List of disasters in Canada

Template:Multiple issues This list of disasters in Canada includes major disasters (arranged by date), either man-made or natural, that occurred in Canada as currently defined or in adjacent waters. Disasters include natural disasters (major fires and floods) and accidental human disasters such as those relating to transportation, industrial and mining activities, and health (epidemics and pandemics).

List

Pre-1597

Pre-colonial period

Date	Disaster	Type	Location	Region	Notes	Ref(s)

1600-1867

Colonial period

Date	Disaster	Type	Location (modern name)	Region	Deaths	Notes	Ref(s)
Template:Sort	Lachine massacre	Massacre	Lachine, District of Montreal, Canada, New France (Lachine, Quebec)	Central Canada	253
Template:Sort	Cascadia earthquake	Earthquake	British Columbia	West Coast		Mw 8.7 – 9.2 megathrust earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone
Template:Sort	Eruption of Tseax Cone	Volcanic eruption	Tseax Cone, British Columbia	West Coast	2000	One of Canada's worst known geophysical disasters
Template:Sort	HMS Feversham	Shipwreck	Scatarie Island, Colony of Acadia, New France (Scatarie Island, Nova Scotia)	Maritimes	90
Template:Sort	Montreal earthquake	Earthquake	District of Montreal, Canada, New France (Montreal-region, Quebec)	Central Canada		300 damaged houses, as well as 185 buildings destroyed by fire following the earthquake	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Newfoundland hurricane	Hurricane	Colony of Newfoundland (Newfoundland and Labrador)	Atlantic Canada	c. 4,000
Template:Sort	Central Atlantic hurricane	Hurricane	Grand Banks of Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	c. 3,500
Template:Sort	Central Atlantic hurricane	Hurricane	Grand Banks of Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	c. 3,500
Template:Sort	Boston schooner Resolution	Ship capture and Massacre	Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands)	West Coast	11
Template:Sort	Aeneas	Shipwreck	Isle aux Morts, Colony of Newfoundland (Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland and Labrador)	Atlantic Canada	340
Template:Sort	HMS Penelope	Shipwreck	Cap-des-Rosiers, Lower Canada, British North America (Cap-des-Rosiers, Quebec)	Central Canada	40+
Template:Sort	Miramichi Fire	Fire	Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America (Miramichi, New Brunswick)	Maritimes
Template:Sort	HMS Acorn	Shipwreck	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	115
Template:Sort	Despatch	Shipwreck	Isle aux Morts, Colony of Newfoundland (Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland and Labrador)	Atlantic Canada	59
Template:Sort	Sybelle	Shipwreck	St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	316
Template:Sort	Jeannette's Creek train wreck	Train wreck	Jeannettes Creek, Canada West, Province of Canada, British North America (Jeannettes Creek, Ontario)	Central Canada	52
Template:Sort	Desjardins Canal disaster	Train wreck	Hamilton, Canada West, Province of Canada, British North America (Hamilton, Ontario)	Central Canada	59
Template:Sort	SS Montreal	Shipwreck	Quebec City, Canada East, Province of Canada, British North America (Quebec City, Quebec)	Central Canada	253
Template:Sort	SS Hungarian	Shipwreck	Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	205
Template:Sort	1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic	epidemic	West Coast	West Coast	20,000+
Template:Sort	SS Anglo Saxon	Shipwreck	Cape Race, Colony of Newfoundland (Cape Race, Newfoundland and Labrador)	Atlantic Canada	237
Template:Sort	St-Hilaire train disaster	Train wreck	Mont Saint Hilaire, Canada East, Province of Canada, British North America (Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec)	Central Canada	99

1867–1916

Early Dominion Period

Date	Disaster	Type	Location (modern name)	Region	Deaths	Notes	Ref(s)
Template:Sort	SS Atlantic	Shipwreck	Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	535
Template:Sort	Drummond Mine explosion	Mining disaster	Westville, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	60–70	Considered Canada's first mining disaster
Template:Sort	Oil Cabinet Novelty Works Company fire	Fire	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	12		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Great Fire of Saint John	Fire	Saint John, New Brunswick	Maritimes	18-19
Template:Sort	Foord Pit explosion	Mining disaster	Stellarton, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	44
Template:Sort	Victoria steamboat disaster	Shipwreck	Thames River, Ontario	Central Canada	c. 182
Template:Sort	Vale Colliery explosion	Mining disaster	near Stellarton, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	13
Template:Sort	Nanaimo mine explosion	Mining disaster	Nanaimo, British Columbia	West Coast	148
Template:Sort	Québec rockslide	Geologic collapse	near Quebec City, Quebec	Central Canada	40+
Template:Sort	Saint-Jean-de-Dieu asylum fire	Fire	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	86-104
Template:Sort	The Great Fire of 1892	Fire	St. John's, Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada
Template:Sort	Point Ellice Bridge disaster	Traffic-rail accident	Victoria, British Columbia	West Coast	55
Template:Sort	Caledonia Mine explosion	Mining disaster	Glace Bay, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	11
Template:Sort	Great Hull Fire	Fire	Ottawa-Hull, Ontario-Quebec	Central Canada	7	4000 buildings destroyed in Hull (Québec) and Ottawa (Ontario)
Template:Sort	Shipwreck	Sinking of British man of war HMS Condor	Off Cape Flattery?	West Coast	104<ref>"HMS Condor" https://rshg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/HMS-Condor..pdf accessed July 30, 2025</ref>
Template:Sort	Coal Creek (BC) mine disaster	Mining disaster	Coal Creek, British Columbia	West Coast	128
Template:Sort	Wanstead train disaster	Train wreck	Wanstead, Ontario (Wanstead, Ontario)	Central Canada	31<ref>"Petrolia [website]. Wanstead Ontario Wanstead was the scene of a very sad and tragic..." https://www.petroliaheritage.com/wanstead.html accessed August 21, 2025</ref>
Template:Sort	1903 Hamilton Powder Company explosion	Explosion	Departure Bay, British Columbia	West Coast	12		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Frank Slide at Turtle Mountain	Geologic collapse	Turtle Mountain, District of Alberta, Northwest Territories (Turtle Mountain, Alberta)	Prairies	70-90+
Template:Sort	Carbonada coal mine disaster	Coal mine explosion	Carbonada (outside Fernie)	BC	14<ref>Edmonton Bulletin, Nov. 23, 1904</ref>
Template:Sort	Clallam (steamboat)	Shipwreck	Oak Bay, BC	West Coast	56<ref>Paterson, Shipwreck, Tragedy, Piracy and Terror in the Pacific Northwest (Solitaire publication), p. 31-38</ref>
Template:Sort	Sternwheeler Columbian disaster	Shipwreck	At Eagle Rock on the Yukon River, Yukon	Northern Canada	6
Template:Sort	Hochelaga Protestant School fire	Fire	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	17		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	First Quebec Bridge Collapse	Engineering disaster	Quebec City, Quebec	Central Canada	75
Template:Sort	Port Hood Mine explosion	Mining disaster	Port Hood, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	10
Template:Sort	Fernie destroyed by fire	Fire	Fernie, BC	BC	0		Whole town burned down in 90 minutes<ref>https://tourismfernie.com/history/the-great-fire-of-1908 Template:Bare URL inline</ref>
1909 October 5	Wellington Collieries cave-in	Mining disaster	Extension, BC (near Ladysmith)	West Coast	32<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Sort	Spanish River derailment	Train wreck	Nairn and Hyman, Ontario	Central Canada	43-70
Template:Sort	Rogers Pass avalanche	Avalanche	Rogers Pass, British Columbia	West Coast	62
Template:Sort	The Herald fire	Fire	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	32		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Bellevue mine disaster	Mining disaster	Bellevue, Alberta	Prairies	30
1911 July	Great Porcupine fire	Fire	Timmins, Ontario	Central Canada	73 to 200
Template:Sort	Sinking of the RMS Titanic	Shipwreck	Atlantic Ocean, off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	1490-1635
Template:Sort	Regina Cyclone	Tornado	Regina, Saskatchewan	Prairies	28
Template:Sort	The Great Lakes Storm of 1913	Meteorological storm	Ontario	Central Canada	250+
Template:Sort	Hillcrest mine disaster	Mining disaster	Hillcrest, Alberta	Prairies	189
Template:Sort	Southern Cross disaster	ship sinking (likely due to breaking up in storm)	location unknown, in Newfoundland waters	Maritimes	174 (or 173)	episode in the "1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster". Largest death toll in Newfoundland and Labrador's sealing history. ship sank with no trace
Template:Sort	SS Newfoundland	sealing disaster	off northern coast of Newfoundland	Maritimes	78	132 sealers were stranded on an ice floe, resulting in 78 deaths	episode in the "1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster".
Template:Sort	RMS Empress of Ireland collision with Norwegian collier Storstad	Shipwreck	Saint Lawrence River in Quebec	Central Canada	1012
Template:Sort	Britannia Landslide	Geologic collapse	Britannia Mine, British Columbia	West Coast	50–60
Template:Sort	Burning of Parliament Buildings	Fire	Ottawa, Ontario	Central Canada
Template:Sort	Matheson Fire	Fire	Northeastern Ontario	Central Canada	c. 223
Template:Sort	Second Quebec Bridge Collapse	Engineering disaster	Quebec City, Quebec	Central Canada	13

