List of Canadian supercentenarians
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This is a list of verified Canadian supercentenarian
Supercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

s (people from Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 who have attained the age of at least 110 years). There have been 32 verified supercentenarian
Supercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

s from Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. The oldest person ever from Canada was Marie-Louise Meilleur
Marie-Louise Meilleur
Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur was a French Canadian supercentenarian who, upon the death of Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, became the oldest recognized living person. Meilleur is still the oldest validated Canadian ever.-Biography:...

, who died in 1998 aged 117 years 230 days. As of , there are no verified living supercentenarians, but 6 unverified in Canada.

Living Canadian supercentenarians

Below is a list of the oldest living people from Canada. Those listed as 'verified' have been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity
Longevity
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 research, such as the Gerontology Research Group
Gerontology Research Group
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. Those listed as 'pending' have provided at least one document supporting the claimed age but not the three necessary for validation. Those that are 'unverified' have provided no documents to support the age claimed.
Rank Name Sex Birth date Age as of Province or Country of birth Province of residence
Sum Ying Fung F 27 January 1899 China
China
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British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

Cora Hansen F 25 March 1899 United States
United States
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Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

Mary Dubyna F 22 September 1900 Poland
Poland
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Alberta
Flora Thibodeau F 20 March 1901 New Brunswick
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

New Brunswick
Gloriam Bellerive-Hébert F 28 June 1901 Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

Quebec
Adéa Pellerin-Cormier F 11 September 1901 New Brunswick New Brunswick


Canadian emigrant supercentenarians

Rank Name Sex Race Birth date Reported age as of State of birth Country of residence
Catherine Dion F W 26 July 1901 Prince Edward Island United States

Canadian supercentenarians

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age Province or Country of birth Province of death
1 Marie-Louise Meilleur
Marie-Louise Meilleur
Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur was a French Canadian supercentenarian who, upon the death of Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, became the oldest recognized living person. Meilleur is still the oldest validated Canadian ever.-Biography:...

F 29 August 1880 16 April 1998 117 years, 230 days Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

Ontario
2 Julie Winnefred Bertrand
Julie Winnefred Bertrand
Julie Winnefred Bertrand was a Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest living Canadian and the oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death at age 115 years 124 days....

F 16 September 1891 18 January 2007 115 years, 124 days Quebec Quebec
3 Anne Samson F 27 February 1891 29 November 2004 113 years, 276 days Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
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New Brunswick
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

4 Lillian Ross F 24 August 1879 20 March 1993 113 years, 208 days Ontario Ontario
5 Zelda McCague
Zelda McCague
Zelda McCague was recognized as the oldest living Canadian and one of the oldest people in the world whose age has been verified....

F 28 March 1888 6 August 2001 113 years, 131 days Ontario Ontario
6 Margaret Fitzgerald F 16 September 1896 20 October 2009 113 years, 34 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
7 Alice Sjöquist F 25 October 1878 7 November 1991 113 years, 13 days United Kingdom British Columbia
8 Marie-Laure Nadon F 12 April 1889 18 August 2001 112 years, 128 days Quebec Quebec
9 Mary MacIsaac F 27 December 1893 10 March 2006 112 years, 73 days New Brunswick Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

10 Julia Houde F 18 September 1894 18 November 2006 112 years, 61 days Quebec Quebec
11 Mamie Smith F 1 March 1889 25 April 2001 112 years, 55 days Ontario Ontario
Jennie Fitzgerald F 5 December 1894 22 January 2007 112 years, 48 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
12 Mary Ellen Swan F 24 June 1892 10 August 2004 112 years, 47 days United Kingdom Ontario
13 Maria Mallozzi F 25 September 1887 26 October 1999 112 years, 31 days Italy
Italy
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Ontario
14 Agnes Munce F 17 January 1877 17 December 1988 111 years, 335 days Ontario Ontario
15 Marie-Louise Meunier F 15 March 1887 24 October 1998 111 years, 223 days Quebec Quebec
16 Evangeline Saulnier F 11 September 1890 19 March 2002 111 years, 189 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
17 Ethel Lyman F 8 June 1880 9 December 1991 111 years, 184 days Ontario Quebec
18 Marie Bibeault F 31 January 1882 29 July 1993 111 years, 179 days Quebec Quebec
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M 17 November 1881 12 April 1993 111 years, 146 days United Kingdom British Columbia
20 Bessie Roffey F 2 March 1897 17 June 2008 111 years, 107 days United Kingdom Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

