Fatalities
|
Year
|
Article
|
Type
|
Location
|
Comments
|
99
|
1864
|
Beloeil train disaster
|
Train wreck
|
Beloeil, Quebec
|
Deadliest train disaster in Canada
|
99
|
1942
|
Knights of Columbus Hostel fire
|
Fire
|
St. John's, Newfoundland
|
|
84
|
1982
|
Ocean Ranger
|
Oil platform sinking
|
Grand Banks, Newfoundland
|
|
81 (Canadian fatalities only)
|
1954
|
Hurricane Hazel
|
Hurricane
|
Ontario
|
|
79
|
1957
|
Maritime Central Airways Flight 315
|
Plane crash
|
Issoudun, Quebec
|
|
78
|
1914
|
1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
|
Storm
|
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland
|
Fatalities from the SS Southern Cross are excluded
|
77
|
1927
|
Laurier Palace Theatre fire
|
Fire
|
Montreal, Quebec
|
|
76
|
1907
|
First Quebec Bridge collapse
|
Bridge collapse
|
Quebec City, Quebec
|
|
74
|
1958
|
Third Springhill mining disaster
|
Coal mine bump
|
Springhill, Nova Scotia
|
|
74
|
2018
|
2018 North American heat wave
|
Heat wave
|
Quebec and Ontario
|
[20]
|
73-200
|
1911
|
Great Porcupine Fire
|
Forest fire
|
Porcupine, Ontario
|
|
70
|
1857
|
Desjardins Canal disaster
|
Train wreck
|
near Hamilton, Ontario
|
|
70
|
1903
|
Frank Slide
|
Rockslide
|
Frank, Crowsnest Pass, North-West Territories (Modern day Alberta)
|
|
64
|
1966
|
Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402
|
Plane crash
|
Tokyo, Japan
|
Crashed on landing at Haneda Airport in Tokyo with 8 survivors
|
63 (Canadian fatalities only)
|
2020
|
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
|
Plane shootdown
|
Tehran, Iran
|
|
62
|
1910
|
Rogers Pass avalanche
|
Avalanche
|
Rogers Pass, British Columbia
|
|
62
|
1956
|
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810
|
Plane crash
|
Chilliwack, British Columbia
|
|
60
|
1915
|
Britannia Mine Jane Camp landslide
|
Landslide
|
Britannia Beach, British Columbia
|
|
59
|
1828
|
Despatch
|
Shipwreck
|
Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland
|
[21]
|
55
|
1896
|
Point Ellice Bridge disaster
|
Tram accident
|
Victoria, British Columbia
|
|
55-58
|
1926
|
1926 Nova Scotia hurricane
|
Hurricane
|
Nova Scotia
|
Approximate number, most deaths occurred at sea.
|
54
|
2018
|
2018 Eastern Canada heat wave
|
Heat wave
|
Eastern Canada
|
[22]
|
52
|
1854
|
Jeannette's Creek train wreck
|
Train wreck
|
Jeannettes Creek, Ontario
|
|
52-232
|
1900
|
1900 Galveston Hurricane
|
Hurricane
|
Eastern Canada
|
|
52
|
1965
|
Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21
|
Mass murder
|
near 100 Mile House, British Columbia
|
Crashed after a bomb exploded on board. The motive and perpetrator(s) remain unknown.
|
48
|
1979
|
Opémiska Community Hall fire
|
Fire
|
Chapais, Quebec
|
|
47
|
2013
|
Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
|
Train wreck
|
Lac-Mégantic, Quebec
|
|
44-63
|
1910
|
Spanish River derailment
|
Train wreck
|
Nairn, Ontario
|
|
44
|
1950
|
1950 Douglas C-54D disappearance
|
Suspected plane crash
|
Somewhere between Snag and Aishihik, Yukon Territory
|
42 US military personnel and 2 civilians. No trace of the plane has ever been found.
|
44
|
1997
|
1997 Les Éboulements bus accident
|
Bus crash
|
Les Éboulements, Quebec
|
|
43
|
1922
|
Great Fire of 1922
|
Wildfire
|
Timiskaming District, Ontario
|
|
43
|
2003
|
2003 SARS outbreak
|
Outbreak
|
Toronto, Ontario
|
Out of a total of 251 cases
|
42
|
1978
|
Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314
|
Plane crash
|
Cranbrook, British Columbia
|
|
40+
|
1815
|
HMS Penelope
|
Shipwreck
|
near Cap des Rosiers, Quebec
|
Many survivors later froze to death.[23]
|
40
|
1889
|
Quebec rockslide
|
Rockslide
|
Quebec City, Quebec
|
|
40
|
1901
|
SS Islander
|
Shipwreck
|
Lynn Canal, Alaska
|
Sunk by an iceberg south of Juneau
|
40 (Canadian fatalities only)
|
1912
|
Titanic
|
Shipwreck
|
near Newfoundland
|
Canadian deaths only of 1,517 total"The Demographics of Titanic Passengers".</ref>
|
40
|
1918
|
HMCS Galiano
|
Shipwreck
|
Queen Charlotte Sound 20 miles (32 km) of Kunghit Island, British Columbia
|
|
40
|
1978
|
Eastman bus crash
|
Bus crash
|
Eastman, Quebec
|
|
39
|
1928
|
Hollinger Mining Disaster
|
Mine fire
|
Timmins, Ontario
|
|
39
|
1942
|
Almonte train wreck
|
Train wreck
|
Almonte, Ontario
|
|
39
|
1956
|
Second Springhill mining disaster
|
Explosion
|
Springhill, Nova Scotia
|
|
39
|
1946
|
1946 American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crash
|
Plane crash
|
Stephenville, Newfoundland
|
|
38
|
1850
|
Commerce
|
Shipwreck
|
Port Maitland, Ontario
|
|
37
|
1867
|
Great Labrador Gale of 1867
|
Storm
|
Labrador, Newfoundland
|
|
37+
|
1869
|
1869 Saxby Gale
|
Tropical cyclone
|
Maritime provinces
|
Most deaths occurred at sea
|
37
|
1951
|
1951 Canadian Pacific Air Douglas DC-10 disappearance
|
Suspected plane crash
|
Pacific Ocean near Yakutat, Alaska
|
|
37
|
1972
|
Blue Bird Café fire
|
Arson
|
Montreal, Quebec
|
|
37
|
1921
|
Britannia Beach flood
|
Flood
|
Britannia Beach, British Columbia
|
|
37
|
1954
|
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 9
|
Mid-air collision
|
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
|
|
36
|
1952
|
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 324
|
Plane crash
|
Sandspit, British Columbia
|
|
35
|
1959
|
1959 Escuminac hurricane
|
Hurricane
|
Gulf of St. Lawrence, New Brunswick
|
|
35
|
1967
|
ČSA Flight 523
|
Plane crash
|
Gander, Newfoundland
|
|
32
|
2014
|
L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire
|
Fire
|
L'Isle-Verte, Quebec
|
|
32
|
1971
|
MV Meteor
|
Ship fire
|
Pacific Ocean off of Vancouver, British Columbia
|
|
32
|
1974
|
Panarctic Oils Flight 416
|
Plane crash
|
Melville Island, Northwest Territories
|
|
31
|
1902
|
Wanstead train disaster
|
Train wreck
|
Wanstead, Ontario
|
|
31
|
1882
|
Halifax Poor House fire
|
Fire
|
Halifax, Nova Scotia
|
[24]
|
31
|
1947
|
Dugald train disaster
|
Train wreck
|
Dugald, Manitoba
|
|
31
|
1910
|
West Canadian Collieries No. 1 mine explosion
|
Explosion
|
Bellevue, Alberta
|
21 of the deaths caused by inhaling carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide
|
31
|
1971
|
Saint-Jean-Vianney landslide
|
Landslide
|
Saint-Jean-Vianney, Quebec
|
[25]
|
30
|
1930
|
John B. King explosion
|
Explosion
|
near Brockville, Ontario
|
Lightning struck a drill boat containing dynamite
|
30
|
2003
|
2003 Avalanche season
|
Avalanche
|
Western Canada (Alberta and British Columbia)
|
Deadliest avalanche season in Canada since 1970
|
~30
|
1979
|
Eastern Canadian blizzard of March 1971
|
Blizzard
|
Quebec
|
|
29
|
1929
|
1929 Grand Banks earthquake
|
Earthquake and tsunami
|
Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland
|
Mainly affecting the town of Burin
|
29
|
1975
|
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
|
Shipwreck
|
Northwest of Pancake Bay, Ontario in Lake Superior
|
|
29
|
1941
|
Brazeau Collieries Mine explosion
|
Explosion
|
Rocky Mountain House, Alberta
|
|
28
|
1912
|
Regina Cyclone
|
Tornado
|
Regina, Saskatchewan
|
|
28
|
1965
|
LaSalle Heights disaster
|
Explosion
|
LaSalle, Quebec
|
|
28 (Canadian fatalities only)
|
1998
|
North American ice storm of 1998
|
Ice storm
|
Ontario and Quebec
|
|
27
|
1931
|
SS Viking
|
Explosion
|
Horse Islands, Newfoundland
|
|
27
|
1958
|
Second Narrows Bridge collapse
|
Bridge collapse
|
Vancouver, British Columbia
|
|
27
|
1962
|
Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 301
|
Plane crash
|
Honolulu, Hawaii
|
|
27
|
1987
|
Edmonton tornado
|
Tornado
|
Edmonton, Alberta
|
|
27
|
1946
|
1946 Sabena DC-4 crash
|
Plane crash
|
Gander, Newfoundland
|
|
26+
|
1804
|
HMS Speedy
|
Shipwreck
|
Presqu'ile Bay, Lake Ontario
|
|
26-28
|
1965
|
Granduc Mine avalanche
|
Avalanche
|
Stewart, British Columbia
|
|
26
|
1992
|
Westray Mine methane explosion
|
Explosion
|
Plymouth, Nova Scotia
|
|
26
|
1948
|
1948 Rimouski Airlines crash
|
Plane crash
|
Anticosti Island, Quebec
|
|
24
|
1989
|
Air Ontario Flight 1363
|
Plane crash
|
Dryden, Ontario
|
|
23
|
1949
|
Québec Airways DC-3 bomb sabotage
|
Mass murder
|
Saint-Joachim, Quebec
|
Albert Guay, along with the assistance of two other people planted a bomb in a plan to kill his wife
|
23
|
1983
|
Air Canada Flight 797
|
Aircraft fire
|
Cincinnati International Airport, Kentucky
|
|
23
|
1986
|
Hinton train collision
|
Train wreck
|
Hinton, Alberta
|
|
23
|
2005
|
Legionnaire's disease outbreak
|
Epidemic
|
Toronto, Ontario
|
[26][27]
|
23
|
2020
|
2020 Nova Scotia attacks
|
Mass shooting
|
Portapique, Enfield, Wentworth, Debert, and Shubenacaide, Nova Scotia
|
|
23
|
1951
|
1957 Queen Charlotte Airlines Canto crash
|
Plane crash
|
Mount Benson, British Columbia
|
|
23
|
1947
|
Goose Bay USAF DC-4 crash
|
Plane crash
|
CFB Goose Bay, Newfoundland
|
|
22
|
1980
|
Swift Current Broncos bus crash
|
Bus crash
|
near Swift Current, Saskatchewan
|
[28]
|
22
|
1958
|
1958 Lockheed Constellation crash
|
Plane crash
|
Argentia, Newfoundland
|
|
22
|
2008
|
2008 Canada listeriosis outbreak
|
Outbreak
|
Toronto, Ontario
|
