200 or More Deaths
| Disaster | Type | Location | Deaths | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish flu | Pandemic | Canada | 50,000 (estimate) | 1918 to 1919 | |
| Newfoundland Hurricane of 1775 | Hurricane | Newfoundland | 4,000 | 1775 | |
| Halifax Explosion | Explosion | Nova Scotia | 2,000 | 1917 | estimate; 1,950 recorded names |
| Tseax Cone eruption | Volcano | British Columbia | 2,000 | 1700 (approximately) | ' |
| RMS Empress of Ireland | Shipwreck | Quebec | 1,012 | 1914 | St. Lawrence River |
| RMS Atlantic | Shipwreck | Nova Scotia | 562 | 1873 | Marrs Head, Mosher Island, Meagher's Island |
| Duke William | Shipwreck | Near English coast | 360 | 1758 (December 13) | |
| SS Princess Sophia | Shipwreck | Near Juneau, Alaska | 353 | 1918 | |
| Aeneas | Shipwreck | Newfoundland | 340 | 1805 | Isle aux Morts |
| Violet | Shipwreck | England | 300 | 1758 (December 13) | Near English coast, bound for France |
| Great Labrador Gale of 1885 | Hurricane | Newfoundland | 300 | 1885 (10 October) | |
| Sibylle | Shipwreck | Nova Scotia | 300 | 1834 (11 September) | emigrant ship wrecked St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia |
| SS Pacific | Shipwreck | British Columbia | 298 | 1875 | Cape Flattery out of Victoria, BC |
| Air India Flight 182 | Sabotage | Atlantic Ocean | 280 Canadians (out of 329 total fatalities) | 1985 | Flight out of Montréal Mirabel International Airport |
| Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 | Aircrash | Saudi Arabia | 261 | 1991 | Nationair DC-8-61 aircrash, Jeddah, Canadian aircraft; 14 Canadian crew, others Nigerian nationals. |
| Arrow Air Flight 1285 | Aircrash | Newfoundland | 256 | 1985 | Gander, NL. Worst air crash on Canadian soil. |
| Great Lakes Storm of 1913 | Storm | Ontario | 250 | 1913 | Great Lakes Basin, estimate for Canada and U.S. fatalities |
| HMS Tribune | Shipwreck | Nova Scotia | 238 | 1797 | Wrecked at Halifax |
| SS Anglo Saxon | Shipwreck | Newfoundland | 237 | 1863 | Allan Line shipwreck; Cape Race, Avalon Peninsula, |
| Swissair Flight 111 | Aircrash | Nova Scotia | 229 | 1998, 2 September | St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia |
| Nova Scotia Hurricane of 1873 | Weather-related | Nova Scotia | 223 (disputed) | 1873 | The Monthly Weather Review, published by the American Meteorological Society, set the death toll at 223 but the New York Times set the toll at 600 |
| Matheson Fire | Fire | Ontario | 223 | 1916 | |
| SS Hungarian | Shipwreck | Nova Scotia | 205 | 1860 | Allan Line passenger ship wrecked Cape Sable, Nova Scotia |
| USS Pollux (AKS-2) and USS Truxtun (DD-229) | Shipwreck | Newfoundland | 203 | 1942 | Wreck of the USS Pollux resulted in 93 fatalities and USS Truxtun 110; the USS Wilkes (DD-441) also grounded, but there were no fatalities, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Canadian Disasters By Death Toll
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)