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The largest strike in Canadian history; the Winnipeg General strike occurs. Soldiers returning from WW1 & over 30,000 workers walk off their jobs; shutting down the majority of the city's privately owned factories, shops and trains. Public employees joined them in solidarity.
40 (Canadian fatalities only) 1912 Titanic: Shipwreck near Newfoundland Canadian deaths only of 1,517 total"The Demographics of Titanic Passengers". </ref> 40 1918 HMCS Galiano: Shipwreck Queen Charlotte Sound 20 miles (32 km) of Kunghit Island, British Columbia 40 1978 Eastman bus crash: Bus crash Eastman, Quebec 39 1928 Hollinger Mining Disaster
Deadliest traffic accident in Canadian history 1998 January 5–9: Great Ice Storm of 1998: Meteorological storm Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick Eastern Canada 28 Massive ice storm hits Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick 1998 September 2: Swissair Flight 111: Aircrash Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia: Atlantic Canada 229 1999 September 3
The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the largest mass killing in Canadian history. On June 23, 1985, Air India Flight 182 was destroyed above the Atlantic Ocean by a bomb on board exploding; all 329 on board were killed, of whom 280 were Canadian citizens. [225] The Air India attack is the largest mass murder in Canadian history. [226]
1907 – Quebec Bridge, still under construction, collapsed, killing 75 Nine worst safety disasters in Canadian history; 1907 - IWW achieved majority control of the AFL-CIO unions in Nelson. [13] (Just a couple years later it was largest union in Nelson and led successful fight for the 8-hour day and higher wages for city workers.) [14]
The two most-watched television broadcasts in Canadian history occurred during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. For the gold medal game of the men's hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics , played between the United States and Canada, confirmed 16.6 million Canadians watched the whole game, roughly one-half of the country's entire ...
The following were conflicts that occurred in present-day Canada from the 11th century AD to the mid-19th century, prior to Canadian confederation. Belligerents in these conflicts typically involved colonies in Canada (e.g. New France, the Canadas), and/or First Nations groups residing in the region.
French Canadian debates have escalated since the 1960s, as the Conquest is seen as a pivotal moment in the history of Québec's nationalism. Historian Jocelyn Létourneau suggested in the 21st century, "1759 does not belong primarily to a past that we might wish to study and understand, but, rather, to a present and a future that we might wish ...