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
