List of defunct Canadian companies
Defunct companies, including acquired and merged ones
Note: many of these companies are still operating under the same name, they are just owned by others.
- Agricore (merged with United Grain Growers Ltd. to form Agricore United)
- Aikenhead's Hardware - Hardware store, acquired by Home Depot
- Bricklin Automobile
- Bytown and Prescott Railway, acquired by Canadian Pacific Railway
- C-Mac Industries, acquired by Solectron
- Carling O'Keefe brewery, acquired by Molson
- Chapters, acquired by Indigo Books and Music
- Cineplex Odeon, acquired by Loews Theatres
- Consumers Distributing - Catalogue Retail store Chain
- CTV (Canadian Television), acquired by Bell Globemedia (formerly Baton Broadcasting, et al.)
- Diemaco Canadian firearm and defense company. Acquired by Colt's Manufacturing Company
- Dow Breweries
- Dylex, acquired by Hardof Wolf Group
- E. B. Eddy Company, acquired by Domtar
- Franklins - Grocery Store Chain in Southern Ontario
- Future Shop, acquired by Best Buy
- John Inglis and Company - Kitchen Appliance Maker
- Jetsgo
- Job Brothers & Co., Limited
- McLaughlin Motor Car Co. - merged with General Motors
- Nova Scotia Light and Power Company, Limited - acquired by the Province of Nova Scotia; assets leased to Nova Scotia Power Corporation
- Ontario Malleable Iron Company - iron foundry
- PetroKazakhstan-acquired by China National Petroleum Corporation
- Polymer Corporation - sold to NOVA Corp and then Bayer AG
- Radio Shack (Canadian Division) - Electronic Store
- Seagram (spirits & wine)
- Terra Transport
- Union Bank of Halifax (now part of the Royal Bank of Canada)
- United Grain Growers Ltd. (merged with Agricore to form Agricore United)
- Valdi - Discount Grocery Store Chain
- Vidéotron (cable; now owned by Quebecor)
- White Rose Home and Garden Centre, merged with Michael's
- Woodward's, acquired by Hudson's Bay Company
- Woolco (Canadian Division) - Department Store Chain, acquired by Wal-Mart Canada
- Target Canada - Closed because of a $2.1 billion loss for Target Corporation
Aerospace
- Avro Canada - airplace manufacturer, maker of the Avro Arrow
- Canadair, acquired by Bombardier
- de Havilland Canada, acquired by Boeing and a few years later acquired by Bombardier
- Spar Aerospace, split up and acquired by MacDonald Dettwiler, L-3 Communications and Bombardier
Airlines
- Air Atlantic
- Air BC, merged with Air Canada Jazz
- Air Dawson
- Air Ontario, merged with Air Canada Jazz
- AllCanada Express
- Austin Airways, acquired by Air Ontario
- Canadian Airlines, acquired by Air Canada
- Canadian Pacific Airlines, acquired by Canadian Airlines
- Canadian Regional Airlines, merged with Air Canada Jazz
- Canada 3000 (folded, discount airline)
- Eastern Provincial Airways, acquired by Canadian Pacific Airlines
- Globemaster Air Cargo
- Great Lakes Airlines (Canada), acquired by Air Ontario
- Greyhound Air
- Harmony Airways
- Inter-Canadien
- Jetsgo
- Lamb Air
- Maestro
- Nolisair
- NorOntair
- North Canada Air, acquired by Time Air
- Pacific Western Airlines
- Peace Air
- Quebecair Express
- Queen Charlotte Airlines, acquired by Pacific Western Airlines
- QuikAir
- Roots Air
- Royal Aviation, acquired by Canada 3000
- Sonicblue Airways
- Southern Frontier Airlines, acquired by Time Air
- Time Air, acquired by Air Canada Jazz
- Trans-Provincial Airlines, acquired by Harbour Air
- Triton Airlines
- Val Air
- Vision Airways Corporation
- Vistajet
- WardAir, acquired by Canadian Airlines
- Winnport
- World-Wide Airways
- Zip, merged with Air Canada
- Zoom Airlines
Banking, finance and insurance
- Bank of British Columbia (1862), acquired by Canadian Commercial Bank
- Bank of British Columbia (1978), acquired by HSBC Bank Canada
- Bank of British North America, acquired by Bank of Montreal
- Bank of Hamilton, acquired by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
- Bank of New Brunswick, acquired by Bank of Nova Scotia
- Bank of Upper Canada
- Canadian Commercial Bank
- Canada Trust, acquired by Toronto-Dominion Bank
- City Bank
- Consolidated Bank of Canada
- Continental Bank of Canada, acquired by Lloyds Bank of Canada
- Crown Life, acquired by London LIfe
- Home Bank
- Lloyds Bank of Canada, acquired by HSBC Bank Canada
- Maritime Life, acquired by Manulife Financial
Computer hardware and software
- ATI Technologies - Bought out by AMD
- AliasWavefront - Developers of industry leading Maya 3D software. In 2006 it was bought out by Autodesk Inc.