1917–1969

Pre-Centennial Period

Date	Disaster	Type	Location	Region	Deaths	Notes	Ref(s)
Template:Sort	Dominion No. 12 Colliery explosion	Mining disaster	New Waterford, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	65
Template:Sort	Halifax Explosion	Wartime explosion	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	1782	World War I
Template:Sort	Allan Mine explosion	Mining disaster	Stellarton, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	88
Template:Sort	Grey Nuns Motherhouse fire	Fire	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	53+	most of victims were children<ref>"38 children die in Montreal fire", Edmonton Bulletin, February 15, 1918, p. 1</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Sinking of the SS Florizel	Shipwreck	near Cappahayden, Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	94
Template:Sort	Alvin Siding camp fire	Fire	Alvin Siding, Colchester County, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	22		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Protection Island mining disaster	Mining disaster	Nanaimo, BC	West Coast	16	Nanaimo elevator cable snaps
Template:Sort	Sinking of SS Princess Sophia<ref>Ship registered in Victoria, BC</ref>	Shipwreck	near Juneau, Alaska	West Coast	364		<ref>Paterson, Shipwreck, Tragedy, Piracy and Terror in the Pacific Northwest (Solitaire publication), p. 49-54</ref>
Template:Sort	Spanish flu epidemic	Epidemic	world wide	National - all regions	50,000 (Canada)	Labrador hard hit - killed close to one third of Labrador's Inuit population and entirely wiped out the Inuit village of Okak	<ref>"1918 Spanish flu in Canada" https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/1918-spanish-flu-in-canada</ref>
Template:Sort	Dominion Park's Mystic Rill fire	Fire	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	8		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	1921 Britannia Beach flood	Flood	Britannia Creek, BC	West Coast	37	Debris flood torrent kills 37 people in Britannia Beach
Template:Sort	The Great Fire	Fire	Timsikaming District, Ontario	Central Canada	11
Template:Sort	Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake	Earthquake	Charlevoix-region, Quebec	Central Canada
Template:Sort	Laurier Palace Theatre fire	Fire	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	78
Template:Sort	Beauval Indian Residential School fire	Fire	Beauval, Saskatchewan	Prairies	20
Template:Sort	Grand Banks earthquake and tsunami	Tsunami and earthquake	Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	27-28
Template:Sort	Explosion of the SS Viking	Shipwreck/Explosion	near Horse Islands, Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	27	Worst disaster in history of the film industry.
Template:Sort	Cymbeline explosion	Explosion	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	30	Oil tanker explosion	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Coalhurst (Alberta) coal mine disaster	Mining disaster	Coalhurst, Alberta (about 15 kilometres north of Lethbridge)	Prairies	16	coal mine explosion	<ref>"Remembering the Coalhust mine blast" Calgary Herald, December 17, 2024. https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/remembering-the-coalhurst-mine-blast-and-yearning-for-a-simple-christmas accessed August 24, 2025</ref><ref>Janine Coombes, "No Christmas this Year", in Our Treasured Heritage: A History of Coalhurst and District (Lethbridge, Alberta: Coalhurst History Society, 1984), p. 154-161</ref>
Template:Sort	Princess Pit rake disaster	Mining disaster	Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	21
Template:Sort	Pollux-Truxtun Disaster	Double shipwreck	Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	203	Sinkings of USS Pollux and USS Truxtun
Template:Sort	Knights of Columbus Hostel fire	Arson	St John's, Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	99
Template:Sort	Almonte train disaster	Train wreck	Almonte, Ontario	Central Canada
