This is a list of events in
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...
and its predecessors that are commonly characterized as ''
massacres
A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians en masse by an armed group or person.
The word is a loan of a French term for "b ...
''. ''Massacre'' is defined in the ''
Oxford English Dictionary
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first editio ...
'' as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers"; it also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history".
["massacre." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. December 23, 2014.]
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:*For single perpetrator events and shooting sprees, see Lists of rampage killers and :Spree shootings in Canada
:*For school shootings, see :School shootings in Canada and :School killings in Canada
:*For North American First Nations massacres, see List of Indian massacres
An Indian massacre is any incident in which a significant number of indigenous peoples of the Americas, as a group, killed or were killed outside the confines of mutual combat in war.
Overview
"Indian massacre" is a phrase whose use and d ...
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:*For terrorism, see Terrorism in Canada
Terrorism and mass attacks in Canada includes acts of terrorism, as well as mass shootings, vehicle-ramming attacks, mass stabbings, and other such acts committed in Canada that people may associate with terroristic tactics but have not been ...
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:*For serial killers, see List of serial killers in Canada.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...
massacres
A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians en masse by an armed group or person.
The word is a loan of a French term for "b ...
Lists of disasters in Canada