List of disasters in Canada

This is a list of disasters (man-made and natural) in Canada arranged by date. For a list organized by number of fatalities, see List of Canadian disasters by death toll.

• 1732 September 16 Montreal earthquake, Quebec
• 1775 Eruption of the Tseax Cone, British Columbia (one of Canada's worst known geophysical disasters)
• 1825 October 7 Miramichi Fire, New Brunswick
• 1864 June 29 St-Hilaire train disaster, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
• 1881 May 24 Queen Victoria river steamer sinking
• 1889 September 19 Québec rockslide
• 1896 May 26 Point Ellice Bridge Disaster, Victoria, BC
• 1903 April 29 Frank Slide at Turtle Mountain, Alberta
• 1906 September 25 Sternwheeler Columbian disaster at Eagle Rock on the Yukon River, Yukon
• 1907 August 29 First Quebec Bridge Collapse
• 1910 March 4 Rogers Pass avalanche, BC
• 1912 April 15 Sinking of the RMS Titanic off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
• 1912 June 30 Regina Cyclone
• 1913 November The Great Lakes Storm of 1913
• 1914 June 19 Hillcrest mine disaster, Alberta
• 1914 May 29 RMS Empress of Ireland collision Saint Lawrence River
• 1916 February 3 Burning of Parliament Buildings
• 1916 July Matheson Fire, Northeastern Ontario
• 1916 Second Quebec Bridge Collapse
• 1917 December 6 Halifax Explosion
• 1918 October 25 SS Princess Sophia Canadian Liner sinks near Juneau, Alaska
• 1922 October 4 and 5 The Great Fire (Timsikaming District, Ontario)
• 1925 February 2 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake, Quebec
• 1927 January 9 Laurier Palace Theatre fire Montreal, Quebec
• 1929 November 18 Grand Banks earthquake and tsunami, Burin Peninsula
• 1942 December 12 Knights of Columbus Hostel fire St John's, Newfoundland
• 1946 June 23 Vancouver Island earthquake, British Columbia
• 1949 September 17 SS Noronic fire in Toronto
• 1950 1950 Red River Flood
• 1954 Hurricane Hazel
• 1956 May 15 Villa St. Louis Disaster
• 1956 December 9 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810
• 1958 June 17 Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing collapse
• 1958 October 23 Springhill Mining Disaster Springhill, Nova Scotia
• 1959 June 20 Escuminac Disaster New Brunswick
• 1963 November 29 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec
• 1965 January 9 Hope Slide in British Columbia
• 1966 October 7 Dorion level crossing accident
• 1971 May 4 Saint-Jean-Vianney landslide
• 1973 April–May massive flood destroys Fredericton's surrounding area
• 1982 February 15 Ocean Ranger, Grand Banks of Newfoundland
• 1983 June 2 Air Canada Flight 797
• 1985 June 23 Air India Flight 182
• 1985 December 12 Arrow Air Flight 1285 Gander, Newfoundland
• 1986 February 8 Hinton Train Disaster
• 1987 July 31 Edmonton Tornado
• 1989 October 8 Cormier Village hayride accident
• 1992 May 9 Westray Mine Disaster Plymouth, Nova Scotia
• 1996 Massive inundations hit the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec
• 1997 April Red River Flood, 1997
• 1997 2nd Les Éboulements Bus Accident
• 1998 January 5–9, massive ice storm hits Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick
• 1998 September 2 Swissair Flight 111 Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia
• 2000 May Walkerton Tragedy
• 2000 July 14 Pine Lake, Alberta Tornado
• 2003 September 29 Hurricane Juan Halifax, Nova Scotia
• 2006 September 30 De la Concorde overpass collapse, Laval, Quebec
• 2008 January 12 Bathurst van collision, Bathurst, New Brunswick
• 2009 March 12 Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 off of Newfoundland.
• 2010 September 21 Hurricane Igor Cape Race, Newfoundland
• 2011 May 15 Slave Lake fire, Alberta
• 2011 August 20 First Air Flight 6560 near Resolute Bay, Nunavut

External links

• Canadian Disasters: an historical survey by Robert L. Jones