChina [a] Ontario
57Florence Webber [2]
F
22 July 190813 April 2020 [25] 111 years, 266 daysNova ScotiaNova Scotia
58 Reuben Sinclair [2]
M
5 December 191127 August 2023 [26] 111 years, 265 daysSaskatchewanBritish Columbia
59Dora Skeen [2]
F
29 December 191019 September 2022 [27] 111 years, 264 days Jamaica [g] Ontario
60Merle O'Hara [2]
F
20 February 19124 November 2023111 years, 257 daysJamaica [g] British Columbia
61Jemima Westcott [2]
F
10 January 191124 August 2022 [28] 111 years, 226 daysManitobaManitoba
62Marie-Louise Meunier [2]
F
15 March 188724 October 1998111 years, 223 daysQuebecQuebec
63Eva Carrier-Delisle [2]
F
29 April 190822 November 2019 [29] 111 years, 207 daysQuebecQuebec
64Herman Smith-Johannsen [30]
M
15 June 18755 January 1987111 years, 204 days Norway Quebec [h]
Emilienne Marcil-Pigeon [2]
F
29 March 191119 October 2022QuebecQuebec
66Evangeline Saulnier [2]
F
11 September 189019 March 2002111 years, 189 daysNew BrunswickNew Brunswick
67Ethel Lyman [2]
F
8 June 18809 December 1991111 years, 184 daysOntarioQuebec
68Marie Bibeault [2]
F
31 January 188229 July 1993111 years, 179 daysQuebecQuebec
69Janet Luscombe [2]
F
12 August 191025 January 2022 [31] 111 years, 166 daysNewfoundland [i] Ontario
70Jennie Sutherland [2]
F
4 October 190615 March 2018 [32] 111 years, 162 daysUnited StatesAlberta
71Rose Lavender [2]
F
29 August 18861 February 1998111 years, 156 daysUnited KingdomOntario
72Louise Gibson [3]
F
7 August 18832 January 1995111 years, 148 daysNova ScotiaUnited States
73 George Frederick Ives [2]
M
17 November 188112 April 1993111 years, 146 daysUnited KingdomBritish Columbia
74Lilian Cornell [2]
F
21 August 190411 January 2016111 years, 143 daysUnited KingdomSaskatchewan
75Isabella Hayes [2]
F
17 June 19005 November 2011111 years, 141 daysUnited KingdomOntario
76Sarah Harper [2]
F
24 August 190616 December 2017 [33] 111 years, 114 daysManitobaManitoba
77Eloise Chandler [2]
F
21 January 191012 May 2021 [34] 111 years, 111 days British Guiana [j] Ontario
78Marguerite Robertson [2]
F
13 May 190731 August 2018 [35] 111 years, 110 daysNova ScotiaBritish Columbia
79Bessie Roffey [2]
F
2 March 189717 June 2008111 years, 107 daysUnited KingdomAlberta
80Virginia Muise [3]
F
28 July 18932 November 2004111 years, 97 daysNova ScotiaUnited States
81Emily McCool [2]
F
13 December 190911 March 2021 [36] 111 years, 88 daysOntarioOntario
82Mariette Barszczewicz [2]
F
8 January 19094 April 2020 [37] 111 years, 87 days Belgium Ontario
83Gisele Chalifour [2]
F
20 June 190713 September 2018 [38] 111 years, 85 daysQuebecQuebec
84Anna Nielsen [2]
F
2 April 190419 June 2015111 years, 78 days Denmark British Columbia
85Linda Yale [2]
F
28 December 191211 March 2024 [39] 111 years, 74 daysQuebecBritish Columbia
86Louise-Anna Turcotte-Brouillette [2]
F
5 September 190512 November 2016111 years, 68 daysQuebecQuebec
87Rachel Bateman [2]
F
16 January 186518 March 1976111 years, 62 daysOntario [k] Manitoba
88Margaret Ives [2]
F
28 January 188927 March 2000111 years, 59 daysUnited KingdomManitoba
89Selma Gaetz [3]
F
12 May 19035 July 2014111 years, 54 daysAlberta [l] United States
90Jennie Fitzgerald [2]
F
5 December 189522 January 2007111 years, 48 daysNew BrunswickNew Brunswick
91Nellie Thompson [2]
F
21 October 187827 November 1989111 years, 37 daysOntarioOntario
92Clarina Hudon [3]
F
4 March 19057 April 2016111 years, 34 daysQuebecUnited States
93Grace-Lillian Schaeffner [3]
F
28 November 187826 December 1989111 years, 28 daysOntarioUnited States
Luella Sanford [2]
F
18 May 188915 June 2000Nova ScotiaNova Scotia
Lorna Best [2]
F
4 July 19031 August 2014ManitobaBritish Columbia
96Norma Pratt [3]
F
15 April 189111 May 2002111 years, 26 daysOntarioUnited States
97Eleanor McNeill [2]
F
7 March 188711 March 1998111 years, 4 daysUnited KingdomNova Scotia
98Olinda Mascarin [2]
F
4 December 190930 November 2020 [40] 110 years, 362 daysItalyOntario
99Emilie Lavoie [2]
F
10 April 18982 April 2009110 years, 357 daysNew BrunswickNew Brunswick
100Judith Pinard [2]
F
3 July 189813 June 2009110 years, 345 daysQuebecQuebec
  1. 1 2 Fung and Lum were born in Qing dynasty in Imperial China.
  2. 1 2 3 Lutzko, Oslender, and Buhler were born in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, now an independent country.
  3. Romans was born in Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire, now an independent country.
  4. Gorecka was born in Kębłowo, Province of West Prussia, German Empire, which is now part of Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland.
  5. 1 2 3 Mackenzie, Galode and McCoubrey were born in Newfoundland, then Newfoundland Colony, a colony of Britain. It is now a province of Canada.
  6. Buttiri was born in Rovigno, then in the Austrian Empire, now Rovinj, Croatia.
  7. 1 2 Skeen and O'Hara were born in Jamaica, then part of the British West Indies. Jamaica became independent in 1962.
  8. Smith-Johannsen died in Norway while on visit.
  9. Luscombe was born in Newfoundland, then the Dominion of Newfoundland, a Dominion of the British Empire. It is now a province of Canada.
  10. Chandler was born in Georgetown, which was the capital of British Guiana and today is the capital of Guyana.
  11. Ontario, at the time of Bateman's birth, was part of the British Province of Canada in British North America before the Canadian Confederation in 1867.
  12. Gaetz was born in Mayton, Alberta, which was in the District of Alberta in the Northwest Territories before the formation of the province in 1905.

