List of conflicts in Canada
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Timeline
A timeline is a way of displaying a list of events in chronological order, sometimes described as a project artifact . It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labeled with dates alongside itself and events labeled on points where they would have happened.-Uses of timelines:Timelines...

 of events that includes war
War
War is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...

s, battle
Battle
Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, or combatants. In a battle, each combatant will seek to defeat the others, with defeat determined by the conditions of a military campaign...

s, skirmishes, major terrorist
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...

 attacks, riots, and other related items that have occurred in the country of Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

's current geographical area. A complete list of terrorist attacks can be found at list of terrorist attacks in Canada.

Before the 17th century

  • 1006 Skirmishes of Norsemen
    Norsemen
    Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who spoke what is now called the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish and Danish in their earlier forms.The meaning of Norseman was "people...

     and Skræling
    Skræling
    Skræling is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the indigenous peoples they encountered in North America and Greenland. In surviving sources it is first applied to the Thule people, the Eskimo group with whom the Norse coexisted in Greenland after about the 13th century...

    ar at L'Anse aux Meadows
    L'Anse aux Meadows
    L'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Discovered in 1960, it is the only known site of a Norse or Viking village in Canada, and in North America outside of Greenland...

  • 1577 Skirmishes between English sailors under Martin Frobisher
    Martin Frobisher
    Sir Martin Frobisher was an English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage...

     and Inuit
    Inuit
    The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

     on Baffin Island
    Baffin Island
    Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut is the largest island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world. Its area is and its population is about 11,000...

    .

17th century

  • 17th century Beaver Wars
    Beaver Wars
    The Beaver Wars, also sometimes called the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars, commonly refers to a series of conflicts fought in the mid-17th century in eastern North America...

    • 1610 Battle of Sorel
    • 1644 Action at Ville-Marie
      Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve
      Paul de Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve was a French military officer and the founder of Montreal.- Early career :...

    • 1649 Raid on St. Ignace and St. Louis
      Jean de Brébeuf
      Jean de Brébeuf was a Jesuit missionary, martyred in Canada on March 16, 1649.-Early years:Brébeuf was born in Condé-sur-Vire, Normandy, France. He was the uncle of the fur trader Georges de Brébeuf. He studied near home at Caen. He became a Jesuit in 1617, joining the Order...

  • 17th century Anglo-French conflicts
    Anglo-French War
    Anglo-French War may refer to any war fought between England and France, including:* Anglo-French War : Rivalry between the French Capetian Dynasty and the English Plantagenet Dynasty, ended by the Battle of Bouvines.* Saintonge War...

    • 1613 Battle of Port Royal
      Port Royal, Nova Scotia
      Port Royal was the capital of Acadia from 1605 to 1710 and is now a town called Annapolis Royal in the western part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Initially Port Royal was located on the north shore of the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia, at the site of the present reconstruction of the...

    • 1628 Capture of Tadoussac
    • 1628 Naval action in the St. Lawrence River
      Action of 17 July 1628
      The Action of 17 July 1628 was the largest incident of the North American phase of the Anglo-French War of 1627-29. The English force led by the Kirke brothers succeeded in capturing a supply convoy bound for New France, severely impairing that colony's ability to resist attack.-Background:War...

    • 1629 Capture of Quebec
      Quebec City
      Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

    • 1629 Siege of Baleine
      Baleine, Nova Scotia
      Baleine is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island...

    • 1630 Siege of Fort St. Louis
    • 1632 Raid on St. John
      Saint John, New Brunswick
      City of Saint John , or commonly Saint John, is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, and the first incorporated city in Canada. The city is situated along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the Saint John River. In 2006 the city proper had a population of 74,043...

    • 1640 Battle of Port Royal
      Port Royal, Nova Scotia
      Port Royal was the capital of Acadia from 1605 to 1710 and is now a town called Annapolis Royal in the western part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Initially Port Royal was located on the north shore of the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia, at the site of the present reconstruction of the...

    • 1654 Battle of Port Royal
      Port Royal, Nova Scotia
      Port Royal was the capital of Acadia from 1605 to 1710 and is now a town called Annapolis Royal in the western part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Initially Port Royal was located on the north shore of the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia, at the site of the present reconstruction of the...

  • 1640 – 1701 French and Iroquois Wars
    • 1660 Battle of Long Sault
      Battle of Long Sault
      The Battle of Long Sault occurred over a five day period in early May of 1660 during the Beaver Wars. It was fought between French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, against the Iroquois Confederacy. The battle took place along the Ottawa River in Canada next to a series of...

    • 1689 Lachine massacre
      Lachine massacre
      The Lachine massacre, part of the Beaver Wars, occurred when 1,500 Mohawk warriors attacked by surprise the small, 375 inhabitant, settlement of Lachine, New France at the upper end of Montreal Island on the morning of August 5, 1689...

    • 1692 Battle of Fort Vercheres
      Madeleine de Verchères
      Marie-Madeleine Jarret de Verchères was the daughter of a François Jarret, a seigneur in New France, and Marie Perrot. Her ingenuity is credited with thwarting a raid on Fort Verchères when she was 14 years old....

  • 1643 – 1650 Acadian Civil War
    Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour
    Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour, the French King's appointed Governor of Acadia from 1631–1642 and again from 1653–1657, was born in France in 1593 and died at Cap de Sable in 1666...

    • 1643 Battle of Port Royal
      Port Royal, Nova Scotia
      Port Royal was the capital of Acadia from 1605 to 1710 and is now a town called Annapolis Royal in the western part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Initially Port Royal was located on the north shore of the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia, at the site of the present reconstruction of the...

    • 1645 Battle of Fort La Tour
      Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour
      Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour, the French King's appointed Governor of Acadia from 1631–1642 and again from 1653–1657, was born in France in 1593 and died at Cap de Sable in 1666...

  • 1674 Dutch Occupation of Acadia
    Dutch Occupation of Acadia
    The Dutch Occupation of Acadia began when the Dutch naval captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz seized several settlements of Acadia, a part of the French colonial empire in northeastern North America, in 1674. Areas briefly occupied included coastal towns along the shores of Maine and New Brunswick, two...

  • 1686 Hudson Bay expedition
    Hudson Bay expedition (1686)
    The Hudson Bay expedition of 1686 was one of the Anglo-French conflicts on Hudson Bay. It was the first several expeditions sent from New France against the trading outposts of the Hudson's Bay Company in the southern reaches of Hudson Bay...

  • 1688 Battle of Fort Albany
    Battle of Fort Albany
    The 1688 Battle of Fort Albany was one of the Anglo-French conflicts on Hudson Bay. In the Hudson Bay expedition the French had, in time of peace, marched overland from Quebec and captured all three English posts on James Bay. The French had left a garrison at Fort Albany, Ontario and needed to...

  • 1689 – 1697 King William's War
    King William's War
    The first of the French and Indian Wars, King William's War was the name used in the English colonies in America to refer to the North American theater of the Nine Years' War...

