List Of Disasters In Canada By Death Toll
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This list of Canadian disasters by death toll includes major disasters (excluding
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) that occurred on Canadian soil or involved Canadian citizens, in a definable incident, where the loss of life was 10 or more.


200 or more deaths


100 to 199 deaths


10 to 99 deaths

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St-Hilaire train disaster The St-Hilaire train disaster occurred on June 29, 1864, near the present-day town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. A passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River after the crew failed to obey a stop signal. The wide ...
, Richelieu River,
Beloeil, Quebec Beloeil (; ) is city in Quebec, Canada. It is a suburb of Montreal, on the South Shore and is on the Richelieu River, east of Montreal. According to the official Commission de toponymie du Québec, the name is written Belœil with an oe ligat ...
, June 29, 1864 '' eadliest train disaster in Canada' * 99 –
Knights of Columbus Hostel fire The Knights of Columbus Hostel fire was a structure fire that occurred on December 12, 1942, in St. John's, Newfoundland in a hostel operated by the Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic fraternal organization. A total of 99 people were killed ...
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St John's, Newfoundland St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. The city spans and is the easternmost city in North America ...
, December 12, 1942 * 84 – ''
Ocean Ranger ''Ocean Ranger'' was a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit that sank in Canadian waters on 15 February 1982. It was drilling an exploration well on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, east of St. John's, Newfoundland, for Mobil Oil of ...
'' oil platform sinking,
Grand Banks The Grand Banks of Newfoundland are a series of underwater plateaus south-east of the island of Newfoundland on the North American continental shelf. The Grand Banks are one of the world's richest fishing grounds, supporting Atlantic cod, swordf ...
, February 15, 1982 * 81 '' anadian fatalities only' – Hurricane Hazel, Toronto, October 1954 * 78 – SS ''Newfoundland'' seal hunt disaster, Newfoundland, March 1914 * 77 – Laurier Palace Theatre Fire, Montreal, January 9, 1927 * 76 – Quebec Bridge first collapse, August 29, 1907 * 74 – Third
Springhill mining disaster Springhill mining disaster may refer to any of three deadly Canadian mining disasters that occurred in 1891, 1956, and 1958 in different mines within the Springhill coalfield, near the town of Springhill in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. In t ...
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Springhill, Nova Scotia Springhill is a community located in central Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The community was founded as "Springhill Mines." Coal mining led to economic growth, with its incorporation as a town in 1889. The mines in the Springhill coal ...
, October 23, 1958 * 74 – The
2018 North American heat wave The 2018 North American heat wave affected regions of Canada, where at least 70 deaths in Quebec were heat-related, the United States, where 18 states between Michigan and New Mexico issued heat advisories to a population of over 60 million people ...
resulted in 74 deaths in Quebec * 73-200 –
Great Porcupine Fire The Great Porcupine Fire of 1911 was one of the most devastating forest fires ever to strike the Ontario northland. Spring had come early that year, followed by an abnormally hot dry spell that lasted into the summer. This created ideal condition ...
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Porcupine, Ontario The city of Timmins, Ontario, Canada contains many named neighbourhoods. Some former municipalities that were merged into Timmins continue to be treated as distinct postal and telephone exchanges from the city core. According to Barnes, "With the ...
, July 10, 1911 * 70 –
Desjardins Canal disaster The Desjardins Canal disaster was a rail transport disaster which occurred near Hamilton, Ontario. The train wreck occurred at 6:15p.m. on when a train on the Great Western Railway crashed through a bridge over the Desjardins Canal, causing the tr ...
, railway bridge collapse, March 12, 1857 * 70 – Frank Slide, Turtle Mountain (Alberta), April 29, 1903 * 64 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 (CP402) McDonnell Douglas DC-8-43 crashed on landing,
Tokyo, Japan Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
March 4, 1966 * 63 '' anadian fatalities only' – Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, January 8, 2020 '' atalities may exclude some holders of Iranian passports ' * 62 –
Rogers Pass avalanche The 1910 Rogers Pass Avalanche killed 58 men clearing a railroad line just outside of Revelstoke in Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia on March 4, 1910. It is Canada's worst avalanche disaster. Rogers Pass The Canadi ...
