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 to 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 a period of over 7-10 million years, and has cinder cones on its flanks, such as Eve Cone. Although there have 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 confirmed by radiocarbon dates of 200-250 years ago on carbonized wood beneath the basaltic lava flows in the Iskut-Unuk River in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province. 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 in Canada.

[edit] Anahim Volcanic Belt

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Mount Downton 1980 6496 52.59° N 124.79° W Pleistocene
Cindercone Peak 2033 6670 52.46° N 125.18° W Pleistocene
Dufferin Island - - 52.22° N 128.32° W Holocene
Holte Creek Cone 1646 5400 52.46° N 124.78° W Pleistocene
Itcha Mountain 2040 6693 52.73° N 124.80° W Pleistocene
Nazko Cone 1200 3940 52.93° N 123.73° W 7200 years ago
Price Island - - 52.44° N 128.64° W Holocene
Ilgachuz Range 2410 7414 52.08° N 125.03° W -
Itcha Range 2368 7768 52.07° N 124.08° W Pleistocene
Rainbow Range 2478 8130 52.07° N 125.08° W -
Anahim Peak 1897 6224 52.45° N 125.37° W -
Satah Mountain East 1921 6302 52.47° N 124.67° W Holocene
Satah Mountain North - - 52.48° N 124.69° W Pleistocene
Tsitsutl Peak 2495 8186 52.07° N 125.08° W Pleistocene
White Creek Cone 1707 5600 52.55° N 124.84° W Pleistocene

[edit] Atlin Volcanic Field

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Atlin Volcanic Field 1880 6168 59.68° N 133.32° W Unknown

[edit] Chilcotin Plateau Basalts

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Alixton Creek - - 51.80° N 122.14° W Pleistocene
Alkali Lake - - 51.73° N 122.3° W Pleistocene
Black Dome Mountain 2252 7388 51.19° N 122.29° W Pliocene
Browns Lake - - 51.42° N 122.24° W Pleistocene
Canoe Creek - - 51.46° N 122.19° W Pleistocene
Chilcotin Creek Cone - - 52.55° N 124.46° W Pliocene
Crows Bar - - 51.42° N 122.2° W Pleistocene
Dog Creek - - 51.60° N 122.19° W Pleistocene
Hydraulic Lake - - 49.78° N 119.06° W Pliocene
Kelowna - - 49.95° N 119.55° W Pleistocene
Kelowna West - - 49.87° N 119.53° W Pleistocene
Lambly Creek - - 49.95° N 119.54° W Pleistocene
Leon Creek - - 50.97° N 121.92° W Pleistocene
Lightning Peak 2139 7018 49.88° N 118.53° W Pliocene
Missezula Lake - - 49.80° N 120.53° W Pleistocene
Nicola (Chester) - - 50.51° N 120.7° W Pleistocene
Prentice Gulch - - 51.63° N 122.37° W Pleistocene
Quilchena Creek - - 50.12° N 120.5° W Pleistocene
Thaddeus Creek - - 51.93° N 122.74° W Pleistocene
West Kettle River - - 49.78° N 119.07° W Pleistocene

