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Experts have estimated that around 230 tornadoes occur in Canada each year, though only around 30 are formally confirmed. [1] with most occurring in Southern Ontario, the southern Canadian Prairies and southern Quebec. Canada ranks as the second country in the world with the most tornadoes per year, after the United States of America.
Canada's only confirmed F5 tornado occurred in Elie, Manitoba on June 22, 2007. This is a list of notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred in Canada in the 21st century (2001 through 2100). Due to increasing detection, particularly in the US and southern Canada, numbers of counted tornadoes have ...
The provinces and territories are sometimes grouped into regions, listed here from west to east by province, followed by the three territories.Seats in the Senate are equally divided among four regions: the West, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes, with special status for Newfoundland and Labrador as well as for the three territories of Northern Canada ('the North').
Eastern Canada (French: Est du Canada, also the Eastern provinces, Canadian East or the East) is generally considered to be the region of Canada south of Hudson Bay/Hudson Strait and east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces (from east to west): Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario.
Central Canada 52 1857 March 12: Desjardins Canal disaster: Train wreck Hamilton, Canada West, Province of Canada, British North America (Hamilton, Ontario) Central Canada 59 1857 June 26: SS Montreal: Shipwreck: Quebec City, Canada East, Province of Canada, British North America (Quebec City, Quebec) Central Canada 253 1860 February 19: SS ...
CMC building viewed from the West CMC building viewed from the South. The Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC; French: Centre météorologique canadien), located in Dorval, Quebec, is the branch of Environment Canada's Meteorological Service of Canada that is tasked with providing forecast guidance to national and regional prediction centres, and is responsible for running the Global ...
Canada (/ ˈ k æ n ə d ə /) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. [1]
Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West, or Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West, is a Canadian region that includes the four western provinces just north of the Canada–United States border namely (from west to east) British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. [3]