NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Defunct Canadian Companies

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Agricore United TSX: AU.LV is a farmer-directed agri-business in Canada. ... Bre-X logo Bre-X Minerals Ltd. ... This article or section should be merged with Bricklin SV-1 The Bricklin automobile was a futuristic gull-wing sports car with a unique acrylic body produced in 1973 and 1975 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. ... The Bytown and Prescott Railway was a railway built to join Prescott, Ontario, on the Saint Lawrence River, with Ottawa, Ontario, then called Bytown, on the Ottawa and Rideau rivers. ... For other meanings of CPR, see CPR (disambiguation). ... Solectron headquarters in Milpitas Solectron NASDAQ: SLR, pioneered the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) category in 1977 and continues to lead the industry with ongoing innovation and expansion of services to meet the growing business complexities of its partners, original equipment manufacturerâ€™s (OEMs). ... Carling OKeefe originated as Canadian Breweries Limited which was the first brewing conglomerate in Canada. ... Molson Canada is Canadas oldest brewery. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Indigo Books store at the Toronto Eaton Centre Indigo Books & Music, Inc. ... Cineplex Odeon Corporation was one of North Americas largest movie theatre operators, with theatres in its home country of Canada and the United States. ... Loews Theatres, founded in 1904 by Marcus Loew, is the oldest theatre chain still operating in North America today. ... Consumers Distributing was a catalogue store in Canada that operated from 1957 to 1996. ... CTV is a TLA that may stand for: CTV Television Network - a Canadian English language television network Channel Television - the main television broadcaster in the Channel Islands Chukyo TV. Broadcasting - a Japanese TV station in Nagoya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... Bell Globemedia Inc. ... The Baton Broadcasting System (BBS) was a Canadian system of television stations located in Ontario and Saskatchewan. ... Dow Breweries was a Quebec brewing company. ... Dylex Limited was one of Canadas largest retailers, involved in the operation of specialty retail stores, such as womens wear, meanswear, and family stores. ... The E.B. Eddy Company was originally incorporated in 1886 as The E. B. Eddy Manufacturing Company with Ezra Butler Eddy as its president. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Future Shop is a Canadian electronics retailer. ... For the defunct chain of catalog showrooms see: Best Products. ... Categories: Companies traded on NYSE | Corporation stubs | Oil companies of the United States | Fortune 500 companies | Companies based in Texas ... Ynglis or Inglis is a name for the Anglian language of the historic Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria whose territory is divided now between England and Scotland. ... Jetsgo (IATA: SG, ICAO: JGO, and Callsign: Jetsgo) was a Canadian low-cost carrier based in Montreal, which served 19 destinations across Canada, 10 destinations in the United States, and 12 scheduled weekend-charter destinations in the Caribbean. ... PetroKazakhstan is a Canadian oil company, based in Calgary, that has much of its business focused on Kazakhstan where it has some 550 million barrels of reserves in the Turgai basin region. ... RadioShack Corporation (formerly Radio Shack) (NYSE: RSH) runs a chain of electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe. ... The Seagram Company Ltd. ... Terra Transport (TT) was the name for the Newfoundland Transportation Division, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian National Railway (CN), created in 1977 as a means to organize the companys operations on the island of Newfoundland. ... The Union Bank of Halifax was granted a charter by the government of Canada in 1856 and established its head office at the corner of Hollis and Prince Streets in the port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. ... The Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RY, NYSE: RY) is Canadas largest chartered bank. ... Agricore United TSX: AU.LV is a farmer-directed agri-business in Canada. ... Vidéotron Limited is an integrated communications company active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand and Internet access services, serving Quebec, Canada. ... Quebecor (written without an accent on the first e, even in French) is a Quebec-based company with two main spheres of activity: Quebecor World is the largest commercial printing company in the world, with 39 000 employees around the world. ... Corporate Headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina Duke Energy NYSE: DUK, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an energy company with assets in the United States (primarily North and South Carolina), Canada and Latin America. ... The Woodwards building in Vancouver as of June 2005 Woodwards was a pioneering department store in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. ... The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Airlines & Aerospace

