This article lists Canadian supercentenarians (people from Canada who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The oldest verified Canadian person ever was Marie-Louise Meilleur, who died in 1998 aged 117 years, 230 days. As of, the oldest living person in Canada is Hazel Skuce, born on 7 February 1912 in Manitoba, aged .
Rank | Name | Sex | data-sort-type=date | Birth date | data-sort-type=date | Death date | Age | Birthplace | nowrap | Place of death or residence |
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1 | data-sort-value="Meilleur" | Marie-Louise Meilleur | 29 August 1880 | 16 April 1998 | 117 years, 230 days | Quebec | Ontario | |||
2 | data-sort-value="Rhodes" | Mary Ann Rhodes | 12 August 1882 | 3 March 1998 | 115 years, 203 days | Ontario | Ontario | |||
3 | data-sort-value="Bertrand" | Julie Winnefred Bertrand | 16 September 1891 | 18 January 2007 | 115 years, 124 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
4 | data-sort-value="Ray" | Mary Josephine Ray | 17 May 1895 | 7 March 2010 | 114 years, 294 days | Prince Edward Island | United States | |||
5 | data-sort-value="Klein" | Cecile Klein | 15 June 1907 | 13 January 2022[1] | 114 years, 212 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
6 | data-sort-value="Ridgway" | Phyllis Ridgway | 10 March 1907 | 4 June 2021[2] | 114 years, 86 days | United Kingdom | Ontario | |||
7 | data-sort-value="Gibb" | Ellen Gibb | 26 April 1905 | 5 June 2019[3] | 114 years, 40 days | Manitoba | Ontario | |||
8 | data-sort-value="Barwis" | Merle Barwis | 23 December 1900 | 22 November 2014 | 113 years, 334 days | United States | British Columbia | |||
9 | data-sort-value="Samson" | Anne Samson, aka Sister Cecile-Marie[4] | 27 February 1891 | 29 November 2004 | 113 years, 276 days | Nova Scotia | New Brunswick | |||
10 | data-sort-value="Mineshiba" | Shige Mineshiba[5] | 18 May 1909 | 6 January 2023[6] | 113 years, 233 days | Japan | British Columbia | |||
11 | data-sort-value="Mah" | Mabel Mah | 4 July 1910 | 30 January 2024[7] | 113 years, 210 days | British Columbia | British Columbia | |||
12 | data-sort-value="Ross" | Lillian Ross | 24 August 1879 | 20 March 1993 | 113 years, 208 days | Ontario | Ontario | |||
13 | data-sort-value="Fennell" | Reita Fennell | 20 November 1907 | 17 April 2021[8] | 113 years, 148 days | Saskatchewan | Saskatchewan | |||
14 | data-sort-value="McCague" | Zelda McCague | 28 March 1888 | 6 August 2001 | 113 years, 131 days | Ontario | Ontario | |||
15 | data-sort-value="Fitzgerald, Margaret" | Margaret Fitzgerald | 16 September 1896 | 20 October 2009 | 113 years, 34 days | New Brunswick | New Brunswick | |||
16 | data-sort-value="Hansen" | Cora Hansen | 25 March 1899 | 18 April 2012 | 113 years, 24 days | United States | Alberta | |||
17 | data-sort-value="Sjöquist" | Alice Sjöquist | 25 October 1878 | 7 November 1991 | 113 years, 13 days | United Kingdom | British Columbia | |||
18 | data-sort-value="Martland" | Fanny Martland | 19 November 1888 | 1 December 2001 | 113 years, 12 days | United Kingdom | British Columbia | |||
19 | data-sort-value="Patenaude-Bruyère" | Sarah Patenaude-Bruyère | 20 February 1907 | 17 February 2020[9] | 112 years, 362 days | Ontario | Quebec | |||
20 | data-sort-value="Campbell" | Hazel Campbell | 7 December 1903 | 7 November 2016 | 112 years, 336 days | Quebec | United States | |||
21 | data-sort-value="Fung" | Sum Ying Fung[10] | 27 January 1899 | 6 December 2011 | 112 years, 313 days | China | British Columbia | |||
22 | data-sort-value="Thibodeau" | Flora Thibodeau | 20 March 1901 | 22 January 2014 | 112 years, 308 days | New Brunswick | New Brunswick | |||
