List of conflicts in Canada is a timeline of events that includes wars, battles, skirmishes, major terrorist attacks, riots and other related items that have occurred in the country of Canada's current geographical area. A complete list of terrorist attacks can be found at terrorism in Canada.
Before the 16th century[edit]
The 11th Century[edit]
- 1003 Battle of Vinland (1003) [citation needed]
- 1006 Skirmishes between Norsemen and Skræling, the ancestors of the Beothuk.
- 1010 Battle of Vinland (1010) [citation needed]
16th Century[edit]
- 1577 Skirmishes between English sailors under Martin Frobisher and the Inuit on Baffin Island[citation needed]
17th century[edit]
- 17th century Beaver Wars
- 1610 Battle of Sorel
- 1628 Action of 17 July 1628
- 1644 Action at Ville-Marie
- 1649 Raid on St. Ignace and St. Louis
- 1660 Battle of Long Sault
- 1689 Lachine massacre
- 1691 Battle of La Prairie
- 1692 Mohawk Valley raid
- 17th century Anglo-French conflicts
- 1613 Battle of Port Royal
- 1628 Capture of Tadoussac[citation needed]
- 1628 Naval action in the St. Lawrence River
- 1629 Surrender of Quebec
- 1629 Siege of Baleine
- 1630 Siege of Fort St. Louis
- 1632 Raid on St. John
- 1635 – 1650 Acadian Civil War
- 1640 Battle of Port Royal
- 1642 Blockade at St. John
- 1643 Battle of Penobscot
- 1643 Battle of Port Royal
- 1645 Siege of St. John
- 1654 Battle of Port Royal
- 1686 Hudson Bay expedition
- 1688 Battle of Fort Albany
- 1640 – 1701 French and Iroquois Wars
- 1677 Battle of Port La Tour
- 17th century Second Anglo-Dutch War
- 1689 – 1697 King William's War
- 1689 Battle of the Lake of Two Mountains
- 1690 Battle of Coulée Grou
- 1690 Battle of Port Royal
- 1690 Battle at Chedabucto
- 1690 Battle of Quebec
- 1693 Battle of Fort Albany
- 1694 Capture of York Factory
- 1696 Naval action in the Bay of Fundy
- 1696 Raid on Chignecto
- 1696 Siege of Fort Nashwaak
- 1696 – 1697 Avalon Peninsula Campaign
- 1696 Siege of Ferryland
- 1696 Raid on Petty Harbour
- 1696 Siege of St. John's
- 1697 Battle of Carbonear
- 1697 Battle of Hudson's Bay
18th century[edit]
- 1702 – 1713 Queen Anne's War
- 1702 Newfoundland expedition
- 1704 Raid on Chignecto
- 1704 Raid on Grand Pré
- 1705 Siege of St. John's
- 1707 Siege of Port Royal
- 1709 Battle of St. John's
- 1709 Battle of Fort Albany
- 1710 Siege of Port Royal
- 1711 Battle of Bloody Creek
- 1722 – 1725 Father Rale's War
- 1722 Battle of Winnepang
- 1723 Raid on Canso
- 1724 Raid on Annapolis Royal
- 1725 Raid on Canso
- 1744 – 1748 King George's War
- 1744 Raid on Canso
- 1744 Siege of Fort Anne
- 1745 Siege of Port Toulouse
- 1745 Siege of Louisbourg
- 1746 Battle at Port-la-Joye
- 1747 Battle of Grand Pré
- 1749 – 1755 Father Le Loutre's War
- 1749 Raid on Dartmouth
- 1749 Siege of Grand Pre
- 1749-1750 Battles at Chignecto
- 1750 Battle at St. Croix
- 1751 Raid on Dartmouth
- 1751 Raid on Chignecto
- 1751 Raids on Halifax
- 1753 Attack at Country Harbour
- 1753 The Lunenburg Rebellion
- 1754 – 1763 Seven Years' War
- 1755 Naval Action off Newfoundland
- 1755 Battle of Fort Beauséjour
- 1755 Bay of Fundy Campaign
- 1755 Battle of Petitcodiac
- 1756 Raid on Lunenburg
- 1757 Battle on Snowshoes - occurred in the British Province of New York and New France.
