List of volcanoes in Canada
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Western Canada is commonly thought to occupy a gap in the Pacific Ring of Fire, although that is not actually true, British Columbia and the Yukon Territory is home of more than 100 separate volcanic centers that have been active during the Quaternary, such as shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, maars, cinder cones and calderas. Mount Edziza is a large shield volcano that has had repeated eruptions for about 7-10 million years, and has made the well preserved cinder cone, Eve Cone. Although there has not been any historical eruptions recorded in Canada, native legends of lava flows destroying homes, villages, killing fish and natives being killed by volcanic gas are conformed by radiocarbon dates of 200-250 years ago on carbonized wood beneath the basaltic lava flows in the Iskut-Unuk River in the Stikine Volcanic Belt. The lava flows are considered to be from the Tseax River Cones and the Lava Fork Valley.
This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes.
A list of volcanoes in Canada.
See Also: List of volcanoes
[edit] Anahim Volcanic Belt
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Mount Downton | 1980 | 6496 | Pleistocene | |
| Dufferin Island | - | - | Holocene | |
| Holte Creek Cone | 1646 | 5400 | Pleistocene | |
| Itcha Mountain | 2040 | 6693 | Pleistocene | |
| Nazko Cone | 1200 | 3940 | 7200 years ago | |
| Price Island | - | - | Holocene | |
| Ilgachuz Range | 2410 | 7414 | - | |
| Itcha Range | 2368 | 7768 | - | |
| Rainbow Range | 2478 | 8130 | - | |
| Anahim Peak | 1897 | 6224 | - | |
| Satah Mountain East | 1921 | 6302 | Holocene | |
| Satah Mountain North | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Tsitsutl Peak | 2495 | 8186 | Pleistocene | |
| White Creek Cone | 1707 | 5600 | Pleistocene | |
[edit] Atlin Volcanic Field
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Atlin Volcanic Field | 1880 | 6168 | Unknown | |
[edit] Chilcotin Plateau Basalts
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Alixton Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Alkali Lake | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Black Dome Mountain | 2252 | 7388 | Pliocene | |
| Browns Lake | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Canoe Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Chilcotin Creek Cone | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Crows Bar | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Dog Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Hydraulic Lake | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Kelowna | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Kelowna West | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Lambly Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Leon Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Lightning Peak | 2139 | 7018 | Pliocene | |
| Missezula Lake | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Nicola (Chester) | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Prentice Gulch | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Quilchena Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Thaddeus Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| West Kettle River | - | - | Pleistocene | |
[edit] Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Black Tusk | 2319 | 7608 | Pleistocene | |
| Bridge River Cones | 2500 | 8202 | Pliocene | |
| Capricorn Mountain | 2551 | 8369 | Pleistocene | |
| Castle Towers Mountain | 2676 | 8780 | Pleistocene | |
| Cauldron Dome | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Charnaud Creek | - | - | Holocene | |
| Cheakamus Valley Vent | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Cinder Cone | 1910 | 6266 | Holocene | |
| Clinker Peak | 1992 | 6535 | Pleistocene | |
| Columnar Peak | 1826 | 5991 | Pleistocene | |
| Crucible Dome | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Devastation | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Eanastick Meadow | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Ember Ridge | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Franklin Glacier | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Mount Garibaldi | 2678 | 8254 | 9300 years ago | |
| Garibaldi Lake | 2316 | 7598 | Pleistocene | |
| Glacier Pikes | 2145 | 7037 | Pleistocene | |
| Machmel River | - | - | Holocene | |
| Mosaic Assemblage | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Mount Brew | 2891 | 9485 | Pleistocene | |
| Mount Cayley | 2394 | 7854 | Pleistocene | |
| Mount Fee | 2134 | 7548 | Pleistocene | |
| Mount Job | 2493 | 8180 | Pleistocene | |
| Mount Meager | 2641 | 8681 | 2400 years ago | |
| Mount Price | 3040 | 9974 | Holocene | |
| Mount Silverthrone | 3160 | 10,367 | Unknown | |
| Nichols Valley Flows | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Opal Cone | 1736 | 5696 | Holocene | |
