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List of disasters in Canada by death toll

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List of Canadian disasters by death toll is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which occurred in Canada or involved Canadian citizens, in a definable incident, where the loss of life was 10 or more.

Contents

100 to 199 deaths

  • 190+ – Ruby shipwreck near the Azores, December 16, 1758 (Acadian deportees)
  • 189 – Hillcrest mine disaster, Hillcrest, Alberta, June 19, 1914
  • 184 – 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane, August 23–25, 1927 (approximate figure, most deaths occurred at sea)
  • 182+ – Victoria steamboat disaster, May 24, 1881, London, Ontario,
  • 174 – SS Southern Cross shipwreck, Newfoundland, March 31, 1914
  • 173 – SS Florizel shipwreck, Cappahayden, Newfoundland and Labrador, February 23, 1918
  • 160 – Miramichi Fire, New Brunswick, October 1825
  • 150 – 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion, Nanaimo, British Columbia, May 3, 1887
  • 136 – SS Valencia shipwreck, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, January 22, 1906
  • 129 – John Franklin expedition – HMS Erebus (1826) and HMS Terror (1813) lost in Northwest Passage, 1845–1848
  • 128 – Coal Creek mine disaster, Coal Creek, British Columbia, May 22, 1902
  • 125 – First Springhill mining disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, February 21, 1891
  • 118 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 aircrash, Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, November 29, 1963
  • 118 – SS Noronic fire, Toronto, Ontario September 17, 1949
  • 115 – HMS Acorn, shipwreck, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 14, 1828
  • 109 – Air Canada Flight 621, Brampton, Ontario, July 5, 1970
  • 102 – HMS Feversham shipwreck, Scatarie Island, Main-a-dieu, Nova Scotia, October 7, 1711

    • 10 to 99 deaths

    Note: The list below does not include aeronautical disasters in Saskatchewan or deaths to First Nations Peoples, Settlers & Military personal during the Rebellions of 1885 on The Prairies.

