List of defunct Canadian companies

This is a list of defunct Canadian companies.

Defunct companies (including acquired and merged)

Note: many of these companies are still operating under the same name; they are just owned by others.

Abitibi Power and Paper Company – part of Abitibi-Consolidated, now part of Resolute Forest Products
Agricore – merged with United Grain Growers Ltd. to form Agricore United
Aikenhead's Hardware – hardware store, acquired by Home Depot
AMC Theatres Canada – some locations acquired by Cineplex Entertainment, others closed
Bricklin Automobile
Bytown and Prescott Railway – acquired by Canadian Pacific Railway
Canada Wire and Cable – manufacturer, acquired by Alcatel
Carling O'Keefe – brewery, acquired by Molson
Chapters – acquired by Indigo Books and Music
China Wind Power – dissolved
Cineplex Odeon – acquired by Loews Theatres
Consumers Distributing – catalogue retail store chain
CTV – acquired by Bell Globemedia; formerly Baton Broadcasting, et al
Diemaco – 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
Eaton's – Department store chain – bankrupt in 1999
Future Shop – acquired by Best Buy
Honest Ed's – a discount retail store
Jetsgo
Job Brothers & Co., Limited
John Inglis and Company – kitchen appliance maker
McLaughlin Motor Car Co. – merged with General Motors
Noranda – merged with Falconbridge
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 – electronics store
Seagram – spirits and wine
Target Canada – closed because of a $2.1 billion loss for Target Corporation
Terra Transport
Towers Department Stores – department store chain; acquired by Zellers
Union Bank of Halifax – now part of the Royal Bank of Canada
United Grain Growers Ltd. – merged with Agricore to form Agricore United
Vidéotron – cable; now owned by Quebecor
Woodward's – acquired by Hudson's Bay Company
Woolco – department store chain; acquired by Wal-Mart Canada
Zellers – department store chain; acquired by now defunct chain Target Canada

Aerospace

Avro Canada – airplane manufacturer, maker of the Avro Arrow and the Avro Aerocar.
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 Ontario – merged with Air Canada Jazz
AllCanada Express
Austin Airways – acquired by Air Ontario
Canada 3000 – folded, discount airline
Canadian Airlines – acquired by Air Canada
Canadian Pacific Airlines – acquired by Canadian Airlines
Canadian Regional Airlines – merged with Air Canada Jazz
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
Lynx Air
Maestro
Nationair
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 America Canada – subsidiary of the United States-based bank chain Bank of America
Bank of British Columbia – acquired by Canadian Commercial Bank
Bank of British Columbia – 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
Canada Trust – acquired by Toronto-Dominion Bank
Canadian Commercial Bank
City Bank
Consolidated Bank of Canada
Continental Bank of Canada – acquired by Lloyds Bank of Canada
Home Bank of Canada – failed in 1923
Lloyds Bank of Canada – acquired by HSBC Bank Canada
Maritime Life – acquired by Manulife Financial
Royal Trust – acquired by Royal Bank of Canada

Biotech, medical

DVS Sciences – acquired by Fluidigm and changed their name to Standard BioTools

Computer hardware and software

AliasWavefront – developers of industry leading Maya 3D software; in 2006 it was bought out by Autodesk Inc.
ATI Technologies – bought out by AMD
Ferranti-Packard – early mainframe systems
HCR Corporation – early Unix company, acquired by Santa Cruz Operation, later closed
I. P. Sharp Associates – time share company
Imanet – international trade software
Sitebrand – online marketing company
Watcom International Corporation – acquired by Sybase

Consumer retail, including grocery

Aeropostale Canada – subsidiary of the United States-based retailer Aeropostale, closed all 41 stores in Canada in 2016
A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993
A&B Sound – home electronics retailer based in Richmond, BC; founded in 1959, it had expanded as far as Winnipeg, Manitoba by 2000, but its subsequent decline saw the company go bankrupt by 2008
Bata Shoes – shoe retailer and manufacturer
Beaver Lumber – hardware/lumber store chain; acquired by Home Hardware
Big Lots Canada
Dominion – grocery store chain
Bi-Way – discount store chain
Eaton's – bankrupt, assets acquired by Sears Canada
Express – subsidiary of the United States-based clothing retailer Express, closed all 17 stores in Canada in 2017
Food City – grocery store chain
Granada TV Rental- electronic consumer goods retail rental outlets
Hard Rock Cafe -all Canadian Cafe locations closed by 2017 but Hard Rock Casino still exist in Coquitlam, BC, Vancouver, BC, and a new location is set to open in Ottawa in 2021 Hard Rock Cafe still has a location in Niagara Falls, Ontario in Canada.
HMV Canada – entertainment media chain owned by Hilco; originally a subsidiary of England-based retailer HMV; closed all stores in April 2017, the majority of locations became Sunrise Records
Kmart Canada – subsidiary of US chain, some assets acquired by Zellers
Knob Hill Farms – grocery store chain
Kresge – discount store chain
Lumberland Building Materials
LW Stores – discount store chain; acquired by Big Lots in 2010 and closed all stores in 2014
Marks & Spencer – major British retailer; had operated in Canada since 1973; closed all Canadian operations by 1999
Miracle Mart – discount store owned by the Steinberg family
Miracle Food Mart – grocery store chain
Morgan's – department store chain
Pascal – bankrupt in 1991 – 1994 – 2008
RadioShack Canada – renamed The Source by Circuit City in 2005
Revelstoke Home Centres Ltd.
Sam The Record Man – record/entertainment media stores
Sam's Club Canada – warehouse store chain and the subsidiary of Walmart Canada; closed in 2009
Sears Canada – department store chain and the Canadian subsidiary of the American-based Sears, all stores closed in January 2018
Shoprite Catalogue order store, went bankrupt in 1970s.
Simpsons – department store chain
Steinberg's – grocery store chain
Target Canada – Canadian subsidiary of the American-based department store chain Target Corporation, closed all stores in 2015
Thrifty's – denim/clothing store
Towers – department store chain
Toy City – a toy store chain, a subsidiary of Consumers Distributing
Woodward's – department store chain
Woolco – discount department store, acquired by Wal-Mart providing an expansion route into the Canadian market
Zellers – discount department store; store properties bought by Target Corporation and most converted into Target Canada stores

Food and beverage

Mitchell's Gourmet Foods – acquired by Maple Leaf Foods
Mother's Pizza

Mining and energy

Bre-X – gold mining company, collapsed in fraud
Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation
Eldorado Resources – uranium mining, merged with Saskatchewan Mining Development Corporation to form Cameco
Gulf Canada Resources – acquired by Conoco
Lightstream Resources Ltd. – oil and gas
Noranda – mining, merged with Falconbridge Ltd.
Saskatchewan Mining Development Corporation – uranium mining, merged with Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited to form Cameco
Teck Cominco – mining
Westcoast Energy – acquired by Duke Energy
West Kootenay Power & Light – acquired by Fortis Inc

Railways, commuter rail and steamship companies

A-B

Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway
Algoma Central Railway – acquired by Canadian National Railways
BC Rail – now part of CN
Belt Line Railway – acquired by CN

C-E

E-G

European and North American Railway
Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway -acquired by Canadian Pacific Railway
Grand River Railway – acquired by Canadian Pacific
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway – acquired by CN
Great Western Railway

H-K

M-N

O-P

S-T

Telecommunications companies

Nortel – established in 1895; in 2000 accounted for more than a third of the total valuation of all the companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange