List of fires in Canada
This is a list of fires in Canada.
Article | Place | Year | Deaths | Damage |
1825 Miramichi Fire | New Brunswick | 1825 | >300 | |
Great Fire of 1846 | St. John's, Newfoundland | 1846 | 3 | £888,356 |
Great Fire of 1852 | Montreal | 1852 | | |
Saguenay Fire | Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec | 1870 | 7 | 150 km burned. Nearly 1/3 of the population lost everything. |
Great Fire of 1892 | St. John's, Newfoundland | 1892 | | $13,000,000 |
1900 Hull-Ottawa fire | Hull, Quebec | 1900 | 7 | |
The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick | Saint John, New Brunswick | 1877 | 19 | $28,000,000[1] |
Great Vancouver Fire | Vancouver, B.C. | 1886 | | $1,300,000 |
Calgary Fire of 1886 | Calgary | 1886 | 0 | $103,200 |
Great Toronto Fire | Toronto | 1904 | 0 | $10,350,000 |
Matheson Fire | Black River-Matheson | 1916 | 223[2] | |
Great Fire of 1922 | Timiskaming District, Ontario | 1922 | 43 | $2,000,000 |
Chinchaga fire | Northern British Columbia and Alberta | 1950 | 0 | Over 1,400,000 hectares burned. Largest recorded fire in North American history |
Okanagan Mountain Park Fire | Central Okanagan, British Columbia | 2003 | 0 | 239 buildings destroyed (25,000 hectares burned) |
West Kelowna Wildfires | West Kelowna, British Columbia | 2009 | 0 | 4 buildings destroyed (10,000 hectares burned) |
May 2010 Quebec wildfires | La Tuque, Quebec | 2010 | 0 | |
2011 Slave Lake wildfire | Slave Lake | 2011 | 1 (helicopter crash) | CAD $750 million[3] |
Richardson Fire | Alberta | 2011 | 0 | 700,000 hectares burned |
2016 Fort McMurray wildfire | Fort McMurray | 2016 | 2 | At least 1,600 structures destroyed, 100,000 hectares burned |
See also
References
- ↑ "The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick, 1877". Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- ↑ Heritage Foundation of Canada
- ↑ "Slave Lake fires 2nd costliest insured disaster". CTV News. 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
List of fires in North America |
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| Sovereign states |
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
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| Dependencies and other territories |
- Anguilla
- Aruba
- Bermuda
- Bonaire
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Curaçao
- Greenland
- Guadeloupe
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Martin
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saba
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
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Fires in North America |
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| Sovereign states |
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
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| Dependencies and other territories |
- Anguilla
- Aruba
- Bermuda
- Bonaire
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Curaçao
- Greenland
- Guadeloupe
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Martin
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saba
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
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