List of conflicts in Canada

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)^{[citation needed]}
• 1006 Skirmishes between Norsemen and Skræling, the ancestors of the Beothuk.
• 1010 Battle of Vinland (1010)^{[citation needed]}

16th Century

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

17th century

• 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
  • 1692 Battle of Fort Vercheres
  • 1645 Battle of Fort La Tour
• 1677 Battle of Port La Tour
• 17th century Second Anglo-Dutch War
  • 1664 Dutch capture of St. John's
• 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

• 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

• 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 (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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

International

• American Indian Wars
• List of battles (geographic)
• List of conflicts in North America
• List of wars

References

Further reading

External links

• Canadian War Museum: Chronology of War