List of Canadian Disasters By Death Toll - 10 To 99 Deaths

10 To 99 Deaths

  • 99 - Knights of Columbus Hostel fire, St John's, Newfoundland, 12 December 1942
  • 99 – St-Hilaire train disaster, Richelieu River, Beloeil, Quebec, 29 June 1864
  • 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
  • 62 - Rogers Pass avalanche, Rogers Pass, British Columbia, 4 March 1910.
  • 59 – Despatch shipwreck, Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, 12 July 1828
  • 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. 27 October 1854
  • 48 - Opémiska Community Hall fire, Chapais, Quebec, 31 December 1979
  • 44 – 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident, Quebec, 13 October 1997
  • 44 – Spanish River derailment, Northern Ontario, 21 January 1910
  • 43 - SARS outbreak, Toronto, Ontario, February - September 2003
  • 43 – Great Fire of 1922, Timiskaming District, Ontario, 4–5 October 1922
  • 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
  • 40 - Titanic, sank April 15, 1912 -- Canadian deaths only of 1,517 total.
  • 39 - Almonte train wreck, 27 December 1942
  • 39 - Hollinger Mining Disaster, Timmins, Ontario, 10 February 1928
  • 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
  • 37 – Blue Bird Café fire, Montreal, 1 September 1972
  • 35 – 1959 Escuminac Hurricane, Gulf of St. Lawrence, 19 June 1959
  • 31 – Saint-Jean-Vianney, Quebec mudslide, 4 May 1971
  • 31 – Dugald train disaster, Dugald, Manitoba, 1 September 1947
  • 29 – 1929 Grand Banks earthquake and tsunami, Burin Peninsula, 18 November 1929
  • 29 - SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Lake Superior November 1975, went down with all hands
  • 28 – North American ice storm of 1998, January 1998
  • 28 – Regina Cyclone, Regina, Saskatchewan, 30 June 1912
  • 28 - LaSalle Heights Disaster, LaSalle, Quebec, 1 March 1965
  • 27 – Edmonton Tornado, Edmonton, Alberta, 31 July 1987
  • 27 – Canadian Pacific Air Lines 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
  • 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
  • 22 - Bus crash Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 28 May 1980
  • 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, 2005
  • 17 – Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, off Newfoundland, 12 March 2009
  • 17 - Windsor-Tecumseh Tornado, Windsor, Ontario 17 June 1946
  • 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
  • 15 - Ottawa & New York Railway Bridge (south channel crossing) bridge collapse, Cornwall, Ontario, 6 September 1898
  • 14 - École Polytechnique Massacre, shooting rampage, 6 December 1989
  • 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 – First Air Flight 6560 a Boeing 737 crashes near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, 20 August 2011
  • 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 - Metropolitan Store explosion, Windsor, Ontario, 25 October 1960

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