List of school shootings in Canada

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This chronological list of school shootings in Canada includes any school shootings that occurred at primary and secondary public or private schools, as well as colleges and universities, and on school buses. Excluded from this list are the following:

Contents

  1. Incidents that occurred during wars
  2. Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions
  3. Suicides or suicide attempts involving only one person

Shootings by school staff are covered. This list does not include other types of attacks, such as stabbings or bombings.

20th century

43 incidents.

DateLocationProvinceDeathsInjuriesTotalDescription
April 28, 1902 Frontenac County Ontario 10114-year-old Eric Sharp shot and killed 14-year-old Beatrice Holland at a school. He was charged with manslaughter. [1]
October 10, 1902 Altona Manitoba 3 [n 1] 58A teacher opened fire on his students at a Mennonite school, killing two and wounding five before fatally shooting himself. [2]
October 11, 1939 Proton Township Ontario 000A 25-year-old man fired a rifle into the door of a school. [3]
January 28, 1944near Moose Jaw Saskatchewan 000Someone fired a rifle into the Newberry school as a dance occurred. [4]
September 15, 1947 Longueuil Quebec 0119-year-old Robert Robinson was shot in the thigh by a caretaker at St. Joseph's School. [5]
February 1954 Toronto Ontario 022Two students were wounded when a revolver was fired in a classroom at Central Technical School. [6]
March 16, 1959 Edmonton Alberta 156A 19-year-old former student opened fire in a hallway at Ross Sheppard High School, killing a student and wounding five others. [7]
August 20, 1968 Calgary Alberta 10117-year-old Jonathon Charles Wilson killed janitor Robert Sawyer with a rifle at William Aberhart High School. [8]
November 21, 1972 Boucherville Quebec 1 [n 1] 2315-year-old Lionel Barbeau shot and wounded a teacher in the parking lot of École Polyvalente de Mortagne, then injured a classmate in a nearby wooded area before killing himself. [9]
May 28, 1975 Brampton Ontario 3 [n 1] 1316 Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting: 16-year-old Michael Slobodian killed a teacher and student at Brampton Centennial Secondary School and wounded thirteen other people before killing himself. [10]
June 27, 1975 Dauphin Manitoba 000A 14-year-old student fired a shotgun inside a restroom at McKenzie Junior High School. [11]
October 1, 1975 Montreal Quebec 2 [n 1] 02A bank robber commandeered a school bus and shot and killed a 6-year-old student before being killed by police as he exited the bus. [12]
October 27, 1975 Ottawa Ontario 3 [n 1] 58 St. Pius X High School shooting: After stabbing a neighbor to death at his home, 18-year-old Robert Poulin shot six other students of St. Pius X High School, killing one, before killing himself. [10]
December 7, 1977 Hudson Bay Saskatchewan 066A 15-year-old fired a rifle at a passing school bus, wounding the driver and injuring five students with metal fragments. [13]
October 19, 1978 Winnipeg Manitoba 101A student shot and killed another student, Ken Maitland, at Sturgeon Creek Collegiate. [10]
October 15, 1982 Vaughan Ontario 022An 18-year-old student shouted at two schoolmates outside Woodbridge High School, then wounded them both with a shotgun. The shooting was motivated by a love triangle. [14]
December 21, 1982 Cedar British Columbia 000Multiple shots were fired into Woodbank Elementary School as the school custodian was inside. [15]
March 28, 1983 Toronto Ontario 000A 33-year-old Metropolitan Toronto Police Force officer fired a shot at another officer inside Charles O. Bick College. [16]
March 25, 1986 Etobicoke Ontario 01155-year-old Frank Kieczor, a Richview Collegiate Institute teacher, was shot by a 16-year-old student in a classroom. [17]