Avro 504K. Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer, well known for planes such as the Avro Lancaster which served in World War II. One of the worlds first aircraft builders, A.V.Roe and Company was established at Brownsfield Mills, Manchester, England by Alliot Verdon Roe and his brother... Avro Arrow The A.V.Roe CF-105 Arrow was a delta-wing interceptor aircraft, designed and built in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Avro Canada during a short period of time in the 1950s. ... Canadian Airlines International Ltd. ... Air Canada Boeing 767-300ER landing at London Heathrow Airport, England. ... Wardair airplane at takeoff Wardair Canada (IATA: WD, ICAO: WDA, and Callsign: Wardair) was one of Canadas first discount airlines, founded by Max Ward in 1952 under the name Wardair Ltd. ... Canadian Airlines International Ltd. ...

Banking, Finance & Insurance

CT Financial Services Inc was a financial services holding company that had its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario and operated in United States, CT Financial operated as First Federal Savings and Loan Association. ... The Toronto-Dominion Bank TSX: TD NYSE: TD TYO: 8640 is the second largest Canadian bank with over 52,000 employees in offices around the world. ... Eastern Townships Bank was founded in 1859 by Colonel Benjamin Pomroy. ... The Maritime Life Assurance Company was a Canadian insurance company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ... Manulife Financial (TSX: MFC NYSE: MFC SEHK: 945 PSE: MFC)is a Canadian insurance company. ...

Computer Hardware & Software

ATI may stand for: ATI Technologies Inc. ... Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ... Alias Systems Corporation (formerly Alias|Wavefront), headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a software company that produces high-end 3D graphics software. ... Watcom International Corporation was founded in 1981 from the research of the Computer Systems Group at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ... Sybase Inc. ...

Consumer Retail including Grocery

This page may meet Wikipediaâ€™s criteria for speedy deletion. ... Dylex Limited was one of Canadas largest retailers, involved in the operation of specialty retail stores, such as womens wear, meanswear, and family stores. ... Eatons was once Canadas largest department store retailer. ... Sears Canada Inc. ... Knob Hill Farms was a supermarket chain in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. ... The Kmart Corporation (NYSE: KMRT), based in Troy, Michigan, near Detroit, functions as a global retailer, based primarily in the United States of America. ... According to many religions, a miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning something wonderful, is a striking interposition of divine intervention by God in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of Nature is overruled, suspended, or modified. ... Morgans, a Montreal-based department store, which at its peak had stores in Quebec and Ontario was opened in 1845. ... RadioShack Corporation (formerly Radio Shack) (NYSE: RSH) runs a chain of electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe. ... The Simpsons. ... Towers was a Canadian discount retail chain, which actually contained smaller shops within the large store. ...

Food & Beverage

Labatt Brewing Company Ltd. ... InBev (Euronext: INB, NYSE: ABV) is a Belgian brewery company, the worlds largest producer of beer by volume[1] and the second largest alcholic beverage company in the world after British giants Diageo. ...

Mineing and Energy

Railroads, Commuter Rail & Steamship Companies

C D E For other meanings of AC and ACIS, see AC and ACIS (disambiguation) The Algoma Central Railway (AAR reporting marks AC, ACIS) was a railway in Northern Ontario that ran between Sault Ste. ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: CN, cn CN or cn may stand for: Calcineurin (CN) Canadian National Railway (AAR reporting mark CN) and the CN Tower Canadian Northern Railway Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee Cartoon Network Chief of Navy China (Peoples Republic), ISO 3166-1... The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway was a rail company in Canada. ... BC Rail (AAR reporting marks BCOL and BCIT), known as the British Columbia Railway between 1972 and 1984 and as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE; AAR reporting marks PGE and PGER) before 1972, was a railway that operated in the Canadian province of British Columbia between 1912 and 2004. ... The Belt Line Railway was built in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the 1890s by a railway entrepreneur, James David Edgar. ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: CN, cn CN or cn may stand for: Calcineurin (CN) Canadian National Railway (AAR reporting mark CN) and the CN Tower Canadian Northern Railway Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee Cartoon Network Chief of Navy China (Peoples Republic), ISO 3166-1...

