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The history of flooding in Canada includes floods caused by snowmelt runoff or freshet flooding, storm-rainfall and "flash flooding", ice jams during ice formation and spring break-up, natural dams, coastal flooding on ocean or lake coasts from storm surges, hurricanes and tsunamis.
Western Canada Prairies and West Coast 685 Deadliest weather event in the history of Canada 2021 June 30 Lytton wildfire: Wildfire Lytton, British Columbia West Coast 2 Several Over 90% of Lytton destroyed [46] 2021 November 14 British Columbia Floods: Floods lower half of British Columbia: West Coast 4 at least 10 Provincial state of emergency ...
History of flooding in Canada; 0–9. 1826 Red River flood; 1950 Red River flood; 1986 Winisk flood; 2008 Saint John River flood; 2009 North Dakota floods;
The Saguenay flood (French: Déluge du Saguenay) was a series of flash floods on July 19 and 20, 1996 that hit the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. It was the biggest overland flood in 20th-century Canadian history .
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The Fraser River flood of 1948 was the most devastating flooding to hit Greater Vancouver in living memory. That year's floods had more than 2,300 homes were destroyed, 16,000 people displaced, and a great number of livestock killed. The population of the Lower Fraser Valley at the time was only around 50,000. At the flood's height, the water ...
The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 was one of the largest floods in the history of Edmonton. On 28 June, the Edmonton Bulletin reported the river had risen "10 feet [3.0 m] in as many hours." A frantic telegram from Rocky Mountain House alerted local authorities to the flood's arrival. [2]
The Montreal flood of 1987 happened on July 14 of that year when a series of strong thunderstorms crossed the island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, between the noon hour and 2:30 p.m. Over 100 millimetres (3.9 in) of rain fell during this very short period of time.