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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 21 December 2024, the oldest living person in Canada is Hazel Skuce, born on 7 February 1912 in Manitoba, aged 112 years, 318 days.

100 oldest known Canadians

  Deceased   Living

Rank Name Gender Birth date Death date Age Birthplace Place of death
or residence
01 Marie-Louise Meilleur F 29 August 1880 16 April 1998 117 years, 230 days Quebec Ontario
02 Mary Ann Rhodes F 12 August 1882 3 March 1998 115 years, 203 days Ontario Ontario
03 Julie Winnefred Bertrand F 16 September 1891 18 January 2007 115 years, 124 days Quebec Quebec
04 Mary Josephine Ray F 17 May 1895 7 March 2010 114 years, 294 days Prince Edward Island United States
05 Cecile Klein F 15 June 1907 13 January 2022 114 years, 212 days Quebec Quebec
06 Phyllis Ridgway F 10 March 1907 4 June 2021 114 years, 86 days United Kingdom Ontario
07 Ellen Gibb F 26 April 1905 5 June 2019 114 years, 40 days Manitoba Ontario
08 Merle Barwis F 23 December 1900 22 November 2014 113 years, 334 days United States British Columbia
09 Anne Samson,
aka Sister Cecile-Marie 		F 27 February 1891 29 November 2004 113 years, 276 days Nova Scotia New Brunswick
10 Shige Mineshiba F 18 May 1909 6 January 2023 113 years, 233 days Japan British Columbia
11 Mabel Mah F 4 July 1910 30 January 2024 113 years, 210 days British Columbia British Columbia
12 Lillian Ross F 24 August 1879 20 March 1993 113 years, 208 days Ontario Ontario
13 Reita Fennell F 20 November 1907 17 April 2021 113 years, 148 days Saskatchewan Saskatchewan
14 Zelda McCague F 28 March 1888 6 August 2001 113 years, 131 days Ontario Ontario
15 Margaret Fitzgerald F 16 September 1896 20 October 2009 113 years, 34 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
16 Cora Hansen F 25 March 1899 18 April 2012 113 years, 24 days United States Alberta
17 Alice Sjöquist F 25 October 1878 7 November 1991 113 years, 13 days United Kingdom British Columbia
18 Fanny Martland F 19 November 1888 1 December 2001 113 years, 12 days United Kingdom British Columbia
19 Sarah Patenaude-Bruyère F 20 February 1907 17 February 2020 112 years, 362 days Ontario Quebec
20 Hazel Campbell F 7 December 1903 7 November 2016 112 years, 336 days Quebec United States
21 Hazel Skuce F 7 February 1912 Living 112 years, 318 days Manitoba Manitoba
22 Sum Ying Fung F 27 January 1899 6 December 2011 112 years, 313 days China British Columbia
23 Flora Thibodeau F 20 March 1901 22 January 2014 112 years, 308 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
24 Margaret Romans F 16 March 1912 Living 112 years, 280 days Latvia Quebec
25 Pearl Lutzko F 15 February 1899 2 November 2011 112 years, 260 days Ukraine Saskatchewan
26 Adéa Pellerin-Cormier F 11 September 1901 24 May 2014 112 years, 255 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
27 Henrietta Irwin F 27 May 1906 15 January 2019 112 years, 233 days United Kingdom Ontario
28 Gertruda Gorecka F 12 November 1911 25 June 2024 112 years, 226 days German Empire Ontario
29 Helen Doan F 18 September 1911 18 April 2024 112 years, 213 days Ontario Ontario
30 Alexina St. Pierre-Loyer F 21 November 1907 22 May 2020 112 years, 183 days Quebec Quebec
31 Yvonne Delorme-Martel F 22 October 1909 7 April 2022 112 years, 167 days Quebec Quebec
32 Wai Lim Kwong F 15 July 1908 27 December 2020 112 years, 165 days China Ontario
33 Annie Burtt F 5 July 1880 11 December 1992 112 years, 159 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
34 Mary Roberts F 5 October 1906 11 March 2019 112 years, 157 days United Kingdom British Columbia
35 Clara Mackenzie F 7 October 1885 5 March 1998 112 years, 149 days Newfoundland United States
36 Fannie Greenberg F 24 May 1895 5 October 2007 112 years, 134 days Ontario United States
37 Marie-Laure Nadon F 12 April 1889 18 August 2001 112 years, 128 days Quebec Quebec
38 Annette Sabourin Brunet F 4 January 1912 8 April 2024 112 years, 95 days Quebec Quebec
39 Mary MacIsaac F 27 December 1893 10 March 2006 112 years, 73 days New Brunswick Saskatchewan
40 Tilly Oslender F 24 March 1907 1 June 2019 112 years, 69 days Ukraine Ontario
41 Julia Houde F 18 September 1894 18 November 2006 112 years, 61 days Quebec Quebec
42 Mamie Smith F 1 March 1889 25 April 2001 112 years, 55 days Ontario Ontario
43 Orma Slack F 19 February 1903 13 April 2015 112 years, 53 days Ontario Ontario
44 Mary Ellen Swan F 24 June 1892 10 August 2004 112 years, 47 days United Kingdom Ontario
45 Margherita Buttiri F 8 May 1908 23 June 2020 112 years, 46 days Croatia Alberta
46 Maria Mallozzi F 25 September 1887 26 October 1999 112 years, 31 days Italy Ontario
47 Emma Galode F 22 August 1882 9 September 1994 112 years, 18 days Newfoundland Ontario
48 Simonne Leduc F 31 October 1911 26 October 2023 111 years, 360 days Quebec Quebec
49 Elizabeth Buhler F 8 February 1899 23 January 2011 111 years, 349 days Ukraine Manitoba
Marie-Blanche Portelance F 21 March 1909 5 March 2021 Quebec Quebec
51 Hazel Schultz F 12 January 1913 Living 111 years, 344 days Saskatchewan United States
52 Colombe Benoît-Leclerc F 5 February 1903 14 January 2015 111 years, 343 days Quebec Quebec
53 Agnes Munce F 17 January 1877 17 December 1988 111 years, 335 days Ontario Alberta
54 Yvonne Lamoureux F 5 December 1900 2 November 2012 111 years, 333 days Quebec Quebec
55 Arthur Nash M 7 January 1885 4 November 1996 111 years, 302 days United Kingdom Manitoba
