Table 5
Homicides by selected type of weapon, by census metropolitan area, 1999 to 2008

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Census metropolitan area1, 2, 3 Homicides with a knife4 Homicides with a firearm Total homicides
number percent of total homicides number percent of total homicides number
500,000 and over population
Calgary 85 40.5 52 24.8 210
Edmonton 123 40.3 88 28.9 305
Kitchener 18 39.1 8 17.4 46
Winnipeg 83 35.8 47 20.3 232
Hamilton 34 32.4 18 17.1 105
Québec 19 32.2 13 22.0 59
Montréal 189 30.7 236 38.3 616
Toronto 246 26.8 408 44.5 917
Ottawa5 27 26.0 30 28.8 104
Vancouver 126 23.4 204 37.8 539
100,000 to less than 500,000 population
Oshawa 16 64.0 4 16.0 25
Saskatoon 38 56.7 6 9.0 67
Regina 39 54.2 6 8.3 72
Trois-Rivières 7 53.8 2 15.4 13
Greater Sudbury 11 47.8 3 13.0 23
Kingston6 9 47.4 3 15.8 19
Sherbrooke 4 40.0 2 20.0 10
Victoria 19 39.6 10 20.8 48
London 21 36.8 7 12.3 57
Halifax 18 27.3 21 31.8 66
Windsor 18 31.6 8 14.0 57
Thunder Bay 5 29.4 1 5.9 17
Saguenay 3 25.0 3 25.0 12
Gatineau7 9 24.3 12 32.4 37
St. Catharines-Niagara 15 23.4 17 26.6 64
St. John's 3 23.1 3 23.1 13
Saint John 2 18.2 4 36.4 11
Abbotsford-Mission6 6 16.7 21 58.3 36
Canada 1,790 30.5 1,807 30.8 5,866
1. A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.
2.CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.
3. Barrie, Kelowna, Brantford, Moncton, Guelph and Peterborough became CMAs in 2006. However, due to the limited availability of data, these CMAs are excluded from this table.
4. Includes all piercing and cutting instruments in addition to knives, e.g. broken bottle, screwdriver, scissors.
5. Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.
6. Kingston and Abbotsford-Mission became CMAs in 2001. As such, calculations are based upon data from 2001 to 2008.
7. Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.
Note: Homicide data reflect victim counts from the Homicide Survey and represent 100% of the national volume of homicides.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.
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