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Mining disaster Westville, Nova Scotia: Maritimes 60–70 Considered Canada's first mining disaster 1877 April 29: Oil Cabinet Novelty Works Company fire: Fire Montreal, Quebec: Central Canada 12 [2] 1877 June 20: Great Fire of Saint John: Fire Saint John, New Brunswick: Maritimes 18-19 1880 November 12: Foord Pit explosion: Mining disaster ...
40 (Canadian fatalities only) 1912 Titanic: Shipwreck near Newfoundland Canadian deaths only of 1,517 total"The Demographics of Titanic Passengers". </ref> 40 1918 HMCS Galiano: Shipwreck Queen Charlotte Sound 20 miles (32 km) of Kunghit Island, British Columbia 40 1978 Eastman bus crash: Bus crash Eastman, Quebec 39 1928 Hollinger Mining Disaster
List of Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks (since 2001) Canada's only confirmed F5 tornado occurred in Elie, Manitoba on June 22, 2007. This is a list of notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred in Canada in the 21st century (2001 through 2100). Due to increasing detection, particularly in ...
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, [1] [2] when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars.
The deadliest tornadoes in Canadian history were the 1912 Regina 'Cyclone' (at least 28), 1987 Edmonton 'Black Friday' Tornado (27), and the 1946 Windsor–Tecumseh Tornado (17). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
This page lists all the confirmed and probable tornadoes which have touched down in Canadian provinces & territories. Experts have estimated that around 230 tornadoes occur in Canada each year, though only around 60 are formally confirmed. [1] with most occurring in Southern Ontario, the southern Canadian Prairies and southern Quebec.
In Quebec, 6681 residences of 51 municipalities were flooded in five main zones, including the greater Montreal area, and 3458 residences were isolated due to landslides and submerged roads resulting in over 13500 disaster victims. [3] In New Brunswick, 15 communities were affected and 69 roads and 45 bridges were closed or partially closed. [4]
For a variety of reasons, such as Canada's lower population density and generally stronger housing construction due to the colder climate, Canadian tornadoes have historically caused fewer fatalities than tornadoes in the United States. The deadliest tornado in Canadian history, the Regina Cyclone of June 30, 1912, killed 28 and injured 300 ...