1989

14 women killed in The Montreal Massacre at École Polytechnique

On December 6, 1989, 14 women die at the hands of anti-feminist gunman Marc Lepine at École Polytechnique de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec and another ten women and four men were injured. The massacre remained the deadliest mass shooting in Canada until the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks.

Credits/Citation

Photo: In Memory of The Victims of the Montreal Polytechnique Massacre by Sergey Mkrtchyan, 6 December 2014

Sergey Mkrtchyan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons