Table 2: Canadian Disasters Which Do Not Meet Criteria

Go to Table 1:  Canadian Disasters Which Meet Criteria


#
DESCRIPTION OF DISASTER
 REFERENCES CAT
YEAR
DEATHS
WEATHER FACTOR
1
 Genocide of Newfoundland Aboriginals (Beothuk Indians) S MM
1600-1829
1,000-2,000
no
2
 Pestilence on French Armada Ships in Bedford Basin, NS After Surviving Sable I. Storm  BL D
1746
1,000+
no
3
 Royal Navy Warship, "HMS Ontario", Lost in Storm E. Lake Ontario off Oswego NY Sw S
1780
172-350
yes
4
 Montreal Cholera Epidemic L D
1832
947
no
5
 Two Quebec City Fires, May and June H FE
1845
23
yes
6 Cholera and Typhoid Fever Kills Irish Immigrants on Grosse Île QC Pk D
1847
 5,200 no
7
 Cholera and Typhoid Fever Kills Irish Immigrants on Partridge Island Quarantine Station Near Saint John NB SjL D
1847
600
no
8
 Loss of Franklin Expedition, Nunavut HL I
1847-48
129
yes
9 Rockslide onto Champlain St./Cap Diamant Area of Lr. Quebec City - II L L 1852 7 no
10
 Canada-wide Smallpox Epidemic L D
1862
20,000
no
11 Near Extinction by Smallpox of  Haida of Queen Charlotte Is. BC  Su D 1862-1872 9,400 no
12 "Bavarian" Sinks, 5 November, off Bowmanville ON FiSw S 1873 14 no
13
 Schooner "Kittie" Flounders, about 4 April, Enroute Mulgrave NS to Boston Fi S
1876
63
yes
14
 Great Fire of Saint John NB ATL FE
1877
11-100
yes
15
 Lake Ontario Flash Flood T F
1883
18
yes
16
 Thames River Flood of West London ON Ln F
1883
17
yes
17
 Smallpox Outbreak, Montreal HL D
1885
5,864
no
18 Collapse of #2 Mine Slope, (Wellington) Nanaimo BC - III O M 1901 16 no
19
 Canadian Pacific Steamer "Islander" Hits Iceberg and Sinks, 15 August, near Juneau, Alaska St S
1901
45
no
20
 CPR Trains Collide in Eastern Ontario Rc T
1904
13
no
21
 Convent Fire, Ste. Genevieve QC (West Montreal Island, 20 April Ga FE
1905
15
no
22 Landslide into River at Spence's Bridge BC O L 1905 15 no*
23
 Hochelaga School Fire, Montreal, 26 February GaSt FE
1907
17
no
24
 "Titanic" Hits Iceberg About 370 Miles SE of NL SATGRu I
1912
1,522
no
25
 "SS Erna"Disappears Enroute Glasgow to St. John's NL Pa S
1912
51
no*
26
 NL Steamer "Sharon" Lost Enroute to Ireland (possibly struck mine) Pa W
1914
30
no
27 Mine Accident Drowns Miners,  (Wellington) Nanaimo BC - IV O M 1915 19 no
28
 Second Quebec Bridge Collapse SHAOL B
1916
13
no
29
 Spanish Influenza Epidemic SBaOL D
1918
30,000-50,000
no
30
 "Princess Sophia" Runs Aground in Inside Passage, Alaska (Vanderbilt Reef), 24 October  SHATBML S
1918
343
yes
31
 Colliery Explosion-I, Comox BC O M
1922
18
no
32
 Severe Summer Heat Wave in MB & ON (incl. 400 drownings while trying to cool off) TO WX
1936
1,180
yes
33
 Runaway Mine Tractor, Sydney NS M M
1938
16
no
34 Forest Fire Started by Settlers' Brush Fires, Dance Township ON, 10-15 October O FE 1938 17 no*
35
 "Dirty Thirties" in Prairie Provinces SOL WX
1930-39
780
yes
36
 Trans Canada Airlines Lockheed Electra Crashes near Armstrong ON, 6 February K A
1941
12
no*
37
 Ferry "Caribou" Torpedoed 20 miles off NL coast (Cabot Strait), 14 October HoL W
1942
136
no
38
 HMCS Valleyfield Torpedoed 90 miles E of NL CiGr W
1944
125
no
39
 Lake St. Clair Tornado TO WX
1946
17
yes
40 Trans Canada Air Lines Lockheed Loadstar Crashes, 28 April, near Vancouver BC K A 1947 15 yes*
41
 Red River Flood MB HTRL F
1950
1
yes
42
 MacGregor Mine Explosion, Stellarton NS CiO M
1952
19
no
43
 Freighter Sinks in High Winds in L. Superior T S
1953
17
yes
44
 Polio Outbreaks Prior to Salk Vaccine HOL D
1953-54
638
no
45
 Bus Truck Collision, Yamachiche QC SuCi T
1954
15
no*
46
 CF100 Crashes, 15 May, into Convent near Ottawa CiMK A
1956
15
no
47
 Queen Charlotte Air DC3 Crashes on Takeoff from Port Hardy BC, 23 June K A
1957
14
no
48
 Radiation Sickness from NL Fluorspar Mine S M
1957-78
75
no
49
 Second Narrows Bridge Collapse, Vancouver SHAROL B
1958
18
no
50 Fire at Olfields Apartments, 
7 November, Montreal QC 		 O FE 1958 18 no
51
 Gas Explosion in Store, Windsor ON A FE
1960
11
no