21 Nellie Thompson F 21 October 1878 27 November 1989 111 years, 37 days Ontario Ontario
22 Emilie Lavoie F 10 April 1898 2 April 2009 110 years, 357 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
23 Judith Pinard F 3 July 1898 13 June 2009 110 years, 345 days Quebec Quebec
24 Pasqualina Franco F 2 December 1898 16 August 2009 110 years, 257 days Italy Ontario
25 Mary Ann Scoles F 25 December 1896 23 July 2007 110 years, 210 days Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

Manitoba
26 Blanche Marinier F 20 March 1892 30 September 2002 110 years, 194 days Quebec Quebec
27 Marie-Rose Theriault F 8 September 1889 29 February 2000 110 years, 174 days New Brunswick Quebec
28 Flore Belland F 6 September 1872 18 February 1983 110 years, 165 days Quebec Quebec
29 Alina Morton F 10 November 1878 20 April 1989 110 years, 161 days Nova Scotia Nova Scotia
30 Dorothy Hodgson F 23 July 1897 7 December 2007 110 years, 137 days United Kingdom British Columbia
31 Margaret Cousins F 27 February 1899 31 May 2009 110 years, 93 days Ontario Ontario
32 Marie-Ange Bernard F 2 November 1894 29 January 2005 110 years, 88 days Quebec Quebec
Madeleine Savoie F 1 November 1899 24 January 2010 110 years, 84 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
33 Angeline Barrette F 10 December 1896 28 February 2007 110 years, 80 days Quebec Quebec
34 Anna Poirier F 11 November 1885 28 January 1996 110 years, 78 days Quebec Quebec
35 Mary Sloan F 11 June 1898 12 August 2008 110 years, 60 days Ontario Ontario
36 Laura Rollock F 16 November 1878 29 December 1988 110 years, 43 days Nova Scotia Nova Scotia
37 Joseph Saint-Amour M 26 February 1852 16 March 1962 110 years, 18 days Quebec Quebec
38 Rose McDonald F 5 September 1890 16 September 2000 110 years, 11 days Nova Scotia Nova Scotia

Canadian emigrant supercentenarians

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age Province of birth Country of death
1 Mary Josephine Ray
Mary Josephine Ray
Mary Josephine Ray was the world's second-oldest verified living person at the time of her death...

F 17 May 1895 7 March 2010 114 years, 294 days Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

United States
2 Fanny Adler Greenberg F 24 May 1895 5 October 2007 112 years, 134 days Ontario United States
3 Louise Gibson F 7 August 1883 2 January 1995 111 years, 148 days Nova Scotia United States
4 Virginia Muise F 28 July 1893 2 November 2004 111 years, 97 days Nova Scotia United States
5 Grace-Lillian Schaeffner F 28 November 1878 26 December 1989 111 years, 28 days Ontario United States
6 Clarida Roy F 19 October 1863 18 May 1974 110 years, 211 days Quebec United States
7 Christine Jodoin F 17 November 1894 11 March 2005 110 years, 114 days Quebec United States
8 Irene Nadeau F 25 April 1897 9 June 2007 110 years, 45 days Quebec United States

Oldest Canadian person by province and territory

This is a list of the oldest people by birth from each province and territory
Provinces and territories of Canada
The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second-largest country by area. There are ten provinces and three territories...


