List of disasters in Canada by death toll

200 or more deaths

100 to 199 deaths

• 190+ – shipwreck near the Azores, December 16, 1758
• 189 – Hillcrest mine disaster, Hillcrest, Alberta, June 19, 1914
• 182+ – Victoria steamboat disaster, May 24, 1881, London, Ontario,
• 174 – SS Southern Cross shipwreck, Newfoundland, March 31, 1914
• 173 – SS Florizel shipwreck, Cappahayden, Newfoundland and Labrador, February 23, 1918
• 173-192 – 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane, August 23–25, 1927
• 160 – Miramichi Fire, New Brunswick, October 1825
• 150 – 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion, Nanaimo, British Columbia, May 3, 1887
• 136 – SS Valencia shipwreck, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, January 22, 1906
• 129 – John Franklin expedition – HMS Erebus and HMS Terror lost in Northwest Passage, 1845–1848
• 128 – Coal Creek mine disaster, Coal Creek, British Columbia, May 22, 1902
• 125 – First Springhill mining disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, February 21, 1891
• 118 – SS Noronic fire, Toronto, Ontario September 17, 1949
• 118 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 aircrash, Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, November 29, 1963
• 115 – HMS Acorn, shipwreck, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 14, 1828
• 109 – Air Canada Flight 621, Brampton, Ontario, July 5, 1970
• 102 – HMS Feversham shipwreck, Scatarie Island, Main-a-dieu, Nova Scotia, October 7, 1711