52
 Bus - Station Wagon Collision, Templeton (E. of Hull) QC, 6 November Ci T
1960
11
no
53
 Students Die in School Bus -Train Level Crossing Crash, Lamont AB SuCi T
1960
17
no
54 Three Fishing Boats, "Muriel Eileen"; "Jimmie and Sisters"; "Marjorie Beryl"  Lost in Storm off Lockeport NS Mm S 1961 17 yes
55
 Chemical Plant Fire, La Salle QC A FE
1966
11
no
56
 CP Air DC8 Crashes, 4 March, on Seawall, Tokyo Japan DK A
1966
64
yes
57
 Victoria Hotel Fire, Dunnville ON A FE
1969
13
no
58
 60-hour Snowstorm Dumps 70 cm. on Montreal T WX
1969
15
yes
59
 Bus - Truck Collision During Blizzard, Hwy 400, Barrie ON SuCiO T
1973
12
yes
60
 Bus Plunges into Ravine, St. Joseph de la Rive, QC - I SMCi T
1974
13
no
61
 "Go"  Train - Bus Collision, Toronto ON MCi T
1975
10
no*
62
 Transport Truck - Bus - Pickup Collision, Nanaimo BC MCi T
1977
11
no
63
 12 Students and one Teacher from St. John's School Die of Hypothermia in L. Temaskaming while Canoeing, 11 June J WX
1978
13
yes
64
 Bus Crashes into Overpass, St. Hyacinthe QC MSuCi T
1979
11
yes
65 Quebec Air Fairchild F27 Crashes, on Take-off, 29 March, from Quebec City OK A 1979 17 no
66
 Mississauga Derailment, Toronto SL T
1979
0
no
67 "Arctic Explorer" Hits Iceberg and Sinks off N Coast of NL, 3 July O I 1981 13 yes
68
 Fire Aboard Air Canada DC9, 2 June, Cincinnati Ohio DOK A
1983
23
no
69
 Barrie / Central Ontario Tornadoes SHATMOL WX
1985
12
yes
70
 Air India 747 Crash, 23 June, off Ireland (280 Canadians aboard)(see Note, Table 3) SHAOK MM
1985
329
no
71
 Trawler "Hosanna" Sinks 400 km off C. Race T S
1987
34
yes
72
 "Athenian Venture" Burns 600 km off C. Race MCi S
1988
29
no
73 Heat Wave, Central and Southern ON, 5-11 July O WX 1988 14 yes
74
 Logging Truck Hits Hayride in NB MCi T
1989
13
no
75
 Gunman Kills Women at École Polytechnique, Montreal MCiO MM
1989
15
no
76 Cold Wave from Yukon to Ontario, 30 January O WX 1989 13 yes
77 Faucett Air Boeing 727, Enroute Reykjavík-Gander, Runs out of Fuel and Disappears off NL, 11 September K A 1990 18 no*
78
 "Protektor" Disappears 400 km E. of NL MCiO S
1991
33
yes
79
 Collision of Transport Truck and Van, Cobalt ON MCi T
1991
11
no
80 Hercules Aircraft Crashes Near Alert NU, 30 October OK A 1991 5-18 yes
81
 "Salvador Allende" Sinks 900 km S. of NL MCi S
1994
29
yes
82 "Marika 7" from Sept-Îles QC Sinks 1400 km E. of St. John's NL O S 1994 36 yes
83
 Gunman Kills Family & Self, Vernon BC MCi MM
1996
10
no
84
 Saguenay Floods QC MCiOL F
1996
10
yes
85
 Propair Metroliner Crashes at Mirabel, Montreal QC, 18 June K A
1998
11
no
86 Avalanche, Kangiqsualujjuaq QC, Jan. 1 OL AV 1999 9 yes
87 Egypt Air Flt. 990 Crash off Nantucket, USA, 31 October (21 Canadians of  217 killed) M A 1999 21 no
88
 E-Coli in Water Supply, Walkerton ON SMCiL D
2000
7
yes
89
 Pine Lake AB Tornado, July 14 SMCiL WX
2000
12
yes
90
 September 11 Terror Attacks in USA (23 Canadians died in WTC; two on hijacked aircraft)  MCiSuSt MM
2001
25
no
91 Back-to-back Avalanches, Jan. and Feb., near Revelstoke BC Bury Skiers (seven each) MCiSu AV 2003 14 yes
92
 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) Outbreak, Toronto ON, March - July SMCiSu D
2003
44
no
93
 Category 2 Hurricane "Juan" hits Halifax, 29 September SMCiSuSt WX
2003
8
yes
94
 Canadians Dead or Missing in South Asian Tsunami which Killed 226,000, 26 December MCiSuSt E 
2004
26
no
95
 Legionnaires Disease Outbreak in Toronto ON, October MCiSuSt D
2005
21
no
96
 Listeriosis Outbreak from Contaminated Food, Maple Leaf Foods, Toronto ON MCiSuSt D
2008
20
no
97
 Cougar Helicopter Crashes off St. John's NL, 12 March MCiSuSt A
2009
17
no
98
 Haiti Earthquake Kills Many Canadians, 12 January MCiSuSt E
2010
58
no
99**
 FirstAir 737 Crashes at Resolute Bay, NU, 12 August MCiSuSt A
2011
12
*
100**
 Legionaire's Disease Outbreak, Quebec City
MCiSuSt D
 2012
 11
 no

* Weather-related factor uncertain from description

** not included in totals last updated (4 Sep 2011)