This article lists Canadian supercentenarians (people from Canada who have attained the age of at least 110 years).[1] The oldest verified Canadian person ever was Marie-Louise Meilleur, who died in 1998 aged 117 years, 230 days. As of 3 September 2024, the oldest living person in Canada is Ellen Gibb, born 26 April 1905, aged 119 years, 130 days.

Living Canadian supercentenarians

No. Name Sex Birth date Age as of 3 September 2024 Birthplace Residence
1 Ellen Gibb[1] F 26 April 1905 119 years, 130 days Manitoba Ontario
2 Henrietta Irwin[1] F 27 May 1906 118 years, 99 days United Kingdom Ontario
Sarah Patenaude Bruyère[2][3] F 20 February 1907 117 years, 196 days Ontario Quebec
Cecile Klein[4] F 15 June 1907 117 years, 80 days Quebec Quebec
Robert Wiener[5] M 27 October 1908 115 years, 312 days Quebec Quebec

Oldest Canadian people ever

  Deceased   Living
†^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 3 September 2024

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age [†] Birthplace Place of death or residence
1 Marie-Louise Meilleur[6] F 29 August 1880 16 April 1998 117 years, 230 days Quebec Ontario
2 Mary Ann Rhodes[7] F 12 August 1882 3 March 1998 115 years, 203 days Ontario Ontario
3 Julie Winnefred Bertrand[6] F 16 September 1891 18 January 2007 115 years, 124 days Quebec Quebec
4 Merle Barwis[8] F 23 December 1900 22 November 2014 113 years, 334 days United States British Columbia
5 Anne Samson[6] F 27 February 1891 29 November 2004 113 years, 276 days Nova Scotia New Brunswick
6 Ellen Gibb[1] F 26 April 1905 Living 119 years, 130 days Manitoba Living in Ontario
7 Lillian Ross[6] F 24 August 1879 20 March 1993 113 years, 208 days Ontario Ontario
8 Zelda McCague[6] F 28 March 1888 6 August 2001 113 years, 131 days Ontario Ontario
9 Margaret Fitzgerald[9] F 16 September 1896 20 October 2009 113 years, 34 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
10 Cora Hansen[10] F 25 March 1899 18 April 2012 113 years, 24 days United States Alberta
11 Alice Sjöquist[11] F 25 October 1878 7 November 1991 113 years, 13 days United Kingdom British Columbia
12 Flora Thibodeau[1] F 20 March 1901 22 January 2014 112 years, 308 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
13 Adéa Pellerin-Cormier[1] F 11 September 1901 24 May 2014 112 years, 255 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
14 Henrietta Irwin[1] F 27 May 1906 Living 118 years, 99 days United Kingdom Living in Ontario
15 Marie-Laure Nadon[6] F 12 April 1889 18 August 2001 112 years, 128 days Quebec Quebec
16 Mary MacIsaac[6] F 27 December 1893 10 March 2006 112 years, 73 days New Brunswick Saskatchewan
17 Julia Houde[6] F 18 September 1894 18 November 2006 112 years, 61 days Quebec Quebec
18 Mamie Smith[6] F 1 March 1889 25 April 2001 112 years, 55 days Ontario Ontario
19 Orma Slack[12] F 19 February 1903 13 April 2015 112 years, 53 days Ontario Ontario
20 Mary Ellen Swan[6] F 24 June 1892 10 August 2004 112 years, 47 days United Kingdom Ontario
21 Maria Mallozzi[6] F 25 September 1887 26 October 1999 112 years, 31 days Italy Ontario
22 Colombe Benoît-Leclerc[1][13] F 5 February 1903 14 January 2015 111 years, 343 days Quebec Quebec
23 Agnes Munce[6] F 17 January 1877 17 December 1988 111 years, 335 days Ontario Ontario
Sarah Patenaude Bruyère[14][15] F 20 February 1907 Living 117 years, 196 days Ontario Living in Quebec
24 Marie-Louise Meunier[6] F 15 March 1887 24 October 1998 111 years, 223 days Quebec Quebec
25 Evangeline Saulnier[6] F 11 September 1890 19 March 2002 111 years, 189 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
26 Ethel Lyman[6] F 8 June 1880 9 December 1991 111 years, 184 days Ontario Quebec
