Canada’s Tornado History Digitized in Online Archive Dating Back to 1700s

A history of tornadoes that have hit Canada for more than the past 200 years is now available to the public through a digitization project. The Michael Newark Digitized Tornado Archive includes news clippings, photographs, investigation reports, and analysis that date back to Canada’s first recorded tornado in the Niagara region in 1792. “A probable destructive tornado tracked through the Fonthill area, leaving behind a path of uprooted and broken trees which was cleared and later became known as ‘Hurricane Road.’ This road still exists today,” the archive page says of the event. The project is named after a former meteorologist who spent a decade researching the topic of tornadoes in Canada....