    • 1689 Battle of the Lake of Two Mountains
    • 1690 Battle of Coulée Grou
      Coulée Grou
      Coulée Grou is the name of an area in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that was the location of a battle of the Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars, given in honor of Jean Grou, a Canadian pioneer. Grou had sailed as a young boy from Rouen, France to New France in 1650 and established a...

    • 1690 Battle of Port Royal
      Battle of Port Royal (1690)
      The Battle of Port Royal occurred at Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, during King William's War , the first of the four French and Indian Wars. A large force of New England provincial militia arrived before Port Royal, which was surrendered without resistance not long after...

    • 1690 Battle at Chedabucto
    • 1690 Battle of Quebec
      Battle of Quebec (1690)
      The Battle of Quebec was fought in October 1690 between the colonies of New France and Massachusetts Bay, then ruled by the kingdoms of France and England, respectively. It was the first time Quebec's defences were tested....

    • 1691 Battle of La Prairie
      Battle of La Prairie
      The Battle of La Prairie was an attack made on the settlement of La Prairie, New France, a frontier settlement not far from Montreal...

    • 1693 Battle of Fort Albany
      Battle of Fort Albany (1693)
      The Battle of Fort Albany in 1693 was the successful recapture by English forces of the Hudson's Bay Company trading outpost at Fort Albany in the southern reaches of Hudson Bay...

    • 1694 Capture of York Factory
      Capture of York Factory
      The Capture of York Factory was one of the Anglo-French conflicts on Hudson Bay. In 1686 Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville marched overland from Quebec and captured all the English posts on James Bay. This left York Factory which was too far away and could only be reached by sea. In 1688 King William's...

    • 1696 Naval action in the Bay of Fundy
      Action of 14 July 1696
      The Action of 14 July 1696 was a naval battle between France and England toward the end of King Williams War in the Bay of Fundy off present-day Saint John, New Brunswick...

    • 1696 Raid on Chignecto
      Raid on Chignecto (1696)
      The Raid on Chignecto occurred during King Williams War when New England forces from Boston attacked the Isthmus of Chignecto, Acadia in present-day Nova Scotia. The raid was in retaliation for the French and Indian Siege of Pemaquid at present day Bristol, Maine. In the English Province of...

    • 1696 Siege of Fort Nashwaak
      Siege of Fort Nashwaak (1696)
      The Siege of Fort Nashwaak occurred during King Williams War when New England forces from Boston attacked the capital of Acadia in present-day Fredericton, New Brunswick. The siege was in retaliation for the French and Indian Siege of Pemaquid at present day Bristol, Maine. In the English...

    • 1696 – 1697 Avalon Peninsula Campaign
      Avalon Peninsula Campaign
      The Avalon Peninsula Campaign occurred during King Williams War when forces of New France, led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, destroyed 23 English settlements along the coast of the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland in the span of three months...

      • 1696 Siege of Ferryland
        Avalon Peninsula Campaign
        The Avalon Peninsula Campaign occurred during King Williams War when forces of New France, led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, destroyed 23 English settlements along the coast of the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland in the span of three months...

      • 1696 Raid on Petty Harbour
        Avalon Peninsula Campaign
        The Avalon Peninsula Campaign occurred during King Williams War when forces of New France, led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, destroyed 23 English settlements along the coast of the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland in the span of three months...

      • 1696 Siege of St. John's
        Avalon Peninsula Campaign
        The Avalon Peninsula Campaign occurred during King Williams War when forces of New France, led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, destroyed 23 English settlements along the coast of the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland in the span of three months...

      • 1697 Battle of Carbonear
        Avalon Peninsula Campaign
        The Avalon Peninsula Campaign occurred during King Williams War when forces of New France, led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, destroyed 23 English settlements along the coast of the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland in the span of three months...

    • 1697 Battle of Hudson's Bay
      Battle of Hudson's Bay
      The Battle of Hudson's Bay, also known as the Battle of York Factory, was a naval battle fought during the War of the Grand Alliance . The battle took place on 5 September 1697, when a French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron commanded by Captain...


18th century

  • 1702 – 1713 Queen Anne's War
    Queen Anne's War
    Queen Anne's War , as the North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession was known in the British colonies, was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought between France and England, later Great Britain, in North America for control of the continent. The War of the...

  • 1702 Raid on Newfoundland
    Raid on Newfoundland
    The Newfoundland expedition was a naval raiding expedition led by English Captain John Leake between August and October 1702 that targeted French colonial settlements on the North Atlantic island of Newfoundland and its satellite Saint Pierre...

  • 1704 Raid on Chignecto
    Isthmus of Chignecto
    The Isthmus of Chignecto is an isthmus bordering the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia which connects the Nova Scotia peninsula with North America....

  • 1704 Raid on Grand Pré
    Raid on Grand Pre
    The Raid on Grand Pré was the major action of a raiding expedition conducted by New England militia Colonel Benjamin Church against French Acadia in June 1704, during Queen Anne's War...

  • 1705 Siege of St. John's
    Siege of St. John's
    The Siege of St. John's was a failed attempt by French forces led by Daniel d'Auger de Subercase to take the fort at St. John's, Newfoundland during the winter months of 1705. Leading a mixed force of regulars, militia, and Indians, Subercase burned much of the town and laid an ineffectual siege...

  • 1707 Siege of Port Royal
    Siege of Port Royal (1707)
    The Siege of Port Royal in 1707 was two separate attempts by English colonists from New England to conquer Acadia by capturing its capital Port Royal during Queen Anne's War. Both attempts were made by colonial militia, and were led by men inexperienced in siege warfare...

  • 1709 Battle of St. John's
    Battle of St. John's
    The Battle of St. John's was the French capture of St. John's, the capital of the British Colony of Newfoundland, on , during Queen Anne's War. A mixed and motley force of 164 men led by Joseph de Monbeton de Brouillan de Saint-Ovide, king's lieutenant to Philippe Pastour de Costebelle, the French...

  • 1710 Siege of Port Royal
    Siege of Port Royal (1710)
    The Siege of Port Royal , also known as the Conquest of Acadia, was conducted by British regular and provincial forces under the command of Francis Nicholson against a French Acadian garrison under the command of Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, at the Acadian capital, Port Royal...

  • 1711 Battle of Bloody Creek
  • 1722 – 1725 Dummer's War
    Dummer's War
    Dummer's War , also known as Lovewell's War, Father Rale's War, Greylock's War, the Three Years War, the 4th Indian War or the Wabanaki-New England War of 1722–1725, was a series of battles between British settlers of the three northernmost British colonies of North America of the time and the...

  • 1722 Battle of Winnepang
    Battle at Winnepang (Jeddore Harbour)
    The Battle at Winnepang occurred during Dummer's War when New England forces attacked Mi’kmaq at present day Jeddore Harbour, Nova Scotia. The naval battle was part of a campaign ordered by Governor Phillips to retrieve over 82 New England prisoners taken by the Mi'kmaq in fishing vessels off...

