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Firearms and violent crime in Canada, 2016
Table 2
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by type of weapon present and by province and territory, 2016

Table 2
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by type of weapon present and by province and territory, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Firearm, Other weapon, No weapon, Unknown and Total, calculated using number, percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory	Firearm			Other weapon^{Table 2 Note 1}			No weapon^{Table 2 Note 2}			Unknown		Total
Province or territory	number	percent	rate^{Table 2 Note 3}	number	percent	rate^{Table 2 Note 3}	number	percent	rate^{Table 2 Note 3}	number	percent	number	rate^{Table 2 Note 3}
Newfoundland and Labrador	66	1.2	12.9	856	16.1	167	4,411	82.7	862	96	Note ...: not applicable	5,429	1,061
Prince Edward Island	15	1.5	10.1	104	10.1	70	910	88.4	612	42	Note ...: not applicable	1,071	720
Nova Scotia	117	1.4	12.3	1,167	13.9	123	7,134	84.7	751	195	Note ...: not applicable	8,613	907
New Brunswick	166	2.1	21.9	1,075	13.7	142	6,617	84.2	874	109	Note ...: not applicable	7,967	1,052
Ontario	3,052	3.1	21.9	17,348	17.5	124	78,623	79.4	564	1,852	Note ...: not applicable	100,875	724
Manitoba	625	2.8	48.5	5,363	23.7	416	16,605	73.5	1,287	856	Note ...: not applicable	23,449	1,818
Saskatchewan	635	3.2	55.9	4,464	22.6	393	14,671	74.2	1,291	926	Note ...: not applicable	20,696	1,821
Alberta	1,482	3.2	34.8	9,159	20.1	215	35,037	76.7	822	1,821	Note ...: not applicable	47,499	1,114
British Columbia	864	2.0	18.2	8,191	19.4	172	33,141	78.5	697	699	Note ...: not applicable	42,895	903
Yukon	19	1.6	50.7	176	14.4	469	1,027	84.0	2,739	88	Note ...: not applicable	1,310	3,494
Northwest Territories	30	1.0	67.5	366	12.7	823	2,482	86.2	5,581	179	Note ...: not applicable	3,057	6,874
Nunavut	33	1.3	89.0	335	12.9	903	2,222	85.8	5,992	104	Note ...: not applicable	2,694	7,265
Canada	7,104	2.7	25.5	48,604	18.8	174	202,880	78.5	728	6,967	Note ...: not applicable	265,555	953
... not applicable Note 1 Includes all other weapons other than firearms, such as knives, clubs or blunt instruments, poison, motor vehicles, ligature, or fire. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes physical force and threats. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Return to note 3 referrer Note: Excludes Quebec due to a large proportion of cases where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Percentage calculations exclude cases where the weapon is unknown. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2018-06-28