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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.
Atlantic Canada c. 4,000 1782 September 17: Central Atlantic hurricane: Hurricane: Grand Banks of Newfoundland: Atlantic Canada c. 3,500 1797 November 16: HMS Tribune: Shipwreck: Herring Cove, Nova Scotia: Maritimes 228 1805 October 23: Aeneas: Shipwreck: Isle aux Morts, Colony of Newfoundland (Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland and Labrador ...
The 2019 spring floods in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick were exceptional floods in eastern Ontario, southern Quebec and from the St.John River region to New Brunswick, Canada. In fact, flooding along the Ottawa River has been recognized as the most important weather event of the year 2019 in Canada, and the one along the Saint John River as ...
Canada Ongoing 26,000+ 1981-present HIV/AIDS: Pandemic Canada Ongoing 20,000+ 1847-1848 Canadian typhus: Pandemic Canada Fatalities are estimated 7,000 1957-1958 Asian flu: Pandemic Canada 6,000 1890-1891 Russian flu: Pandemic Canada 4,000 1775 [1] Newfoundland Hurricane of 1775: Hurricane: Newfoundland: 4,000 1968 Hong Kong flu: Pandemic Canada
Atmospheric rivers of the sort causing massive floods and mudslides in Canada's British Columbia are akin to a river in the sky, weather systems that carry up to 15 times the volume of the ...
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;
This was the largest evacuation in Canadian history until the 1979 Mississauga train derailment. In Winnipeg there was one fatality; property damage was severe, with losses estimated at between $600 million [1] and more than a billion dollars. [3] The flood postponed opening day for baseball in the Mandak League due to inundation of Osborne ...
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 .