56 James McCoubrey M 13 September 1901 5 July 2013 111 years, 295 days Newfoundland United States
57 Molly Schmidt F 22 July 1905 8 May 2017 111 years, 290 days Alberta United States
58 Marguerite Wabano F 28 January 1904 13 November 2015 111 years, 289 days Ontario Ontario
59 Delima Plouffe F 9 June 1881 22 March 1993 111 years, 286 days Ontario Ontario
60 Isabel Dryden F 16 October 1888 20 July 2000 111 years, 278 days Ontario British Columbia
61 Foon Hay Lum F 30 July 1908 24 April 2020 111 years, 269 days China Ontario
62 Alice McLellan F 6 August 1883 29 April 1995 111 years, 266 days Nova Scotia Nova Scotia
Florence Webber F 22 July 1908 13 April 2020 Nova Scotia Nova Scotia
64 Reuben Sinclair M 5 December 1911 27 August 2023 111 years, 265 days Saskatchewan British Columbia
65 Dora Skeen F 29 December 1910 19 September 2022 111 years, 264 days Jamaica Ontario
66 Merle O'Hara F 20 February 1912 4 November 2023 111 years, 257 days Jamaica British Columbia
67 Minnie Mudie F 18 November 1885 27 July 1997 111 years, 251 days Saskatchewan British Columbia
68 Jemima Westcott F 10 January 1911 24 August 2022 111 years, 226 days Manitoba Manitoba
69 Marie-Louise Meunier F 15 March 1887 24 October 1998 111 years, 223 days Quebec Quebec
70 Eva Carrier-Delisle F 29 April 1908 22 November 2019 111 years, 207 days Quebec Quebec
71 Herman Smith-Johannsen M 15 June 1875 5 January 1987 111 years, 204 days Norway Quebec
Emilienne Marcil-Pigeon F 29 March 1911 19 October 2022 Quebec Quebec
73 Gloriam Bellerive-Hebert F 28 June 1901 14 January 2013 111 years, 200 days Quebec Quebec
74 Evangeline Saulnier F 11 September 1890 19 March 2002 111 years, 189 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
75 Ethel Lyman F 8 June 1880 9 December 1991 111 years, 184 days Ontario Quebec
76 Marie Bibeault F 31 January 1882 29 July 1993 111 years, 179 days Quebec Quebec
77 Ja Hyung Lee M 27 August 1910 12 February 2022 111 years, 169 days Empire of Japan British Columbia
78 Janet Luscombe F 12 August 1910 25 January 2022 111 years, 166 days Newfoundland Ontario
79 Edith Morey F 28 July 1900 8 January 2012 111 years, 164 days Ontario Ontario
80 Jennie Sutherland F 4 October 1906 15 March 2018 111 years, 162 days United States Alberta
81 Rose Lavender F 29 August 1886 1 February 1998 111 years, 156 days United Kingdom Ontario
82 Louise Gibson F 7 August 1883 2 January 1995 111 years, 148 days Nova Scotia United States
83 George Frederick Ives M 17 November 1881 12 April 1993 111 years, 146 days United Kingdom British Columbia
84 Katherine Wowchuk F 18 August 1901 8 January 2013 111 years, 143 days Ukraine Manitoba
Lilian Cornell F 21 August 1904 11 January 2016 United Kingdom Saskatchewan
86 Isabella Hayes F 17 June 1900 5 November 2011 111 years, 141 days United Kingdom Ontario
87 Hannah Bradford F 28 December 1870 2 May 1982 111 years, 125 days United Kingdom Ontario
88 Clara Horvath F 5 January 1911 7 May 2022 111 years, 122 days British Columbia British Columbia
89 Sarah Harper F 24 August 1906 16 December 2017 111 years, 114 days Manitoba Manitoba
90 Eloise Chandler F 21 January 1910 12 May 2021 111 years, 111 days British Guiana Ontario
91 Marguerite Robertson F 13 May 1907 31 August 2018 111 years, 110 days Nova Scotia British Columbia
92 Bessie Roffey F 2 March 1897 17 June 2008 111 years, 107 days United Kingdom Alberta
93 Virginia Muise F 28 July 1893 2 November 2004 111 years, 97 days Nova Scotia United States
94 Emily McCool F 13 December 1909 11 March 2021 111 years, 88 days Ontario Ontario
95 Mariette Barszczewicz F 8 January 1909 4 April 2020 111 years, 87 days Belgium Ontario
96 Gisele Chalifour F 20 June 1907 13 September 2018 111 years, 85 days Quebec Quebec
97 Anna Nielsen F 2 April 1904 19 June 2015 111 years, 78 days Denmark British Columbia
98 Linda Yale F 28 December 1912 11 March 2024 111 years, 74 days Quebec British Columbia
99 Louise-Anna Turcotte-Brouillette F 5 September 1905 12 November 2016 111 years, 68 days Quebec Quebec
100 Rachel Bateman F 16 January 1865 18 March 1976 111 years, 62 days Ontario Manitoba
  1. ^ Fung, Kwong and Lum were born in Qing dynasty in Imperial China.
  2. Romans was born in Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire, now an independent country.
  3. ^ Lutzko, Oslender, and Buhler were born in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, now an independent country.
  4. Gorecka was born in Kębłowo, Province of West Prussia, German Empire, which is now part of Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland.
  5. ^ Mackenzie, Galode and McCoubrey were born in Newfoundland, then Newfoundland Colony, a colony of Britain. It is now a province of Canada.
  6. Buttiri was born in Rovigno, then in the Austrian Empire, now Rovinj, Croatia.
  7. ^ Skeen and O'Hara were born in Jamaica, then part of the British West Indies. Jamaica became independent in 1962.
  8. Smith-Johannsen died in Norway while on visit.
  9. Luscombe was born in Newfoundland, then the Dominion of Newfoundland, a Dominion of the British Empire. It is now a province of Canada.
  10. Chandler was born in Georgetown, which was the capital of British Guiana and today is the capital of Guyana.
  11. Ontario, at the time of Bateman's birth, was part of the British Province of Canada in British North America before the Canadian Confederation in 1867.

