Fatal dog attacks in Canada

Fatal dog attacks in Canada are the occurrences of fatalities attributed to dogs during specific years. A 2008 study found that one to two deaths per year in Canada are attributable to dog attacks, however other systematic data is lacking compared to the wider variety of studies conducted by researchers in the United States.[1] In the lists below, the attribution of breed is assigned by the sources.

Fatalities before 2000

Fatalities in 1998

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
March	Pack of sled dogs	Leah Tikivik	6 years	Tikivik was killed in Iqaluit, Nunavut and killed by a group of sled dogs that were staked to the ice. [2][3]
April 27	Bullmastiff	Courtney Trempe	8 years	Trempe was playing in her neighbour's yard in Stouffville, Ontario when their dog brutally attacked her and killed her.[2][4]
August 23	Sled dogs (8)	A woman and her son	40, 10	The mother and son were picking berries on Zacharias Island, Labrador when eight sled dogs attacked and killed them. [2][5]
December 21	Pack of stray dogs	Young boy	8 years	The young boy was mauled by a group of stray dogs while he was walking to his home in Cross Lake, Manitoba with food. [2][6][1]

Fatalities in 1999

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
November	Pack of dogs	Cecilia Alook	6 years	Alook was playing with a puppy nearby her home in Garden River, Alberta when she was attacked by a pack of starving dogs.[7]

Fatalities in 2000-2009

Fatalities in 2002

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 27	Labrador mix and Rottweiler	Kyra-Lee Sibthorpe	4 years	The young girl was killed by a Labrador mix and the family dog [8]in Woodland Beach, Ontario by a rented farmhouse. She was alone and she was not found for a number of hours.[9][6]

Fatalities in 2003

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
March 1	Rottweiler (3)	James Waddell	4 years	Waddell was playing outside of his home in Kingston Peninsula, New Brunswick when he was attacked and killed by three rottweilers.[10]
October 13	German Shepherd mix (4)	Unnamed male child	3 years	The boy was killed by his grandmother's four dogs in Nelson House, Manitoba. The grandmother tried to fend off the dogs but was attacked herself.[11]

Fatalities in 2004

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
December 27	Border Collie (1), Rottweilers (3)	Cody John Anger	3 years	Anger was attacked by four dogs in his home in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. He had extensive injuries and died in the hospital.[12]

Fatalities in 2006

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
May 29	Jack Russell/Collie mix	John Martin	77 years	Martin was "playfully poking" his wife near their home in Wellburn, Ontario when their pet lunged at Martin's throat and killed him.[13]
July 27	Husky (2)	Derian Bird	2 years	Bird was killed by two huskies in Hollow Water First Nation, Manitoba.[14]
November 16	Rottweiler, German Shepherd, Mutts (3)	Lancelot Corbin Wyatt Loonskin	5 years	Loonskin left his house on a reserve near Fort Vermilion, Alberta alone to go outside to play. Neighbours heard several dogs barking and growling and came outside to find Loonskin being mauled. He died of his injuries.[15]

Fatalities in 2007

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
July 1	Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix	Korie Lyn Edwards	1 year	Edwards was killed by her grandparents' dog in Montague Township, Ontario when she wandered into the backyard where the dog was chained. She was rushed to the hospital but she died from her injuries.[16]

Fatalities in 2010-2020

Fatalities in 2010

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 30	Unidentified (3)	Keith Iron	10 years	Iron was killed by three loose locally-owned dogs in a northern reserve, Canoe Lake (Saskatchewan), while walking to a family member's house. The dogs, which had been aggressive to other community members, were put down because they returned to the scene before the victim's body could be removed.[17]
March 22	Husky (3)	Sabock Akpalialuk	4 years	Akpalialuk was killed by 3 sled dogs when they escaped from their yard, chased him and mauled him in Pangnirtung, Nunavut. He died from extensive injuries to his neck.[18]
June 7	Husky (2)	Unnamed female child	3 weeks	The baby was killed by two huskies in her home in Saint-Barnabe-Sud, Quebec.[19]

Fatalities in 2012

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
February 16	Husky	Unnamed male child	Newborn	The baby died en route to a hospital after being attacked by the family dog in his home in Airdrie, Alberta.[20]

Fatalities in 2014

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
March 16	Alaskan Malamute (2)	Gracie Hernetier-Clark	7 years	Hernetier-Clark was killed outside of a house in Oakbank, Manitoba. She died shortly after being mauled by the two Alaskan Malamutes.[21]
June 14	Husky	Sheena Levina Jenny Uqaituk	4 years	Uqaituk was killed by a sled dog in Puvirnituq, Quebec who was chained on a neighbour's property. She was mauled and died from her extensive injuries.[22]

Fatalities in 2015

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
October 17	Northern dogs (4)	Shane Glada	22 years	Glada was killed in Ross River, Yukon by four stray dogs while walking in the woods.[23]

Fatalities in 2016

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
January 30	Mutt	Kathleen Green	78 years	Green was killed in Kamloops, British Columbia by a family member's dog who was tied up in a backyard.[24]
June 6	Northern Dog	Unnamed female child	4 years	A 4-year-old girl was killed by a dog in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut. The dog had not been tied up properly and mauled the girl who died on arrival to the hospital.[25]
June 8, 2016	Boxer-Pit bull mix	Christiane Vadnais	55 years	Montreal - Victim was killed in her own yard by a neighbour's escaped dog that had a muzzle dangling around its neck. The dog had previously bitten two others and was so aggressive its owner kept it muzzled when in his home. [26] The owner of the dog could have been charged with criminal negligence.[27][28] The victim's sister wrote a book about her sister's life and violent death, and the aftermath, including bullying and threats by pit bull defenders.[29][30]

Fatalities in 2017

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
July 27	Boxer-bulldog mix	Andrew Kochut	Unspecified, adult	Andrew Kochut died after having a seizure in his girlfriend's apartment in Kitchener, Ontario. Andrew Kochut's girlfriend stated the dog had attacked him, but the cause of death was not ruled as a result of the dog bite. The cause of death was not determined as at the date of the article. [31][32]
May 13	Large pack of stray dogs	Donnelly Rose Eaglestick	24 years	Eaglestick was chased down and attacked while walking home at night through a construction site in Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba. She was severely mauled and had died of her injuries when the body was found the following morning.[33]
September 14	Alaskan Malamute	Cameron Mushanski	6 years	Killed by grandparents' dog. Dogs later put down.[34]

Fatalities in 2018

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
September 15	Boxer-pitbull cross	Lisa Lloyd	50 years	According to Strathmore RCMP, the dog attacked a two-and-a-half year-old girl on a farm north of Langdon and just east of Chestermere about 6 p.m., before turning its attention on its 50-year-old owner. The unidentified woman, who police said was the dog’s owner, was in her home when the vicious attack occurred.[35][36]

Fatalities in 2020

Date	Category of Dog	Victim's name	Victim's age	Circumstances
June 9	Mutt	Megan Milner	38 years	Megan Milner was attacked and killed by her dog while walking the animal during the morning of June 9th. The dog fled after passing pedestrians found the body, but was later intentionally struck and killed by a motorist on a nearby road. [37][38]

See also

• Dog bite
• Dog bite prevention
• Animal attack
• Wolf attacks on humans
• List of wolf attacks
• Coyote attacks on humans
• Animal attacks
• Beware of the dog

Other species:

• List of fatal bear attacks in North America
• List of fatal cougar attacks in North America

In other countries:

• Fatal dog attacks
• Fatal dog attacks in the United Kingdom
• Fatal dog attacks in the United States

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