Province or Territory Name Sex Birth date Death date Age
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba Mary Ann Scoles F 25 December 1896 23 July 2007 110 years, 210 days
New Brunswick Margaret Fitzgerald F 16 September 1896 20 October 2009 113 years, 34 days
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories
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Nova Scotia Anne Samson F 27 February 1891 29 November 2004 113 years, 276 days
Nunavut
Nunavut
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Ontario Lillian Ross F 24 August 1879 20 March 1993 113 years, 208 days
Prince Edward Island Mary Josephine Ray
Mary Josephine Ray
Mary Josephine Ray was the world's second-oldest verified living person at the time of her death...

F 17 May 1895 7 March 2010 114 years, 294 days
Quebec Marie-Louise Meilleur
Marie-Louise Meilleur
Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur was a French Canadian supercentenarian who, upon the death of Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, became the oldest recognized living person. Meilleur is still the oldest validated Canadian ever.-Biography:...

F 29 August 1880 16 April 1998 117 years, 230 days
Saskatchewan
Yukon
Yukon
Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....


Limbo cases

Limbo cases refer to supercentenarians who were verified to have reached the age of 110 (supercentenarian status) but their death date is unknown
Name Sex Birth date Last confirmed to have been alive Province of birth Province of death
Isabel Dryden F 16 October 1888 September 2001 Ontario British Columbia

Chronological list of the oldest living person in Canada since 1988

From To Name Sex Age(s) when oldest Lifespan Province of death
? 17 December 1988 Agnes Munce F ? – 111 17 January 1877 – 17 December 1988
111 years, 335 days
Ontario
17 December 1988 27 November 1989
( days)
Nellie Thompson F 110 – 111 21 October 1878 – 27 November 1989
111 years, 37 days
Ontario
27 November 1989 7 November 1991
( days)
Alice Sjöquist F 111 – 113 25 October 1878 – 7 November 1991
British Columbia
7 November 1991 20 March 1993
Lillian Ross F 110 – 113 24 August 1879 – 20 March 1993
113 years, 208 days
Ontario
20 March 1993 16 April 1998
Marie-Louise Meilleur
Marie-Louise Meilleur
Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur was a French Canadian supercentenarian who, upon the death of Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, became the oldest recognized living person. Meilleur is still the oldest validated Canadian ever.-Biography:...

F 112 – 117 29 August 1880 – 16 April 1998
117 years, 230 days
Ontario
16 April 1998 24 October 1998
( days)
Marie-Louise Meunier F 111 15 March 1887 – 24 October 1998
111 years, 223 days
Quebec
24 October 1998 26 October 1999
Maria Mallozzi F 111 – 112 25 September 1887 – 26 October 1999
Ontario
26 October 1999 6 August 2001
Zelda McCague
Zelda McCague
Zelda McCague was recognized as the oldest living Canadian and one of the oldest people in the world whose age has been verified....

F 110 – 113 28 March 1888 – 6 August 2001
113 years, 131 days
Ontario
6 August 2001 19 March 2002
( days)
Evangeline Saulnier F 110 – 111 11 September 1890 – 19 March 2002
111 years, 189 days
Nova Scotia
19 March 2002 29 November 2004
Anne Samson F 111 – 113 27 February 1891 – 29 November 2004
113 years, 276 days
Nova Scotia
29 November 2004 18 January 2007
Julie Winnefred Bertrand
Julie Winnefred Bertrand
Julie Winnefred Bertrand was a Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest living Canadian and the oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death at age 115 years 124 days....

F 113 – 115 16 September 1891 – 18 January 2007
115 years, 124 days
Quebec
18 January 2007 22 January 2007
( days)
Jennie Fitzgerald F 112 5 December 1894 – 22 January 2007
112 years, 48 days
New Brunswick
22 January 2007 20 October 2009
Margaret Fitzgerald F 110 – 113 16 September 1896 – 20 October 2009
113 years, 34 days
New Brunswick
20 October 2009 Present
Sum Ying Fung F 110 – 112* born 27 January 1899
age
Living in British Columbia
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