  • 1723 Raid on Canso
    Canso, Nova Scotia
    For the headland, see Cape Canso.Canso is a small Canadian town in Guysborough County, on the north-eastern tip of mainland Nova Scotia, next to Chedabucto Bay. The area was established in 1604, along with Port Royal, Nova Scotia. The British construction of a fort in the village , was instrumental...

  • 1724 Raid on Annapolis Royal
    Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
    Annapolis Royal is a town located in the western part of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. Known as Port Royal until the Conquest of Acadia in 1710 by Britain, the town is the oldest continuous European settlement in North America, north of St...

  • 1725 Raid on Canso
    Canso, Nova Scotia
    For the headland, see Cape Canso.Canso is a small Canadian town in Guysborough County, on the north-eastern tip of mainland Nova Scotia, next to Chedabucto Bay. The area was established in 1604, along with Port Royal, Nova Scotia. The British construction of a fort in the village , was instrumental...

  • 1744 – 1748 King George's War
    King George's War
    King George's War is the name given to the operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession . It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars. It took place primarily in the British provinces of New York, Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, and Nova Scotia...

  • 1744 Raid on Canso
    Raid on Canso
    The Raid on Canso was an attack by French forces from Louisbourg on the British outpost of Canso, Nova Scotia shortly after war declarations opened King George's War. The French raid was intended to boost morale, secure Louisbourg's supply lines with the surrounding Acadian settlements, and deprive...

  • 1744 Siege of Fort Anne
    Siege of Fort Anne
    The Siege of Annapolis Royal in 1744 involved two of four attempts by the French, along with their Acadian and native allies, to regain the capital of Nova Scotia/Acadia, Annapolis Royal, during King George's War....

  • 1745 Siege of Port Toulouse
    Siege of Port Toulouse
    The Siege of Port Toulouse took place between May 2-10, 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Port Toulouse The Siege of Port Toulouse took place between May 2-10, 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Port Toulouse The Siege...

  • 1745 Siege of Louisbourg
    Siege of Louisbourg (1745)
    The Siege of Louisbourg took place in 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province of Île-Royale during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.Although the Fortress of...

  • 1746 Siege of Port-la-Joye
    History of Prince Edward Island
    Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name. It joined the Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1873.-Early history:Prince Edward Island was originally inhabited by the Mi'kmaq people...

  • 1747 Battle of Grand Pré
    Battle of Grand Pré
    The Battle of Grand Pré, also known as the Battle of Minas, was a battle in King George's War that took place between British and French forces near present-day Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia in the winter of 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession...

  • 1749 – 1755 Father Le Loutre's War
    Father Le Loutre's War
    Father Le Loutre’s War , also known as the Indian War, the Micmac War and the Anglo-Micmac War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the British and New England colonists were led by British Officer Charles...

  • 1749 Raid on Dartmouth
    Father Le Loutre's War
    Father Le Loutre’s War , also known as the Indian War, the Micmac War and the Anglo-Micmac War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the British and New England colonists were led by British Officer Charles...

  • 1749 Siege of Grand Pre
    Siege of Grand Pre
    The Siege of Grand Pre happened during Father Le Loutre’s War and was fought between the British and a militia made up of Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, and Acadians. The siege happened at Fort Vieux Logis, Grand Pre...

  • 1749-1750 Battles at Chignecto
    Father Le Loutre's War
    Father Le Loutre’s War , also known as the Indian War, the Micmac War and the Anglo-Micmac War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the British and New England colonists were led by British Officer Charles...

  • 1750 Battle at St. Croix
    Battle at St. Croix
    The Battle at St. Croix was fought during Father Le Loutre’s War between New England Rangers and Mi’kmaq at Battle Hill in the community of St. Croix, Nova Scotia. The battle lasted for three days in the spring of 1750.-Historical context:...

  • 1751 Raid on Dartmouth
    Raid on Dartmouth (1751)
    The Raid on Dartmouth occurred during Father Le Loutre’s War on May 13, 1751 when an Acadian and Mi’kmaq militia from Chignecto, under the command of Acadian Joseph Broussard, raided Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, destroying the town and killing twenty British villagers...

  • 1751 Raid on Chignecto
    Father Le Loutre's War
    Father Le Loutre’s War , also known as the Indian War, the Micmac War and the Anglo-Micmac War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the British and New England colonists were led by British Officer Charles...

  • 1751 Raids on Halifax
    Father Le Loutre's War
    Father Le Loutre’s War , also known as the Indian War, the Micmac War and the Anglo-Micmac War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the British and New England colonists were led by British Officer Charles...

  • 1753 Attack at Country Harbour
    Father Le Loutre's War
    Father Le Loutre’s War , also known as the Indian War, the Micmac War and the Anglo-Micmac War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the British and New England colonists were led by British Officer Charles...

  • 1754 – 1763 Seven Years' War
    French and Indian War
    The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war...

  • 1755 Naval Action off Newfoundland
    Action of 8 June 1755
    The Action of 8 June 1755 was a naval battle between France and Great Britain early in the French and Indian War. The British captured the third-rate French ships Alcide and Lys off Cape Race, Newfoundland in the Gulf of St. Lawrence...

  • 1755 Battle of Fort Beauséjour
    Battle of Fort Beauséjour
    The Battle of Fort Beauséjour was fought on the Isthmus of Chignecto and marked the end of Father Le Loutre’s War andthe opening of a British offensive in the French and Indian War, which would eventually lead to the end the French Empire in North America...

  • 1755 Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755)
    Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755)
    The Bay of Fundy Campaign occurred during the French and Indian War when the British ordered the Expulsion of the Acadians from Acadia after the Battle of Beausejour . The Campaign started at Chignecto and then quickly moved to Grand Pré, Rivière-aux-Canards, Pisiguit, Cobequid, and finally Port...

  • 1755 Battle of Petitcodiac
    Battle of Petitcodiac
    The Battle of Petitcodiac was fought during the Bay of Fundy Campaign of the French and Indian War. The battle was fought between the British colonial troops and Acadian resistance fighters led by French Officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert on September 4, 1755 at the Acadian village of...

  • 1756 Raid on Lunenburg
  • 1757 Battle of Bloody Creek
  • 1758 Siege of Louisbourg
    Siege of Louisbourg (1758)
    The Siege of Louisbourg was a pivotal battle of the Seven Years' War in 1758 which ended the French colonial era in Atlantic Canada and led directly to the loss of Quebec in 1759 and the remainder of French North America the following year.-Background:The British government realized that with the...

  • 1758 Battle of Fort Frontenac
    Battle of Fort Frontenac
    The Battle of Fort Frontenac took place on August 26–28, 1758 during the Seven Years' War between France and Great Britain. The location of the battle was Fort Frontenac, a French fort and trading post which is located at the site of present-day Kingston, Ontario, at the eastern end of Lake...