- Ferranti-Packard - Early mainframe systems
- I. P. Sharp Associates - time share company
- Watcom International Corporation, acquired by Sybase
Consumer retail including grocery
- Bargain Harold's - discount store chain (defunct sometime in the early 1990s)
- Beaver Lumber - hardware/lumber store chain (Acquired by Home Hardware)
- Braemars - clothing store chain
- Bi-Way - discount store chain
- Eaton's, bankrupt, assets acquired by Sears Canada
- K-Mart Canada, subsidiary of US chain, some assets acquired by Zellers
- Knob Hill Farms - grocery store chain
- Kresge (Canadian Division) - discount store chain
- Miracle Food Mart - grocery store chain
- Morgan's - department store chain
- RadioShack Canada
- Simpsons - department store chain
- Steinberg's - grocery store chain
- Target Canada - closing all stores 2015
- Titan Warehouse - membership store chain
- Towers - department store chain
- Toy City - toy store chain
- Zellers - Discount department store, stores bought out by Target Corporation and converted into Target Canada stores
Food and beverage
- Labatt's (now owned by Belgian brewer InBev)
- Mitchell's Gourmet Foods, acquired by Maple Leaf Foods
Mining and energy
- Anderson Exploration, acquired by Devon Energy
- Bre-X (gold mining company, collapsed in fraud)
- Canadian Hunter Exploration
- Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited, uranium mining, acquired by Cameco
- Gulf Canada Resources, acquired by Conoco
- Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co., mining
- Teck Cominco, mining
- Westcoast Energy, acquired by Duke Energy
Railways, commuter rail and steamship companies
A B
- Algoma Central Railway, acquired by Canadian National Railways (CN)
- Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway
- BC Rail - Now part of CN
- Belt Line Railway, acquired by CN
C D E
- Canada Atlantic Railway
- Canada Eastern Railway
- Canadian Government Railways
- Canadian Northern Railway
- Canadian Northern Pacific Railway
- Canada Southern Railway
- Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad
- Columbia and Kootenay Railway
- CNR - Acquired by US owner
- Devco Railway
- Dominion Atlantic Railway
E F G
- European and North American Railway
- Grand River Railway, acquired by Canadian Pacific
- Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, acqyured by CN
- Great Western Railway (Ontario)
H I J K
- Halifax and Southwestern Railway
- Huntsville and Lake of Bays Transportation Company (steamship and railway)
- Intercolonial Railway of Canada
- International Railway (Canada)
- Kaslo and Slocan Railway
- Kettle Valley Railway
M N
- Metropolitan Street Railway of Toronto
- Midland Railway of Canada
- Nakusp and Slocan Railway
- National Transcontinental Railway
- Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway
- New Brunswick Railway
- Newfoundland Railway
- Northern Alberta Railways
- Northern Railway of Canada
- Nosbonsing and Nipissing Railway
- Nova Scotia Railway
O P
- Ontario and Quebec Railway
- Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway
- Parry Sound Colonization Railway
- Prince Edward Island Railway
S T
- Sydney and Louisburg Railway
- Toronto Suburban Railway
- Toronto and Mimico Electric Railway and Light Company
- Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, Light and Power Company
- Toronto and York Radial Railway
Telecomunication companies
- Nortel, Established in 1895 and in 2000 accounted for more than a third of the total valuation of all the companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)
See also
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