List of defunct Canadian companies

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This is a list of defunct Canadian companies.

Defunct companies (including acquired and merged)[edit]

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

Aerospace[edit]

Airlines[edit]

Banking, finance and insurance[edit]

Biotech, medical[edit]

Computer hardware and software[edit]

Consumer retail, including grocery[edit]

  • 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  • A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993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 (Canadian division) – discount store chain
  • Lumberland Building Materials (BC-based store founded in Surrey; it merged with Revy Home Centres in 1997,[2] which then was acquired by Rona in 2001)
  • 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[3]
  • Miracle Mart – discount store owned by the Steinberg family
  • Miracle Food Mart – grocery store chain
  • Morgan's – department store chain
  • Pascal – bankrupt in 1991 (Hardware Stores) – 1994 (furniture stores) – 2008 (Pascal Hotel Supplies)
  • RadioShack Canada – renamed The Source by Circuit City in 2005
  • Revelstoke Home Centres Ltd. (aka Revy's or Revy Home Centres; owned by the West Fraser Timber Company, this was a major home improvement retailer headquartered in Revelstoke, BC; merged with Rona in 2001[4])
  • 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 (AKA Simpson's Sears and Sears Roebuck)
  • 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[edit]

Mining and energy[edit]

Railways, commuter rail and steamship companies[edit]

A-B[edit]

C-E[edit]

E-G[edit]

H-K[edit]

M-N[edit]

O-P[edit]

S-T[edit]

Telecommunications companies[edit]

  • 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 (TSX)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Nexans North America, formerly Canada Wire & Cable, celebrates 100th anniversary". 9 February 2011.
  2. ^ McLarney, Michael (2000-01-10). "Hardlines Volume vi, #1". Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  3. ^ "Marks & Spencer closing Canadian stores". CBC News. 1999-04-28. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  4. ^ Kennedy, Peter (2001-05-15). "Home renovation chains merge". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
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