27 Marie Bibeault[6] F 31 January 1882 29 July 1993 111 years, 179 days Quebec Quebec
Cecile Klein[16] F 15 June 1907 Living 117 years, 80 days Quebec Living in Quebec
28 George Frederick Ives[6] M 17 November 1881 12 April 1993 111 years, 146 days United Kingdom British Columbia
29 Lillian Cornell[1] F 21 August 1904 11 January 2016 111 years, 143 days United Kingdom Saskatchewan
Sarah Harper [17] F 24 August 1906 16 December 2017 111 years, 114 days Manitoba Manitoba
Marguerite Robertson[18] F 13 May 1907 31 August 2018 111 years, 111 days Nova Scotia British Columbia
30 Bessie Roffey[19] F 2 March 1897 17 June 2008 111 years, 107 days United Kingdom Alberta
Gisele Chalifour[20] F 20 June 1907 13 September 2018[21] 111 years, 85 days Quebec Quebec
31 Nellie Thompson[6] F 21 October 1878 27 November 1989 111 years, 37 days Ontario Ontario
32 Emilie Lavoie[9] F 10 April 1898 2 April 2009 110 years, 357 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
33 Judith Pinard[9] F 3 July 1898 13 June 2009 110 years, 345 days Quebec Quebec
Isabelle Descoteaux [22] F 18 November 1906 15 September 2017 110 years, 300 days Quebec Quebec
Zoltan Sarosy M 23 August 1906 19 June 2017 110 years, 300 days Austria-Hungary Ontario
34 Pasqualina Franco[9] F 2 December 1898 16 August 2009 110 years, 257 days Italy Ontario
Mary Ellen Moles[23] F 15 July 1907 7 March 2018 110 years, 235 days Ontario Ontario
35 Mary Ann Scoles[24][25] F 25 December 1896 23 July 2007 110 years, 210 days Manitoba Manitoba
36 Blanche Marinier[6] F 20 March 1892 30 September 2002 110 years, 194 days Quebec Quebec
Alice May Bicknell [26] F 12 May 1907 21 November 2017 110 years, 193 days United Kingdom Ontario
37 Elizabeth Middler[6] F 12 October 1889 19 April 2000 110 years, 190 days United Kingdom Manitoba
38 Marie-Rose Theriault[6] F 8 September 1889 29 February 2000 110 years, 174 days New Brunswick Quebec
39 Flore Belland[6] F 6 September 1872 18 February 1983 110 years, 165 days Quebec Quebec
40 Alina Morton[6] F 10 November 1878 20 April 1989 110 years, 161 days Nova Scotia Nova Scotia
41 Ellen Green[1] F 19 July 1878 4 December 1988 110 years, 138 days United Kingdom British Columbia
42 Dorothy Hodgson[24] F 23 July 1897 7 December 2007 110 years, 137 days United Kingdom British Columbia
43 Mary D'All Parsons[27] F 18 November 1895 15 March 2006 110 years, 127 days United Kingdom Quebec
Anne Maude Keam [28] F 10 December 1907 16 April 2018 110 years, 127 days Ontario Ontario
44 Margaret Cousins[9] F 27 February 1899 31 May 2009 110 years, 93 days Ontario Ontario
45 Marie-Ange Bernard[6] F 2 November 1894 29 January 2005 110 years, 88 days Quebec Quebec
46 Madeleine Savoie[29] F 1 November 1899 24 January 2010 110 years, 84 days New Brunswick New Brunswick
47 Angeline Barrette[6] F 10 December 1896 28 February 2007 110 years, 80 days Quebec Quebec
48 Anna Poirier[6] F 10 November 1885 28 January 1996 110 years, 79 days Quebec Quebec
Hilda Caroline Annie Wood [30] F 17 November 1907 24 January 2018 110 years, 68 days Manitoba Manitoba
49 Mary Sloan[19] F 11 June 1898 12 August 2008 110 years, 62 days Ontario Ontario
50 Laura Rollock[6] F 16 November 1878 29 December 1988 110 years, 43 days Nova Scotia Nova Scotia
51 Emma Welz[31] F 16 June 1884 21 July 1994 110 years, 35 days Ontario Ontario
52 Chester Pushie[6] M 24 June 1884 22 July 1994 110 years, 28 days Nova Scotia Nova Scotia
53 Joseph Saint-Amour[6] M 26 February 1852 16 March 1962 110 years, 18 days Quebec[a] Quebec
54 Rose McDonald[6] F 5 September 1890 16 September 2000 110 years, 11 days Nova Scotia Nova Scotia

a^ Saint-Amour was born in Quebec, which was part of the British Province of Canada in British North America before the Canadian Confederation in 1867.

