List of disasters in Canada by death toll
200 or more deaths
Columns: Disaster | Type | Location | Deaths | Date
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 | Tseax Cone eruption | Volcano | British Columbia | 2,000 | 1700 (approximately) | RMS Empress of Ireland | Shipwreck | Quebec | 1,012 | 1914 | RMS Atlantic | Shipwreck | Nova Scotia | 562 | 1873 | Duke William | Shipwreck | Near English coast | 360 | 1758 (December 13) | SS Princess Sophia | Shipwreck | Near Juneau, Alaska | 353 | 1918 | Aeneas | Shipwreck | Newfoundland | 340 | 1805 | Violet | Shipwreck | England | 300 | 1758 (December 13) | Great Labrador Gale of 1885 | Hurricane | Newfoundland | 300 | 1885 (10 October) | Sibylle | Shipwreck | Nova Scotia | 300 | 1834 (11 September) | SS Pacific | Shipwreck | British Columbia | 298 | 1875 | Air India Flight 182 | Sabotage | Atlantic Ocean | 280 Canadians (out of 329 total fatalities) | 1985 | Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 | Aircrash | Saudi Arabia | 261 | 1991 | Arrow Air Flight 1285 | Aircrash | Newfoundland | 256 | 1985 | Great Lakes Storm of 1913 | Storm | Ontario | 250 | 1913 | HMS Tribune | Shipwreck | Nova Scotia | 238 | 1797 | SS Anglo Saxon | Shipwreck | Newfoundland | 237 | 1863 | Swissair Flight 111 | Aircrash | Nova Scotia | 229 | 1998 | Nova Scotia Hurricane of 1873 | Weather-related | Nova Scotia | 223 (disputed) | 1873 | Matheson Fire | Fire | Ontario | 223 | 1916 | SS Hungarian | Shipwreck | Nova Scotia | 205 | 1860 | USS Pollux (AKS-2) and USS Truxtun (DD-229) | Shipwreck | Newfoundland | 203 | 1942