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.
- 1700 Eruption of Tseax Cone, British Columbia (one of Canada's worst known geophysical disasters)
- 1732 September 16 Montreal earthquake, Quebec
- 1825 October 7 Miramichi Fire, New Brunswick
- 1864 June 29 St-Hilaire train disaster, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
- 1877 June 20 Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick
- 1881 May 24 Queen Victoria river steamer sinking
- 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion, 148 dead
- 1889 September 19 Québec rockslide
- 1892 July 8 The Great Fire of 1892 (St. John's, Newfoundland)
- 1896 May 26 Point Ellice Bridge disaster, Victoria, British Columbia
- 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, British Columbia
- 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
- 1915 Britannia Mine, British Columbia – Massive landslide kills 50–60 people
- 1916 February 3 Burning of Parliament Buildings
- 1916 July Matheson Fire, Northeastern Ontario
- 1916 Second Quebec Bridge Collapse
- 1917 December 6 Halifax Explosion
- 1918 September 10 Protection Island mining disaster, Nanaimo elevator cable snaps, 16 dead
- 1921 Britannia Creek, British Columbia – Debris flood torrent kills 37 people in Britannia Beach
- 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, Toronto, Ontario
- 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, British Columbia
- 1965 March 1 LaSalle Heights disaster, LaSalle, Quebec
- 1966 October 7 Dorion level crossing accident
- 1970 July 5 Air Canada Flight 621
- 1971 May 4 Saint-Jean-Vianney landslide
- 1972 September 1 Blue Bird Café fire
- 1979 November 10 Mississauga train derailment
- 1982 February 15 Ocean Ranger, Grand Banks of Newfoundland
- 1985 May 31 1985 Barrie tornado outbreak
- 1985 December 12 Arrow Air Flight 1285 Gander, Newfoundland
- 1986 February 8 Hinton train collision
- 1987 July 31 Edmonton Tornado
- 1989 October 8 Cormier Village hayride accident
- 1992 May 9 Westray Mine disaster Plymouth, Nova Scotia
- 1996 July 19–20 Saguenay flood
- 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
- 1999 September 3 87-vehicle pileup on Highway 401 near Windsor, Ontario
- 2000 May Walkerton Tragedy
- 2000 July 14 Pine Lake tornado, Alberta
- 2003 April 24 2003 Etobicoke gas explosion
- 2003 September 29 Hurricane Juan, Halifax, Nova Scotia area
- 2005 August 2 Air France Flight 358 at Toronto Pearson International Airport (0 deaths, known as the "Miracle in Toronto")
- 2006 September 30 De la Concorde overpass collapse, Laval, Quebec
- 2008 January 12 2008 Bathurst Boys in Red accident, Bathurst, New Brunswick
- 2009 March 12 Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 off of Newfoundland.
- 2010 September 21 Hurricane Igor, Cape Race, Newfoundland area
- 2011 June 2011 Assiniboine River flood, Manitoba
- 2011 May 15 Slave Lake fire, Alberta
- 2011 August 20 First Air Flight 6560 near Resolute, Nunavut
- 2011 August 21 Goderich Tornado, Goderich, Ontario
- 2012 February 26 Burlington derailment, Burlington, Ontario
- 2013 June 20–July 12 2013 Alberta floods, southwest Alberta around Calgary Region
- 2013 July 6 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, Lac-Mégantic, Quebec
- 2013 September 18 Ottawa bus-train crash, Ottawa, Ontario
- 2014 January 23 L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire, L'Isle-Verte, Quebec
- 2014 August 4 Mount Polley mine disaster near Likely, British Columbia
- 2015 July La Ronge wildfire, La Ronge, Saskatchewan
- 2016 March 29 2016 Magdalen Islands Mitsubishi MU-2 crash, Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec
- 2016 May 1–June 14 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire, Fort McMurray, Alberta
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