Table 4
Victims of violent crime, by type of weapon, by province and territory, 2012

Table 4
Victims of violent crime, by type of weapon, by province and territory, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of violent crime. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Firearm, Other weapon, No weapon, Unknown and Total , calculated using number, percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Firearm Other weaponNote 1 No weaponNote 2 Unknown Total
number percent rateNote 3 number percent number percent number percent number percent
Newfoundland and Labrador 75 1.2 14.6 970 15.1 5,362 83.7 151 ... 6,558 100
Prince Edward Island 16 1.1 10.9 145 10.2 1,256 88.6 20 ... 1,437 100
Nova Scotia 268 2.4 28.2 1,573 14.0 9,378 83.6 85 ... 11,304 100
New Brunswick 180 1.8 23.8 1,169 11.9 8,464 86.3 163 ... 9,976 100
Quebec ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Ontario 2,228 2.1 16.6 17,257 16.1 87,986 81.9 1,951 ... 109,422 100
Manitoba 390 1.9 31.6 4,532 21.6 16,053 76.5 981 ... 21,956 100
Saskatchewan 366 1.8 34.3 4,073 19.9 15,987 78.3 895 ... 21,321 100
Alberta 929 2.1 23.9 7,549 16.7 36,679 81.2 2,072 ... 47,229 100
British Columbia 1,048 2.0 22.7 9,425 18.3 40,970 79.6 953 ... 52,396 100
Yukon 6 0.5 16.6 185 15.7 987 83.8 74 ... 1,252 100
Northwest Territories 17 0.6 39.2 322 11.1 2,575 88.4 160 ... 3,074 100
Nunavut 52 1.8 154.3 389 13.5 2,443 84.7 122 ... 3,006 100
Provincial and territorial total 5,575 2.0 20.9 47,589 16.9 228,140 81.1 7,627 ... 288,931 100
... not applicable
Note 1.

Includes all weapons other than firearms, such as knives, clubs or blunt instruments, poison, motor vehicles, ligature, or fire.

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Note 2.

Includes physical force and threats.

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Note 3.

Rates are calculated per 100,000 population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note: Excludes Quebec due to a large proportion of incidents where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Percentage calculations exclude cases where the weapon is unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey.
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