23 | data-sort-value="Lutzko" | Pearl Lutzko[11] | 15 February 1899 | 2 November 2011 | 112 years, 260 days | Ukraine | Saskatchewan | |||
24 | data-sort-value="Pellerin-Cormier" | Adéa Pellerin-Cormier | 11 September 1901 | 24 May 2014 | 112 years, 255 days | New Brunswick | New Brunswick | |||
25 | data-sort-value="Irwin" | Henrietta Irwin | 27 May 1906 | 15 January 2019 | 112 years, 233 days | United Kingdom | Ontario | |||
26 | data-sort-value="Gorecka" | Gertruda Gorecka[12] | 12 November 1911 | 25 June 2024[13] | 112 years, 226 days | German Empire | Ontario | |||
27 | data-sort-value="Doan" | Helen Doan | 18 September 1911 | 18 April 2024[14] | 112 years, 213 days | Ontario | Ontario | |||
28 | data-sort-value="Skuce" | Hazel Skuce | 7 February 1912 | Living | Manitoba | Manitoba | ||||
29 | data-sort-value="St. Pierre-Loyer" | Alexina St. Pierre-Loyer | 21 November 1907 | 22 May 2020 | 112 years, 183 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
30 | data-sort-value="Delorme-Martel" | Yvonne Delorme-Martel[15] | 22 October 1909 | 7 April 2022[16] | 112 years, 167 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
31 | data-sort-value="Romans" | Margaret Romans[17] | 16 March 1912 | Living | Latvia | Quebec | ||||
32 | data-sort-value="Roberts" | Mary Roberts[18] | 5 October 1906 | 11 March 2019 | 112 years, 157 days | United Kingdom | British Columbia | |||
33 | data-sort-value="Mackenzie" | Clara Mackenzie | 7 October 1885 | 5 March 1998 | 112 years, 149 days | Newfoundland | United States | |||
34 | data-sort-value="Greenberg" | Fannie Greenberg | 24 May 1895 | 5 October 2007 | 112 years, 134 days | Ontario | United States | |||
35 | data-sort-value="Nadon" | Marie-Laure Nadon | 12 April 1889 | 18 August 2001 | 112 years, 128 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
36 | data-sort-value="MacIsaac" | Mary MacIsaac | 27 December 1893 | 10 March 2006 | 112 years, 73 days | New Brunswick | Saskatchewan | |||
37 | data-sort-value="Oslender" | Tilly Oslender[19] [20] | 24 March 1907 | 1 June 2019[21] | 112 years, 69 days | Ukraine | Ontario | |||
38 | data-sort-value="Houde" | Julia Houde | 18 September 1894 | 18 November 2006 | 112 years, 61 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
39 | data-sort-value="Smith" | Mamie Smith | 1 March 1889 | 25 April 2001 | 112 years, 55 days | Ontario | Ontario | |||
40 | data-sort-value="Slack" | Orma Slack | 19 February 1903 | 13 April 2015[22] | 112 years, 53 days | Ontario | Ontario | |||
41 | data-sort-value="Swan" | Mary Ellen Swan | 24 June 1892 | 10 August 2004 | 112 years, 47 days | United Kingdom | Ontario | |||
42 | data-sort-value="Buttiri" | Margherita Buttiri[23] | 8 May 1908 | 23 June 2020[24] | 112 years, 46 days | Croatia | Alberta | |||
43 | data-sort-value="Mallozzi" | Maria Mallozzi | 25 September 1887 | 26 October 1999 | 112 years, 31 days | Italy | Ontario | |||
44 | data-sort-value="Galode" | Emma Galode | 22 August 1882 | 9 September 1994 | 112 years, 18 days | Newfoundland | Ontario | |||
45 | data-sort-value="Leduc" | Simonne Leduc[25] | 31 October 1911 | 26 October 2023 | 111 years, 360 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
46 | data-sort-value="Buhler" | Elizabeth Buhler[26] | 8 February 1899 | 23 January 2011 | 111 years, 349 days | Ukraine | Manitoba | |||
data-sort-value="Portelance" | Marie-Blanche Portelance[27] | 21 March 1909 | 5 March 2021 | Quebec | Quebec | |||||
48 | data-sort-value="Benoît-Leclerc" | Colombe Benoît-Leclerc | 5 February 1903 | 14 January 2015[28] | 111 years, 343 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