  • 99 – Knights of Columbus Hostel fire, St John's, Newfoundland, December 12, 1942
  • 99 – St-Hilaire train disaster, Richelieu River, Beloeil, Quebec, June 29, 1864 [deadliest train disaster in Canada]
  • 84 – Ocean Ranger oil platform sinking, Grand Banks, February 15, 1982
  • 81 – Hurricane Hazel, Toronto, October 1954 [only Canada fatalities are included in this figure]
  • 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, Nova Scotia, October 23, 1958
  • 73-200 – Great Porcupine Fire, Porcupine, Ontario, July 10, 1911
  • 70 – Frank Slide, Turtle Mountain (Alberta), April 29, 1903
  • 70 – Desjardins Canal train disaster, bridge collapse, March 12, 1857
  • 64 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 (CP402) McDonnell Douglas DC-8-43 crashed on landing, Tokyo, Japan March 4, 1966
  • 62 – Rogers Pass avalanche, Rogers Pass, British Columbia, March 4, 1910
  • 62 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, Chilliwack, British Columbia, December 9, 1956
  • 59 – Despatch shipwreck, Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, July 12, 1828
  • 55 – Point Ellice Bridge Disaster, Victoria, British Columbia, May 26, 1896
  • 52 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 Douglas DC-6B crashed near Dog Creek, British Columbia when a bomb blew its tail section away, July 8, 1965
  • 52 – Great Western Railway passenger train collides with the tail end of gravel train at Baptiste Creek, Canada West. October 27, 1854
  • 48 – Opémiska Community Hall fire, Chapais, Quebec, December 31, 1979
  • 47 – Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, July 6, 2013
  • 44 – 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident, Quebec, October 13, 1997
  • 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 or British Columbia, January 26, 1950
  • 43 – SARS outbreak, Toronto, Ontario, February - September 2003 (out of 251 total cases)
  • 43 – Great Fire of 1922, Timiskaming District, Ontario, October 4–5, 1922
  • 42 – Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport, February 11, 1978
  • 40+ – HMS Penelope, April 30, 1815, near Cap des Rosiers (many survivors later froze to death)
  • 40 – Eastman bus accident, Eastman, Quebec, August 4, 1978
  • 40 – SS Islander (Canadian Pacific Steam Navigation Company), sunk by iceberg, Lynn Canal south of Juneau, Alaska, August 15, 1901
  • 40 – Québec rockslide, Cap Diamant, September 19, 1889
  • 40 – Titanic, sank April 15, 1912 -- Canadian deaths only of 1,517 total.
  • 39 – Almonte train wreck, December 27, 1942
  • 39 – Hollinger Mining Disaster, Timmins, Ontario, February 10, 1928
  • 39 – Second Springhill mining disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, November 1, 1956
  • 37 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas C-54 A-10-DC disappeared en route without trace out of Vancouver, British Columbia for Anchorage, Alaska, July 21, 1951
  • 37 – Great Labrador Gale of 1867, October 9, 1867
  • 37 – Blue Bird Café fire, Montreal, September 1, 1972
  • 35 – 1959 Escuminac Hurricane, Gulf of St. Lawrence, June 19, 1959
  • 32 – L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire, L'Isle-Verte, Quebec, January 23, 2014
  • 31 – Saint-Jean-Vianney, Quebec mudslide, May 4, 1971
  • 31 – Dugald train disaster, Dugald, Manitoba, September 1, 1947
  • 31 – Halifax Poor House Fire, November 7, 1882
  • 30 – Quebec blizzard, March 3–5, 1971 (conservative estimate, all in Quebec)
  • 30 – John B. King Explosion, near Brockville, Ontario, June 26, 1930, lightning struck a drill boat containing dynamite
  • 29 – 1929 Grand Banks earthquake and tsunami, Burin Peninsula, November 18, 1929
  • 29 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Lake Superior November 10, 1975, went down with all hands
  • 28 – North American ice storm of 1998, January 1998 [Canada fatalities only]
  • 28 – Regina Cyclone, Regina, Saskatchewan, June 30, 1912
  • 28 – LaSalle Heights Disaster, LaSalle, Quebec, March 1, 1965
  • 27 – Edmonton Tornado, Edmonton, Alberta, July 31, 1987
  • 27 – Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 301 Bristol Britannia crashed in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 22, 1962
  • 27 – Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing bridge collapse, Vancouver, June 17, 1958
  • 27 – SS Viking, explosion, Horse Islands (Newfoundland and Labrador), March 15, 1931
  • 26 – Westray Mine methane explosion, Plymouth, Nova Scotia, May 9, 1992
  • 26 – Granduc Mine avalanche, Stewart, British Columbia, February 18, 1965 (some references say 28 were killed)
  • 26+ – HMS Speedy shipwreck in snowstorm, Lake Ontario, October 8, 1804
  • 24 – 9/11, September 11, 2001 [Canada fatalities only]
  • 24 – Air Ontario Flight 1363, near Dryden, Ontario, March 10, 1989
  • 23 – Hinton train collision, Hinton, Alberta, February 8, 1986
  • 23 – Air Canada Flight 797, aircraft fire, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, June 2, 1983
  • 23 – Québec Airways DC-3 bomb sabotage, Saint-Joachim, Quebec, September 9, 1949 See Albert Guay
  • 23 – Legionnaire's disease outbreak, Toronto, 2005
  • 22 – Bus crash Swift Current, Saskatchewan, May 28, 1980
  • 22 – 2008 Canada listeriosis outbreak, 2008 (out of 57 total cases)
  • 21 – Canoe River train crash, Valemount, British Columbia, 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, October 7, 1966
  • 17 – Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, off Newfoundland, March 12, 2009
  • 17 – Windsor and Tecumseh, Ontario, tornado, Windsor, Ontario June 17, 1946
  • 16 – Protection Island mining disaster, elevator cable break
  • 15 – 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami [Canadian victims only]
  • 15 – Orléans air disaster, Orléans, Ontario, May 15, 1956
  • 15 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 307 Douglas DC-6B aircrash, near Cold Bay, Alaska, August 29, 1956
  • 15 – Ottawa & New York Railway Bridge (south channel crossing) bridge collapse, Cornwall, Ontario, September 6, 1898
  • 14 – École Polytechnique Massacre, shooting rampage, December 6, 1989
  • 14 – "Barrie" tornado outbreak, May 31, 1985
  • 13 – MS Arctic Explorer shipwreck, off St Anthony, Newfoundland, July 3, 1981
  • 13 – 1974 Les Éboulements bus accident, Quebec, 1974
  • 13 – Quebec Bridge second collapse, September 11, 1916
  • 13 – Sand Point, Ontario, head-on train collision, February 9, 1904
  • 12 – First Air Flight 6560 a Boeing 737 crashes near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, August 20, 2011
  • 12 – Pine Lake tornado in Alberta, July 14, 2000
  • 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, April 20, 1970
  • 11 – Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland DH-106 Comet 1A CF-CUN "Empress of Hawaii", crashed on takeoff from Karachi, Pakistan, 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, February 6, 2012. (Ten of the killed were Peruvian migrant workers)
  • 10 – Rupert Hotel Fire, Toronto, December 23, 1989
  • 10 – Metropolitan Store explosion, Windsor, Ontario, October 25, 1960

    • References

    List of disasters in Canada by death toll Wikipedia
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