List of Canadian supercentenarians


This article lists Canadian supercentenarians. The oldest verified Canadian person ever was Marie-Louise Meilleur, who died in 1998 aged 117 years, 230 days. As of, the oldest living person in Canada is Burdett Sisler, born on 14 April 1915, aged.

100 oldest known Canadians

RankNameGenderBirth DateDeath DateAgeBirthplacePlace of Death
or Residence
1Marie-Louise MeilleurF29 August 188016 April 1998QuebecOntario
2Mary Ann RhodesF12 August 18823 March 1998OntarioOntario
3Julie Winnefred BertrandF16 September 189118 January 2007QuebecQuebec
4Mary Josephine RayF17 May 18957 March 2010Prince Edward IslandUnited States
5Cecile KleinF15 June 190713 January 2022QuebecQuebec
6Phyllis RidgwayF10 March 19074 June 2021United KingdomOntario
7Ellen GibbF26 April 19055 June 2019ManitobaOntario
8Merle BarwisF23 December 190022 November 2014United StatesBritish Columbia
9Anne SamsonF27 February 189129 November 2004Nova ScotiaNew Brunswick
10Shige MineshibaF18 May 19096 January 2023JapanBritish Columbia
11Margaret RomansF16 March 191225 October 2025LatviaQuebec
12Mabel MahF4 July 191030 January 2024British ColumbiaBritish Columbia
13Lillian RossF24 August 187920 March 1993OntarioOntario
14Reita FennellF20 November 190717 April 2021SaskatchewanSaskatchewan
15Zelda McCagueF28 March 18886 August 2001OntarioOntario
16Margaret FitzgeraldF16 September 189620 October 2009New BrunswickNew Brunswick
17Cora HansenF25 March 189918 April 2012United StatesAlberta
18Alice SjöquistF25 October 18787 November 1991United KingdomBritish Columbia
19Fanny MartlandF19 November 18881 December 2001United KingdomBritish Columbia
20Sarah Patenaude-BruyèreF20 February 190717 February 2020OntarioQuebec
21Hazel CampbellF7 December 19037 November 2016QuebecUnited States
22Hazel SkuceF7 February 19123 January 2025ManitobaManitoba
23Flora ThibodeauF24 March 190122 January 2014New BrunswickNew Brunswick
24Pearl LutzkoF15 February 18992 November 2011UkraineSaskatchewan
25Adéa Pellerin-CormierF11 September 190124 May 2014New BrunswickNew Brunswick
26Henrietta IrwinF27 May 190615 January 2019United KingdomOntario
27Gertruda GoreckaF12 November 191125 June 2024German EmpireOntario
28Helen DoanF18 September 191118 April 2024OntarioOntario
29Alexina St. Pierre-LoyerF21 November 190722 May 2020QuebecQuebec
30Yvonne Delorme-MartelF22 October 19097 April 2022QuebecQuebec
31Annie BurttF5 July 188011 December 1992New BrunswickNew Brunswick
32Mary RobertsF5 October 190611 March 2019United KingdomBritish Columbia
33Clara MackenzieF7 October 18855 March 1998NewfoundlandUnited States
34Hazel SchultzF12 January 191327 May 2025SaskatchewanUnited States
35Fannie GreenbergF24 May 18955 October 2007OntarioUnited States
36Marie-Laure NadonF12 April 188918 August 2001QuebecQuebec
37Annette Sabourin BrunetF4 January 19128 April 2024QuebecQuebec
38Mary MacIsaacF27 December 189310 March 2006New BrunswickSaskatchewan
39Tilly OslenderF24 March 19071 June 2019UkraineOntario
40Julia HoudeF18 September 189418 November 2006QuebecQuebec
41Mamie SmithF1 March 188925 April 2001OntarioOntario
42Orma SlackF19 February 190313 April 2015OntarioOntario
43Mary Ellen SwanF24 June 189210 August 2004United KingdomOntario
44Margherita ButtiriF8 May 190823 June 2020CroatiaAlberta
45Maria MallozziF25 September 188726 October 1999ItalyOntario
46Emma GalodeF22 August 18829 September 1994NewfoundlandOntario
47Simonne LeducF31 October 191126 October 2023QuebecQuebec
48Elizabeth BuhlerF8 February 189923 January 2011UkraineManitoba
48Marie-Blanche PortelanceF21 March 19095 March 2021QuebecQuebec
50Colombe Benoît-LeclercF5 February 190314 January 2015QuebecQuebec
51Agnes MunceF17 January 187716 December 1988OntarioAlberta
52Yvonne LamoureuxF5 December 19002 November 2012QuebecQuebec
53Arthur NashM7 January 18854 November 1996United KingdomManitoba
54James McCoubreyM13 September 19015 July 2013NewfoundlandUnited States
55Molly SchmidtF22 July 19058 May 2017AlbertaUnited States
56Marguerite WabanoF28 January 190413 November 2015OntarioOntario
57Delima PlouffeF9 June 188122 March 1993OntarioOntario
58Isabel DrydenF16 October 188820 July 2000OntarioBritish Columbia
59Alice McLellanF6 August 188329 April 1995Nova ScotiaNova Scotia
59Florence WebberF22 July 190813 April 2020Nova ScotiaNova Scotia
61Reuben SinclairM5 December 191127 August 2023SaskatchewanBritish Columbia
62Dora SkeenF29 December 191019 September 2022JamaicaOntario
63Merle O'HaraF20 February 19124 November 2023JamaicaBritish Columbia
64Minnie MudieF18 November 188527 July 1997SaskatchewanBritish Columbia
65Irene LantzF2 March 191424 October 2025SaskatchewanAlberta
66Berthe Courtemanche VerdoneF11 May 191431 December 2025QuebecQuebec
67Jemima WestcottF10 January 191124 August 2022ManitobaManitoba
68Marie-Louise MeunierF15 March 188724 October 1998QuebecQuebec
69Eva Carrier-DelisleF29 April 190822 November 2019QuebecQuebec
70Herman Smith-JohannsenM15 June 18755 January 1987NorwayQuebec
70Emilienne Marcil-PigeonF29 March 191119 October 2022QuebecQuebec
72Gloriam Bellerive-HebertF28 June 190114 January 2013QuebecQuebec
73Evangeline SaulnierF11 September 189019 March 2002New BrunswickNew Brunswick
74Madge SnellingF18 August 190822 February 2020United KingdomOntario
75Ethel LymanF8 June 18809 December 1991OntarioQuebec
76Marie BibeaultF31 January 188229 July 1993QuebecQuebec
77Janet LuscombeF12 August 191025 January 2022NewfoundlandOntario
78Edith MoreyF28 July 19008 January 2012OntarioOntario
79Jennie SutherlandF4 October 190615 March 2018United StatesAlberta
80Rose LavenderF29 August 18861 February 1998United KingdomOntario
81Louise GibsonF7 August 18832 January 1995Nova ScotiaUnited States
82George IvesM17 November 188112 April 1993United KingdomBritish Columbia
83Katherine WowchukF18 August 19018 January 2013UkraineManitoba
83Lilian CornellF21 August 190411 January 2016United KingdomSaskatchewan
85Isabella HayesF17 June 19005 November 2011United KingdomOntario
86Hannah BradfordF28 December 18702 May 1982United KingdomOntario
87Clara HorvathF5 January 19117 May 2022British ColumbiaBritish Columbia
88Eloise ChandlerF21 January 191012 May 2021British GuianaOntario
89Marguerite RobertsonF13 May 190731 August 2018Nova ScotiaBritish Columbia
90Bessie RoffeyF2 March 189717 June 2008United KingdomAlberta
91Virginia MuiseF28 July 18932 November 2004Nova ScotiaUnited States
92Emily McCoolF13 December 190911 March 2021OntarioOntario
93Mariette BarszczewiczF8 January 19094 April 2020BelgiumOntario
94Gisele ChalifourF20 June 190713 September 2018QuebecQuebec
95J. H. O.F17 January 191411 April 2025United KingdomBritish Columbia
96Anna NielsenF2 April 190419 June 2015DenmarkBritish Columbia
97Maria LacasseF6 December 191321 February 2025QuebecQuebec
98Linda YaleF28 December 191211 March 2024QuebecBritish Columbia
99Louise-Anna Turcotte-BrouilletteF5 September 190512 November 2016QuebecQuebec
100Rachel BatemanF16 January 186518 March 1976OntarioManitoba