49 | data-sort-value="Munce" | Agnes Munce | 17 January 1877 | 17 December 1988 | 111 years, 335 days | Ontario | Ontario | |||
50 | data-sort-value="Nash" | Arthur Nash[29] | 7 January 1885 | 4 November 1996 | 111 years, 302 days | United Kingdom | Manitoba | |||
51 | data-sort-value="McCoubrey" | James McCoubrey | 13 September 1901 | 5 July 2013 | 111 years, 295 days | Newfoundland | United States | |||
52 | data-sort-value="Schmidt" | Molly Schmidt[30] | 22 July 1905 | 8 May 2017 | 111 years, 290 days | Alberta | United States | |||
53 | data-sort-value="Wabano" | Marguerite Wabano[31] | 28 January 1904 | 13 November 2015 | 111 years, 289 days | Ontario | Ontario | |||
54 | data-sort-value="Dryden" | Isabel Dryden | 16 October 1888 | 20 July 2000 | 111 years, 278 days | Ontario | British Columbia | |||
55 | data-sort-value="Lum" | Foon Hay Lum[32] | 30 July 1908 | 24 April 2020[33] | 111 years, 269 days | China | Ontario | |||
56 | data-sort-value="Webber" | Florence Webber[34] | 22 July 1908 | 13 April 2020[35] | 111 years, 266 days | Nova Scotia | Nova Scotia | |||
57 | data-sort-value="Sinclair" | Reuben Sinclair | 5 December 1911 | 27 August 2023[36] | 111 years, 265 days | Saskatchewan | British Columbia | |||
58 | data-sort-value="Skeen" | Dora Skeen[37] [38] | 29 December 1910 | 19 September 2022[39] | 19 September 2022 | Jamaica | Ontario | |||
59 | data-sort-value="O'Hara" | Merle O'Hara | 20 February 1912 | 4 November 2023 | 111 years, 257 days | Jamaica | British Columbia | |||
60 | data-sort-value="Westcott" | Jemima Westcott[40] | 10 January 1911 | 24 August 2022[41] | 111 years, 226 days | Manitoba | Manitoba | |||
61 | data-sort-value="Meunier" | Marie-Louise Meunier | 15 March 1887 | 24 October 1998 | 111 years, 223 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
62 | data-sort-value="Schultz" | Hazel Schultz | 12 January 1913 | Living | Saskatchewan | United States | ||||
63 | data-sort-value="Carrier-Delisle" | Eva Carrier-Delisle[42] | 29 April 1908 | 22 November 2019[43] | 111 years, 207 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
64 | data-sort-value="Smith-Johannsen" | Herman Smith-Johannsen | 15 June 1875 | 5 January 1987 | 111 years, 204 days | Norway | Quebec | |||
data-sort-value="Marcil-Pigeon" | Emilienne Marcil-Pigeon[44] | 29 March 1911 | 19 October 2022 | Quebec | Quebec | |||||
66 | data-sort-value="Saulnier" | Evangeline Saulnier | 11 September 1890 | 19 March 2002 | 111 years, 189 day | New Brunswick | New Brunswick | |||
67 | data-sort-value="Lyman" | Ethel Lyman | 8 June 1880 | 9 December 1991 | 111 years, 184 days | Ontario | Quebec | |||
68 | data-sort-value="Bibeault" | Marie Bibeault | 31 January 1882 | 29 July 1993 | 111 years, 179 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
69 | data-sort-value="Luscombe" | Janet Luscombe[45] | 12 August 1910 | 25 January 2022[46] | 111 years, 166 days | Newfoundland | Ontario | |||
70 | data-sort-value="Sutherland" | Jennie Sutherland[47] | 4 October 1906 | 15 March 2018[48] | 111 years, 162 days | United States | Alberta | |||
71 | data-sort-value="Lavender" | Rose Lavender[49] | 29 August 1886 | 1 February 1998 | 111 years, 156 days | United Kingdom | Ontario | |||
72 | data-sort-value="Gibson" | Louise Gibson | 7 August 1883 | 2 January 1995 | 111 years, 148 days | Nova Scotia | United States | |||
73 | data-sort-value="Ives, George" | George Frederick Ives | 17 November 1881 | 12 April 1993 | 111 years, 146 days | United Kingdom | British Columbia | |||
74 | data-sort-value="Cornell" | Lilian Cornell | 21 August 1904 | 11 January 2016 | 111 years, 143 days | United Kingdom | Saskatchewan | |||
75 | data-sort-value="Hayes" | Isabella Hayes | 17 June 1900 | 5 November 2011 | 111 years, 141 days | United Kingdom | Ontario | |||
