Table 4
Homicides by selected type of weapon, by province or territory, 1999 to 2008
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| Province or territory | Homicides with a knife1 | Homicides with a firearm | Total homicides | ||
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| number | percent of total homicides | number | percent of total homicides | number | |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 11 | 25.0 | 14 | 31.8 | 44 |
| Prince Edward Island | 2 | 18.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 11 |
| Nova Scotia | 35 | 27.1 | 40 | 31.0 | 129 |
| New Brunswick | 20 | 25.6 | 25 | 32.1 | 78 |
| Quebec | 314 | 27.8 | 409 | 36.2 | 1,130 |
| Ontario | 522 | 28.6 | 598 | 32.8 | 1,824 |
| Manitoba | 155 | 36.7 | 73 | 17.3 | 422 |
| Saskatchewan | 142 | 44.7 | 53 | 16.7 | 318 |
| Alberta | 310 | 38.2 | 229 | 28.2 | 811 |
| British Columbia | 254 | 24.8 | 352 | 34.3 | 1,026 |
| Yukon | 6 | 33.3 | 2 | 11.1 | 18 |
| Northwest Territories | 10 | 43.5 | 5 | 21.7 | 23 |
| Nunavut | 9 | 28.1 | 7 | 21.9 | 32 |
| Canada | 1,790 | 30.5 | 1,807 | 30.8 | 5,866 |
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1. Includes all piercing and cutting instruments in addition to knives, e.g. broken bottle, screwdriver, scissors. Note: Homicide data reflect victim counts from the Homicide Survey and represent 100% of the national volume of homicides. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey. |
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