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• Abitibi Power and Paper Company - now forms part of Abitibi-Consolidated
• 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
• 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 - 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
• 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
• 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) - 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
• Vidotron - cable; now owned by Quebecor
• Woodward's - acquired by Hudson's Bay Company
• Woolco (Canadian division) - department store chain; acquired by Wal-Mart Canada
• Zellers (Canadian division) - department store chain; acquired by now defunct chain Target Canada

Aerospace[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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
• 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[edit]

• Bank of America Canada - subsidiary of the United States-based bank chain Bank of America
• 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
• 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

Computer hardware and software[edit]

• 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[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,^[1] 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^[2]
• 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^[3])
• 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 1970's.
• 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]

• Mitchell's Gourmet Foods - acquired by Maple Leaf Foods
• Mother's Pizza (Chain is in the process of being revived)

Mining and energy[edit]

• 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 (1988)
• Gulf Canada Resources - acquired by Conoco
• Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co. - mining
• Lightstream Resources Ltd. - oil and gas (dissolved under corporate legislation)
• Noranda - mining, merged with Falconbridge Ltd. (2005)
• Saskatchewan Mining Development Corporation (SMDC) - uranium mining, merged with Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited to form Cameco (1988)
• Teck Cominco - mining
• Westcoast Energy - acquired by Duke Energy

Railways, commuter rail and steamship companies[edit]

A-B

• Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway
• Algoma Central Railway - acquired by Canadian National Railways (CN)
• BC Rail - now part of CN
• Belt Line Railway - acquired by CN

C-E

• Canada Atlantic Railway
• Canada Eastern Railway
• Canada Southern Railway
• Canadian Government Railways
• Canadian Northern Pacific Railway
• Canadian Northern Railway
• Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad
• Columbia and Kootenay Railway
• Devco Railway
• Dominion Atlantic Railway

E-G

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

H-K

• Halifax and Southwestern Railway
• Huntsville and Lake of Bays Transportation Company - steamship and railway
• Intercolonial Railway of Canada
• International Railway
• 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
• Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway
• Prince Edward Island Railway

S-T

• Sydney and Louisburg Railway
• Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway
• Toronto and Mimico Electric Railway and Light Company
• Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, Light and Power Company
• Toronto and York Radial Railway
• Toronto Suburban Railway

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)