Biographies

Julie Winnefred Bertrand

Julie Winnefred Bertrand was the oldest woman and the second-oldest living person in the world behind Emiliano Mercado del Toro of Puerto Rico at the time of her death.
Bertrand was born in the Quebec mill town of Coaticook to her parents Napoleon Bertrand and Julia Mullins, and was the eldest out of six siblings. She spent her working career as a clothes buyer and saleswoman in her hometown. And although Bertrand never married, it was speculated that she was fairly close with Louis St. Laurent, who would eventually become the 12th prime minister of Canada.
She resided at a longterm care facility in Montreal throughout the last 35 years of her life. And upon being announced as the world's oldest woman after the death of Elizabeth Bolden of the United States on 11 December 2006, she wasn't hesitant with declining interviews about her new record.
Bertrand died in her sleep on 18 January 2007, after her death, Emma Tillman of the United States succeeded her as the world's oldest woman.

James McCoubrey

James Foster McCoubrey was a Canadian-born American supercentenarian. Along with being the oldest living Canadian man at the time of his death, he was also the second-oldest known living man in both the United States and the rest of the world behind 112-year-old Spanish-born Salustiano Sánchez.
McCoubrey was born in St. John's, Newfoundland to his parents George Andrew McCoubrey and Jennie Isabel Foster. His father died from tuberculosis when he was just a toddler, and as a result, he moved into the house of his aunt Mary Foster who resided in Halifax, Nova Scotia. McCoubrey eventually moved houses for a second time at the age of 8, but this time to the United States in Cambridge, Massachusetts so he could reside with his mother again. He soon became an American citizen after his mother married his stepfather of James Hicks.
Throughout his adulthood, McCoubrey worked with various insurance companies and later started an insurance business of his own that worked in the motorcycle industry. He met his future wife Rose Helga Aurora Nordbeck at a canoe club on the Charles River in Boston in 1923 and went to marry her not that long after. Their only child, Patricia, was born in 1929 and the couple were married for nearly 70 years before Nordbeck's death in 1992 at the age of 90. After becoming widowed, he moved to his daughter and son-in-law's home in Walnut Creek, California, where he would reside for the remaining 20 years of his life.
Shortly after the passing of his wife, McCoubrey purchased his first computer at the age of 93, where he would often talk with other seniors over chat rooms. He continued to use the computer well into his centenarian years, and regularly responded to emails until a few years before his death. At the time of his 111th birthday in 2012, he was still in remarkably good shape for his age, being able to walk around his home unassisted and helping out with household chores. His advanced age came as a surprise to those who met him, as his mostly wrinkle-free skin and good health gave him the appearance of someone many decades younger.
McCoubrey was thought to have gained the world's oldest man title after the death of Jiroemon Kimura of Japan on 12 June 2013, who lived on to become the oldest verified man to ever live. He held the record until his death from pneumonia on 5 July 2013; however, the validation of Salustiano Sánchez meant McCoubrey never got the oldest living man title but still holds the record of being the oldest validated man ever born in Canada.

Reuben Sinclair

Reuben "Rube" Sinclair was the oldest known living man in Canada, and oldest known living veteran of World War II.
Sinclair was born on the outskirts of Lipton, Saskatchewan to Yitzok and Fraida Sinclair – Ukrainian Jews that immigrated to Canada in 1905. His two older brothers, Samuel and Sol, were born in Ukraine, while his older sister Clara and younger brother Joe were born in Canada. His family's land was provided by the Jewish Colonisation Association. He worked on their farm.
Sinclair joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 and was stationed at North Battleford. According to his daughter, he "couldn't stand by and do nothing while people were dying in Europe". He taught pilots how to take off and land during blackouts, before radar was commonplace. Once it became standard, he worked in equipping aircraft with transmitters and receivers. His younger brother Joe served in the army, and after the war they moved to Richmond, British Columbia and started Sinclair Bros. Garage and Auto Wrecking.
He married a woman named Ida and they had three children: Nadine Lipetz, Karen and Len. In 1964, they moved to California; Sinclair suffered from migraines due to the war and his wife suggested they move to California to escape the cold weather and live closer to her siblings. His brother-in-law offered him a job in a furniture store in Anaheim. Ida suffered a stroke in 1994 and the Sinclairs moved back to British Columbia the same year. She died in 1996. Reuben resided in Richmond.
Sinclair was vaccinated against COVID-19 in March 2021, one of the oldest people to do so. Following the death of 109-year-old Tom Lumby on 19 June 2021, Sinclair was believed to have become Canada's oldest veteran. He became the oldest Canadian-born man upon the death of 110-year-old Arnold Hawkins on 18 September 2021. In November 2021, he had six grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. His family spanned five generations at the time of his death.
Following the death of 111-year-old American Ezra Hill on 4 October 2022, Sinclair was believed to have been the oldest World War II veteran in the world.