76 | data-sort-value="Harper" | Sarah Harper[50] | 24 August 1906 | 16 December 2017[51] | 111 years, 114 days | Manitoba | Manitoba | |||
77 | data-sort-value="Chandler" | Eloise Chandler[52] | 21 January 1910 | 12 May 2021[53] | 111 years, 111 days | British Guiana | Ontario | |||
78 | data-sort-value="Robertson" | Marguerite Robertson[54] | 13 May 1907 | 31 August 2018[55] | 111 years, 110 days | Nova Scotia | British Columbia | |||
79 | data-sort-value="Roffey" | Bessie Roffey | 2 March 1897 | 17 June 2008 | 111 years, 107 days | United Kingdom | Alberta | |||
80 | data-sort-value="Muise" | Virginia Muise | 28 July 1893 | 2 November 2004 | 111 years, 97 days | Nova Scotia | United States | |||
81 | data-sort-value="McCool" | Emily McCool[56] | 13 December 1909 | 11 March 2021[57] | 111 years, 88 days | Ontario | Ontario | |||
82 | data-sort-value="Barszczewicz" | Mariette Barszczewicz[58] [59] | 8 January 1909 | 4 April 2020[60] | 111 years, 87 days | Belgium | Ontario | |||
83 | data-sort-value="Chalifour" | Gisele Chalifour[61] | 20 June 1907 | 13 September 2018[62] | 111 years, 85 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
84 | data-sort-value="Nielsen" | Anna Nielsen | 2 April 1904 | 19 June 2015 | 111 years, 78 days | Denmark | British Columbia | |||
85 | data-sort-value="Yale" | Linda Yale[63] | 28 December 1912 | 11 March 2024[64] | 111 years, 74 days | Quebec | British Columbia | |||
86 | data-sort-value="Turcotte-Brouillette" | Louise-Anna Turcotte-Brouillette[65] | 5 September 1905 | 12 November 2016 | 111 years, 68 days | Quebec | Quebec | |||
87 | data-sort-value="Bateman" | Rachel Bateman[66] | 16 January 1865 | 18 March 1976 | 111 years, 62 days | Ontario | Manitoba | |||
88 | data-sort-value="Ives, Margaret" | Margaret Ives[67] | 28 January 1889 | 27 March 2000 | 111 years, 59 days | United Kingdom | Manitoba | |||
89 | data-sort-value="Gaetz" | Selma Gaetz | 12 May 1903 | 5 July 2014 | 111 years, 54 days | Alberta | United States | |||
90 | data-sort-value="Fitzgerald, Jennie" | Jennie Fitzgerald | 5 December 1895 | 22 January 2007 | 111 years, 48 days | New Brunswick | New Brunswick | |||
91 | data-sort-value="Thompson" | Nellie Thompson | 21 October 1878 | 27 November 1989 | 111 years, 37 days | Ontario | Ontario | |||
92 | data-sort-value="Hudon" | Clarina Hudon[68] | 4 March 1905 | 7 April 2016 | 111 years, 34 days | Quebec | United States | |||
93 | data-sort-value="Schaeffner" | Grace-Lillian Schaeffner | 28 November 1878 | 26 December 1989 | 111 years, 28 days | Ontario | United States | |||
data-sort-value="Sanford" | Luella Sanford | 18 May 1889 | 15 June 2000 | Nova Scotia | Nova Scotia | |||||
data-sort-value="Best" | Lorna Best[69] | 4 July 1903 | 1 August 2014 | Manitoba | British Columbia | |||||
96 | data-sort-value="Pratt" | Norma Pratt[70] | 15 April 1891 | 11 May 2002 | 111 years, 26 days | Ontario | United States | |||
97 | data-sort-value="McNeill" | Eleanor McNeill[71] | 7 March 1887 | 11 March 1998 | 111 years, 4 days | United Kingdom | Nova Scotia | |||
98 | data-sort-value="Mascarin" | Olinda Mascarin[72] | 4 December 1909 | 30 November 2020[73] | 110 years, 362 days | Italy | Ontario | |||
99 | data-sort-value="Lavoie" | Emilie Lavoie | 10 April 1898 | 2 April 2009 | 110 years, 357 days | New Brunswick | New Brunswick | |||
100 | data-sort-value="Pinard" | Judith Pinard | 3 July 1898 | 13 June 2009 | 110 years, 345 days | Quebec | Quebec |
Sum Ying Fung (née Eng,, 27 January 1899 – 6 December 2011), was a Chinese Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest person in Canada in 2011.