January 29, 1987 Metcalfe Ontario 000A 15-year-old student at Osgoode Township High School fired a revolver several times in an area reserved for smoking outside the school. [18]
November 16, 1987 Estevan Saskatchewan 000A student opened fire with a rifle at Estevan Junior High School before surrendering to police. No one was shot. [19]
December 7, 1987 Oakville Ontario 000A .22-calibre bullet struck a window at White Oaks Secondary School, nearly hitting a teacher. An 18-year-old suspect was arrested. [20]
March 8, 1989 Lévis Quebec 000Two rifle rounds struck a school bus carrying 50 students. [21]
October 10, 1989 Toronto Ontario 011A 29-year-old adult education student was shot in the shoulder and wounded in a restroom at Downsview Secondary School. A 27-year-old man was arrested. [22]
October 31, 1989 Toronto Ontario 000A gunman fired a shot at Weston Collegiate Institute principal Larry Rogers as Rogers chased him and his accomplices off school property. [23]
December 6, 1989 Montreal Quebec 15 [n 1] 1429 École Polytechnique massacre: 25-year-old Marc Lépine targeted female students as he opened fire at École Polytechnique de Montréal, killing fourteen students and wounding fourteen other people before killing himself. [10]
February 26, 1990 Burlington Ontario 033A 17-year-old student opened fire inside a hallway at General Brock High School, wounding his ex-girlfriend, her new boyfriend, and a bystander. The shooter fled, but was arrested soon after. [24]
January 15, 1991 Trochu Alberta 000A 14-year-old fired a handgun in the hallways and gymnasium of Trochu Valley School before being arrested. No one was shot. [25]
January 15, 1991 Churchill Manitoba 000A 15-year-old fired a shotgun in a school hallway, hitting no one. [25]
June 20, 1991 Richmond British Columbia 11240-year-old Roland Paquette was killed and another man was wounded when gang-related assailants fired shots at workers constructing an addition to James Thompson Elementary School as the school was in session. [26]
September 16, 1991 Toronto Ontario 000A teenager fired multiple shots outside Harbord Collegiate Institute during a fight. [27]
October 8, 1991 Nanaimo British Columbia 000A teenager fired a gun in the parking lot of Woodlands Secondary School, hitting no one. The shooter was arrested at another school. [28]
August 24, 1992 Montreal Quebec 415 Concordia University massacre: Professor Valery Fabrikant killed four colleagues and wounded another at Concordia University. [10]
April 2, 1993 Scarborough Ontario 000A gunman fired a handgun twice in the foyer of W. A. Porter Collegiate Institute. [29]
June 3, 1993 Vancouver British Columbia 011A shooter fired from a car at students outside Gladstone Secondary School, wounding a male student. [30]
September 3, 1993 Calgary Alberta 000A shot was fired at Forest Lawn High School during an altercation. [31]
October 20, 1994 Toronto Ontario 02227-year-old student Ta Phu Cuong opened fire with a rifle at Brockton High School, wounding two faculty members. He was arrested nearby. [32]
January 24, 1997 Langley British Columbia 022Two Langley Secondary School students were wounded in the back of the building in a drive-by shooting. [33]
March 13, 1997 Calgary Alberta 000An 18-year-old man fired a gun twice inside Viscount Bennett High School. [34]
May 8, 1998 Toronto Ontario 022A man fired shots outside Thorncliffe Park Elementary School, wounding two people. [35]
June 23, 1998 Windsor Ontario 01 [n 1] 1A man fired shots at his home before going towards a schoolyard, where he shot and killed a police dog before police officers non-fatally shot him and took him into custody. [36]
February 8, 1999 Montreal Quebec 000A handgun was fired into a school door at Woodland Elementary School in Verdun. [37]
April 28, 1999 Taber Alberta 112 W. R. Myers High School shooting: A 14-year-old former student shot and killed a 17-year-old student and wounded another person at W. R. Myers High School. [10]