| Pali Dome | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Plinth Peak | 2677 | 8783 | 2350 BP | |
| Round Mountain | 1646 | 5400 | Pleistocene | |
| Salal Glacier | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Sham Hill | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Slag Hill | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Sphinx Moraine | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Devastator Peak | 2327 | 7635 | Pleistocene | |
| The Table | 2021 | 6631 | Pleistocene | |
| Trudel Creek | - | - | Holocene | |
| Tuber Hill | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Tuber Hill East | - | - | Holocene | |
| Vulcan's Thumb | 2290 | 7500 | Pleistocene | |
| Watts Point volcanic centre | 0 | 0 | Pleistocene | |
[edit] Milbanke Sound
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Dufferin Island | - | - | Holocene | |
| Helmut Peak | 318 | 1043 | Holocene | |
| Kitasu Hill | 235 | 771 | Holocene | |
| Price Island | - | - | Holocene | |
| White Creek Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
[edit] Spectrum Range
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| metres | feer | Coordinates | ||
| Exile Hill | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Mess Lake | - | - | Holocene | |
| Nahta Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Outcast Hill | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Source Hill | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Spectrum Dome | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Tadekho Hill | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| The Ash Pit | - | - | Holocene | |
| Wetalth Ridge | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Yeda Peak | - | - | Pliocene | |
[edit] Stikine Volcanic Belt
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Aiyansh River | - | - | Historic | |
| Alice Arm A | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Alice Arm B | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Alligator Lake | 2217 | 7274 | Pliocene | |
| Anderson Bay | - | - | Miocene | |
| Armidillo Peak | - | - | Miocene | |
| Ash Mountain | 2125 | 6550 | Pleistocene | |
| Cache Hill | - | - | Holocene | |
| Camp Hill | - | - | Holocene | |
| Caribou Tuya | 1770 | - | Pleistocene | |
| Cartoona Ridge | - | - | Miocene | |
| Castle Rock | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Chakatah Creek Peak | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Chikoida Mountain | - | - | Cenozoic | |
| Cinder Cliff | - | - | Holocene | |
| Cinder Mountain | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Clinton Creek | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Cocoa Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Coffee Crater | 2000 | 6562 | Holocene | |
| Cone Glacier | - | - | Holocene | |
| Cottonwood Peak | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Cracker Creek | 1895 | 5880 | Quaternary | |
| Crow Lagoon | 335 | 1099 | Pleistocene | |
| Dark Mountain | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Desolation Lava Field | - | - | Holocene | |
| Dome Mountain | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Downton Cone | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Enid Creek Cone | - | - | [Pleistocene | |
| Eve Cone | 1702 | 5584 | 1350 years ago | |
| Forty Mile | - | - | Miocene | |
| Gabrielse Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Glacier Dome | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Heart Peaks | 2012 | 6601 | Pleistocene | |
| Hirschfeld / Line Lake | - | - | Cenozoic | |
| Holbrook Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Hoodoo Mountain | 1870 | 6072 | 7000 years ago | |
| IGC Centre | - | - | Miocene | |
| Ibex Mountain Cone | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Ice Peak | - | - | Holocene | |
| Icefall Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Iskut-Unuk River Cones | 1880 | 6168 | 1800 | |
| Isspah Butte / Metah Mountain | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Iverson Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Iverson Creek West | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Kana Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Kawdy Mountain | 1936 | 6352 | Pleistocene | |
| Kawdy Mountain South | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Kena Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| King Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Klastline Cone | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Klinkit Creek Peak | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Klinkit Lake Peak | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Lava Fork Valley | 1200 | 3940 | 150 years ago | |
| Level Mountain | 2190 | 7185 | Pliocene | |
| Little Bear Mountain | 1811 | 5942 | Pleistocene | |
| Little Eagle Cone | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Llangorse Mountain | - | - | Cenozoic | |
| Maitland Volcano | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Mathews Tuya | 1676 | 5165 | Pleistocene | |