Canadian emigrant supercentenarians

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age [†] Birthplace Country of death
1 Mary Josephine Ray[1] F 17 May 1895 7 March 2010 114 years, 294 days Prince Edward Island United States
2 Hazel Campbell[1] F 7 December 1903 7 November 2016 112 years, 336 days Quebec United States
3 Fanny Adler Greenberg[24] F 24 May 1895 5 October 2007 112 years, 134 days Ontario United States
4 James McCoubrey[1] M 13 September 1901 5 July 2013 111 years, 295 days Newfoundland and Labrador[a] United States
5 Louise Gibson[6] F 7 August 1883 2 January 1995 111 years, 148 days Nova Scotia United States
6 Virginia Muise[6] F 28 July 1893 2 November 2004 111 years, 97 days Nova Scotia United States
7 Grace-Lillian Schaeffner[6] F 28 November 1878 26 December 1989 111 years, 28 days Ontario United States
8 Clarida Roy[32] F 19 October 1863 18 May 1974 110 years, 211 days Quebec[b] United States
Rena Bagne[33][34] F 2 March 1908 26 August 2018 110 years, 177 days Saskatchewan United States
9 Christine Jodoin[6] F 17 November 1894 11 March 2005 110 years, 114 days Quebec United States
10 Irene Huddle[1] F 12 October 1900 12 January 2011 110 years, 92 days Manitoba United States
11 Irene Nadeau[24] F 25 April 1897 9 June 2007 110 years, 45 days Quebec United States

a^ McCoubrey was a native of Newfoundland, which was a separate colony in 1901. It is now part of Canada.
b^ Roy was born in Quebec, which was part of the British Province of Canada in British North America before the Canadian Confederation in 1867.

Biographies

Marie-Louise Meilleur

Marie-Louise Meilleur
Meilleur in 1998
Born(1880-08-29)August 29, 1880
Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada
Died(1998-04-16)April 16, 1998
(aged 117 years, 230 days)
Corbeil, Ontario, Canada
Cause of deathBlood clot
Known forOldest validated Canadian ever Only Canadian to reach 117
Spouse(s)Etienne Leclerc (1872–1911, m.1900–1911, his death)
Hector Meilleur (1879–1972, m. 1915–1972, his death)
ChildrenMarie-Louise (1901–1940)
Marie-Julienne (1902-1903)
Marie-Albertine (1904-1904)
Gerard (1906–1986)
Gabrielle (1908–2004)
Maurice (1910–1973)
Ernest (1916–2005)
Pauline (1918–1980)
Olive (1920–2010)
Christie (1922–1987)
Alfred (1924–1986)
Rita (1925–2011)
Parent(s)Pierre Chassé (1849–1911)
Febronie Levesque (1852–1912)

Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur (née Chassé; August 29, 1880 – April 16, 1998) was a French Canadian supercentenarian. Meilleur is the oldest validated Canadian ever and upon the death of longevity world record holder Jeanne Calment, became the world's oldest recognized living person.[35]

She was born in Kamouraska, Quebec, where she married her first husband, Étienne Leclerc, at age 20 in 1900 who was a fisherman. Étienne Leclerc died of pneumonia on February 24, 1911, aged 39. Her father died on June 25, 1911, aged 61. Her mother died February 23, 1912, aged 59. Meilleur left two of her four surviving children in 1913 and moved to the Ontario border to help support her sister, whose children were sick with diphtheria. She returned to the Quebec region in 1939, She had six children by her second husband, Hector Meilleur, whom she married in 1915. All of her children moved out in 1942.

Her second husband Hector meilleur died in 1972, of diabetes at age 93. From there she lived first with a daughter and then in a nursing home in Corbeil. Out of her twelve children, only four survived her. She had 85 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren, 57 great-great-grandchildren, and four great-great-great-grandchildren. Meilleur smoked tobacco into her nineties. She quit smoking aged 102 in 1982 when she caught a cold. In 1986 when asked the secret to long life she said hard work. Hard work never kills a person. She became the oldest living person in August 4, 1997, after the death of 122-year-old Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment. Around her 117th birthday she was too weak to talk and she could only hear if someone shouted directly into her right ear.ref>Jr, Robert Mcg Thomas (18 April 1998). "Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, And Felicie Cormier, 118". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 May 2016.</ref>

Meilleur died of a blood clot at age 117 in April 1998 in Corbeil, Ontario. One of her sons was also living in the same nursing home, and her oldest living daughter, Gabrielle Vaughan, was ninety years old. Gabrielle died in 2004 aged 96.[36][37] After Meilleur's death, American woman Sarah Knauss became the world's oldest person.<ref=Supercentenarians/>

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