Canada
Canada — GetPrepared
Public Safety Canada’s GetPrepared guidance has asked households for a kit for at least 72 hours for years. It is ordinary storm-and-outage readiness — not a blackout order.
One calm step today: note how many litres of water you already have, then fill the gap at your next shop using the 4 L rule below. Prairie winter? See Forty Below.
Official advice
- Emergency kits — Canada.ca / GetPrepared
- Emergency kit checklist — Canada.ca
- Build an emergency kit — Calgary (municipal corroboration of the 4 L figure)
Water
About 4 litres per person per day for drinking, cooking, and sanitation — GetPrepared kit materials. Metric units throughout.
Emergency number
911 for police, fire, and ambulance emergencies across Canada.
Outage maps (major utilities)
- ENMAX outages · ENMAX outage map (Calgary area)
- EPCOR outages (Edmonton and other EPCOR areas)
- ATCO power outage map
- Hydro One outages (Ontario)
- Hydro-Québec Info-outages
- BC Hydro power outages · outage map
- SaskPower outages
- Manitoba Hydro outages
- Nova Scotia Power outages
Always confirm with your local utility if it is not listed.
Forty Below (prairie)
Calgary / prairie winter add-ons: block heater tool, 511 Alberta, and cold-weather kit notes.
Open Forty BelowShopping note
Kit items are often bought at Amazon.ca or a local retailer. Affiliate tags are not wired on this draft — plain text only.
Spelling / units
Canadian English (colour, metre). “Flashlight” is common in Canadian usage alongside “torch.” Metric first.
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