Crisis atlas / CAN
Canada
16 distinct crisis events in 9 episodes, 1838–2008, from the union of five primary chronologies.
Debt profile: government debt trajectory and crisis-start levels →
Crisis timeline
Every distinct (year, type) event, most recent first, with the chronologies flagging it. Start-year sources (GMD, JST) do not mark continuation years, so long episodes show lower agreement after their first year.
- 2008Currencygmd, rr2 sources
- 1985Bankingrr1 source
- 1984Bankingrr1 source
- 1983Bankingrr1 source
- 1982Bankinggmd1 source
- 1930Currencygmd, rr2 sources
- 1923Bankingrr1 source
- 1920Bankinggmd1 source
- 1912Bankingrr1 source
- 1907Bankingjst, rr2 sources
- 1906Bankingrr1 source
- 1874Bankingrr1 source
- 1873Bankinggmd, rr2 sources
- 1866Bankinggmd, rr2 sources
- 1839Bankingrr1 source
- 1838Bankinggmd, rr2 sources
Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 | Laeven & Valencia (2020, 2026) | Reinhart-Rogoff via HBS BFFS | ECB/ESRB Financial Crises Database Methodology
Macro context around each episode
Inflation, central-bank policy rate, and government debt in a window of five years either side of each crisis episode (consecutive crisis years bridged across gaps of up to two years). Crisis years shaded.
1838–1839
BankingNo macro panel coverage for this window.
1866
Banking1873–1874
Banking1906–1907
Banking1912
Banking1920–1923
Banking1930
Currency1982–1985
Banking2008
CurrencySource: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) Inflation is % year over year; policy rate is the central-bank rate in %; government debt is % of GDP. Methodology