Depending on historical and societal classification, Canada's biggest tragedy is often cited as either the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, which claimed an estimated 50,000 lives nationwide, or the devastating 1917 Halifax Explosion, which killed approximately 2,000 people when two munitions ships collided in the harbor. In terms of systemic human-made historical tragedies, the profound intergenerational trauma inflicted by the federally operated Indigenous residential school system is widely acknowledged as the nation's most grievous moral and social tragedy.
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