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The Tumbler Ridge school rampage will go down in Canadian history as one of the deadliest mass school shootings after the École Polytechnique massacre in 1989.
Nine victims, including high school students, were shot and killed, and 27 people were injured in Tumbler Ridge on Tuesday. The shooter was also found dead.
Mass shootings are rare in Canada, with the worst fatal rampage happening just six years ago in Nova Scotia.
In B.C., there have been only a few mass shootings, the deadliest being the Vernon massacre of 1996.
Here’s a look at some of Canada’s other most-lethal mass shootings:
Portapique, Nova Scotia
On April 18 and 19, 2020, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman committed several shootings and set fires at 16 locations in Nova Scotia, killing 22 people and injuring three. The gunman, who at one point masqueraded as a police officer, was shot and killed by the RCMP in Enfield.
This attack was the deadliest shooting rampage in Canadian history.
Ecole polytechnique, Montreal
On Dec. 6, 1989, 25-year-old Marc Lepine entered the school and separated men and women. He then killed 14 women in this misogynistic attack before killing himself. Another 10 women and four men were injured.
Wedding massacre, Vernon
On April 5, 1996, 30-year-old Mark Vijay Chahal shot and killed nine people and injured two at his former wife’s home, where one of her sisters was preparing for a wedding. There he shot his ex-wife’s father in front of the house as he washed his car. Inside the house, he went from room to room, fatally shooting his ex-wife, her mother, her four sisters, her brother and the husband of one of the sisters.
The eldest sister’s mother-in-law and daughter were injured, and two granddaughters were left unharmed. He later shot himself in a motel.
Quebec City mosque shooting
On Jan. 29, 2017, at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a man opened fire during evening prayers, killing six people and wounding five.
Twelve others were treated for minor injuries. The Quebecois terrorist, 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder
Surrey six massacre
On Oct. 19, 2007, six men were found shot dead in a 15th-floor apartment suite in the 9800-block of East Whalley Ring Road. It was one of Metro Vancouver’s deadliest gang attacks and the result of a violent war between the Red Scorpions and the UN gangs.
Four of the victims, Ryan Bartolomeo, 19, brothers Michael Lal, 26, and Cory Lal, 21, and Edward Narong, 22, were described by police as having criminal lifestyles.
Two others — Christopher Mohan, 22, and Ed Schellenberg, 55 — were described by police as bystanders who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
RCMP shooting in Mayerthorpe, Alta.
On March 3, 2005, James Roszco shot and killed four Mounties — Anthony Gordon, Leo Johnston, Brock Myrol and Peter Schiemann — who went to his home to serve a warrant to repossess property.
Roszco then killed himself.
Shooting at Concordia University, Montreal
On Aug. 24, 1992, a professor at the university, Valery Fabrikant, shot several of his colleagues. He killed four people and wounded one. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Co-worker shooting at the University of Alberta
On June 15, 2012, Travis Baumgartner shot four of his co-workers in a robbery on the university campus. Three of them died. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison with no chance of parole.
W.R. Myers High School, Taber, Alta.
On April 28, 1999, a 14-year-old Grade 9 student shot three students, killing 17-year-old Jason Lang before he was arrested.
Dawson College, Montreal
On Sept. 13, 2006, 18-year-old Anastasia De Sousa was killed and 20 others were hurt when Kimveer Gill went on a gun rampage.
Gill was killed by police.
La Loche high school shooting, Saskatchewan
On Jan. 22, 2016, Randan Dakota Fontaine shot two of his cousins dead, then killed a teacher and a teacher’s aide at the La Loche high school.
With files from Reuters