List of massacres in Canada

This is a list of events in Canada and its predecessors that are commonly characterized as massacres. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary 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".


 * For single perpetrator events and shooting sprees, see Lists of rampage killers and Category:Spree shootings in Canada
 * For school shootings, see Category:School shootings in Canada and Category:School killings in Canada
 * For North American First Nations massacres, see List of Indian massacres.
 * For terrorism, see Terrorism in Canada.
 * For serial killers, see List of serial killers in Canada.