, Rogers Pass,
British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
, March 4, 1910 * 62 –
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810-9 was a Canadair North Star on a scheduled flight from Vancouver to Calgary (continuing to Regina, Winnipeg, and Toronto). The plane crashed into Mount Slesse near Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, on ...
, Chilliwack, British Columbia, December 9, 1956 * 59 – ''Despatch'' shipwreck, Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, July 12, 1828 * 55 – Point Ellice Bridge Disaster,
Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. Th ...
, May 26, 1896 * 55-58 – 1926 Nova Scotia hurricane, August 8, 1926 '' pproximate figure, most deaths occurred at sea' *54 – 2018 Eastern Canada heat wave * 52 – Great Western Railway passenger train collides with the tail end of gravel train at Baptiste Creek, Canada West. October 27, 1854 * 52-232 –
1900 Galveston hurricane The 1900 Galveston hurricane, also known as the Great Galveston hurricane and the Galveston Flood, and known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900 or the 1900 Storm, is the deadliest natural disaster in United States history and the third-d ...
, September 12–14, 1900 '' pproximate figure, most deaths occurred at sea' * 52 –
Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 was a scheduled domestic flight from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, via Prince George, Fort St. John, Fort Nelson and Watson Lake on July 8, 1965. The Douglas DC-6B pla ...
Douglas DC-6B crashed near Dog Creek,
British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
when a bomb blew its tail section away, July 8, 1965 * 48 – Opémiska Community Hall fire, Chapais, Quebec, December 31, 1979 * 47 –
Lac-Mégantic rail disaster The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, at approximately 01:15 EDT, when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation cr ...
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Lac-Mégantic, Quebec Lac-Mégantic () is a town in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on Lac Mégantic, a freshwater lake after which the town was named. Situated in the former Frontenac County in the historic Eastern Townships, Lac-Mé ...
, July 6, 2013 * 44 – Spanish River derailment, Northern Ontario, January 21, 1910 * 44 – US Military DC-4 crash, 42 US military personnel and 2 civilians, presumably somewhere in
Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...
or British Columbia, January 26, 1950 * 44 –
1997 Les Éboulements bus accident The 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident, also known as the St. Joseph Bus Accident, occurred on Thanksgiving Day, October 13, 1997, in Les Éboulements (St-Joseph-de-la-Rive), Quebec, Canada. 44 died as a result of the crash, making it the deadlies ...
, Quebec, October 13, 1997 * 43 – Great Fire of 1922,
Timiskaming District, Ontario Timiskaming is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from pa ...
, October 4–5, 1922 * 43 – SARS outbreak,
Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
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Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...
, February - September 2003 (''out of 251 total cases'') * 42 – Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, Cranbrook/
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, February 11, 1978 * 40+ – HMS ''Penelope'', April 30, 1815, near Cap des Rosiers (''many survivors later froze to death'') * 40 –
Québec rockslide The Quebec rockslide occurred on September 19, 1889, after a day of heavy rain in Quebec City, Canada. An overhanging piece of slate rock broke off from Cap Diamant and fell 90 metres (300 feet) onto the houses below. The homes of 28 families on C ...
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Cap Diamant Cap Diamant (English: Cape Diamond) is a cape on an edge of the Promontory of Quebec and on which Quebec City is located, formed by the confluence of a bend in the St. Lawrence River to the south and east, and the much smaller Saint-Charles River t ...
, September 19, 1889 * 40 – SS ''Islander'' (Canadian Pacific Steam Navigation Company), sunk by iceberg,
Lynn Canal Lynn Canal is an inlet (not an artificial canal) into the mainland of southeast Alaska. Lynn Canal runs about from the inlets of the Chilkat River south to Chatham Strait and Stephens Passage. At over in depth, Lynn Canal is the deepest fjord ...
south of Juneau, Alaska, August 15, 1901 * 40 '' anadian fatalities only' – ''
Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United ...
'', sank April 15, 1912 (Canadian deaths only of 1,517 total) * 40 – Eastman bus accident, Eastman, Quebec, August 4, 1978 * 39 – Hollinger Mining Disaster, Timmins, Ontario, February 10, 1928 * 39 – Almonte train wreck, December 27, 1942 * 39 – Second
Springhill mining disaster Springhill mining disaster may refer to any of three deadly Canadian mining disasters that occurred in 1891, 1956, and 1958 in different mines within the Springhill coalfield, near the town of Springhill in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. In t ...