- 1757 Battle of Bloody Creek
- 1758 Siege of Louisbourg
- 1758 Battle of Fort Frontenac
- 1758 Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign
- 1758 Île Saint-Jean Campaign
- 1758 Petitcodiac River Campaign
- 1758 Battle on Snowshoes - occurred in the British Province of New York and New France.
- 1759 St. John River Campaign
- 1759 Battle of Beauport
- 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham
- 1759 St. Francis Raid
- 1760 Battle of Sainte-Foy
- 1760 Siege of Quebec
- 1760 Battle of Neuville
- 1760 Battle of Restigouche
- 1760 Montreal Campaign
- 1760 Battle of the Thousand Islands
- 1762 Battle of Signal Hill
- 1763 – 1766 Pontiac's War
- 1775 – 1776 American Revolutionary War
- 1775 Invasion of Quebec
- 1775 Arnold's expedition to Quebec
- 1775 Battle of Longue-Pointe
- 1775 Siege of Fort St. Jean
- 1775 Battle of Quebec
- 1776 Battle of the Cedars
- 1776 Battle of Saint-Pierre
- 1776 Battle of Trois-Rivières
- 1776 Battle of Fort Cumberland
- 1777 Siege of Saint John
- 1781 Naval battle off Cape Breton
- 1782 Naval battle off Halifax
- 1782 Raid on Lunenburg
- 1782 Hudson Bay Expedition (Prince of Wales Fort)
- 1789-1794 Nootka Crisis also known as the Spanish Armament
- 1792 Destruction of Opitsaht
- 1792-1797 War of the First Coalition
- 1793 Raids on Pine Island Fort
- 1794 Attack on South Branch House
19th century[edit]
- 1800 United Irish Uprising in Newfoundland
- 1811 Tonquin incident
- 1812 War of 1812
- 1812 Battle of River Canard
- 1812 Battle of Matilda
- 1812 Raid on Gananoque
- 1812 Battle of Queenston Heights
- 1812 Naval action off Kingston
- 1812 Battle of Lacolle Mills
- 1813 Raid on Elizabethtown
- 1813 Battle of York
- 1813 Battle of Fort George
- 1813 Battle of Stoney Creek
- 1813 Battle of Beaver Dams
- 1813 Capture of the Growler and the Julia
- 1813 Battle of Chateauguay
- 1813 The "Burlington Races"
- 1813 Battle of the Thames
- 1813 Massequoi Village[citation needed]
- 1813 Battle of Crysler's Farm
- 1813 Battle of Nanticoke Creek
- 1813 Skirmish at McCrae's House
- 1814 Battle of Longwoods
- 1814 Battle of Lacolle Mills
- 1814 Battle of Odelltown
- 1814 Raid on Port Dover
- 1814 Capture of Fort Erie
- 1814 Battle of Chippawa
- 1814 Battle of Lundy's Lane
- 1814 Siege of Fort Erie
- 1814 Engagements on Lake Huron
- 1814 Capture of Fort Erie
- 1814 Siege of Fort Erie
- 1814 Battle of Cook's Mills
- 1814 Battle of Malcolm's Mills
- 1816 Pemmican War
- 1816 Capture of Fort Gibraltar
- 1816 Battle of Seven Oaks
- 1816 Capture of Fort Douglas
- 1816 Capture of Fort William
- 1835 – 1845 Shiners' War
- 1837 – 1838 Lower Canada Rebellion
- 1837 Battle of Saint-Denis
- 1837 Battle of Saint-Charles
- 1837 Battle of Saint-Eustache
- 1838 Battle of Lacolle
- 1838 Battle of Odelltown
- 1838 Battle of Beauharnois
- 1837 – 1838 Upper Canada Rebellion
- 1837 Battle of Montgomery's Tavern
- 1838 Battle of Pelee Island
- 1838 Short Hills Raid
- 1838 Battle of the Windmill
- 1838 Battle of Windsor
- 1838 Aroostook War
- 1838 Nicola's War
- 1849 Courthouse Rebellion[citation needed]
- 1849 Montreal Riots
- 1849 Stony Monday Riot
- 1858 Fraser Canyon Gold Rush skirmishes along the Okanagan Trail
- 1858 Fraser Canyon War
- 1859 McGowan's War
- 1859 Pig War
- 1863 Lamalcha War
- 1864 Chilcotin War
- 1864 Kingfisher Incident
- 1866 – 1871 Fenian Raids
- 1866 Battle of Ridgeway
- 1866 Battle of Fort Erie
- 1866 Battle of Pigeon Hill
- 1870 Battle of Eccles Hill
- 1870 Battle of Trout River
- 1867 Grouse Creek War[citation needed]
- 1869 – 1870 Red River Rebellion
