List of defunct Canadian companies

This is a 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.

Aerospace

Airlines

Banking, finance and insurance

Computer hardware and software

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  • A&A Records - founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993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
  • Bargain Harold's - discount store chain; defunct sometime in the early 1990s
  • Bata Shoes - shoe retailer and manufacturer
  • Beaver Lumber - hardware/lumber store chain; acquired by Home Hardware
  • Big Lots Canada
  • Braemars - clothing store chain
  • Compucentre/CompuSmart - Computer and electronics store, started in 1976 by Harry Hart, chairman and CEO of HartCo LP.
  • Dalmy's - clothing store
  • 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
  • Hans Christian Andersons - toy store chain
  • 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 Steinburg 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])
  • Rumpus - toy store
  • 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
  • Titan Warehouse - membership store chain
  • Towers - department store chain
  • Toy City - toy store chain
  • Tops and Toys - toy store chain
  • Woodward's - department store chain
  • Zellers - discount department store; store properties bought out by Target Corporation and most converted into Target Canada stores

Food and beverage

Mining and energy

Railways, commuter rail and steamship companies

A-B

C-E

E-G

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 (TSX)

See also

References
  1. McLarney, Michael (2000-01-10). "Hardlines Volume vi, #1". Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  2. "Marks & Spencer closing Canadian stores". CBC News. 1999-04-28. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  3. Kennedy, Peter (2001-05-15). "Home renovation chains merge". Retrieved 2019-06-06.
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