OTTAWA – Canadians have donated more than $82 million so far to help Haitians struck by a devastating earthquake, the federal government announced Wednesday morning as the Canadian death toll from the disaster rose to 21.

The bodies of Katie Hadley, 30, of Prescott, Ont., and Anne Chabot, a 46-year-old civil servant from Montreal, have been found and identified in the rubble of the Montana Hotel, which was destroyed in the Jan. 12 temblor that has left hundreds of thousands dead and up to two million homeless.

Hadley was an engineer who had arrived in Haiti just hours before the quake, and was to work with Ottawa-based Franz Environmental Ltd. in the country. According to a Facebook posting, her body is to be flown home for a memorial service in Ottawa.

Cabot had also just arrived in the Haitian capital when the quake hit. She was in the country to help establish a public school website.

Another 147 Canadians remain unaccounted for.

Peter Kent, minister of state for the Americas, said the government’s priority remains ensuring the safety of Canadians in Haiti and embassy staff have fanned out to collect children whose adoptions by Canadian families have been approved. A second flight of 52 Haitian children is to arrive in Ottawa at 1 p.m.

International Development Minister Bev Oda said as of 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, 14 Canadian charities had reported donations totaling $82.5 million. The federal government has pledged to match donations made by Canadians and has lifted its initial cap of $50 million.

“Canada can take pride in the generous response we’re seeing,” said Oda as she rattled off a list of help that CIDA and those charities are bringing to Haiti.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty admitted the cost of helping Haiti and matching those donations are one of the things he will have to grapple with as he prepares his next budget to be tabled March 4.

Flaherty also urged countries around the world like Taiwan and Venezuela to follow Canada‚s lead and excuse Haiti’s debt to allow the country to rebuild without being held back by its past. Flaherty, who cancelled Haiti’s debt to Canada last year, said he will press the issue when he meets with G7 finance minister in Iqaluit next week.

Meanwhile, thousands are expected to gather at the Notre Dame Basilica in Ottawa today for the funeral of RCMP Supt. Doug Coates, who was also killed in the quake. He was serving as a senior member of the UN delegation in Haiti, and was working out of the United Nations headquarters in Port au Prince, which collapsed when the quake hit.