The southern Ontario town of Angus is reeling from Tuesday’s tornado that left about 100 homes damaged and three people injured. After surveying the storm’s path of destruction, many residents said it’s a miracle that no one was seriously hurt or killed.
Some of Canada’s worst tornado damage has been recorded in Ontario. Here’s a full list of Canada’s deadliest tornadoes:
- Regina -- June 30, 1912: 28 dead, hundreds injured, more than 400 buildings destroyed
- Edmonton -- July 31, 1987: 27 dead, 600 injured, 1,700 left homeless. The storm system also brought 300 millimetres of rain in three days.
- Windsor, Ont. -- July 17, 1946: 17 dead, hundreds injured, 400 houses and 150 farm buildings destroyed
- Pine Lake, Alta. -- July 14, 2000: 12 dead, more than 140 injured, close to 1,000 people displaced from a campsite. The tornado speed reached 300 kilometres per hour.
- Windsor, Ont. -- April 3 1974: 9 dead, 30 injured
- Valleyfield, Que. – Aug. 16, 1888: 9 dead, 14 injured
- Barrie, Ont. -- May 31, 1985: 8 dead, 155 injured
- Sarnia, Ont. -- May 21, 1953 – 7 dead, 40 injured, 500 left homeless
- Sudbury, Ont. – Aug. 20, 1970: 6 dead, 200 injured
- St-Rose, Que. -- June 14, 1892: 6 dead, 26 injured
- Montreal – June 14, 1982: 5 dead, 26 injured, extensive property damage
- Buctouche, N.B. – Aug. 6, 1879: 5 dead, 10 injured
- Portage la Prairie, Man. – June 22, 1922: 5 dead, many injured
- Southeastern Saskatchewan – July 22, 1922: 4 dead, more than a dozen injured over a large area
All information taken from the Canadian Disaster Database. Tornado icon by David Waschbüsch from The Noun Project