List of Canadian disasters 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.

50,000 – Spanish flu pandemic, 1918 to 1919 [estimate for Canada]
4,000 – Newfoundland Hurricane of 1775, September 1775 ^[1]
2,000 – Halifax Explosion, City of Halifax, Nova Scotia, 6 December 1917 [estimate; 1,950 recorded names]
2,000 – Tseax Cone eruption, circa 1750 [estimate]
1,012 – RMS Empress of Ireland shipwreck, St. Lawrence River, 29 May 1914
600 – Nova Scotia Hurricane of 1873, August 1873
562 – RMS Atlantic shipwreck, Marrs Head, Mosher Island, Meagher's Island, Nova Scotia, 1 April 1873
353 – SS Princess Sophia shipwreck, near Juneau, Alaska, bound for Vancouver, 25 October 1918
340 – Aeneas shipwreck, Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, 23 October 1805
300 – Great Labrador Gale of 1885, 10 October 1885 ^[2]^[3]
300 – Sibylle, emigrant ship wrecked St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia, 11 September 1834
298 – SS Pacific shipwreck, Cape Flattery out of Victoria, BC, 4 November 1875
280 – Air India Flight 182, Atlantic Ocean out of Montréal Mirabel International Airport, [280 Canadian nationals out of 329 total fatalities]
261 – Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 – Nationair DC-8-61 aircrash, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 11 July 1991 [Canadian aircraft; 14 Canadian crew, others Nigerian nationals]
256 – Arrow Air Flight 1285 aircrash, Gander, Newfoundland, 12 December 1985 [worst aircrash on Canadian soil]
250 – Great Lakes Storm of 1913, Great Lakes Basin, 1913 [estimate for Canada and U.S. fatalities]
238 – HMS Tribune, wrecked Halifax, Nova Scotia, 16 November 1797
237 – SS Anglo Saxon (Allan Line) shipwreck, Avalon Peninsula, Cape Race, Newfoundland, 27 April 1863 ^[4]
229 – Swissair Flight 111 aircrash, St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, 2 September 1998
205 – SS Hungarian (Allan Line), wrecked Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, 20 February 1860 ^[5]
203 – shipwrecks of USS Pollux (AKS-2) (93 fatalities) and USS Truxtun (DD-229) (110 fatalities), Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, 18 February 1942. (USS Wilkes (DD-441) also grounded, but with no fatalities.)
200-250 – Matheson Fire, Northern Ontario, 29 July 1916
189 – Hillcrest mine disaster, Hillcrest, Alberta, 19 June 1914
182+ - Victoria , London, Ontario, ferry capsized 24 May 1881^[6]
173 – SS Florizel shipwreck, Cappahayden, Newfoundland and Labrador, 23 February 1918
173 – SS Southern Cross shipwreck, Newfoundland, March 1914
160 – Miramichi Fire, New Brunswick, October 1825
150 – 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion, Nanaimo, British Columbia, 3 May 1887
136 – SS Valencia shipwreck, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 22 January 1906
129 – John Franklin expedition – HMS Erebus (1826) and HMS Terror (1813) lost in Northwest Passage, 1845-1848
125 – First Springhill mining disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, 21 February 1891
118 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 aircrash, Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, 29 November 1963
118 - SS Noronic fire, Toronto, 17 September 1949
115 – HMS Acorn, shipwreck, Halifax NS, 14 April 1828
109 – Air Canada Flight 621, near Toronto, 5 July 1970
102 – HMS Feversham shipwreck, Scatterie Island, Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, 7 October 1711
99 – St-Hilaire train disaster, Richelieu River, Beloeil, Quebec, 29 June 1864 [deadliest train disaster in Canada]
84 – Ocean Ranger oil platform sinking, Grand Banks, 15 February 1982
81 – Hurricane Hazel, Toronto, October 1954
78 – SS Newfoundland seal hunt disaster, Newfoundland, March 1914
77 – Laurier Palace Theatre Fire, Montreal, 9 January 1927
76 – Quebec Bridge first collapse, 29 August 1907
74 – Third Springhill mining disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, 23 October 1958
73-200 - Great Porcupine Fire, Porcupine, Ontario, 10 July 1911
70 – Frank Slide, Turtle Mountain (Alberta), 29 April 1903