Out of 57 total cases
|
21
|
1950
|
Canoe River train crash
|
Train wreck
|
Valemount, British Columbia
|
|
21
|
1943
|
FV Flora Alberta
|
Ship collision
|
Atlantic Ocean off of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
|
|
21
|
1998
|
MV Flare
|
Shipwreck
|
Cabot Strait, Newfoundland
|
|
21
|
1949
|
1949 RCAF Canso crash
|
Plane crash
|
Bigstone Lake, Manitoba
|
|
21
|
1946
|
1946 RCAF Estevan C-47 Dakota crash
|
Plane crash
|
Estevan, Saskatchewan
|
|
20
|
1927
|
Beauval Indian Residential School Fire
|
Fire
|
Beauval, Saskatchewan
|
|
20
|
1941
|
American Airlines Flight 1 (1941)
|
Plane crash
|
West of St. Thomas, Ontario
|
|
19
|
1993
|
La Tuque bus disaster
|
Bus crash
|
La Tuque, Quebec
|
|
19
|
1910
|
SS Regulus
|
Shipwreck
|
Shoal Bay, Newfoundland
|
|
19
|
1966
|
Dorion level crossing accident
|
School bus crash
|
Dorion, Quebec
|
|
19
|
1941
|
Polio
|
Epidemic
|
New Brunswick
|
Out of a total of 427 cases
|
18 (Canadian fatalities only)
|
2019
|
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
|
Plane crash
|
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
|
|
17
|
1960
|
Lamont school bus crash
|
School bus crash
|
near the town of Lamont, Alberta
|
[29]
|
17
|
1946[30]
|
Windsor-Tecumseh tornado
|
Tornado
|
Windsor, Ontairo
|
|
17
|
2009
|
Cougar Helicopters Flight 91
|
Helicopter crash
|
Off the coast of Newfoundland
|
|
17
|
1907
|
Hochelaga Protestant School Fire
|
Fire
|
Montreal, Quebec
|
|
16
|
1918
|
Protection Island mining disaster
|
Elevator accident
|
Protection Island, Nanaimo, British Columbia
|
[31]
|
16
|
2018
|
Humboldt Broncos bus crash
|
Bus crash
|
Armley, Saskatchewan
|
|
16
|
1958
|
Oldfield Apartment Fire
|
Fire
|
Montreal, Quebec
|
|
16
|
1935
|
Galt Mine No.8 Explosion
|
Explosion
|
Coalhurst, Alberta
|
|
16
|
2023
|
Carberry bus crash
|
Bus crash
|
Carberry, Manitoba
|
|
15
|
1898
|
Cornwall railway bridge collapse
|
Bridge collapse
|
Cornwall, Ontario
|
|
15
|
1956
|
Orleans air disaster
|
Plane crash
|
Orleans, Ontario
|
|
15
|
1956
|
Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 307
|
Plane crash
|
Cold Bay, Alaska
|
|
15 (Canadian fatalities only)
|
2004
|
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
|
Earthquake and tsunami
|
Thailand, India, Sri Lanka
|
Seven Canadians died in Thailand, and one each in India and Sri Lanka
|
15
|
1934
|
1934 Dundas Station train collision
|
Train wreck
|
Hamilton, Ontario
|
Two passenger trains collide
|
15
|
1974
|
1974 Les Éboulements bus accident
|
Bus crash
|
Les Éboulements, Quebec
|
|
14
|
1985
|
Barrie tornado outbreak
|
Tornado outbreak
|
Barrie, Ontario
|
|
14
|
1989
|
École Polytechnique massacre
|
Mass shooting
|
Montreal, Quebec
|
|
14
|
1957
|
1957 Pacific Western Airlines DC-3 crash
|
Plane crash
|
Port Hardy, British Columbia
|
|
13
|
1904
|
Sand Point train collision
|
Train wreck
|
Sand Point, Ontario
|
|
13
|
1916
|
Second Quebec Bridge collapse
|
Bridge collapse
|
Quebec City, Quebec
|
|
13
|
1981
|
MS Arctic Explorer
|
Shipwreck
|
near St. Anthony, Newfoundland
|
|
12
|
1954
|
Lake of Two Mountains boating accident
|
Boat accident
|
L'Île-Bizard, Quebec
|
Twelve NCC (Negro Community Centre) children drown.