E F G Engine 618, Canada Atlantic Railway Credit: William James Topley/Library and Archives Canada/PA-008853 Canada Atlantic Railway Company was a Canadian railway company which operated from 1879 to 1914. ... The Canada Eastern Railway, originally known as the Northern and Western Railway, was a railway line operating in New Brunswick, Canada, running from Newcastle (now part of Miramichi), to Devon (opposite Fredericton). ... Canadian Government Railways (CGR) was the descriptive name used between 1915_1918 for all federal government-owned railways in Canada. ... The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) is a historic Canadian railway. ... The Canadian Northern Pacific Railway was an historic Canadian railway with a main line running between Edmonton, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The Canada Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark CASO) was a railroad in southern Ontario, Canada, founded in 1869. ... The Champlain and St. ... The Columbia and Kootenay Railway was a historic railway in the interior of British Columbia between Nelson on Kootenay Lake and Robson at the confluence of the Kootenay River and the Columbia River near Castlegar operated as part of the Canadian Pacific Railway(CPR). ... CNR might be an acronym or abbreviation for: Canadian National Railway Carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N) Canadian Natural Resources Charles Nelson Reilly China National Radio Communications and Networking Riser Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italian National Research Institution) Linspires Click-N-Run Service C.N.R. Rao, a scientist... The Devco Railway (DVR) ran from Sydney,NS in Cape Breton to Glace Bay,NS also on Cape Breton. ... The Dominion Atlantic Railway (DAR) was a historic Canadian railway which ran in the northwestern part of Nova Scotia, primarily through an agricultural district known as the Annapolis Valley. ...

H I J K The European and North American Railway (E&NA) is the name for three historic Canadian and American railways which were built in New Brunswick and Maine. ... The Grand River Railway was an electric railway which served what is now the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, including the cities of Berlin (later Kitchener), Waterloo, and Galt, and the towns of Preston and Hespeler (the last three of which are now the city of Cambridge). ... Grand Trunk Pacific Railway logo or herald The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR) was a historical Canadian railway. ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: CN, cn CN or cn may stand for: Calcineurin (CN) Canadian National Railway (AAR reporting mark CN) and the CN Tower Canadian Northern Railway Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee Cartoon Network Chief of Navy China (Peoples Republic), ISO 3166-1... This article is about a historic railway which operated in the British colony of Canada West, later the Canadian province of Ontario. ...

M N The Halifax and Southwestern Railway (H&SW) was a historic Canadian railway operating in the province of Nova Scotia. ... The Huntsville and Lake of Bays Transportation Company was a company chartered in 1895 to to operate steamboats on the Lake of Bays, and on the (lower lakes) connecting to Huntsville in the (North) Muskoka Lakes District of Ontario, Canada. ... The Intercolonial Railway of Canada (IRC or ICR), also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway, was a historic Canadian railway. ... The International Railway of Maine was a historic railroad operating between Megantic, Quebec and Mattawamkeag, Maine. ... The Kaslo and Slocan Railway was a narrow gauge railway between Kaslo and the mining community of Sandon in the Kootenay region of British Columbia between 1895 and 1955 totalling about 53 km of track. ... The Kettle Valley Railway (KVR) was a railway running through southern British Columbia up until 1961. ...

O P The Metropolitan Street Railway of Toronto was the one of many operator of horseless streetcars in Toronto. ... The Midland Railway of Canada was a historical Canadian railway which ran from Port Hope, Ontario to Midland on Georgian Bay. ... The Nakusp and Slocan Railway (N&S) was a railway between Nakusp, New Denver, British Columbia and Sandon, British Columbia in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. ... -1... The Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway(N&FS) was a railway in the interior of British Columbia between the city of Nelson and the United States border. ... The New Brunswick Railway (NBR) was a historic Canadian railway operating throughout the western half of the province of New Brunswick. ... Newfoundland Railway logo or herald (used 1926-1949) The Newfoundland Railway was a historic railway that operated on the island of Newfoundland and was the longest narrow gauge railway system in North America. ... The Northern Alberta Railways (AAR reporting mark: NAR) was a Canadian railway which served northern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia. ... The Northern Railway of Canada was a historical Canadian railway located in the province of Ontario. ... This was a portage railway constructed by Ottawa lumberman John Rudolphus Booth in 1884, although its Ontario charter dates from March 1886, after a land claim dispute when Northern & Pacific Junction Railway tried to cross it, (resolved only after) J. R. Booth provided a diamond crossing to allow that railway... The Nova Scotia Railway was incorporated March 31, 1853 to build railway lines from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Pictou, Nova Scotia by way of Truro, Nova Scotia, from Halifax to Victoria Beach (near Digby, Nova Scotia by way of Windsor, Nova Scotia, and from Truro, Nova Scotia to the border...