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Springhill, Nova Scotia Springhill is a community located in central Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The community was founded as "Springhill Mines." Coal mining led to economic growth, with its incorporation as a town in 1889. The mines in the Springhill coal ...
, November 1, 1956 * 37 – Great Labrador Gale of 1867, October 9, 1867 * 37+ –
1869 Saxby Gale The Saxby Gale was a tropical cyclone which struck eastern Canada's Bay of Fundy region on the night of October 4–5, 1869. The storm was named for Lieutenant Stephen Martin Saxby, a naval instructor who, based on his astronomical studies, ha ...
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Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...
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New Brunswick New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and ...
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Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has seve ...
, October 4–5, 1869 '' ost deaths occurred at sea' * 37 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas C-54 A-10-DC disappeared en route without trace out of
Vancouver, British Columbia Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...
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Anchorage, Alaska Anchorage () is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alaska by population. With a population of 291,247 in 2020, it contains nearly 40% of the state's population. The Anchorage metropolitan area, which includes Anchorage and the neighboring Ma ...
, July 21, 1951 * 37 –
Blue Bird Café fire The Blue Bird Café fire was a nightclub fire on September 1, 1972, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In all, 37 people were killed as a result of arson. The fire was the worst in Montreal since 1927, when 77 people perished in the Laurier Palace The ...
, Montreal, September 1, 1972 * 35 –
1959 Escuminac Hurricane The 1959 Escuminac disaster (also to referred to as the Escuminac hurricane) was considered the worst fishing-related disaster in New Brunswick in 100 years. It occurred due to the extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane. The stor ...
, Gulf of St. Lawrence, June 19, 1959 * 32 –
L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire The L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire took place around 12:35 a.m. on January 23, 2014, at the Résidence du Havre nursing home in L'Isle-Verte, Quebec, Canada, killing 32 people and injuring 15. Casualties The impacted wing of the building b ...
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L'Isle-Verte, Quebec L'Isle-Verte () is a small municipality located along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, Quebec, Canada. The name of the village refers to '' Île Vert ...
, January 23, 2014 * 31 – Halifax Poor House Fire, November 7, 1882 * 31 – Dugald train disaster,
Dugald, Manitoba Dugald is a community in Manitoba, Canada, located 22 kilometres east of Winnipeg at the junction of PTH 15 and Provincial Road 206 in the Rural Municipality of Springfield. It was the site of a railway accident in 1947. In the Dugald trai ...
, September 1, 1947 * 31 –
Saint-Jean-Vianney, Quebec Saint-Jean-Vianney was a village in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, which was abandoned after it was partially destroyed in a landslide on May 4, 1971. History Saint-Jean-Vianney was originally created as a parish municipality in 1 ...
mudslide, May 4, 1971 * 30 – John B. King Explosion, near
Brockville, Ontario Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically independent of the county. It is included with Le ...
, June 26, 1930, lightning struck a drill boat containing dynamite * 30 '' st.' – Quebec blizzard, March 3–5, 1971 (conservative estimate, all in Quebec) * 29 –
1929 Grand Banks earthquake The 1929 Grand Banks earthquake (also called the Laurentian Slope earthquake and the South Shore Disaster) occurred on November 18, 1929. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Rossi–Forel intensity of VI (''Strong tremor'') and ...
and
tsunami A tsunami ( ; from ja, 津波, lit=harbour wave, ) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explo ...
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Burin Peninsula The Burin Peninsula ( ) is a peninsula located on the south coast of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Marystown is the largest population centre on the peninsula.Statistics Canada. 2017. Marystown, T ensus ...
, November 18, 1929 * 29 –
SS Edmund Fitzgerald SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America ...
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Lake Superior Lake Superior in central North America is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater. and the third-largest by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh wa ...
November 10, 1975, went down with all hands * 28 – Regina Cyclone,
Regina, Saskatchewan Regina () is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province, after Saskatoon, and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. As of the 2021 C ...
, June 30, 1912 * 28 – LaSalle Heights Disaster, LaSalle, Quebec, March 1, 1965 * 28 '' anadian fatalities only' –
North American ice storm of 1998 The North American Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as Great Ice Storm of 1998) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998 that struck a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec, N ...