21st century

32 incidents.

DateLocationProvinceDeathsInjuriesTotalDescription
February 5, 2000 Toronto Ontario 011During a talent show in a school gymnasium, shots were fired, wounding a 20-year-old man. [38]
February 10, 2000 Toronto Ontario 033Three Emery Collegiate Institute students were shot in the school's parking lot at dismissal. [39]
January 2002 Ajax Ontario 000A 16-year-old fired a shot in the lobby of Pickering High School. [40]
March 18, 2002 North West River Newfoundland and Labrador 000A student fired a rifle in a classroom at Lake Melville School during show-and-tell, hitting no one. [41]
April 22, 2003 Florenceville-Bristol New Brunswick 000A student was arrested after he fired multiple shots in the schoolyard of Carleton North High School. [42]
December 10, 2004 Brampton Ontario 10162-year-old Erhun Candir killed his wife, 47-year-old teacher Aysegul Candir, in the parking lot of Bramalea Secondary School. [10]
February 25, 2005 Salluit Quebec 1 [n 1] 12An 18-year-old man shot and wounded a teacher at an adult education centre before killing himself. [43]
November 9, 2005 Brampton Ontario 011An 18-year-old man was shot in his car in the parking lot of Chinguacousy Secondary School. [44]
June 5, 2006 Williams Lake British Columbia 000A student fired a gun on a school bus as he was being driven to school. The student and his friends convinced other occupants the gunshot was harmless and went to school still possessing the firearm. The school's vice-principal subdued the teenager at school and confiscated the firearm. [45]
September 13, 2006 Montreal Quebec 2 [n 1] 1921 Dawson College shooting: A non-student parked his car outside Dawson College and opened fire outside and inside the school, killing a woman and wounding nineteen other people. The shooter committed suicide after being shot by a police officer. [10]
October 4, 2006 Toronto Ontario 022Two men were wounded in the parking lot of Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute. [46]
April 5, 2007 Toronto Ontario 101An 18-year-old man was shot and killed in the driveway of Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute. [47]
May 23, 2007 Toronto Ontario 10115-year-old Jordan Manners was shot and killed by two 17-year-olds at C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute. [10]
June 11, 2007 Vaughan Ontario 000A jewellery store robber exchanged gunfire with police in a schoolyard seconds after a class ran inside Leo Baeck Day School. The shooter was eventually apprehended, with no casualties sustained. [48]
September 16, 2008 Toronto Ontario 011A 16-year-old was shot during a drug deal gone wrong outside Bendale Business and Technical Institute. [49]
March 24, 2011 Toronto Ontario 011A person was wounded during an altercation when a teenager shot into a car outside Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute. [50]
June 15, 2012 Edmonton Alberta 314 University of Alberta shooting: Security guard Travis Baumgartner shot four other employees in a robbery on the University of Alberta campus, killing three of them. He was arrested while attempting to escape to the U.S. [10]
April 5, 2013 Gatineau Quebec 2 [n 1] 02Robert Charron entered the daycare of the Les Racines de vie Montessori and shot and killed worker Neil Gaillou before killing himself. [10]
January 22, 2016 La Loche Saskatchewan 5611 La Loche shootings: 17-year-old Randan Fontaine shot and killed two of his cousins at a home before going to La Loche Community School and killing three people and wounding six others. [51]
September 12, 2018 Toronto Ontario 011During a fight at the Scarborough Centre, a school for adult learners, a man pulled out a gun and shot at another man, grazing him, before fleeing. [52]
February 5, 2020 Toronto Ontario 000A gunman fired into an occupied vehicle in the parking lot of Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute, striking nobody. [53]
February 14, 2022 Toronto Ontario 10118-year-old Jahiem Robinson was shot and killed, and another 18-year-old was assaulted at David and Mary Thomson College Institute. A 14-year-old was arrested. [54]
April 8, 2022 Edmonton Alberta 101An 18-year-old male student of an unnamed high school was stabbed, beaten, and repeatedly shot with a high-powered pellet gun after classes were dismissed for the day. He had been walking off the school property, and was attacked by at least four young males in what is known as swarming; four individual males were charged and sentenced to terms ranging from 18 months to at least four years for manslaughter in connection with the student's death. [55]
October 31, 2022 Toronto Ontario 11218-year-old Jefferson Peter Shardeley Guerrier was killed and a 15-year-old wounded in a shooting outside Woburn Collegiate Institute. [56]
May 12, 2022 Toronto Ontario 011A Grade 11 student was shot in the south parking lot of Victoria Park Collegiate Institute [57]
February 16, 2023 Toronto Ontario 011A 15-year-old boy was critically wounded by gunfire in the parking lot of Weston Collegiate Institute. Two 17-year-olds were arrested. [58]
November 8, 2023 Montreal Quebec 000The Yeshiva Godela High School, a Jewish school, had bullets fired upon it twice on two separate days spanning four days. In the first attack, a bullet or possibly multiple bullets struck the entrance of the school and a classroom during late night or early morning hours when no one was there, which left at least two shell casings being found around the school property. No one was injured by the bullets or glass/debris. [59]
November 12, 2023 Montreal Quebec 000The Yeshiva Godela High School, a Jewish school, had a second attack in one week, in which at 5 a.m., on a Sunday, in which the campus hosts prayers and classes on Sundays, bullets struck the entrance of the school. At least one shell casing was found on school grounds. Like the first attack, no one was injured by the bullets or glass/debris. [60]
June 2, 2024 Toronto Ontario 235Two gunmen exited a truck and shot into a group of people outside North Albion Collegiate Institute, killing two men and wounding three other people. [61]
September 9, 2024 Toronto Ontario 011A 16-year-old boy was grazed by gunfire in the parking lot of Agincourt Collegiate Institute. [62]
December 10, 2024 Toronto Ontario 000A gun was discharged in a stairwell at Silverthorn Collegiate Institute. [63]
July 19, 2025 North Preston Nova Scotia 000A vehicle was shot at as it was driving on a road located right next to an elementary school and a cemetery, on 7 p.m. on a Saturday with no children nor adults known to be present on school grounds or having been outside within the vicinity of the crime scene. No one was injured, and no arrests were made as of September 2025. The community of North Preston has a large population of people living in poverty, and has a gang and crime issue. [64]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Including the perpetrator or suspect

References

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