S T The Ontario and Quebec Railway (O&Q) was a railway that was associated with the Canadian Pacific Railway. ... The Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway was an early railway in central Ontario that ran from Ottawa, Ontario to Parry Sound, Ontario. ... The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company was a local company formed in 1884, by citizens of Parry Sound with the intention of getting a railway line into their isolated community. ... The Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR) was a historic Canadian railway. ...

The Sydney & Louisburg Railway (S&L) is a historic Canadian railway. ... Like the Toronto and York Radial Railway, the Toronto Suburban Railways was an interurban operator with routes outside of Toronto to: Guelph Weston Davenport High Park Woodbridge Began in 1894 as Toronto Suburban Street Railway (merger of City and Suburban Electric Railway Company 1892 and Davenport Street Railway 1892) and... Toronto and Mimico Electric Railway and Light Company was established in November 1890 and ran until 1893 when it was merged into the Toronto Railway Company until 1903. ... Toronto and Scarboro Electric Railway, Light and Power Company was established in August 1892 to provide street railway service beyond the then City of Toronto, Ontario to the Township of Scarborough. ... Toronto and York Radial Railways operator interurban transit services outside of Toronto. ...

External links

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The four Canadian Atlantic provinces. ... This is a list of incorporated cities of Canada in alphabetical order by province. ... This is a list of the extreme communities in Canada. ... The Canadian National Parks system is run by Parks Canada, which also runs Canadas National Historic Sites. ... // [edit] National regions Canadian provinces and territories are normally grouped into the following regions (generally from west to east): Northern Canada (The North) Yukon Northwest Territories Nunavut Western Canada British Columbia Prairies Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Eastern Canada Central Canada Ontario Quebec Atlantic Canada Maritimes New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Nova... The list of rivers in Canada is organized by drainage basin (new format) and province (old format to be removed). ... Banking in Canada is one of the most efficient and safest banking systems in the world. ... The Bank of Canada Building in Ottawa The Bank of Canada is Canadas central bank. ... 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The following is a list of some important Canadian artists and groups of artists: Individuals Ran Andrews, 1956-, painter Robert Bateman, 1930-, painter Emily Carr, 1871-1945, painter Alex Colville, 1920-, painter Ken Danby, 1940-, painter Charles Daudelin, 1920-2001, sculptor and painter Paterson Ewen, 1925-2002, painter Marcelle Ferron... Canadian national holidays (with provincial exceptions): Each province of Canada has its own provincial holiday or holidays. ... Skating on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. ... Canadian literature may be divided into two parts, based on their separate roots: one stems from the culture and literature from France; the other from Britain. ... Canadian music includes pop and folk genres; the latter includes forms derived from England, France (particularly in Quebec), Ireland, Scotland, and various Inuit and Indian ethnic groups. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... 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This is a list of the symbols of Canadian provinces and territories. ... There are many symbols reflecting Canadas status as a constitutional monarchy, including those of the Monarch, or the vice-regal representatives. ... This is a list of well-known Canadians. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

Contents

Defunct companies, including acquired and merged ones

Airlines & Aerospace

Banking, Finance & Insurance

Computer Hardware & Software

Consumer Retail including Grocery

Food & Beverage

Mineing and Energy

Railroads, Commuter Rail & Steamship Companies

External links

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Airlines & Aerospace

Banking, Finance & Insurance

Computer Hardware & Software

Consumer Retail including Grocery

Food & Beverage

Mineing and Energy

Railroads, Commuter Rail & Steamship Companies

External links

Defunct companies, including acquired and merged ones