  10 to 99 deaths

• 99 – St-Hilaire train disaster, Richelieu River, Beloeil, Quebec, June 29, 1864 '
• 99 – Knights of Columbus Hostel fire, St John's, Newfoundland, December 12, 1942
• 84 – Ocean Ranger oil platform sinking, Grand Banks, February 15, 1982
• 81 – Hurricane Hazel, Toronto, October 1954 '
• 78 – SS Newfoundland seal hunt disaster, Newfoundland, March 1914
• 77 – Laurier Palace Theatre Fire, Montreal, January 9, 1927
• 76 – Quebec Bridge first collapse, August 29, 1907
• 74 – Third Springhill mining disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, October 23, 1958
• 73-200 – Great Porcupine Fire, Porcupine, Ontario, July 10, 1911
• 70 – Desjardins Canal train disaster, bridge collapse, March 12, 1857
• 70 – Frank Slide, Turtle Mountain, April 29, 1903
• 64 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-43 crashed on landing, Tokyo, Japan March 4, 1966
• 63 – Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, January 8, 2020 '
• 62 – Rogers Pass avalanche, Rogers Pass, British Columbia, March 4, 1910
• 62 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, Chilliwack, British Columbia, December 9, 1956
• 59 – Despatch shipwreck, Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, July 12, 1828
• 55 – Point Ellice Bridge Disaster, Victoria, British Columbia, May 26, 1896
• 55-58 – 1926 Nova Scotia hurricane, August 8, 1926
• 54 – 2018 Eastern Canada heat wave
• 52 – Great Western Railway passenger train collides with the tail end of gravel train at Baptiste Creek, Canada West. October 27, 1854
• 52-232 – 1900 Galveston hurricane, September 12–14, 1900
• 52 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 Douglas DC-6B crashed near Dog Creek, British Columbia when a bomb blew its tail section away, July 8, 1965
• 48 – Opémiska Community Hall fire, Chapais, Quebec, December 31, 1979
• 47 – Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, July 6, 2013
• 44 – Spanish River derailment, Northern Ontario, January 21, 1910
• 44 – US Military DC-4 crash, 42 US military personnel and 2 civilians, presumably somewhere in Yukon or British Columbia, January 26, 1950
• 44 – 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident, Quebec, October 13, 1997
• 43 – Great Fire of 1922, Timiskaming District, Ontario, October 4–5, 1922
• 43 – SARS outbreak, Toronto, Ontario, February - September 2003
• 42 – Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport, February 11, 1978
• 40+ – HMS Penelope, April 30, 1815, near Cap des Rosiers
• 40 – Québec rockslide, Cap Diamant, September 19, 1889
• 40 – SS Islander, sunk by iceberg, Lynn Canal south of Juneau, Alaska, August 15, 1901
• 40 – Titanic, sank April 15, 1912 -- Canadian deaths only of 1,517 total.
• 40 – Eastman bus accident, Eastman, Quebec, August 4, 1978
• 39 – Hollinger Mining Disaster, Timmins, Ontario, February 10, 1928
• 39 – Almonte train wreck, December 27, 1942
• 39 – Second Springhill mining disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, November 1, 1956
• 37 – Great Labrador Gale of 1867, October 9, 1867
• 37+ – 1869 Saxby Gale, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, October 4–5, 1869
• 37 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas C-54 A-10-DC disappeared en route without trace out of Vancouver, British Columbia for Anchorage, Alaska, July 21, 1951
• 37 – Blue Bird Café fire, Montreal, September 1, 1972
• 35 – 1959 Escuminac Hurricane, Gulf of St. Lawrence, June 19, 1959
• 32 – L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire, L'Isle-Verte, Quebec, January 23, 2014
• 31 – Halifax Poor House Fire, November 7, 1882
• 31 – Dugald train disaster, Dugald, Manitoba, September 1, 1947
• 31 – Saint-Jean-Vianney, Quebec mudslide, May 4, 1971
• 30 – John B. King Explosion, near Brockville, Ontario, June 26, 1930, lightning struck a drill boat containing dynamite
• 30 – Quebec blizzard, March 3–5, 1971
• 29 – 1929 Grand Banks earthquake and tsunami, Burin Peninsula, November 18, 1929
• 29 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Lake Superior November 10, 1975, went down with all hands
• 28 – Regina Cyclone, Regina, Saskatchewan, June 30, 1912
• 28 – LaSalle Heights Disaster, LaSalle, Quebec, March 1, 1965
• 28 – North American ice storm of 1998, January 1998 '
• 27 – SS Viking, explosion, Horse Islands, March 15, 1931
• 27 – Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing bridge collapse, Vancouver, June 17, 1958
• 27 – Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 301 Bristol Britannia crashed in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 22, 1962
• 27 – Edmonton Tornado, Edmonton, Alberta, July 31, 1987
• 26+ – HMS Speedy shipwreck in snowstorm, Lake Ontario, October 8, 1804
• 26 – Granduc Mine avalanche, Stewart, British Columbia, February 18, 1965
• 26 – Westray Mine methane explosion, Plymouth, Nova Scotia, May 9, 1992
• 24 – Air Ontario Flight 1363, near Dryden, Ontario, March 10, 1989
• 24 – 9/11, September 11, 2001 '
• 23 – Québec Airways DC-3 bomb sabotage, Saint-Joachim, Quebec, September 9, 1949 See Albert Guay
• 23 – Air Canada Flight 797, aircraft fire, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, June 2, 1983
• 23 – Hinton train collision, Hinton, Alberta, February 8, 1986
• 23 – Legionnaire's disease outbreak, Toronto, 2005
• 23 – 2020 Nova Scotia attacks, Portapique NS, April 18–19 2020
• 22 – Bus crash Swift Current, Saskatchewan, May 28, 1980
• 22 – 2008 Canada listeriosis outbreak, 2008
• 21 – Canoe River train crash, Valemount, British Columbia, November 21, 1950
• 21 – MV Flare bulk carrier shipwreck, Cabot Strait, January 16, 1998
• 20 – Beauval Indian Residential School fire, Beauval, Saskatchewan, September 20, 1927
• 19 – Dorion level crossing accident, Dorion, Quebec, October 7, 1966
• 18 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, March 10, 2019 '
• 17 – Windsor and Tecumseh, Ontario, tornado, Windsor, Ontario June 17, 1946
• 17 – Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, off Newfoundland, March 12, 2009
• 16 – Protection Island mining disaster, elevator cable break
• 16 – Humboldt Broncos bus crash, April 6, 2018
• 15 – Ottawa & New York Railway Bridge bridge collapse, Cornwall, Ontario, September 6, 1898
• 15 – Orléans air disaster, Orléans, Ontario, May 15, 1956
• 15 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 307 Douglas DC-6B aircrash, near Cold Bay, Alaska, August 29, 1956
• 15 – 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
• 15 – Les Éboulements bus accident, Quebec, June 1, 1974
• 14 – "Barrie" tornado outbreak, May 31, 1985
• 14 – École Polytechnique massacre, shooting rampage, December 6, 1989
• 13 – Sand Point, Ontario, head-on train collision, February 9, 1904
• 13 – Quebec Bridge second collapse, September 11, 1913
• 13 – MS Arctic Explorer shipwreck, off St Anthony, Newfoundland, July 3, 1981
• 12 - Boating tragedy Lake of Two Mountains, Ile Bizard Quebec. 12 NCC children drown. July 13 1954.
• 12 – M.F.V. Enterprise and MV Patrick Morris sinking, northeast of Cape Breton Island, April 20, 1970
• 12 – Cormier-Village Hayride Accident, Cormier-Village, New Brunswick, Oct 1989
• 12 – Pine Lake tornado in Alberta, July 14, 2000
• 12 – First Air Flight 6560 a Boeing 737 crashes near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, August 20, 2011
• 11 – Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland DH-106 Comet 1A CF-CUN "Empress of Hawaii", crashed on takeoff from Karachi, Pakistan, March 3, 1953
• 11 – Collision between a van and an eighteen-wheeler, between Stratford and Perth, Ontario, February 6, 2012.
• 10 – Metropolitan Store explosion, Windsor, Ontario, October 25, 1960
• 10 – Rupert Hotel Fire, Toronto, December 23, 1989
• 10 – Toronto van attack, Toronto, April 23, 2018