[edit] Garibaldi Volcanic Belt

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Black Tusk 2319 7608 49.97° N 123.04° W Pleistocene
Bridge River Cones 2500 8202 50.80° N 123.40° W Pliocene
Capricorn Mountain 2551 8369 50.62° N 123.52° W Pleistocene
The Castle - - 49.69° N 123.2° W Pleistocene
Cauldron Dome - - 50.16° N 123.32° W Pleistocene
Charnaud Creek - - 51.36° N 126.14° W Holocene
Cheakamus Valley Vent - - 50.20° N 123.17° W Pleistocene
Cinder Cone 1910 6266 49.97° N 123° W Holocene
Clinker Peak 1992 6535 49.92° N 123.04° W Pleistocene
Columnar Peak 1826 5991 49.80° N 123° W Pleistocene
Crucible Dome - - 50.22° N 123.3° W Pleistocene
Devastation - - 50.59° N 123.52° W Pleistocene
Eanastick Meadow - - 49.80° N 122.92° W Pleistocene
Ember Ridge - - 50.08° N 123.23° W Pliocene
Franklin Glacier - - 51.33° N 125.4° W Pliocene
Mount Garibaldi 2678 8254 49.83° N 123.0° W 9300 years ago
Garibaldi Lake 2316 7598 49.92° N 123.03° W Pleistocene
Glacier Pikes 2145 7037 49.89° N 122.85° W Pleistocene
Machmel River - - 51.51° N 126.21° W Holocene
Mosaic Assemblage - - 50.65° N 123.59° W Pleistocene
Mount Brew 1757 5764 50.04° N 123.19° W Pleistocene
Mount Cayley 2394 7854 50.12° N 123.28° W Pleistocene
Mount Fee 2134 7548 50.90° N 123.24° W Pleistocene
Mount Job 2493 8180 50.62° N 123.55° W Pleistocene
Mount Meager 2641 8681 50.63° N 123.50° W 2400 years ago
Mount Price 3040 9974 49.92° N 123.03° W Holocene
Mount Silverthrone 3160 10,367 51.52° N 126.12° W Unknown
Nichols Valley Flows - - 50.84° N 123.37° W Pleistocene
Opal Cone 1736 5696 49.82° N 122.97° W Holocene
Pali Dome - - 50.13° N 123.25° W Pleistocene
Plinth Peak 2677 8783 50.64° N 123.51° W 2350 BP
Round Mountain 1646 5400 49.78° N 122.99° W Pleistocene
Salal Glacier - - 50.79° N 123.38° W Pleistocene
Sham Hill - - 50.90° N 123.51° W Pleistocene
Slag Hill - - 50.19° N 123.3° W Pleistocene
Sphinx Moraine - - 49.93° N 122.85° W Pleistocene
Devastator Peak 2327 7635 50.59° N 123.53° W Pleistocene
The Table 2021 6631 49.9° N 123.01° W Pleistocene
Trudel Creek - - 51.37° N 126.24° W Holocene
Tuber Hill - - 50.93° N 123.44° W Pleistocene
Tuber Hill East - - 50.93° N 123.43° W Holocene
Vulcan's Thumb 2290 7500 50.11° N 123.29° W Pleistocene
Watts Point volcanic centre 0 0 49.65° N 123.21° W Pleistocene

[edit] Milbanke Sound Group

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Dufferin Island - - 52.22° N 128.32° W Holocene
Helmet Peak 318 1043 52.35° N 128.35° W Holocene
Kitasu Hill 235 771 52.50° N 128.73° W Holocene
Price Island - - 52.44° N 128.64° W Holocene
White Creek Cone - - 52.55° N 124.28° W Holocene

[edit] Spectrum Range

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Exile Hill - - 57.38° N 130.82° W Pliocene
Mess Lake - - 57.47° N 130.75° W Holocene
Nahta Cone - - 57.32° N 130.82° W Holocene
Outcast Hill - - 57.40° N 130.77° W Pleistocene
Source Hill - - 57.28° N 130.82° W Pleistocene
Spectrum Dome - - 57.38° N 130.68° W Pliocene
Tadekho Hill - - 57.35° N 130.78° W Pleistocene
The Ash Pit - - 57.45° N 130.78° W Holocene
Wetalth Ridge - - 57.32° N 130.78° W Pleistocene
Yeda Peak - - 57.38° N 130.68° W Pliocene