|
12
|
1970
|
M.F.V. Enterprise and MV Patrick Morris
|
Shipwrecks
|
off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
|
The MV Patrick Morris was responding to the mayday call of the M.F.V. Enterprise when it sank as well.
|
12
|
1989
|
1989 Cormier-Village hayride accident
|
Traffic collision
|
Cormier-Village, New Brunswick
|
|
12
|
2000
|
Pine Lake tornado
|
Tornado
|
Pine Lake, Alberta
|
A tornado hit an RV park in rural Alberta
|
12
|
2011
|
First Air Flight 6560
|
Plane crash
|
Resolute Bay, Nunavut
|
|
12
|
1958
|
Alexis Creek mission hospital fire
|
Fire
|
Alexis Creek, British Columbia
|
|
12
|
1943
|
1943 Aldershot train accident
|
Train collision
|
Aldershot, Ontario
|
a passenger train collided with a bus, splitting it in two
|
11
|
1953
|
1953 Canadian Pacific Air Lines Karachi crash
|
Plane crash
|
Karachi, Pakistan
|
[32]
|
11
|
2012
|
Collision between a van and an eighteen-wheeler
|
Traffic collision
|
between Stratford and Perth, Ontario
|
Ten of the killed were Peruvian migrant workers*
|
11
|
1889
|
St. George bridge derailment
|
Train wreck
|
St. George, Ontario
|
|
11
|
1908
|
1908 Medicine Hat train collision
|
Train wreck
|
Dunmore, Alberta
|
Collision between a locomotive and a passenger train
|
11
|
1998
|
Propair Flight 420
|
Plane crash
|
Montréal–Mirabel International Airport, Mirabel, Quebec
|
|
11
|
1919
|
Lac la Biche fire
|
Forest fire
|
Alberta and Saskatchewan
|
|
11
|
1946
|
Barry Hotel Fire
|
Fire
|
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
|
|
11
|
1950
|
Vancouver Island Lockheed P2V-3W Neptune crash
|
Plane crash
|
McCreight Mountain, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
|
|
11
|
1925
|
Izumo launch collision
|
Shipwreck
|
Vancouver, British Columbia
|
Crew were returning to the ship on a launch after a brief excursion when the launch was struck by the tugboat Nanoose. Only 5 of the crew on board survived.[33]
|
10
|
1960
|
Metropolitan Store explosion
|
Explosion
|
Windsor, Ontario
|
[34]
|
10
|
1989
|
Rupert Hotel fire
|
Fire
|
Toronto, Ontario
|
[35]
|
10
|
2018
|
Toronto van attack
|
Terrorism
|
Toronto, Ontario
|
|
10
|
1985
|
1985 CFB Namao mid-air collision
|
Mid-air collision
|
CFB Namao, Edmonton, Alberta
|
|
10
|
1950
|
Leduc Hotel explosion
|
Explosion
|
Leduc, Alberta
|
[36]
|
10
|
1930
|
McGillivray Mine explosion
|
Explosion
|
Coleman
|
|
10
|
1976
|
1976 Austin Airways DHC-3 crash
|
Plane crash
|
Fraserdale, Ontario
|
|
10
|
2022
|
2022 Saskatchewan stabbings
|
Stabbing
|
Weldon, Saskatchewan
|
|
10
|
2004
|
2004 Georgian Express crash
|
Plane crash
|
Pelee, Ontario
|
|
10
|
1923
|
M.V. Orient
|
Shipwreck
|
Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
|
Split in two by the freighter Admiral Nulton leaving three survivors.[33]
|
10
|
1899
|
Thistle
|
Shipwreck
|
Johnstone Strait, British Columbia
|
[33]
|
10
|
2010
|
Glengarry Hospital Norovirus outbreak
|
Outbreak
|
Victoria, British Columbia
|
|
10
|
1919
|
Port Colborne explosion
|
Explosion
|
Port Colborne Ontario
|
|