Sum Ying Eng was born in Wing On Village, Yanping, China in 1899.[74] In 1926, she married Chong Lim Fung, who had been working in Canada since 1911. Chong Lim would travel to visit Sum Ying regularly in the ensuing years and they had three children.[75] However, the Chinese Exclusion Act prevented her from joining her husband in Canada. In 1954, she emigrated to Canada under the sponsorship of her husband.[76] The couple settled in Chinatown, Vancouver that year. The Fung family moved to East Vancouver upon Chong Lim's death in 1967.[75]
In 1989, she developed a brain tumour, underwent surgery, and survived. She visited China later that year and was in Beijing during the military crackdown of Tiananmen Square protests. She and her family fled Beijing among a group of German tourists.[10]
In January 2011, Sum Ying Fung became the oldest person in Canada, after the death of Elizabeth Buhler.[77] The Queen congratulated Fung in a letter on her 112th birthday on 27 January 2011 and the Mayor of Vancouver declared that day "Fung Eng Sum Ying Day".[75] [76]
Fung died of natural causes at the claimed age of 112, at Burnaby General Hospital in British Columbia on 6 December 2011. At the time of her death she was survived by two of her three children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grand children, and 2 great-great-grand children.[10] [75]
Reuben "Rube"[78] Sinclair (5 December 1911 – 27 August 2023)[36] was the oldest known living man in Canada, and oldest known living veteran of World War II.[79] [80]
Sinclair was born on the outskirts of Lipton, Saskatchewan to Yitzok (né Sandler) and Fraida (née Dubrovinsky) Sinclair – Ukrainian Jews that immigrated to Canada in 1905. His two older brothers, Samuel and Sol, were born in Ukraine, while his older sister Clara and younger brother Joe were born in Canada.[78] His family's land was provided by the Jewish Colonisation Association. He worked on their farm.[78]
Sinclair joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942[81] and was stationed at North Battleford. According to his daughter, he "couldn't stand by and do nothing while people were dying in Europe".[82] He taught pilots how to take off and land during blackouts, before radar was commonplace. Once it became standard, he worked in equipping aircraft with transmitters and receivers.[81] His younger brother Joe served in the army, and after the war they moved to Richmond, British Columbia and started Sinclair Bros. Garage and Auto Wrecking.[78] [80] [82]
He married a woman named Ida and they had three children: Nadine Lipetz, Karen and Len. In 1964, they moved to California; Sinclair suffered from migraines due to the war and his wife suggested they move to California to escape the cold weather and live closer to her siblings.[78] His brother-in-law offered in a job in a furniture store in Anaheim. Ida suffered a stroke in 1994 and the Sinclairs moved back to British Columbia the same year. She died in 1996.[78] Reuben resided in Richmond.
Sinclair was vaccinated against COVID-19 in March 2021, one of the oldest people to do so.[83] Following the death of 109-year-old Tom Lumby on 19 June 2021,[84] Sinclair was believed to have become Canada's oldest veteran.[79] He became the oldest Canadian-born man upon the death of 110-year-old Arnold Hawkins on 18 September 2021.[79] [85] As of November 2021, he had six grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.[82] His family spanned five generations at the time of his death.[80]
Following the death of 111-year-old American Ezra Hill on 4 October 2022,[86] Sinclair was believed to have been the oldest World War II veteran in the world.[79]