[edit] Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Aiyansh River - - 55.10° N 128.9° W Historic
Alice Arm A - - 55.42° N 129.41° W Pleistocene
Alice Arm B - - 55.47° N 129.33° W Pleistocene
Alligator Lake 2217 7274 60.42° N 135.42° W Pliocene
Anderson Bay - - 59.3° N 133.75° W Miocene
Armidillo Peak - - 57.53° N 130.55° W Miocene
Ash Mountain 2125 6550 59.27° N 130.5° W Pleistocene
Cache Hill - - 57.53° N 130.67° W Holocene
Camp Hill - - 57.58° N 130.78° W Holocene
Caribou Tuya 1770 - 57.29° N 130.56° W Pleistocene
Cartoona Ridge - - 57.56° N 130.57° W Miocene
Castle Rock - - 57.84° N 131.15° W Pleistocene
Chakatah Creek Peak - - 59.25° N 131.03° W Pleistocene
Chikoida Mountain - - 59.2° N 133.04° W Cenozoic
Cinder Cliff - - 57.75° N 130.57° W Holocene
Cinder Mountain - - 56.57° N 130.61° W Pleistocene
Clinton Creek - - 64.40° N 140.63° W Pliocene
Cocoa Cone - - 57.65° N 130.07° W Holocene
Coffee Crater 2000 6562 57.63° N 130.67° W Holocene
Cone Glacier - - 56.56° N 130.66° W Holocene
Cottonwood Peak - - 59.40° N 130.25° W Pleistocene
Cracker Creek 1895 5880 59.70° N 133.29° W Quaternary
Crow Lagoon 335 1099 54.7° N 130.23° W Pleistocene
Dark Mountain - - 58.64° N 129.34° W Pleistocene
Desolation Lava Field - - 57.82° N 130.62° W Holocene
Dome Mountain - - 58.45° N 129.59° W Pleistocene
Downton Cone - - 52.69° N 124.79° W Pleistocene
Enid Creek Cone - - 58.38° N 129.52° W [Pleistocene
Eve Cone 1702 5584 57.82° N 130.67° W 1350 years ago
Forty Mile - - 64.38° N 140.5° W Miocene
Gabrielse Cone - - 59.44° N 130.46° W Holocene
Glacier Dome - - 57.77° N 130.58° W Pleistocene
Heart Peaks 2012 6601 58.60° N 131.97° W Pleistocene
Hirschfeld / Line Lake - - 59.53° N 132.92° W Cenozoic
Holbrook Creek - - 62.81° N 137.98° W Pleistocene
Hoodoo Mountain 1870 6072 56.78° N 131.28° W 7000 years ago
IGC Centre - - 57.56° N 130.62° W Miocene
Ibex Mountain Cone - - 60.53° N 135.52° W Pleistocene
Ice Peak - - 57.70° N 130.63° W Holocene
Icefall Cone - - 57.70° N 130.6° W Holocene
Iskut-Unuk River Cones 1880 6168 56.58° N 130.55° W 1800
Isspah Butte / Metah Mountain - - 59.10° N 131.32° W Pleistocene
Iverson Creek - - 59.50° N 130.28° W Pleistocene
Iverson Creek West - - 59.57° N 130.08° W Pleistocene
Kana Cone - - 57.90° N 130.62° W Holocene
Kawdy Mountain 1936 6352 58.88° N 131.23° W Pleistocene
Kawdy Mountain South - - 58.86° N 131.15° W Pleistocene
Kena Cone - - 57.60° N 130.68° W Holocene
King Creek - - 56.49° N 130.66° W Pleistocene
Klastline Cone - - 57.78° N 130.5° W Pleistocene
Klinkit Creek Peak - - 59.47° N 131.28° W Pleistocene
Klinkit Lake Peak - - 59.49° N 131° W Pleistocene
Lava Fork Valley 1200 3940 56.48° N 130.77° W 150 years ago
Level Mountain Range 2190 7185 58.42° N 131.35° W Pliocene
Little Bear Mountain 1811 5942 56.80° N 131.3° W Pleistocene
Little Eagle Cone - - 58.52° N 129.71° W Pleistocene
Llangorse Mountain - - 59.37° N 132.78° W Cenozoic
Maitland Volcano - - 57.40° N 129.7° W Pliocene
Mathews Tuya 1676 5165 59.20° N 130.43° W Pleistocene