| Meehaz Mountain | 1608 | 5276 | Pleistocene | |
| Meszah Peak | 2166 | 7106 | Pleistocene | |
| Metahag Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Miles Canyon | - | - | Miocene | |
| Mount Minto | 2107 | 6913 | Holocene | |
| Moose Creek | - | - | Cenozoic | |
| Moraine Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Mount Edziza | 2590 | 10,781 | Pleistocene | |
| Mount Josephine (British Columbia) | 1767 | 5797 | Pleistocene | |
| Mount Prindle | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Mushroom | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Nanook Dome | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Ne Ch'e Ddhawa (Wooton's Cone) | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Nome Lake South | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Nuthinaw Mountain | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Peak 1924 | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Peak 2050 | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Peak 2166 | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Pelly Formation | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Pharaoh Dome | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Pillow Ridge | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Pyramid Dome | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Rancheria River | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Ridge Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Rosebud Creek | - | - | Pliocene | |
| Ruby Mountain | 1895 | 5880 | 103 years ago | |
| Second Canyon Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Sezill Volcano | - | - | Miocene | |
| Sheep Track Pumice | - | - | Holocene | |
| Sidas Cone | 1543 | 5062 | Holocene | |
| Sixty Mile | - | - | Miocene | |
| Sleet Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Snippaker Creek | - | - | Holocene | |
| South Tuya | 1829 | 5637 | Pleistocene | |
| Sphinx DOme | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Storm Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Swinton Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Tadeda Centre | - | - | Miocene | |
| Tennena Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| The Neck | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| The Saucer | - | - | Holocene | |
| The Thumb | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Tom MacKay Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Toozaza Peak | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Triangle Dome | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Triplex Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Tseax River Cones | 600 | 1850 | 2000 years ago | |
| Tsekone Ridge | 1929 | 6329 | Pleistocene | |
| Tutsingale Mountain | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Tuya Butte | 2290 | 7058 | Pleistocene | |
| Tuya Volcanic Field | 2123 | 6965 | - | |
| Twin Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Volcanic Creek Cone | 1520 | 4712 | Holocene | |
| Volcano Mountain | 1239 | 4066 | 3200 years ago | |
| Volcano Mountain East | - | - | Holocene | |
| Walkout Creek | - | - | Holocene | |
| Watson Lake | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Williams Cone | 2080 | 6824 | 1350 years ago | |
| Wolverine Formation | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Yukon River | - | - | Pleistocene | |
[edit] Wells Gray-Clearwater Volcanic Field
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Boss Mountain | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Buck Hill Cone | 1585 | - | Pleistocene | |
| Dragon Cone | 1830 | - | Holocene | |
| Fiftytwo Ridge | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| The Flatiron | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Flourmill Cone | 1495 | - | Holocene | |
| Gage Hill | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Hyalo Ridge | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Ida Ridge | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Jack's Jump | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Jacques Lake | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Kostal Cone | 1440 | - | Holocene | |
| MacLeod Hill | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Mosquito Mound | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Pillow Creek | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Pointed Stick Cone | - | - | Holocene | |
| Pyramid Mountain | 240 | 1103 | Pleistocene | |
| Quesnel Lake | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Ray Mountain | 2050 | - | Pleistocene | |
| Spanish Bonk | 1770 | 5807 | Pleistocene | |
| Spanish Lake Centre | - | - | Holocene | |
| Spanish Mump | - | - | Pleistocene | |
| Whitehorse Bluffs | 200 | 6200 | Pleistocene | |
[edit] Wrangell Volcanic Field
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Felsite Peak | 2530 | 8301 | Pliocene | |
| Rabbit Mountain | 2090 | 6857 | Pliocene | |