Template:Sort	Explosion in downtown Dawson Creek	dynamite explosion	Dawson Creek, BC	West Coast	21<ref>John Schmidt, This Was No [?] Picnic. 2.4 Years of Wild and Woolly Mayhem in Dawson Creek, p. 11</ref>	World War II Alaska Highway project
Template:Sort	FV Flora Alberta collision	Shipwreck	140 kilometers southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	21
Template:Sort	1944 Montreal RAF Liberator VI crash	Aircrash	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	15
1945 March 6	S.S. Green Hill Park explosion	Explosion	Vancouver, BC	West Coast	8<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Sort	Vancouver Island earthquake	Earthquake	Vancouver Island, BC	West Coast	2
Template:Sort	1946 SABENA DC-4 crash	Aircrash	near Gander, Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	27
Template:Sort	Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108	Aircrash/Bombing	near Sault-au-Cochon, Quebec	Central Canada	23
Template:Sort	SS Noronic fire	Fire/shipwreck	Toronto, Ontario	Central Canada	118+
Template:Sort	1950 Red River flood	Flood	Manitoba	Prairies	3
Template:Sort	Hospice Sainte-Cunégonde fire	Fire	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	35
Template:Sort	McGregor Mine explosion	Mining disaster	Stellarton, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	19
Template:Sort	No. 20 Colliery explosion	Mining disaster	Glace Bay, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	7
Template:Sort	Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 9	Mid-air collision	Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan	Prairies	37	collision between Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA) Flight 9 and a RCAF Harvard trainer aircraft. Death toll included 36 flight crew and passengers, and one person on the ground
Template:Sort	Hurricane Hazel	Hurricane	Ontario	Central Canada	81
Template:Sort	Villa St. Louis disaster	Aircrash	Ontario	Central Canada	15
Template:Sort	Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810	Aircrash	British Columbia	West Coast	62
Template:Sort	Maritime Central Airways Flight 315	Aircrash	near Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun, Quebec	Central Canada	79
Template:Sort	Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing collapse	Engineering disaster	Vancouver, BC	West Coast	18
Template:Sort	Springhill mining disaster	Mining disaster	Springhill, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	75
Template:Sort	Escuminac disaster	Hurricane	New Brunswick	Maritimes	35
Template:Sort	1963 Hanmer explosion	Explosion	Hanmer, Ontario	Central Canada	8
Template:Sort	Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831	Aircrash	Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec	Central Canada	118
Template:Sort	Port Alberni Tsunami	Tsunami	Port Alberni, BC	West Coast	0	Two waves over 2 metres high smashed into community
Template:Sort	Hope Slide	Geologic collapse	Hope, BC	West Coast	4
1965 February 18	Granduc avalanche	Snow slide	Granduc, BC (copper-mining camp near Stewart)	West Coast	26<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Sort	LaSalle Heights disaster	Explosion	LaSalle, Quebec	Central Canada	28
Template:Sort	Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21	Aircrash/Bombing	near 100 Mile House, British Columbia	West Coast	52
Template:Sort	Dorion level crossing accident	Rail disaster	Dorion, Quebec	Central Canada	19
Template:Sort	Wegner Point disaster	Military training disaster<ref>"Wegner Point Fallen Paratroopers" https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/national-inventory-canadian-memorials/details/10260</ref>	Petawawa, Ontario	Central Canada	7
Template:Sort	1969 Montreal fire	Fire	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	7	A fire struck a wooden tenement building in Montreal, killing a mother and six of her children.	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sort	1969 Notre-Dame-Du-Lac Nursing Home Fire	Fire	Notre-Dame-Du-Lac, Quebec	Central Canada	38