  • 1758 Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign (1758)
    Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign (1758)
    The Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign occurred during the French and Indian War when British forces raided villages along present-day New Brunswick and the Gaspé Peninsula coast of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Sir Charles Hardy and Brigadier-General James Wolfe were in command of the naval and...

  • 1758 Île Saint-Jean Campaign
    Ile Saint-Jean Campaign
    The Ile Saint-Jean Campaign was a series of military operations in fall 1758, during the French and Indian War, to deport the Acadians that either lived on Ile Saint-Jean or had taken refuge there from earlier deportation operations...

  • 1758 Petitcodiac River Campaign
    Petitcodiac River Campaign
    The Petitcodiac River Campaign was a series of British military operations from June to November 1758, during the French and Indian War, to deport the Acadians that either lived along the Petitcodiac River or had taken refuge there from earlier deportation operations, such as the Ile Saint-Jean...

  • 1759 St. John River Campaign
    St. John River Campaign
    The St. John River Campaign occurred during the French and Indian War when Colonel Robert Monckton led a force of 1150 British soldiers to destroy the Acadian settlements along the banks of the Saint John River until they reached the largest village of Sainte-Anne des Pays-Bas in February 1759...

  • 1759 Battle of Beauport
    Battle of Beauport
    The Battle of Beauport, also known as the Battle of Montmorency, fought on 31 July 1759, was an important confrontation between the British and French Armed Forces during the Seven Years' War of the French province of Canada...

  • 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham
  • 1759 St. Francis Raid
    St. Francis Raid
    The St. Francis Raid was an attack in the French and Indian War by Robert Rogers and a band of his Rangers on the primarily Abenaki village of St. Francis, near the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River in what was then the French province of Canada, on October 4, 1759...

  • 1760 Battle of Sainte-Foy
    Battle of Sainte-Foy
    The Battle of Sainte-Foy, sometimes called the Battle of Quebec, was fought on April 28, 1760 near the British-held town of Quebec in the French province of Canada during the Seven Years' War . It was a victory for the French under the Chevalier de Lévis over the British army under General Murray...

  • 1760 Battle of Restigouche
    Battle of Restigouche
    The Battle of Restigouche was a naval battle fought during the French and Indian War on the Restigouche River between the British Royal Navy and the small flotilla of French Navy vessels. The French vessels had been sent to relieve New France after the fall of Quebec...

  • 1760 Battle of the Thousand Islands
    Battle of the Thousand Islands
    The Battle of the Thousand Islands was fought 16–24 August 1760, in the upper St. Lawrence River, amongst the Thousand Islands, along the present day Canada–United States border, by British and French forces during the closing phases of the Seven Years' War, as it is called in Canada and Europe, or...

  • 1762 Battle of Signal Hill
    Battle of Signal Hill
    The Battle of Signal Hill was a small skirmish, the last of the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War. The British under Lieutenant Colonel William Amherst forced the French to surrender St...

  • 1763 – 1766 Pontiac's War
  • 1763 Battle of Point Pelee
  • 1775 – 1776 American Revolutionary War
    American Revolutionary War
    The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...

  • 1775 Invasion of Canada
    Invasion of Canada (1775)
    The Invasion of Canada in 1775 was the first major military initiative by the newly formed Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The objective of the campaign was to gain military control of the British Province of Quebec, and convince the French-speaking Canadiens to join the...

  • 1775 Arnold's expedition to Quebec
  • 1775 Battle of Longue-Pointe
    Battle of Longue-Pointe
    The Battle of Longue-Pointe was an attempt by Ethan Allen and a small force of American and Quebec militia to capture Montreal from British forces on September 25, 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War. Allen, who had been instructed only to raise militia forces among the local inhabitants,...

  • 1775 Siege of Fort St. Jean
  • 1775 Battle of Quebec (1775)
    Battle of Quebec (1775)
    The Battle of Quebec was fought on December 31, 1775 between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of the city of Quebec, early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle was the first major defeat of the war for the Americans, and it came at a high price...

  • 1776 Battle of the Cedars
    Battle of the Cedars
    The Battle of The Cedars was a series of military confrontations early in the American Revolutionary War during the Continental Army's invasion of Quebec that had begun in September 1775. The skirmishes, which involved limited combat, occurred in May 1776 at and around The Cedars, west of...

  • 1776 Battle of Saint-Pierre
    Battle of Saint-Pierre
    The Battle of Saint-Pierre was a military confrontation on March 25, 1776, near the Quebec village of Saint-Pierre, south of Quebec City. This confrontation, which occurred during the Continental Army's siege of Quebec following its defeat at the Battle of Quebec, was between forces that were both...

  • 1776 Battle of Trois-Rivières
    Battle of Trois-Rivières
    The Battle of Trois-Rivières was fought on June 8, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. A British army under Quebec Governor Guy Carleton defeated an attempt by units from the Continental Army under the command of Brigadier General William Thompson to stop a British advance up the Saint...

  • 1776 Battle of Fort Cumberland
    Battle of Fort Cumberland
    The Battle of Fort Cumberland was an attempt by a small number of militia commanded by Jonathan Eddy to bring the American Revolutionary War to Nova Scotia in late 1776...

  • 1777 Siege of Saint John
  • 1781 Naval battle off Cape Breton
    Naval battle off Cape Breton
    The Battle off Spanish River took place during the American Revolution between two French Navy frigates and a convoy of 18 British ships under protection of the Royal Navy off the harbour of Spanish River, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia...

  • 1782 Naval battle off Halifax
    Naval battle off Halifax
    The Battle off Halifax took place during the American Revolutionary War involving the American privateer Jack and a Royal Naval brig Observer off Halifax, Nova Scotia. The American privateer was commanded by Captain John Ropes and the Observer by John Crymes...

  • 1782 Raid on Lunenburg
  • 1782 Hudson Bay Expedition
    Hudson Bay Expedition
    The Hudson Bay expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse was a series of military raids on the lucrative fur trading posts and fortifications of the Hudson's Bay Company on the shores of Hudson Bay by a squadron of the French Royal Navy...

  • 1789 Nootka Crisis
    Nootka Crisis
    The Nootka Crisis was an international incident and political dispute between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain, triggered by a series of events that took place during the summer of 1789 at Nootka Sound...

  • 1792 Destruction of Opitsaht
  • 1792-1797 War of the First Coalition
  • 1796 Newfoundland expedition
    Newfoundland expedition
    The Newfoundland expedition was a series of fleet manoeuvres and amphibious landings in the coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador and Saint Pierre and Miquelon carried out by the combined French and Spanish fleets during the French Revolutionary Wars...


19th century

  • 1800 United Irish Uprising
    United Irish Uprising
    In April 1800, rumours flew through St. John's, Newfoundland that up to 400 Irishmen had taken the secret oath of the Society of the United Irishmen. It is believed that some 80 or more Irish soldiers in the British army planned to meet and mutiny at the powder shed behind the British garrison at...

  • 1811 Tonquin incident
    Tonquin
    The Tonquin was an American merchant ship involved with the Maritime Fur Trade of the early 19th Century. The ship was used by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company to establish fur trading outposts on the Northwest Coast of North America, including Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River...