Biographies

Sum Ying Fung

Sum Ying Fung (née Eng, Chinese: 吴如英, 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. 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. 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. The couple settled in Chinatown, Vancouver that year. The Fung family moved to East Vancouver upon Chong Lim's death in 1967.

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.

In January 2011, Sum Ying Fung became the oldest person in Canada, after the death of Elizabeth Buhler. 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".

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-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren.

Reuben Sinclair

Reuben "Rube" Sinclair (5 December 1911 – 27 August 2023) was the oldest known living man in Canada, and oldest known living veteran of World War II.

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. His family's land was provided by the Jewish Colonisation Association. He worked on their farm.

Sinclair joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 and was stationed at North Battleford. According to his daughter, he "couldn't stand by and do nothing while people were dying in Europe". 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. 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.

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. His brother-in-law offered him 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. Reuben resided in Richmond.

Sinclair was vaccinated against COVID-19 in March 2021, one of the oldest people to do so. Following the death of 109-year-old Tom Lumby on 19 June 2021, Sinclair was believed to have become Canada's oldest veteran. He became the oldest Canadian-born man upon the death of 110-year-old Arnold Hawkins on 18 September 2021. As of November 2021, he had six grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. His family spanned five generations at the time of his death.

Following the death of 111-year-old American Ezra Hill on 4 October 2022, Sinclair was believed to have been the oldest World War II veteran in the world.

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