List of conflicts in Canada

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The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West. Oil on canvas, 1770.

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[]

The 11th Century[]

  • 1003 Battle of Vinland (1003)
  • 1006 Skirmishes between Norsemen and Skræling, the ancestors of the Beothuk.
  • 1010 Battle of Vinland (1010)

16th Century[]

  • 1577 Skirmishes between English sailors under Martin Frobisher and the Inuit on Baffin Island[citation needed]

17th century[]

Battle of Sorel in 1610
  • 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 [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
  • 1674 Dutch Occupation of Acadia
  • 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[]

Father Rale's War 1722 – 1725
  • 1722 Battle of Winnepang
  • 1723 Raid on Canso
  • 1724 Raid on Annapolis Royal
  • 1725 Raid on Canso
  • 1744 Raid on Canso
  • 1744 Siege of Fort Anne
  • 1745
  • 1745 Siege of Louisbourg
  • 1746 Battle at Port-la-Joye
  • 1747 Battle of Grand Pré
  • 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 Battle of Point Pelee
  • 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
  • 1789 Nootka Crisis
  • 1792 Destruction of Opitsaht
  • 1792-1797 War of the First Coalition
  • 1796 Newfoundland expedition
  • 1793 Raids on Pine Island Fort
  • 1794 Attack on South Branch House

19th century[]

  • 1800 United Irish Uprising in Newfoundland
  • 1811 Tonquin incident
  • 1812 War of 1812
Battle of Lundy's Lane
  • 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 River Canard
  • 1813 Battle of the Thames
  • 1813 [citation needed]
  • 1813 Battle of Crysler's Farm
  • 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 Action at Nottawasaga
    • 1814 Capture of the Tigress and the Scorpion
  • 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
  • 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 [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

20th century[]

  • 1902 June 22: Toronto Streetcar Strike riot[1]
  • 1907 Anti-Oriental Riots
  • 1913 [2]
  • 1918 Conscription Crisis of 1917
  • 1918 Vancouver General Strike
  • 1919 Winnipeg General 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 [citation needed]
  • 1969 Murray-Hill riot
  • 1970 October Crisis
  • 1971 Gastown Riots
  • 1982 Squamish Five
  • 1983 Solidarity Crisis
  • 1985 Air India flight 182
  • 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[]

  • 2006 Caledonia land dispute
  • 2009 Vancouver gang war
  • 2010 2010 G20 Toronto summit protests
  • 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot
  • 2012 Quebec student protests
  • 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests

See also[]

Canada
  • Anglo-French conflicts on Hudson Bay
  • Canadian Armed Forces
  • Canadian militia
  • Canadian nationalism
  • Colonial militia in Canada
  • Indigenous conflicts in Canada
  • 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
  • American Indian Wars
  • List of battles (geographic)
  • List of conflicts in North America
  • List of wars

References[]

  1. ^ Working people By Desmond Morton, page 72
  2. ^ Knowledge "Vancouver Island War" (3 minute video summary)

Further reading[]

Main article: Bibliography of Canadian military history
  • 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

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