  • 1812 War of 1812
    War of 1812
    The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant...

  • 1812 Raid on Gananoque
    Raid on Gananoque
    Text from the Raid on Gananoque plaqueText from Gananoque Plaque: "On September 21, 1812, during the War of 1812, a United States force of some 200 regulars and militia under Captain Benjamin Forsyth attacked Gananoque, Ontario. The village was an important forwarding point for supplies moving up...

  • 1812 Siege of Fort Erie
    Siege of Fort Erie
    The Siege of Fort Erie was one of the last and most protracted engagements between British and American forces during the Niagara campaign of the American War of 1812...

  • 1812 Battle of Queenston Heights
    Battle of Queenston Heights
    The Battle of Queenston Heights was the first major battle in the War of 1812 and resulted in a British victory. It took place on 13 October 1812, near Queenston, in the present-day province of Ontario...

  • 1812 Naval action off Kingston
    Engagements on Lake Ontario
    The Engagements on Lake Ontario encompass the prolonged naval contest for control of the lake during the War of 1812. Few actions were fought, none of which had decisive results, and the contest essentially became a naval building race, sometimes referred to sarcastically as the "Battle of the...

  • 1812 Battle of Lacolle Mills
    Battle of Lacolle Mills (1812)
    The Battle of Lacolle Mills was fought on November 20, 1812, during the War of 1812. In this relatively short and fast battle, a very small garrison of British troops and Canadian volunteers, with the assistance of Kahnawake Mohawk warriors, defended the Lacolle Mills Blockhouse near the village of...

  • 1813 Battle of York
    Battle of York
    The Battle of York was a battle of the War of 1812 fought on 27 April 1813, at York, Upper Canada . An American force supported by a naval flotilla landed on the lake shore to the west, defeated the defending British force and captured the town and dockyard...

  • 1813 Battle of Fort George
    Battle of Fort George
    The Battle of Fort George was a battle fought during the War of 1812, in which the Americans defeated a British force and captured the Fort George in Upper Canada...

  • 1813 Battle of Stoney Creek
    Battle of Stoney Creek
    The Battle of Stoney Creek was fought on 6 June 1813 during the War of 1812 near present day Stoney Creek, Ontario. British units made a night attack on an American encampment...

  • 1813 Battle of Beaver Dams
    Battle of Beaver Dams
    The Battle of Beaver Dams took place on 24 June 1813, during the War of 1812. An American column marched from Fort George and attempted to surprise a British outpost at Beaver Dams, billeting themselves overnight in the village of Queenston, Ontario...

  • 1813 Naval action off the Niagara River
    Engagements on Lake Ontario
    The Engagements on Lake Ontario encompass the prolonged naval contest for control of the lake during the War of 1812. Few actions were fought, none of which had decisive results, and the contest essentially became a naval building race, sometimes referred to sarcastically as the "Battle of the...

  • 1813 Battle of Chateauguay
    Battle of Chateauguay
    The Battle of the Chateauguay was a battle of the War of 1812. On 26 October 1813, a force consisting of about 1,630 French Canadian regulars and militia and Mohawk warriors under Charles de Salaberry repulsed an American force of about 4,000 attempting to invade Canada.The Chateauguay was one of...

  • 1813 The "Burlington Races"
    Engagements on Lake Ontario
    The Engagements on Lake Ontario encompass the prolonged naval contest for control of the lake during the War of 1812. Few actions were fought, none of which had decisive results, and the contest essentially became a naval building race, sometimes referred to sarcastically as the "Battle of the...

  • 1813 Aux Camards River
  • 1813 Battle of the Thames
    Battle of the Thames
    The Battle of the Thames, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was a decisive American victory in the War of 1812. It took place on October 5, 1813, near present-day Chatham, Ontario in Upper Canada...

  • 1813 Massequoi Village
  • 1813 Battle of Crysler's Farm
    Battle of Crysler's Farm
    The Battle of Crysler's Farm, also known as the Battle of Crysler's Field, was fought on 11 November 1813, during the Anglo-American War of 1812. A British and Canadian force won a victory over an American force which greatly outnumbered them...

  • 1814 Battle of Longwoods
    Battle of Longwoods
    The Battle of Longwoods took place during the Anglo-American War of 1812. On 4 March 1814, a mounted American raiding party defeated an attempt by British regulars, volunteers from the Canadian militia and Native Americans to intercept them near Wardsville, in present-day Southwest Middlesex,...

  • 1814 Battle of Lacolle Mills
    Battle of Lacolle Mills (1814)
    The Second Battle of Lacolle Mills was fought on 30 March 1814 during the War of 1812. The small garrison of a British outpost position, aided by reinforcements, fought off a large American attack.-Background:After the St...

  • 1814 Battle of Odelltown
    Battle of Odelltown
    The Battle of Odelltown was fought on November 9, 1838 between Loyal volunteer forces under Lewis Odell and Charles McAllister and Lower Canada rebels under Robert Nelson, Médard Hébert and Charles Hindelang...

  • 1814 Raid on Port Dover
    Raid on Port Dover
    The Raid on Port Dover was an episode during the Anglo-American War of 1812. American troops crossed Lake Erie to capture or destroy stocks of grain, and to destroy mills which were used to provide flour for British troops stationed on the Niagara Peninsula. They also destroyed private houses and...

  • 1814 Capture of Fort Erie
    Capture of Fort Erie
    The Capture of Fort Erie by American forces in 1814 was an incident in the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States. The British garrison was outnumbered but surrendered prematurely, in the view of British commanders.-Background:...

  • 1814 Battle of Chippawa
    Battle of Chippawa
    The Battle of Chippawa was a victory for the United States Army in the War of 1812, during an invasion of Upper Canada along the Niagara River on July 5, 1814.-Background:...

  • 1814 Battle of Lundy's Lane
    Battle of Lundy's Lane
    The Battle of Lundy's Lane was a battle of the Anglo-American War of 1812, which took place on 25 July 1814, in present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario...

  • 1814 Siege of Fort Erie
    Siege of Fort Erie
    The Siege of Fort Erie was one of the last and most protracted engagements between British and American forces during the Niagara campaign of the American War of 1812...

  • 1814 Engagements on Lake Huron
    • 1814 Action at Nottawasaga
  • 1814 Capture of Fort Erie
    Capture of Fort Erie
    The Capture of Fort Erie by American forces in 1814 was an incident in the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States. The British garrison was outnumbered but surrendered prematurely, in the view of British commanders.-Background:...

  • 1814 Battle of Cook's Mills
    Battle of Cook's Mills
    The Battle of Cook's Mills was the last engagement between U.S. and British armies in the Niagara, and the penultimate engagement on Canadian soil during the War of 1812.-Background:...