, January 1998 * 27 – SS ''Viking'', explosion, Horse Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador, March 15, 1931 * 27 –
Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, also called the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge and Second Narrows Bridge, is the second bridge constructed at the Second (east) Narrows of Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Origi ...
bridge collapse, Vancouver, June 17, 1958 * 27 – Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 301
Bristol Britannia The Bristol Type 175 Britannia is a retired British medium-to-long-range airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1952 to fly across the Commonwealth. During development two prototypes were lost and the turboprop engines proved sus ...
crashed in
Honolulu, Hawaii Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island o ...
, July 22, 1962 * 27 –
Edmonton Tornado The Edmonton tornado of 1987, an event also known as Black Friday to Edmontonians, was a powerful and devastating tornado that ripped through the eastern parts of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and parts of neighbouring Strathcona County on the afte ...
, Edmonton, Alberta, July 31, 1987 * 26+ – HMS ''Speedy'' shipwreck in snowstorm,
Lake Ontario Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border sp ...
, October 8, 1804 * 26-28 –
Granduc Mine Overlooking the Salmon Glacier, the Granduc Mine is a large copper mine which is situated on a rock ridge between a glacier and a cliff, some north of Stewart, BC at the north end of Summit Lake. It was an active mine from 1964 to 1984, having clo ...
avalanche,
Stewart, British Columbia Stewart is a district municipality at the head of the Portland Canal in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, near the Alaskan panhandle. In 2011, its population was about 494. History The Nisga'a, who live around the Nass River, called the h ...
, February 18, 1965 (some references say 28 were killed) * 26 – Westray Mine methane explosion, Plymouth, Nova Scotia, May 9, 1992 * 24 –
Air Ontario Flight 1363 Air Ontario Flight 1363 was a scheduled Air Ontario passenger flight which crashed near Dryden, Ontario, on 10 March 1989 shortly after takeoff from Dryden Regional Airport. The aircraft was a Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship twin jet. It crashed aft ...
, near
Dryden, Ontario Dryden, originally known as New Prospect, is the second-largest city in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located on Wabigoon Lake. It is the least populous community in Ontario incorporated as a city. The City of Dryden had a ...
, March 10, 1989 * 24 –
9/11 The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...
, September 11, 2001 '' anada fatalities only' * 23 –
Québec Airways Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
DC-3 bomb sabotage, Saint-Joachim, Quebec, September 9, 1949 ''See
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Air Canada Flight 797 Air Canada Flight 797 was an international passenger flight operating from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Montréal–Dorval International Airport, with an intermediate stop at Toronto Pearson International Airport. On 2 June 1983, ...
, aircraft fire, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, June 2, 1983 * 23 –
Hinton train collision The Hinton train collision was a rail transport accident that occurred in Canada on 8 February 1986. Twenty-three people were killed in a collision between a Canadian National Railway freight train and a Via Rail passenger train called the '' S ...
, Hinton, Alberta, February 8, 1986 * 23 –
Legionnaire's disease Legionnaires' disease is a form of atypical pneumonia caused by any species of ''Legionella'' bacteria, quite often '' Legionella pneumophila''. Signs and symptoms include cough, shortness of breath, high fever, muscle pains, and headaches. Naus ...
outbreak, Toronto, 2005 * 23 –
2020 Nova Scotia attacks On April 18 and 19, 2020, Gabriel Wortman committed multiple shootings and set fires at 16 locations in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people and injuring three others before he was shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mo ...
, Nova Scotia, April 18–19, 2020 * 22 – Bus crash Swift Current, Saskatchewan, May 28, 1980 * 22 –
2008 Canada listeriosis outbreak The 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak was a widespread outbreak of listeriosis in Canada linked to cold cuts from a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto, Ontario. There were 57 total confirmed cases, resulting in 23 deaths. Origin and spread Liste ...
, 2008 (out of 57 total cases) * 21 –
Canoe River train crash The Canoe River train crash occurred on November 21, 1950, near Valemount in eastern British Columbia, Canada, when a westbound troop train and the eastbound Canadian National Railway (CNR) ''Continental Limited'' collided head-on. The collision ...
