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Femicide is the intentional murder of women because they are women.

The following list includes women or girls who were killed by men known to them.

We honour and remember the thousands of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls across Canada.

Below is the list of Peel-based femicides as of November 2020. You can find the complete Ontario femicide list here.

2020

Belynda Kerelchuk, 53, Mississauga

Marion Wallace, 81, Mississauga, August 18, 2020

Sangita Sharma, 56, Brampton, August 14, 2020

Darian Hailey Henderson-Bellman, 25, Brampton, July 28, 2020

Brittney Newman, 25, Mississauga, February 9, 2020

Heeral Patel, 28, Toronto resident found murdered in Brampton on January 13, 2020.

2019

Sharanjeet Kaur, 27, Brampton, December 9, 2019.

Lucja “Lucy” Wojtalski, 58, Brampton, September 18, 2019

Maria Lisa Gorospe, 53, Brampton, and her thirteen-year-old son

Christian Gorospe, 13, Brampton. August 2019.

Laura Grant, 57, of Burlington. (Laura was an Emergency Medical Services dispatcher who worked in the Peel Region.). August 21, 2019.

Shubangi Amin, 41, Brampton, May 1, 2019.

Bao Lian Li, 82, Brampton, May 12, 2019. 

Riya Rajkumar, 11, Brampton, February 14, 2019.

Tan Nguyen, 74, Mississauga, Feb. 12, 2019.

2018

Xiuyan Chen, 42, Mississauga, discovered September 25, 2018. Missing since July 2018.

Maria Araujo, 83, Mississauga, December 21, 2018.

Linda Santos, 47, Mississauga, November 1, 2018

Elaine Bellevue, 61, Mississauga

Hoden Said, 30, Brampton

Alicia Lewandowski, 25, Mississauga

2017

Cheryl McVarish, 43, Mississauga

Beata Paciorek, 35, Brampton

Yunying Pan, 40, Mississauga

Baljit Thandi, 32, Brampton

Avtar Kaur, 60, Brampton

2016

Gurpreet Brar, 37, Brampton

Michelle Paterson, 44 Brampton, December 2016

2015

Shariyfa Birkett, 29, Mississauga

Kathryn Horne, 58, from Toronto, Brampton

Ming-Chien (Teresa) Hsin, 59, Mississauga

Galina Alexander, 44, Brampton

Vaishali Patel, 41, Mississauga

2014

Anita Summan, 51, Brampton

Evelyn Castillo, 43, Mississauga

2012

Lakhvir Dhaliwal, 37, Brampton

Aicha Saludares, 40, Mississauga

Guang Hua Liu, 41, Mississauga

Debra Allen, 52, Georgetown (Principal in Brampton)

Marceline Newland, 22, Brampton

2011

Lillian Cardinal, 80, Caledon

Maria Rosario Avidago, 43, Mississauga

Petty Mahabir-Chaitram, 43, Brampton

Marilyn Dellaire, 56, Mississauga

Raquel Junio, 42, Brampton

Kiranjit Nijjar, 17, Mississauga

2010

Charmaine Whitley, 38, Mississauga

Krystina Armstrong, 54, Caledon

2009

Amandeep Kaur Dhillon, 22, Malton

Fatima Lima, 59, Brampton

Helen Slichta, 71, Mississauga

Nevie Phillips, 58, Mississauga