70 – Desjardins Canal train disaster, bridge collapse, 12 March 1857
64 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 (CP402) McDonnell Douglas DC-8-43 crashed on landing, Tokyo, Japan 4 March 1966
59 – Despatch shipwreck, Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, 12 July 1828^[7]
55 – Point Ellice Bridge Disaster, Victoria, British Columbia, 26 May 1896
52 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 Douglas DC-6B crashed near Dog Creek, British Columbia when a bomb blew its tail section away, 8 July 1965
52 – Great Western Railway passenger train collides with the tail end of gravel train at Baptiste Creek, Canada West. October 27, 1854
44 – 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident, Quebec, 13 October 1997
44 – Spanish River derailment, Northern Ontario, 21 January 1910
42 – Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport, 11 February 1978
40 - SS Islander (Canadian Pacific Steam Navigation Company), sunk by iceberg, Lynn Canal south of Juneau, Alaska
40 – Québec rockslide, Cap Diamant, 19 September 1889
39 – Second Springhill mining disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, 1 November 1956
37 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas C-54 A-10-DC disappeared en route without trace out of Vancouver, British Columbia for Anchorage, Alaska, 21 July 1951
37 – Great Labrador Gale of 1867, 9 October 1867
35 – 1959 Escuminac Hurricane, Gulf of St. Lawrence, 19 June 1959
31 – St-Jean-Vianney mudslide, St-Jean-Vianney, Quebec, 4 May 1971 ^[8]
31 – Dugald train disaster, Dugald, Manitoba, 1 September 1947
29 – 1929 Grand Banks earthquake and tsunami, Burin Peninsula, 18 November 1929
28 – North American ice storm of 1998, January 1998 [Canada fatalities only]
28 – Regina Cyclone, Regina, Saskatchewan, 30 June 1912
27 – Edmonton Tornado, Edmonton, Alberta, 31 July 1987
27 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, Lake Superior, 10 November 1975
27 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 301 Bristol Britannia crashed in Honolulu, Hawaii, 22 July 1962
27 – Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing bridge collapse, Vancouver, 17 June 1958
27 - SS Viking, explosion, Horse Islands (Newfoundland and Labrador), 15 March 1931
26 – Westray Mine methane explosion, Plymouth, Nova Scotia, 9 May 1992
26+ – HMS Speedy shipwreck in snowstorm, Lake Ontario, 8 October 1804
24 – 9/11, 11 September 2001 [Canada fatalities only]
24 – Air Ontario Flight 1363, near Dryden, Ontario, 10 March 1989
23 – Hinton train collision, Hinton, Alberta, 8 February 1986
23 – Air Canada Flight 797, aircraft fire, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, 2 June 1983
23 – Québec Airways DC-3 bomb sabotage, Saint-Joachim, Quebec, 9 September 1949 See Albert Guay
21 - MV Flare bulk carrier shipwreck, Cabot Strait, 16 January 1998
19 – Dorion level crossing accident, Dorion, Quebec, 7 October 1966
17 – Legionnaire's disease outbreak, Toronto^[9]
15 – Orléans air disaster, Orléans, Ontario, 15 May 1956
15 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 307 Douglas DC-6B aircrash, near Cold Bay, Alaska, 29 August 1956
13 - MS Arctic Explorer shipwreck, off St Anthony, Newfoundland, 3 July 1981
13 – 1974 Les Éboulements bus accident, Quebec, 1974
13 – Quebec Bridge second collapse, 11 September 1916
13 – Sand Point, Ontario, head-on train collision, 9 February 1904
12 – Pine Lake, Alberta Tornado, 14 July 2000
11 – Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland DH-106 Comet 1A CF-CUN "Empress of Hawaii", crashed on takeoff from Karachi, Pakistan, 3 March 1953 (first passenger jetliner involved in a fatal accident)^[10]

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Canadian Disasters: an historical survey by Robert L. Jones
SOS! Canadian Disasters, a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada
Canadian Disaster Database
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic: Marine Heritage Database

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