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Valemount Valemount () is a village municipality of 1,018 people in east central British Columbia, Canada, from Kamloops, British Columbia. It is between the Rocky, Monashee, and Cariboo Mountains. It is the nearest community to the west of Jasper Natio ...
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British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
, November 21, 1950 * 21 – MV ''Flare'' bulk carrier shipwreck, Cabot Strait, January 16, 1998 * 20 – Beauval Indian Residential School fire, Beauval, Saskatchewan, September 20, 1927 * 19 – Dorion level crossing accident,
Dorion, Quebec Vaudreuil-Dorion () is a suburb of Greater Montreal, in the Montérégie region of southwestern Quebec, Canada. The result of the merger of two towns, Vaudreuil and Dorion, it is located in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality. ...
, October 7, 1966 * 18 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, March 10, 2019 '' anadian victims only' * 17 – Windsor and Tecumseh, Ontario,
tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, altho ...
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Windsor, Ontario Windsor is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit, Michigan, United States. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County, it is the souther ...
June 17, 1946 * 17 – Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, off Newfoundland, March 12, 2009 * 16 –
Protection Island mining disaster The Protection Island mining disaster killed 16 miners and occurred on Protection Island near Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The disaster occurred at 7:10a.m. on when the hoisting cable frayed on the cab that was lowering miners into the min ...
, September 10, 1918: elevator cable break * 16 –
Humboldt Broncos bus crash On April 6, 2018, sixteen people were killed and thirteen were injured when a northbound coach bus struck a westbound semi-trailer truck near Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada. The driver of the semi-truck had failed to yield at a flashing stop ...
, April 6, 2018 * 15 – Ottawa & New York Railway Bridge (south channel crossing) bridge collapse, Cornwall, Ontario, September 6, 1898 * 15 –
Orléans air disaster The Convent Crash, also known as the Orléans air disaster and Villa St. Louis disaster, occurred on May 15, 1956, after a CF-100 fighter jet crashed into Villa St. Louis, a convent in the community of Orleans, Ontario, Canada. The two pilots wer ...
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Orléans, Ontario Orleans (; French language, French: ; officially and in French OrléansThe suburb is called ''Orléans'' (with an accent) in French, but is commonly called ''Orleans'' (no accent) in English. The official name in English was changed from ''Orlea ...
, May 15, 1956 * 15 –
Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 307 Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
Douglas DC-6B aircrash, near
Cold Bay, Alaska Cold Bay ( ale, Udaamagax,; Sugpiaq language, Sugpiaq: ''Pualu'') is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the population was 108, but at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 c ...
, August 29, 1956 * 15 –
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami An earthquake and a tsunami, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, occurred at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7) on 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Suma ...
'' anadian victims only' *15 – Les Éboulements bus accident, Quebec, June 1, 1974 * 14 – "Barrie" tornado outbreak, May 31, 1985 * 14 – École Polytechnique massacre, shooting rampage, December 6, 1989 * 13 –
Sand Point, Ontario Sand Point is a community in the township of McNab/Braeside, Ontario, Canada, along the Ottawa River, roughly six miles to the west of Arnprior on the River Road. During the 1860s and early 1870s it was the terminus of the Canada Central Railwa ...
, head-on train collision, February 9, 1904 * 13 – Quebec Bridge second collapse, September 11, 1913 * 13 – MS ''Arctic Explorer'' shipwreck, off St Anthony, Newfoundland, July 3, 1981 *12 - Boating tragedy Lake of Two Mountains, Ile Bizard Quebec. 12 NCC ( Negro Community Centre) children drown. July 13 1954. * 12 – ''M.F.V. Enterprise'' and MV ''Patrick Morris'' sinking (the latter was responding to a mayday call from the former), northeast of
Cape Breton Island Cape Breton Island (french: link=no, île du Cap-Breton, formerly '; gd, Ceap Breatainn or '; mic, Unamaꞌki) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The island accounts for 18. ...
, April 20, 1970 *12 – Cormier-Village Hayride Accident, Cormier-Village, New Brunswick, Oct 1989 * 12 – Pine Lake tornado in
Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
, July 14, 2000 * 12 –
First Air Flight 6560 First Air Flight 6560 was a domestic charter flight that crashed on landing at Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, on 20 August 2011. Of the 15 people on board, 12 were killed and the remaining three were severely injured. The Boeing 737-200 of First Ai ...