- 1870 Wolseley Expedition
- 1870 Battle of the Belly River
- 1873 Cypress Hills Massacre
- 1875 Jubilee riots
- 1885 North-West Rebellion
- 1885 Battle of Duck Lake
- 1885 Frog Lake Massacre
- 1885 Battle of Fort Pitt
- 1885 Battle of Fish Creek
- 1885 Battle of Cut Knife
- 1885 Battle of Batoche
- 1885 Battle of Frenchman's Butte
- 1885 Battle of Loon Lake
- 1886 Anti-Chinese Riots
- 1887 Wild Horse Creek War[citation needed]
- 1888 Skeena River Expedition
- 1895 Low Rebellion also known as the Battle of Brennan's Hill[1][2]
20th century[edit]
- 1902 June 22: Toronto Streetcar Strike riot[3]
- 1907 Anti-Oriental Riots
- 1913 Vancouver Island War[4]
- 1918 Conscription Crisis of 1917
- 1918 Vancouver General Strike
- 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
- 1919 Drumheller Coal Strike
- 1925 New Waterford Rebellion. See Davis Day.
- 1931 Estevan riot
- 1933 Christie Pits riot
- 1935 Regina Riot
- 1935 Battle of Ballantyne Pier
- 1938 Bloody Sunday
- 1939 - 1945 Second World War
- 1939 - 1945 Battle of the Atlantic
- 1942 - 1944 Battle of the St. Lawrence
- 1942 Bombardment of Estevan Point lighthouse
- 1944 Terrace Mutiny
- 1945 Halifax riot
- 1955 Richard Riot
- 1967 Yorkville, Toronto riots[citation needed]
- 1969 Murray-Hill riot
- 1970 October Crisis
- 1971 Gastown Riots
- 1982 Squamish Five
- 1983 Solidarity Crisis
- 1990 Oka Crisis
- 1990 - 1992 Royal Oak Mines violent labour dispute
- 1993 Montreal Stanley Cup Riot
- 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot
- 1994 - 2002 Quebec Biker War
- 1995 Gustafsen Lake Standoff
- 1995 Ipperwash Crisis
- 1997 - 2000 Wiebo Ludwig bombings
21st century[edit]
- 2006 Caledonia land dispute
- 2009 Vancouver gang war
- 2010 G20 Toronto summit protests
- 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot
- 2012 Quebec student protests
- 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests
- 2020 George Floyd protests in Canada
- 2022 Canada convoy protest
See also[edit]
- Canada
- Anglo-French conflicts on Hudson Bay
- Canadian Armed Forces
- Canadian militia
- Canadian nationalism
- Colonial militia in Canada
- Indigenous conflicts in Canada
- History of Canadian foreign policy
- List of Canadian military victories
- List of Canadian military operations
- List of massacres in Canada
- List of wars involving Canada
- Military history of Canada
- Military of New France
- Provincial Marine
- Riots and civil disorder in Canada
- Terrorism in Canada
- Violence in Canada
- International
References[edit]
- ^ MacGregor, Roy (31 July 2016). "The story of the Gatineau River: Historic fights and fierce independence". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ "History of the Municipality of Low".
- ^ Working people By Desmond Morton, page 72
- ^ Knowledge "Vancouver Island War" (3 minute video summary)
Further reading[edit]
- Fryer, Mary Beacock (1996), Battlefields of Canada, Dundurn Press, ISBN 1-55002-007-2
- Fryer, Mary Beacock (1993), More battlefields of Canada, Dundurn Press, ISBN 1-55002-189-3
- Jeremy Black (2011). Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35660-4.
- Granatstein, J. (2010). The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-543088-3
- P. Whitney Lackenbauer (2007). Battle grounds: the Canadian military and aboriginal lands. UBC Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-1315-0.
- Zuehlke, Mark (2006), Canadian Military Atlas: Four Centuries of Conflict from New France to Kosovo, Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN 978-1-55365-209-0