  • 1814 Battle of Malcolm's Mills
    Battle of Malcolm's Mills
    The Battle of Malcolm's Mills was a brief skirmish during the War of 1812 in which a force of American cavalry overran and scattered a force of Canadian militia. The battle was fought on November 6, 1814, near the village of Oakland, in Brant County, Ontario...

  • 1816 Battle of Seven Oaks
    Battle of Seven Oaks (1816)
    The Battle of Seven Oaks took place on June 19, 1816, during the long dispute between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies in western Canada.-Background:Miles Macdonell had issued the Pemmican Proclamation...

  • 1837 – 1838 Lower Canada Rebellion
    Lower Canada Rebellion
    The Lower Canada Rebellion , commonly referred to as the Patriots' War by Quebeckers, is the name given to the armed conflict between the rebels of Lower Canada and the British colonial power of that province...

  • 1837 Battle of Saint-Denis
    Battle of Saint-Denis (1837)
    The Battle of St. Denis was fought on November 22, 1837 between British colonial authorities under Lieutenant-Colonel Gore and Lower Canada rebels. The rebels were victoriously led by Wolfred Nelson.- See also :*Lower Canada Rebellion...

  • 1837 Battle of Saint-Charles
    Battle of Saint-Charles
    The Battle of Saint-Charles was fought on November 25, 1837 between Great Britain and Lower Canada rebels. The British were victorious.On the morning of 25 November 1837, 2 days after Charles Gore's defeat at the Battle of Saint-Denis and the retreat to Sorel the troops of Colonel George Wetherall...

  • 1837 Battle of Saint-Eustache
    Battle of Saint-Eustache
    The Battle of Saint-Eustache, fought on December 14, 1837, was a decisive battle in the Lower Canada Rebellion in which British forces defeated the principal remaining Patriotes camp at Saint-Eustache.-Prelude:...

  • 1838 Battle of Lacolle
    Battle of Lacolle (1838)
    The Battle of Lacolle was fought on November 7, 1838 between Loyal Lower Canada volunteer forces under Major John Scriver and Lower Canada rebels under Colonel Ferdinand-Alphonse Oklowski. On November 6, on their way to Lacolle, the Patriote rebels had won a first skirmish, but they lost in the...

  • 1838 Battle of Odelltown
    Battle of Odelltown
    The Battle of Odelltown was fought on November 9, 1838 between Loyal volunteer forces under Lewis Odell and Charles McAllister and Lower Canada rebels under Robert Nelson, Médard Hébert and Charles Hindelang...

  • 1838 Battle of Beauharnois
    Battle of Beauharnois
    The Battle of Beauharnois was fought on November 10, 1838, between Great Britain and Canadian rebels. The city rose up following a series of raids by rebel leaders who had escaped into the United States. François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier commanded the ranks of the Patriote rebels. The...

  • 1837 – 1838 Upper Canada Rebellion
    Upper Canada Rebellion
    The Upper Canada Rebellion was, along with the Lower Canada Rebellion in Lower Canada, a rebellion against the British colonial government in 1837 and 1838. Collectively they are also known as the Rebellions of 1837.-Issues:...

  • 1837 Battle of Montgomery's Tavern
  • 1838 Battle of Pelee Island
    Battle of Pelee Island
    The Patriot War occurred along what is now the Michigan-Ontario border in 1837 and 1838 involving small groups of men on each side of the border seeking to "liberate" Upper Canada.-Prelude:...

  • 1838 Short Hills Raid
    Short Hills Raid
    The Short Hills Raid was a raid by the Hunter Patriots on the Niagara Peninsula from June 21 to June 23, 1838, during the Upper Canada Rebellion....

  • 1838 Battle of the Windmill
    Battle of the Windmill
    The Battle of the Windmill was a battle fought in November 1838 in the aftermath of the Upper Canada Rebellion. Loyalist forces of the Upper Canadian government defeated an invasion attempt by Hunter Patriot insurgents based in the United States.-Background:...

  • 1838 Battle of Windsor
  • 1838 Aroostook War
    Aroostook War
    The Aroostook War was an undeclared nonviolent confrontation in 1838/1839 between the United States and Great Britain over the international boundary between British North America and Maine. The compromise resolution win a mutually accepted border between the state of Maine and the provinces of...

  • 1838 Nicola's War
  • 1849 Courthouse Rebellion
  • 1849 Montreal Riots
  • 1849 Stony Monday Riot
    Stony Monday Riot
    The Stony Monday Riot took place in Bytown , Ontario on Monday September 17, 1849.In April 1849, Lord Elgin had signed the Rebellion Losses Bill, compensating Lower Canadians for losses suffered during the Rebellions of 1837-38. The bill was unpopular with Tories because it compensated those who...

  • 1858 Fraser Canyon Gold Rush skirmishes along the Okanagan Trail
    Okanagan Trail
    The Okanagan Trail was an inland route to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush from the Lower Columbia region of the Washington and Oregon Territories in 1858-1859...

  • 1858 Fraser Canyon War
    Fraser Canyon War
    The Fraser Canyon War, also known as the Canyon War or the Fraser River War, was an incident between the Nlaka'pamux people and white miners in the newly declared Colony of British Columbia, which later became part of Canada, in 1858. It occurred during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, which brought a...

  • 1859 McGowan's War
    McGowan's War
    McGowan's War was a bloodless war that took place in Yale, British Columbia in the fall of 1858. The conflict posed a threat to the newly-minted British authority on the British Columbia mainland, which had only just been declared a colony the previous summer, at the onset of the Fraser Canyon Gold...

  • 1859 Pig War
    Pig War
    The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the British Empire over the boundary between the US and British North America. The territory in dispute was the San Juan Islands, which lie between Vancouver Island and the North American mainland...

  • 1863 Lamalcha War
  • 1864 Chilcotin War
    Chilcotin War
    The Chilcotin War, Chilcotin Uprising or Bute Inlet Massacre was a confrontation in 1864 between members of the Tsilhqot'in people in British Columbia and white road construction workers...

  • 1864 Kingfisher Incident
    Kingfisher (sloop)
    The Kingfisher was a sloop engaged in merchant trading out of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to First Nations peoples around Vancouver Island and adjoining waters...

  • 1866 – 1871 Fenian Raids
    Fenian raids
    Between 1866 and 1871, the Fenian raids of the Fenian Brotherhood who were based in the United States; on British army forts, customs posts and other targets in Canada, were fought to bring pressure on Britain to withdraw from Ireland. They divided many Catholic Irish-Canadians, many of whom were...

  • 1866 Battle of Ridgeway
    Battle of Ridgeway
    The Battle of Ridgeway was fought in the vicinity of the town of Fort Erie across the Niagara River from Buffalo, NY near the village of Ridgeway, Canada West, currently Ontario, Canada on June 2, 1866, between Canadian troops and an irregular army of Irish-American invaders, the Fenians...

  • 1866 Battle of Fort Erie
    Battle of Fort Erie (1866)
    The Battle of Fort Erie was a bloody skirmish in the afternoon immediately following the Battle of Ridgeway on June 2, 1866 in Canada West. The Fenian force, withdrawing from Ridgeway towards the United States, met and defeated a small force of Canadian militia at Fort Erie, then known as the...