Biographies

Sum Ying Fung

Sum Ying Fung (née Eng, Chinese :吴如英, 27 January 1899 – 6 December 2011), was a Chinese Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest person in Canada in 2011.

Sum Ying Eng was born in Wing On Village, Yanping, China in 1899. [41] In 1926, she married Chong Lim Fung, who had been working in Canada since 1911. Chong Lim would travel to visit Sum Ying regularly in the ensuing years and they had three children. [42] However, the Chinese Exclusion Act prevented her from joining her husband in Canada. In 1954, she emigrated to Canada under the sponsorship of her husband. [43] The couple settled in Chinatown, Vancouver that year. The Fung family moved to East Vancouver upon Chong Lim's death in 1967. [42]

In 1989, she developed a brain tumour, underwent surgery, and survived. She visited China later that year and was in Beijing during the military crackdown of Tiananmen Square protests. She and her family fled Beijing among a group of German tourists. [12]

In January 2011, Sum Ying Fung became the oldest person in Canada, after the death of Elizabeth Buhler. [44] The Queen congratulated Fung in a letter on her 112th birthday on 27 January 2011 and the Mayor of Vancouver declared that day "Fung Eng Sum Ying Day". [42] [43]

Fung died of natural causes at the claimed age of 112, at Burnaby General Hospital in British Columbia on 6 December 2011. At the time of her death she was survived by two of her three children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grand children, and 2 great-great-grand children. [12] [42]

Reuben Sinclair

Reuben "Rube" [45] Sinclair (5 December 1911 – 27 August 2023) [26] was the oldest known living man in Canada, and oldest known living veteran of World War II. [46] [47]

Sinclair was born on the outskirts of Lipton, Saskatchewan to Yitzok (né Sandler) and Fraida (née Dubrovinsky) Sinclair – Ukrainian Jews that immigrated to Canada in 1905. His two older brothers, Samuel and Sol, were born in Ukraine, while his older sister Clara and younger brother Joe were born in Canada. [45] His family's land was provided by the Jewish Colonisation Association. He worked on their farm. [45]

Sinclair joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 [48] and was stationed at North Battleford. According to his daughter, he "couldn't stand by and do nothing while people were dying in Europe". [49] He taught pilots how to take off and land during blackouts, before radar was commonplace. Once it became standard, he worked in equipping aircraft with transmitters and receivers. [48] His younger brother Joe served in the army, and after the war they moved to Richmond, British Columbia and started Sinclair Bros. Garage and Auto Wrecking. [45] [47] [49]

He married a woman named Ida and they had three children: Nadine Lipetz, Karen and Len. In 1964, they moved to California; Sinclair suffered from migraines due to the war and his wife suggested they move to California to escape the cold weather and live closer to her siblings. [45] His brother-in-law offered him a job in a furniture store in Anaheim. Ida suffered a stroke in 1994 and the Sinclairs moved back to British Columbia the same year. She died in 1996. [45] Reuben resided in Richmond.

Sinclair was vaccinated against COVID-19 in March 2021, one of the oldest people to do so. [50] Following the death of 109-year-old Tom Lumby on 19 June 2021, [51] Sinclair was believed to have become Canada's oldest veteran. [46] He became the oldest Canadian-born man upon the death of 110-year-old Arnold Hawkins on 18 September 2021. [46] [52] As of November 2021, he had six grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. [49] His family spanned five generations at the time of his death. [47]

Following the death of 111-year-old American Ezra Hill on 4 October 2022, [53] Sinclair was believed to have been the oldest World War II veteran in the world. [46]

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Cora Hansen was an American-born Canadian supercentenarian of Norwegian descent who, at the age of 113 years, 24 days, was the oldest validated living person in Canada, a title she had held following the 2011 death of Sum Ying Fung, who died at 112 years and 313 days old.

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John Alfred Tinniswood is a British supercentenarian who, at the age of 112 years, 77 days, has been the world's oldest verified living man since the death of 112-year-old Shi Ping of China on 29 June 2024.

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