List of volcanoes in Canada
Western Canada is commonly thought to occupy a gap in the Pacific Ring of Fire, although that is not actually true, British Columbia and the Yukon Territory is home of more than 100 separate volcanic centers that have been active during the Quaternary, such as shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, maars, cinder cones and calderas. Mount Edziza is a large shield volcano that has had repeated eruptions for about 7-10 million years, and has made the well preserved cinder cone, Eve Cone. Although there has not been any historical eruptions recorded in Canada, native legends of lava flows destroying homes, villages, killing fish and natives being killed by volcanic gas are conformed by radiocarbon dates of 200-250 years ago on carbonized wood beneath the basaltic lava flows in the Iskut-Unuk River in the Stikine Volcanic Belt. The lava flows are considered to be from the Tseax River Cones and the Lava Fork Valley.
This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes.
A list of volcanoes in Canada.
See Also: List of volcanoes
Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
Atlin Volcanic Field | 1880 | 6168 | 59°41′N 133°19′W / 59.68°N 133.32°W | Unknown |
Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
Dufferin Island | - | - | 52°13′N 128°19′W / 52.22°N 128.32°W | Holocene |
Helmet Peak | 318 | 1043 | 52°21′N 128°21′W / 52.35°N 128.35°W | Holocene |
Kitasu Hill | 235 | 771 | 52°30′N 128°44′W / 52.50°N 128.73°W | Holocene |
Price Island | - | - | 52°26′N 128°38′W / 52.44°N 128.64°W | Holocene |
White Creek Cone | - | - | 52°33′N 124°17′W / 52.55°N 124.28°W | Holocene |
Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
metres | feer | Coordinates | ||
Exile Hill | - | - | 57°23′N 130°49′W / 57.38°N 130.82°W | Pliocene |
Mess Lake | - | - | 57°28′N 130°45′W / 57.47°N 130.75°W | Holocene |
Nahta Cone | - | - | 57°19′N 130°49′W / 57.32°N 130.82°W | Holocene |
Outcast Hill | - | - | 57°24′N 130°46′W / 57.40°N 130.77°W | Pleistocene |
Source Hill | - | - | 57°17′N 130°49′W / 57.28°N 130.82°W | Pleistocene |
Spectrum Dome | - | - | 57°23′N 130°41′W / 57.38°N 130.68°W | Pliocene |
Tadekho Hill | - | - | 57°21′N 130°47′W / 57.35°N 130.78°W | Pleistocene |
The Ash Pit | - | - | 57°27′N 130°47′W / 57.45°N 130.78°W | Holocene |
Wetalth Ridge | - | - | 57°19′N 130°47′W / 57.32°N 130.78°W | Pleistocene |
Yeda Peak | - | - | 57°23′N 130°41′W / 57.38°N 130.68°W | Pliocene |
Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
metres | feet | Coordinates | ||
Felsite Peak | 2530 | 8301 | 60°19′N 138°16′W / 60.32°N 138.27°W | Pliocene |
Rabbit Mountain | 2090 | 6857 | 61°30′N 140°35′W / 61.50°N 140.59°W | Pliocene |