  • 1866 Battle of Pigeon Hill
  • 1870 Battle of Eccles Hill
    Battle of Eccles Hill
    The Battle of Eccles Hill was part of a raid into Canadian territory from the United States led by John O'Neill and Samuel Spiers of the Fenian Brotherhood...

  • 1870 Battle of Trout River
  • 1867 Grouse Creek War
  • 1869 – 1870 Red River Rebellion
    Red River Rebellion
    The Red River Rebellion or Red River Resistance was the sequence of events related to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by the Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Settlement, in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba.The Rebellion was the first crisis...

  • 1870 Wolseley Expedition
    Wolseley Expedition
    The Wolseley Expedition was a military force authorized by Sir John A. Macdonald to confront Louis Riel and the Métis in 1870, during the Red River Rebellion, at the Red River Settlement in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba...

  • 1870 Battle of the Belly River
    Battle of the Belly River
    The Battle of the Belly River was the last major conflict between the Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy, and the last major battle between First Nations on Canadian soil....

  • 1873 Cypress Hills massacre
    Cypress Hills massacre
    The Cypress Hills massacre occurred on June 1, 1873, in the Cypress Hills region of Battle Creek, North-West Territories , involving a group of American Bison hunters, American wolf hunters or 'wolfers', American and Canadian whiskey traders, Métis cargo haulers or 'freighters', and a camp of...

  • 1885 North-West Rebellion
    North-West Rebellion
    The North-West Rebellion of 1885 was a brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada...

  • 1885 Battle of Duck Lake
    Battle of Duck Lake
    The Battle of Duck Lake was a skirmish between Métis soldiers of the Provisional Government of Saskatchewan and Canadian government forces that signalled the beginning of the North-West Rebellion.-Prelude:...

  • 1885 Frog Lake Massacre
    Frog Lake Massacre
    The Frog Lake Massacre was a Cree uprising during the North-West Rebellion in western Canada. Led by Wandering Spirit, young Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories on 2 April 1885, where they killed nine settlers.- Causes :Angered by what seemed to be unfair...

  • 1885 Battle of Fort Pitt
    Battle of Fort Pitt
    The Battle of Fort Pitt was part of a Cree uprising coinciding with the Métis revolt that started the North-West Rebellion in 1885. Cree warriors began attacking Canadian settlements on April 2...

  • 1885 Battle of Fish Creek
    Battle of Fish Creek
    The Battle of Fish Creek , fought April 24, 1885 at Fish Creek, Saskatchewan, was a major Métis victory over the Dominion forces attempting to quell Louis Riel's North-West Rebellion...

  • 1885 Battle of Cut Knife
    Battle of Cut Knife
    The Battle of Cut Knife, fought on May 2, 1885, occurred when a small force of Cree and Assiniboine warriors were attacked by a flying column of mounted police, militia, and Canadian army regulars...

  • 1885 Battle of Batoche
    Battle of Batoche
    The Battle of Batoche was the decisive battle of the North-West Rebellion. Fought from 9 May to 12 May 1885 at the ad hoc Provisional Government of Saskatchewan capital of Batoche, the greater numbers and superior firepower of Middleton's force could not be successfully countered by the Métis ,...

  • 1885 Battle of Frenchman's Butte
    Battle of Frenchman's Butte
    The Battle of Frenchman's Butte, fought on May 28, 1885, occurred when a force of Cree, dug in on a hillside near Frenchman's Butte, was unsuccessfully attacked by the Alberta Field Force.-Background:...

  • 1885 Battle of Loon Lake
    Battle of Loon Lake
    The Battle of Loon Lake concluded the North-West Rebellion on June 3, 1885 and was the last battle fought on Canadian soil. Led by Major Sam Steele, a force of North-West Mounted Police, Alberta Mounted Rifles and Steele's Scouts caught up with and dispersed a band of Plains Cree warriors and...

  • 1886 Anti-Chinese Riots
  • 1887 Wild Horse Creek War

20th century

  • 1902 - June 22: Toronto Streetcar Strike riot
  • 1907 - Anti-Oriental Riots
  • 1918 - Conscription Crisis of 1917
    Conscription Crisis of 1917
    The Conscription Crisis of 1917 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I.-Background:...

  • 1919 - Winnipeg General Strike
  • 1925 - New Waterford
    New Waterford, Nova Scotia
    New Waterford is a Canadian urban community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.-Geography:New Waterford is located north of Sydney and northwest of Glace Bay. It is named after the city of Waterford, in Ireland. It is located near the ocean and is bordered on one side by cliffs...

     Rebellion. See Davis Day
    Davis Day
    Davis Day, also known as Miners Memorial Day , is an annual day of remembrance observed on June 11 in coal mining communities in Nova Scotia, Canada whereby citizens recognize all miners who were killed on the job in the province.Davis Day originated in memory of William Davis, a coal miner who was...

    .
  • 1926 - Regina Riots
  • 1933 - August 16: Christie Pits riot in Toronto.
  • 1935 - The On-to-Ottawa Trek
    On-to-Ottawa Trek
    The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a long journey where thousands of people had unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada. The men lived and worked in these camps at a rate of twenty cents per day before walking out on strike in...

     and Regina Riot.
  • 1935 - The Battle of Ballantyne Pier
    Battle of Ballantyne Pier
    Ballantyne Pier was the site of a docker's strike in Vancouver, BC, in June 1935. It was a federally owned dock built by the National Harbours Board In 1923, and named for the head of the Harbours Board. There were ongoing strikes on the West Coast of North America in the Depression and it led to...

  • 1938 - Bloody Sunday
    Bloody Sunday (1938)
    Bloody Sunday was the conclusion of a month-long "sitdowners' strike" by unemployed men at the main post office in Vancouver, British Columbia...

  • 1939 - 1945 Second World War
  • 1939 - 1945 Battle of the Atlantic
  • 1942 - 1944 Battle of the St. Lawrence
    Battle of the St. Lawrence
    The Battle of the St. Lawrence involved a number of submarine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Strait of Belle Isle and Cabot Strait from May-October 1942, September 1943, and again in October-November 1944...

  • 1942 - Bombardment of Estevan Point lighthouse
    Attacks on North America during World War II
    The American Theater of World War II was a minor area of operations mainly due to the continent's geographical separation from the central theaters of conflict in Europe and Asia...

  • 1944 - Terrace Mutiny
    Terrace Mutiny
    The Terrace Mutiny was a revolt by Canadian soldiers based in Terrace, British Columbia during World War II. The mutiny, which began on November 24, 1944 and ended on November 29, 1944, was the most serious breach of discipline in Canadian military history...

