Table 3A
Homicides, by firearm-related status and province or territory, 2019 and 2020


Table 3a
Homicides, by firearm-related status and province or territory, 2019 and 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Homicides. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Firearm-related, 2020 and 2019, calculated using number, percent, rate and number of total homicides units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Firearm-relatedTable 3a Note 1
2020 2019Note r: revised
number percentTable 3a Note 2 rateTable 3a Note 3 number of total homicides number percentTable 3a Note 2 rateTable 3a Note 3 number of total homicides
Newfoundland and Labrador 1 25.0 0.19 4 0 0.0 0.00 5
Prince Edward Island 0 0.0 0.00 1 1 50.0 0.64 2
Nova Scotia 24 70.6 2.45 35 2 40.0 0.21 6
New Brunswick 7 50.0 0.90 14 11 68.8 1.42 17
Quebec 23 27.1 0.27 87 27 36.0 0.32 77
Ontario 94 41.2 0.64 234 100 41.3 0.69 253
Manitoba 13 22.0 0.94 62 20 29.0 1.46 72
Saskatchewan 18 34.6 1.53 60 19 37.3 1.62 55
Alberta 58 44.3 1.31 139 37 41.6 0.85 100
British Columbia 38 45.8 0.74 98 44 53.0 0.86 90
Yukon 0 Note ...: not applicable 0.00 0 0 0.0 0.00 1
Northwest Territories 0 0.0 0.00 6 0 0.0 0.00 2
Nunavut 1 33.3 2.54 3 1 16.7 2.59 7
Canada 277 39.6 0.73 743 262 40.6 0.70 687
... not applicable
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
r revised
Note 1

Includes fully automatic firearms, handguns (semi-automatic guns and revolvers), rifles, shotguns and sawed-off rifles/sawed-off shotguns and other firearm-like weapons (e.g., zip guns, flare guns, nail guns, pellet rifles/pistols, etc.).

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Note 2

Excludes homicides where the weapon used to kill the victim was reported as unknown.

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Note 3

Rates are calculated per 100,000 population using revised July 1st, 2020 population estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.

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Note: There may be a small number of homicides included in a given year's total that occurred in previous years. Homicides are counted according to the year in which they are reported to Statistics Canada.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Homicide Survey.
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