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

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

References

Nexans North America, formerly Canada Wire & Cable, celebrates 100th anniversary 9 February 2011^
Michael McLarney. Hardlines Volume vi, #1 2000-01-10, retrieved 2019-06-06^
Marks & Spencer closing Canadian stores CBC News, 1999-04-28, retrieved 2019-06-06

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A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993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 (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

List of defunct Canadian companies

Defunct companies (including acquired and merged)

Aerospace

Airlines

See also

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