  • 1945 - Halifax Riot
    Halifax Riot
    The Halifax VE-Day riots, 7–8 May 1945 in Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia began as a celebration of the World War II Victory in Europe. This rapidly declined into a rampage by several thousand servicemen, merchant seamen and civilians, who looted the City of Halifax...

     on Victory in Europe Day
    Victory in Europe Day
    Victory in Europe Day commemorates 8 May 1945 , the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not...

    .
  • 1955 - Richard Riot
    Richard Riot
    The Richard Riot was a riot on March 17, 1955 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The riot was named after Maurice Richard, the star ice hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League...

  • 1967 - Yorkville, Toronto
    Yorkville, Toronto
    Yorkville is a district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, well known for its shopping. It is a former village, annexed by the City of Toronto. It is roughly bounded by Bloor Street to the south, Davenport Road to the north, Yonge Street to the east and Avenue Road to the west, and is considered part of...

     summer street sit-ins and "riots".
  • 1969 - Murray-Hill riot
    Murray-Hill riot
    The Murray-Hill riot was the culmination of 16 hours of unrest in Montreal, Quebec during a Montreal police strike.Police were motivated to strike because of difficult working conditions caused by disarming separatist-planted bombs and patrolling frequent protests...

  • 1970 - FLQ - October Crisis
    October Crisis
    The October Crisis was a series of events triggered by two kidnappings of government officials by members of the Front de libération du Québec during October 1970 in the province of Quebec, mainly in the Montreal metropolitan area.The circumstances ultimately culminated in the only peacetime use...

  • 1971 - Gastown Riots
    Gastown Riots
    The Gastown Riot, also known as "The Battle of Maple TreeSquare," occurred in Vancouver, Canada, on August 7, 1971.Following weeks of arrests by undercover drug squad members in...

  • 1982 - October 14: The Squamish Five
    Squamish Five
    The Squamish Five were a group of self-styled "urban guerrillas" active in Canada during the early 1980s. Their chosen name was Direct Action....

    , bombs a Litton Industries
    Litton Industries
    Named after inventor Charles Litton, Sr., Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States, bought by the Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2001.-History:...

     factory.
  • 1983 - Solidarity Crisis
    Solidarity Crisis
    The Solidarity Crisis refers to a protest movement in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1983 that emerged in response to the Social Credit government's economic policy of "restraint." A mass coalition, the Solidarity Coalition, was formed, composed of community organizations and trade unions, which...

  • 1985 - June 23: Air India flight 182
    Air India Flight 182
    Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Montreal–London–Delhi route. On 23 June 1985, the airplane operating on the route a Boeing 747-237B named after Emperor Kanishka was blown up by a bomb at an altitude of , and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while in Irish airspace.A...

  • 1990 - July 11 to September 26: Oka Crisis
    Oka Crisis
    The Oka Crisis was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada which began on July 11, 1990 and lasted until September 26, 1990. At least one person died as a result...

  • 1990 - August: Police violence during break-up and arrest of elders and children at Seton Portage, British Columbia
    Seton Portage, British Columbia
    Seton Portage is a historic rural community in British Columbia, Canada, that is about 25 km west of Lillooet, located between Seton Lake and Anderson Lake. "The Portage" was formed about 10,000 years ago when the flank of the Cayoosh Range, which is the south flank of the valley, let go and...

  • 1990-1992 - Strike, strike-breaking, and bombing at Royal Oak Mines
    Royal Oak Mines
    Royal Oak Mines Incorporated was a gold mining company, founded in 1990 by Margaret "Peggy" Witte in Kirkland, Washington....

     in Yellowknife, NWT
  • 1992 - May 4: Toronto Yonge Street
    Yonge Street
    Yonge Street is a major arterial route connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes. It was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world at , and the construction of Yonge Street is designated an "Event of...

     riots.
  • 1993 - June 9: Montreal Stanley Cup Riot
  • 1994 - June 14: Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot
    1994 stanley cup riot
    The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot occurred in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of June 14, 1994 and continued into the following morning...

  • 1995 - Police crack down on native protesters during the Ipperwash Crisis
    Ipperwash Crisis
    The Ipperwash Crisis was an Indigenous land dispute that took place in Ipperwash Provincial Park, Ontario in 1995. Several members of the Stoney Point Ojibway band occupied the park in order to assert their claim to nearby land which had been expropriated from them during World War II...

     resulting in the death of Dudley George
  • 1997 - 2000 Wiebo Ludwig
    Wiebo Ludwig
    Wiebo Ludwig is the leader of a compound in Trickle Creek, just outside Hythe,Alberta, Canada, who is best known for his legal problems arising from his conflict with the oil and gas industry. Ludwig has been accused of being an eco-terrorist for sabotaging oil and gas wells...

     and his followers bomb wellheads in Alberta's oil country

21st century

  • 2001 - April 20–22: Police and Anti-globalization
    Anti-globalization
    Criticism of globalization is skepticism of the claimed benefits of the globalization of capitalism. Many of these views are held by the anti-globalization movement however other groups also are critical of the policies of globalization....

     protestors battle in the streets of Quebec City
    Quebec City
    Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

     during the Summit of the Americas
    Quebec City Summit of the Americas
    The 3rd Summit of the Americas was a summit held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, on April 20--22, 2001.This international meeting was a round of negotiations regarding a proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas...

    .
  • 2006 - February 28 to present: Caledonia land dispute
    Caledonia land dispute
    The current Grand River land dispute came to wide attention in Canada on February 28, 2006. On that date, protesters from the Six Nations of the Grand River began a demonstration to raise awareness about First Nation land claims in Ontario, Canada...

  • 2009 - 2009 Vancouver gang war
    2009 Vancouver gang war
    In early 2009, a series of gang-related shootings occurred due to what police describe as a gang war in Vancouver. Alleged participants include the Independent Soldiers, the Sanghera Crime Group, the Buttar Gang, the Bacon Brothers , the United Nations Gang, the Red Scorpions, and the Vancouver...

  • 2009 - March 15: Riots against police brutality in Montreal
    Montreal
    Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

     after a young minority immigrant is fatally shot by police.
  • 2010 - June 26–27: Police crackdown on demonstrations in Toronto
    Toronto
    Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

     during the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit
    2010 G-20 Toronto summit
    The 2010 G-20 Toronto summit was the fourth meeting of the G-20 heads of government, in discussion of the global financial system and the world economy, which took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, during June 26–27, 2010...

    .
  • 2011 - June 15: 2011 Stanley Cup Riot
    2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot
    The 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot was a public disturbance that broke out in the downtown core of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. The riots happened immediately after the conclusion of the Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the Stanley...

  • 2011 - September 17: The Occupy Movement
    Occupy movement
    The Occupy movement is an international protest movement which is primarily directed against economic and social inequality. The first Occupy protest to be widely covered was Occupy Wall Street in New York City, taking place on September 17, 2011...

     Protesters "occupying" a space day and night, and organising together in approximately 2500 cities worldwide, what many call a global revolution - is merely a way to inform the world of the root causes of the problems we face in society.

See also

Canada
International

Further reading

  • Granatstein, J. (2010). The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195430883

External links

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