List of recessions in Canada

Although Canada's economy is closely linked to the United States' economy, Canadian and American recessions do not always coincide. A recession is generally defined as two successive quarters of negative economic growth.^[1]

List of Recessions in Canada^[2]

Name	Start	End
The Great Depression	April 1929	February 1933
Recession of 1937–1938	November 1937	June 1938[3]
Recession of 1949	August 1947	March 1948
Recession of 1951	April 1951	December 1951
Recession of 1953	July 1953	July 1954
Recession of 1958	March 1957	January 1958
Recession of 1960–1961	March 1960	March 1961
1973–1975 recession	October 1974	March 1975
Early 1980s recession in the United States	June 1981	October 1982
Early 1990s recession	March 1990	May 1992
Great Recession	October 2008	May 2009
COVID-19 recession	February 2020	2021

See also

• Economic history of Canada
• List of recessions in the United Kingdom
• List of recessions in the United States