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Quebec City, Quebec: Central Canada 75 1908 February 7: Port Hood Mine explosion: Mining disaster Port Hood, Nova Scotia: Maritimes 10 1909 October 5 Wellington Collieries cave-in Mining disaster Extension, BC (near Ladysmith) West Coast 32 [5] 1910 January 21: Spanish River derailment: Train wreck Nairn and Hyman, Ontario: Central Canada 43-70 ...
The 1948 Columbia River flood (or Vanport Flood) was a regional flood that occurred in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada. Large portions of the Columbia River watershed were impacted, including the Portland area , Eastern Washington , northeastern Oregon , Idaho Panhandle , northwestern Montana , and southeastern British ...
The 2009 Red River flood was a major flood in March and April 2009 along the Red River of the North in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Southern Manitoba. The flood crested at 40.82 ft (12.44 m) on March 28, 2009, for Fargo, North Dakota. "Southern Manitoba experienced the most widespread flooding along the Assiniboine River on record.
Operation Vanguard is a military police joint task force (JTF) set up by the President of Ghana in 2017 to combat illegal mining, known as galamsey.Over the years, the practice has depleted Ghana's forest cover and polluted bodies of water due to the crude and unregulated nature of the mining process.
River brings cars, groceries, houses past local road Living just down the road from the grocery store Aldi, Yatteau, and the Maystruks watched as the water swept away food from the grocery store.
Heartbreaking images show how a picturesque North Carolina mountain village was all but wiped off the map by Hurricane Helene — with one local mourning, “What was once a town is now a river.”
Province of Canada : Jul 1852: 0: $5 million: 1,200 [2] Nearly half of city's housing destroyed. Great Fire of Quebec City: Quebec City: Province of Canada : Oct 1866: $3 million: 2,500 [2] Saguenay Fire: Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec Quebec: May 1870: 7: 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) Nearly 1/3 of the population lost everything. Fire in ...
A number of monuments and memorials in Canada were removed or destroyed as a result of protests and riots between 2020 and 2022. These included six sculptures of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, three of other figures connected to the Canadian Indian residential school system (Alexander Wood, Egerton Ryerson and Joseph Hugonard), two of Canadian monarchs (Queen ...