Meehaz Mountain 1608 5276 59.00° N 131.44° W Pleistocene
Meszah Peak 2166 7106 58.48° N 131.43° W Pleistocene
Metahag Creek - - 58.92° N 131.07° W Pleistocene
Miles Canyon - - 60.40° N 135° W Miocene
Mount Minto 2107 6913 62.6° N 137.2° W Holocene
Moose Creek - - 64.16° N 140.91° W Cenozoic
Moraine Cone - - 57.77° N 130.62° W Holocene
Mount Edziza 2590 10,781 57.72° N 130.63° W Pleistocene
Mount Josephine (British Columbia) 1767 5797 58.06° N 130.7° W Pleistocene
Mount Prindle - - 63.72° N 141.62° W Pliocene
Mushroom - - 62.80° N 137.45° W Pliocene
Nanook Dome - - 57.42° N 130.6° W Pleistocene
Ne Ch'e Ddhawa (Wooton's Cone) - - 62.47° N 137.24° W Pleistocene
Nome Lake South - - 59.54° N 130.88° W Pleistocene
Nuthinaw Mountain - - 58.79° N 131.06° W Pleistocene
Peak 1924 - - 59.04° N 130.38° W Pleistocene
Peak 2050 - - 59.39° N 130.18° W Pleistocene
Peak 2166 - - 59.31° N 130.59° W Pleistocene
Pelly Formation - - 62.80° N 137.5° W Pleistocene
Pharaoh Dome - - 57.65° N 130.6° W Pleistocene
Pillow Ridge - - 57.76° N 130.64° W Pleistocene
Pyramid Dome - - 57.77° N 130.57° W Pleistocene
Rancheria River - - 59.72° N 130.38° W Pleistocene
Ridge Cone - - 57.68° N 130.62° W Holocene
Rosebud Creek - - 63.25° N 138.24° W Pliocene
Ruby Mountain 1895 5880 59.68° N 133.32° W 103 years ago
Second Canyon Cone - - 56.41° N 130.72° W Holocene
Sezill Volcano - - 57.59° N 130.62° W Miocene
Sheep Track Pumice - - 57.64° N 130.67° W Holocene
Sidas Cone 1543 5062 57.87° N 130.63° W Holocene
Sixty Mile - - 64.05° N 140.74° W Miocene
Sleet Cone - - 57.78° N 130.55° W Holocene
Snippaker Creek - - 56.63° N 130.87° W Holocene
South Tuya 1829 5637 59.21° N 130.5° W Pleistocene
Sphinx DOme - - 57.75° N 130.58° W Pleistocene
Storm Cone - - 57.77° N 130.63° W Holocene
Swinton Creek - - 58.57° N 129.84° W Pleistocene
Tadeda Centre - - 57.54° N 130.61° W Miocene
Tennena Cone - - 57.68° N 130.67° W Holocene
The Neck - - 57.66° N 130.59° W Pleistocene
The Saucer - - 57.63° N 130.63° W Holocene
The Thumb - - 56.16° N 126.7° W Pleistocene
Tom MacKay Creek - - 56.71° N 130.56° W Pleistocene
Toozaza Peak - - 59.50° N 130.3° W Pleistocene
Triangle Dome - - 57.72° N 130.65° W Pleistocene
Triplex Cone - - 57.80° N 130.62° W Holocene
Tseax Cone 600 1850 55.12° N 128.90° W 2000 years ago
Tsekone Ridge 1929 6329 57.77° N 130.69° W Pleistocene
Tutsingale Mountain - - 58.78° N 130.87° W Pleistocene
Tuya Butte 2290 7058 59.13° N 130.57° W Pleistocene
Tuya Volcanic Field 2123 6965 59.37° N 130.58° W -
Twin Cone - - 57.80° N 130.53° W Holocene
Volcanic Creek Cone 1520 4712 59.75° N 133.35° W Holocene
Volcano Mountain 1239 4066 62.93° N 137.38° W 3200 years ago
Volcano Mountain East - - 62.92° N 137.42° W Holocene
Walkout Creek - - 57.58° N 130.75° W Holocene
Watson Lake - - 60.00° N 129° W Pleistocene
Williams Cone 2080 6824 57.78° N 130.6° W 1350 years ago
Wolverine Formation - - 62.70° N 137.4° W Pleistocene
Yukon River - - 62.83° N 137.7° W Pleistocene