1970–2016

Post-Centennial Period

Date	Disaster	Type	Location	Region	Deaths	Notes	Ref(s)
Template:Sort	Air Canada Flight 621	Aircrash	Ontario	Central Canada	109
Template:Sort	Saint-Jean-Vianney landslide	Geologic collapse	Saint-Jean-Vianney, Quebec	Central Canada	31
Template:Sort	Blue Bird Café fire	Arson	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	37
Template:Sort	Gargantua bar attack	Arson	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	13
Template:Sort	SS Edmund Fitzgerald Wreck	Wreck	Lake Superior, Ontario	Maritimes	29
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Template:Sort	Chafe's Nursing Home fire	Fire	Goulds, Newfoundland and Labrador	Maritimes	20		<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Saint John city hall fire	Fire	Saint John, New Brunswick	Maritimes	21
Template:Sort	Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314	Aircrash	Cranbrook, British Columbia	West Coast	43
Template:Sort	Saint John house fire	Fire	Saint John, New Brunswick	Maritimes	7	A fire in a brick home killed seven people, all of whom were related to former hockey player Gordie Clark.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1978 August 4	Eastman Bus Crash	Traffic accident	Eastman, Quebec	Central Canada	40	Second deadliest traffic accident in Canadian history
Template:Sort	No. 26 Colliery explosion	Mining disaster	Glace Bay, Nova Scotia	Maritimes	12
Template:Sort	Mississauga train derailment	Rail disaster	Mississauga, Ontario	Central Canada	0
Template:Sort	Opemiska Community Hall fire	Fire	Chapais, Quebec	Central Canada	48
Template:Sort	CP Rail crew bus crash	Traffic accident	Webb, Saskatchewan	Prairies	22
Template:Sort	1980 Mississauga nursing home fire	Fire	Mississauga, Ontario	Central Canada	25
Template:Sort	Ocean Ranger sinking	Shipwreck	Grand Banks of Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	84
Template:Sort	1985 United States–Canada tornado outbreak	Tornado outbreak	Southern Ontario	Central Canada
Template:Sort	Arrow Air Flight 1285	Aircrash	Gander, Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	256
Template:Sort	Hinton train collision	Rail disaster	Alberta	Prairies	23
Template:Sort	Mindbender crash	Roller Coaster Crash	Galaxyland, West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton, Alberta	Prairies	3
Template:Sort	Edmonton Tornado	Tornado	Edmonton, Alberta	Prairies	27
Template:Sort	Fredericton house arson	Arson	Fredericton, New Brunswick	Maritimes	4	At around 11 p.m. to midnight on April 22, 1988, the rear of the Devon Quik Mart building in Fredericton was set on fire by an individual, resulting in the deaths of a mother and her three children.	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sort	Cormier Village hayride accident	Traffic accident	New Brunswick	Atlantic Canada	13
Template:Sort	École Polytechnique massacre	School shooting	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	15
Template:Sort	Rupert Hotel fire	Arson	Toronto, Ontario	Central Canada	10		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Nunavut canoe disaster	Capsizing	Hall Beach, Nunavut	Northern Canada	7(?)	On July 23, 1991, a canoe capsized near Hall Beach, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). One person survived, and seven others were left missing, presumably drowned.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sort	Westray Mine disaster	Mining disaster	Plymouth, Nova Scotia	Atlantic Canada	26
