Licensed list · North America · Canada · CA
Licensed insurance companies in Canada (2026)
VerifiedVerified against the OSFI / provincial register, checked 8 Sept 2026.
The 198 insurance companies licensed in Canada in 2026, as recorded by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (federal); AMF Quebec, FSRA Ontario, BCFSA and other provincial regulators for provincially incorporated insurers (OSFI / provincial), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.
Snapshot
By class of business
Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.
By ownership
“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded
Licensed insurers in Canada
Showing 25 of 198 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.
Regulatory intelligence: Canada
Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.
- Supervisor
- Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (federal); AMF Quebec, FSRA Ontario, BCFSA and other provincial regulators for provincially incorporated insurers OSFI / provincial
- Regime
- Insurance Companies Act (federal); OSFI LICAT and MCT capital tests; provincially incorporated insurers supervised by their province
- Register source
- OSFI 'Who we regulate' open-data CSV, updated 3 Sep 2026 (open.canada.ca)
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · OSFI 'Who we regulate' open-data CSV, updated 3 Sep 2026 (open.canada.ca)
No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.
Governing legislation
- OSFI Act; Insurance Companies Act · Institutional and insurance framework
OSFI supervises federally regulated insurers. Provincial and territorial licensing and conduct requirements also apply; OSFI data are not automatically a complete census of every Canadian insurer.
Verification log
All federally regulated insurers, reinsurer branches, mortgage insurers and fraternals; banks, trusts and loan companies excluded from the same file. OSFI regulates ~200 insurers federally; provincially incorporated insurers (Quebec AMF, Ontario FSRA, BC) are not itemised, among them Desjardins/Beneva, iA, Gore Mutual and most farm mutuals
For B2B teams and AI agents
The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.
curl -s https://north-america.insurers.global/api/v1/countries/canada.json
curl -s https://north-america.insurers.global/api/v1/countries/canada/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://north-america.insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "canada" }, orlist_insurerswithcountry,limitandoffsetfor paged rows. - OpenAPI 3.1: /api/v1/openapi.json · WebMCP: /.well-known/webmcp.json · Guide: /ai/ · llms.txt
- Dataset version
2026-09-08+3f3925fad259; every response carriesversion,verifiedandlicence.