The flooding of communities on or downstream from the Ottawa River is breaking some historical records, but this is far from the worst flooding Quebecers have experienced.
The water level on the Lake of Two Mountains surpassed its all-time high on May 3.
As of May 12, 3,641 people had been forced from their homes and 4,485 residences had suffered flood damage in 187 municipalities.
Of the 36 major Quebec floods tracked by the Canadian disaster database, it ranks fourth by number of people affected, after the floods of 1998, 1996 and 1974.
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This chart shows all the floods in the database for Quebec:
(Darcy Hunter/CBC)
Major floods have been happening with more frequency across Canada.
The database shows the number of floods tripled from the 1960s to the 1970s, peaking in the 1990s, with more than 60 major floods across Canada in that decade.
In Quebec, there was a major flood nearly every year in the 1990s.
Relive the significant floods of the past century in Quebec with this timeline. The total cost of damage listed has been adjusted to 2011 dollars for events prior to 2010.