Template:Sort	Concordia University massacre	School shooting	Montreal, Quebec	Central Canada	4
Template:Sort	Saguenay flood	Flood	Saguenay-region, Quebec	Central Canada	10
Template:Sort	Red River flood of 1997 (Red Sea Flood)	Flood	Manitoba	Prairies	0
Template:Sort	2nd Les Éboulements bus accident	Traffic accident	Quebec	Central Canada	44	Deadliest traffic accident in Canadian history
Template:Sort	Great Ice Storm of 1998	Meteorological storm	Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick	Eastern Canada	28	Massive ice storm hits Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick
Template:Sort	Swissair Flight 111	Aircrash	Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia	Atlantic Canada	229
Template:Sort	87-vehicle pileup on Highway 401 near Windsor, Ontario	Traffic accident	Windsor, Ontario	Central Canada	8
Template:Sort	Walkerton Tragedy	Civic works failure - e. coli outbreak in public water system	Walkerton, Ontario	Central Canada	7
Template:Sort	Pine Lake tornado	Tornado	Pine Lake, Alberta	Prairies	12
Template:Sort	2003 Etobicoke gas explosion	Explosion	Etobicoke, Ontario	Central Canada	7
Template:Sort	Hurricane Juan	Hurricane	Halifax-area, Nova Scotia	Atlantic Canada	8
Template:Sort	Shedden massacre	Massacre	Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario	Central Canada	8
Template:Sort	Dawson College shooting	School shooting	Montréal, Quebec	Central Canada	2
Template:Sort	De la Concorde overpass collapse	Engineering disaster	Laval, Quebec	Central Canada	5
2007 June 22	2007 Elie tornado	Tornado	Elie, Manitoba	Prairies	0	The only recorded F5/EF5 tornado in the history of Canada, costing around $50 million and having a maximum windspeed between 420 km/h to 510 km/h	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	2008 Bathurst Boys in Red accident	Traffic accident	Bathurst, New Brunswick	Atlantic Canada	8
Template:Sort	Toronto propane explosion	Explosion	Downsview, Ontario	Ontario Canada	2
Template:Sort	Cougar Helicopters Flight 91	Air crash	Off Newfoundland	Atlantic Canada	17
Template:Sort	2011 Assiniboine River flood	Flood	Manitoba	Prairies	1
Template:Sort	Slave Lake fire	Wildfires	Slave Lake, Alberta	Prairies	1
Template:Sort	First Air Flight 6560	Aircrash	near Resolute, Nunavut	Northern Canada	12
Template:Sort	Goderich Tornado	Tornado	Goderich, Ontario	Central Canada	1
Template:Sort	Burlington derailment	Rail accident	Burlington, Ontario	Central Canada	3
Template:Sort	2013 Alberta floods	Flood	southwest Alberta around Calgary Region	Prairies	5
Template:Sort	Lac-Mégantic rail disaster	Rail accident	Lac-Mégantic, Quebec	Central Canada	47
Template:Sort	Ottawa bus–train crash	Rail-traffic accident	Ottawa, Ontario	Central Canada	6
Template:Sort	L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire	Fire	L'Isle-Verte, Quebec	Central Canada	32
Template:Sort	Ottawa Parliament shooting	Terrorism	Ottawa, Ontario	Central Canada	2
Template:Sort	La Ronge wildfire	Wildfires	La Ronge, Saskatchewan	Prairies		13,000 people evacuated	<ref name="Evac">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sort	La Loche shootings	Spree shooting	La Loche, Saskatchewan	Prairies	5
Template:Sort	2016 Magdalen Islands Mitsubishi MU-2 crash	Aircrash	Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Magdalen Islands, Quebec	Atlantic Canada	7
Template:Sort	2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire	Wildfires	Fort McMurray, Alberta	Prairies	2	90,000 people evacuated