[edit] Wells Gray-Clearwater Volcanic Field

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Boss Mountain - - 52.12° N 120.91° W Pleistocene
Buck Hill Cone 1585 - 51.80° N 119.98° W Pleistocene
Dragon Cone 1830 - 52.25° N 120.02° W Holocene
Fiftytwo Ridge - - 51.93° N 119.19° W Pleistocene
The Flatiron - - 51.88° N 120.05° W Pleistocene
Flourmill Cone 1495 - 52.05° N 120.32° W Holocene
Gage Hill - - 52.05° N 120.01° W Pleistocene
Hyalo Ridge - - 52.11° N 120.36° W Pleistocene
Ida Ridge - - 51.80° N 119.94° W Pleistocene
Jack's Jump - - 52.12° N 120.05° W Pleistocene
Jacques Lake - - 52.47° N 121.16° W Pleistocene
Kostal Cone 1440 - 52.17° N 119.94° W Holocene
MacLeod Hill - - 52.02° N 120.01° W Pleistocene
Mosquito Mound - - 52.02° N 120.18° W Pleistocene
Pillow Creek - - 52.02° N 119.84° W Pleistocene
Pointed Stick Cone - - 52.24° N 120.08° W Holocene
Pyramid Mountain 240 1103 51.99° N 120.1° W Pleistocene
Quesnel Lake - - 52.65° N 120.98° W Pleistocene
Ray Mountain 2050 - 52.24° N 120.11° W Pleistocene
Spanish Bonk 1770 5807 52.13° N 120.37° W Pleistocene
Spanish Lake Centre - - 52.07° N 120.31° W Holocene
Spanish Mump - - 52.16° N 120.33° W Pleistocene
Whitehorse Bluffs 200 6200 51.90° N 120.11° W Pleistocene

[edit] Wrangell Volcanic Field

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Felsite Peak 2530 8301 60.32° N 138.27° W Pliocene
Rabbit Mountain 2090 6857 61.50° N 140.59° W Pliocene

[edit] British Columbia Coast

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Peirce Seamount -1800 - - -
Hodgkins Seamount -790 - - -
Bowie Seamount -28 -79 53.3° N 135.63° W Pleistocene
Graham Seamount -1474 - - -
Oshawa Seamount -2127 - - -
Dellwood Seamount -1218 - - -
Ogala Seamount -1372 - - -
Tucker Seamount -1242 - - -
Chelan Seamount -1459 - - -
Seminole Seamount -1653 - - -
Union Seamount -293 - - -
Stirni Seamount -1710 - - -
Explorer Seamount -830 - - -
Heck Seamount -1320 - - -
Springfield Seamount -938 - - -
Tuzo Wilson Seamounts - - 51.4° N 130,9° W Holocene
Maquinna -2500 -8202 - Holocene

[edit] New Brunswick

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Mount Pleasant Caldera - - - -
Sugarloaf Mountain - - - -

[edit] Newfoundland and Labrador

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Flowers River caldera complex - - - -

[edit] Northwest Territories

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Back River volcanic complex - - - -
Mackenzie dyke swarm - - - -

[edit] Nunavut

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Ellesmere Island Volcanics - - - -
Strand Fiord Formation - - - -

[edit] Ontario

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Sturgeon Lake Caldera - - - -
Manitou Islands - - - -
Callander Bay - - - -
Blake River Megacaldera Complex - - - -
Misema Caldera - - - -
Lake Timiskaming kimberlite field - - - -

[edit] Quebec

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Lac des Vents volcanic complex - - - -
Blake River Megacaldera Complex - - - -
New Senator Caldera - - - -
Noranda Caldera - - - -
Misema Caldera - - - -
Lake Timiskaming kimberlite field - - - -

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