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Boeing 737 The Boeing 737 is a narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton Factory in Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating with two un ...
crashes near
Resolute Bay, Nunavut Resolute Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Parry Channel on the southern side of Cornwallis Island. The hamlet of Resolute is located on the northern shore of the bay with Resolute Bay Airpo ...
, August 20, 2011 * 11 – Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland DH-106 Comet 1A CF-CUN "Empress of Hawaii", crashed on takeoff from
Karachi, Pakistan Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...
, March 3, 1953 (first passenger jetliner involved in a fatal accident) * 11 – Collision between a van and an eighteen-wheeler, between Stratford and
Perth, Ontario Perth is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Tay River, southwest of Ottawa, and is the seat of Lanark County. History The town was established as a military settlement in 1816, shortly after the War of 1812. The settlement ...
, February 6, 2012. (ten of the killed were Peruvian
migrant worker A migrant worker is a person who Human migration, migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work. Migrant workers usually do not have the intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work. Migrant worker ...
s) * 10 – Metropolitan Store explosion,
Windsor, Ontario Windsor is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit, Michigan, United States. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County, it is the souther ...
, October 25, 1960 * 10 – Rupert Hotel Fire, Toronto, December 23, 1989 * 10 –
Toronto van attack A domestic terrorist vehicle-ramming attack occurred on April 23, 2018, when a rented van was driven along Yonge Street through the North York City Centre business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The driver, Alek Minassian, targeted pedes ...
, Toronto, April 23, 2018 * 10 –
2022 Saskatchewan stabbings On September 4, 2022, a mass stabbing occurred in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan, Canada, in which 12 people died and 18 others were injured. Some of the victims are believed to have been targeted, while ...
, Saskatchewan, September 4, 2022


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List of disasters in Antarctica by death toll The following is a list of all known disasters in Antarctica which have resulted in fatalities. It includes disasters which happened on land, as well as in the waters surrounding the continent. See also * List of disasters in Australia by death ...
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List of disasters in Australia by death toll This is a list of disasters in Australia by death toll. 100 or more deaths 50 to 99 deaths 20 to 49 deaths Between 10 and 20 Gallery Image:Port arthur outside.jpg, The Port Arthur massacre claimed 35 lives in 1996 when Martin Bryan ...
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List of disasters in Canada This list of disasters in Canada includes major disasters (arranged by date), either man-made or natural, that occurred on Canadian soil. List Pre-1597 1597–1867 1867–1916 1917–1966 1970–2016 2017–present See also * Li ...
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List of disasters in Croatia by death toll The list of disasters in Croatia by death toll includes major disasters and accidents - excluding warfare and other intentional acts - that took place on Croatian soil and resulted in 10 or more fatalities: __NOTOC__ See also * List of disasters ...
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List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which relate to the United Kingdom or Ireland, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable ...
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List of disasters in New Zealand by death toll This is a list of New Zealand disasters by death toll, listing major disasters (excluding acts of war) which occurred in New Zealand and its territories or involved a significant number of New Zealand citizens, in a specific incident, where the ...
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List of disasters in Poland by death toll Listed below are the worst disasters in Poland's history, listed by death toll. This list excludes warfare, the Holocaust and intentional acts of destruction, but may include accidents in which the military, Polish or foreign, was involved (e.g. ...
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List of disasters in the United States by death toll This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States, or incidents outside of the United States in which a number of U.S. citizens were killed ...
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List of wars and disasters by death toll This is a list of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll. The list covers the name of the event, location and the start and end of each event. Some events may belong in more than one category. In addition, some of the listed events over ...
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Volcanism in Canada Volcanism, Volcanic activity is a major part of the geology of Canada and is characterized by many types of volcanic landform, including lava flows, volcanic plateaus, lava domes, cinder cones, stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, submarine volcano ...


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''Canadian Disasters: an historical survey'' by Robert L. JonesSOS! Canadian Disasters
a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic: Marine Heritage Database
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Death toll ''Death toll'' is the number of dead as a result of a war, disaster, or other event. It may also refer to: * '' Death Toll'', 2008 action film * ''High-Ballin, 1978 action comedy film also released as ''Death Toll'' See also * List of list ...