2017–2023

Pre-Bicentennial Period

Date	Disaster	Type	Location	Region	Deaths	Injured	Notes	Ref(s)
Template:Sort	Quebec City mosque shooting	Mass shooting	Quebec City, Quebec	Central Canada	6	5		<ref name="Quebec Mosque Attack">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Sort	2017 Quebec floods	Flood	Quebec	Quebec	2	Unknown		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	2017 British Columbia wildfires	Wildfires	British Columbia	West Coast	0	Unknown	Provincial state of emergency declared	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	2017 Edmonton attack	Terrorism	Edmonton, Alberta	Prairies	0	5		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Humboldt Broncos bus crash	Bus crash	near Tisdale, Saskatchewan	Prairies	16	13
Template:Sort	Toronto van attack	Vehicle-ramming attack	North York City Centre, North York, Toronto, Ontario	Central Canada	10	16
Template:Sort – July 5	2018 Eastern Canada heat wave	Heat wave	Eastern Canada	Eastern Canada	~54	Unknown		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2018 July 9–10	2018 Saskatchewan Tornado Outbreak	Tornado Outbreak	Southern Saskatchewan	Prairies	0	Unknown	11 confirmed tornadoes touched down between July 9 and 10 in Southern Saskatchewan, the highest of which being rated EF2	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	2018 Toronto shooting	Mass shooting	Toronto, Ontario	Central Canada	3	0	3 deaths include 2 murders (victims) and 1 suicide (perpetrator)	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2018 August 3	2018 Alonsa EF4 Tornado	Tornado	Alonsa, Manitoba	Prairies	1		Between both Canada and the United States, the Alonsa tornado was the only EF4+ rated tornado for the year of 2018	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	2018 British Columbia wildfires	Wildfires	British Columbia	West Coast	Unknown	Unknown	Provincial state of emergency declared	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	2018 United States–Canada tornado outbreak	Tornadoes	Dunrobin, Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Gatineau, Quebec	Eastern Canada	0	31	~$300 million damage	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2019 March 1–2019 December 23	2019 Alberta wildfires	Wildfires	North and Central Alberta	Prairies	0	Unknown	A series of around 1,000 wildfires took place mostly across Northern Alberta burning over 883,000 hectares of forest. The most prominent of the fires being the ones affecting High Level.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	2019 Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick floods	Flood	Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick	Eastern and Central Canada	1			citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort present	COVID-19 pandemic	Pandemic	Canada	National	53,086 (Template:As of)			citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	2020 Nova Scotia attacks	Mass shooting, arson	Nova Scotia	Eastern Canada	23	3		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020 May 17	Canadian Forces Snowbirds jet crash	Aircrash	Kamloops, British Columbia	West Coast	1	1	Canadian Forces Snowbirds jet crashed due to engine trouble. Crew ejected in mid-air. Passenger Capt. Jenn Casey, from Nova Scotia, killed. Pilot injured.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2021 June 15–2021 August 16	2021 British Columbia wildfires	Wildfires	Interior British Columbia	West Coast	2	Unknown	Series of upwards of 1,500 wildfires across the province of British Columbia, was worsened by the heatwave happening at the same time	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Sort	Western Canada Heatwave	Heatwave	Western Canada	Prairies and West Coast	685		Deadliest weather event in the history of Canada
2021 June 30	Lytton wildfire	Wildfire	Lytton, British Columbia	West Coast	2	Several	Over 90% of Lytton destroyed	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2021 November 14	British Columbia Floods	Floods	lower half of British Columbia	West Coast	4	at least 10	Provincial state of emergency declared
2022 January 13	2022 Ottawa Eastway tank explosion	Fire	Ottawa, Ontario	Eastern and Central Canada	6	2	Industrial explosion	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Eastway explosion: A timeline of a disaster and the days that followed, Ottawa Citizen, January 21, 2022</ref><ref>Emergency dispatches offer new perspective on Eastway Tank explosion response, Cbc.ca, July 4, 2022</ref>
2022 September 23–24	Hurricane Fiona	Hurricane	Atlantic Canada	Eastern Canada	3		$660 million in insured damage making Fiona the most costly storm to hit Canada	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2023 February 13	2023 East Ottawa explosion	Explosion (due to construction site gas leak)	Ottawa, Ontario	Eastern Canada	0	12		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023 March 1 - October 6	2023 Canadian wildfires	Wildfires	Alberta, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec	National - all regions	8<ref>Jones, Matthew W.; et al. (August 14, 2024). "State of Wildfires 2023–2024". Earth System Science Data. 16 (8). Copernicus GmbH: 3601–3685. doi:10.5194/essd-16-3601-2024. hdl:10871/137179. ISSN 1866-3516</ref>	Unknown
2023 March 1 - present	2023 Alberta wildfires	Wildfires	North and Central Alberta	Prairies	Unknown	Unknown	Series of more than 750 wildfires across the province of Alberta. In that fire season, the province recorded 1088 fires that burned a total of 2,222,900 hectares (5,492,906 acres). Smoke travelled as far away as Sweden.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023 March 30	2023 St. Lawrence River River boat disaster	Capsizing	Akwesasne, Quebec	Eastern Canada	8		1 person still missing. Victims believed to have been attempting to illegally cross the Canada-US border	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023 May 28 - present	Nova Scotia wildfires	Wildfires	Tantallon, Shelburne, Barrington and Bedford, Nova Scotia	Eastern Canada	0	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	16,000 people evacuated. Shelburne County wildfire amongst largest ever seen in the province.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023 June 14	Southern Alberta June 2023 Tornado Outbreak	Tornado Outbreak	Near Lethbridge and Brooks	Prairies	0	0	At least 10 tornadoes were reported in the afternoon and early evening hours of June 14, 2023 all across the southeastern portion of Alberta	<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023 June 15	Carberry bus crash	Vehicle collision	Near Carberry, Manitoba	Prairies	17	8		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2023 July 21-22	2023 Nova Scotia floods	Flood	Nova Scotia	Eastern Canada	4		Estimated $200 million in damages.
2023 July 28	2023 Alberta Piper PA-32R crash	Aircraft accident	Near Kananaskis Village, Alberta	Prairies	6	0	Nobody on board the aircraft survived.	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

2024–present

Date	Disaster	Type	Location	Region	Deaths	Injured	Notes	Ref(s)
2024 January 23	Northwestern Air Flight 738	Aircraft accident	Fort Smith, NWT	North	6	1	Only 1 person on board the aircraft survived.
2024 July 22-September 7	2024 Jasper wildfire	Wildfire	Jasper National Park, Alberta	Prairies	1	0	32% of the Town of Jasper was destroyed. 25,000 residents were evacuated.

See also

• List of disasters in Canada by death toll
• List of pipeline accidents in Canada
• List of fires in Canada
• List of shipwrecks of Canada

External links

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