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ACE Aviation Holdings
ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. (TSX: ACE.B) is a Canadian holding company that
provides commercial airline service and technical support and is the parent
company of Air Canada.
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Air Canada
Air Canada (TSX: AC.A, TSX: AC.B) is Canada's largest airline and flag carrier.
The airline, founded in 1936, provides scheduled and charter air transportation
for passengers and cargo to 178 destinations worldwide. Its largest hub is
Toronto Pearson International Airport in Ontario. Its main base is
Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in
Quebec. Air Canada is
the world's 7th largest passenger airline by fleet size, and the airline is a
founding member of Star Alliance, an alliance of 26 member airlines formed in
1997. Air Canada's corporate headquarters are located in the Saint-Laurent area
of
Montreal, Quebec. The airline's parent company is the publicly traded firm
ACE Aviation Holdings. Air Canada had passenger revenues of $9.7 billion (CAD)
in 2008.
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Air Transat
Air Transat A.T. Inc. is an airline based in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, operating
scheduled and charter flights, serving 90 destinations in 25 countries. The
airline is owned and operated by Transat A.T. During the summer season its main
destinations are Europe and in the winter season the Caribbean, Mexico, USA and
South America. It is the designated carrier between Canada and Cuba. Its main
base is Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, with hubs at
Toronto Pearson International Airport and Vancouver International Airport. The
airline also focuses operations at Calgary International Airport and Québec/Jean
Lesage International Airport.
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Bell Canada
Bell Canada, commonly shortened to "Bell", is a major Canadian
telecommunications company. Including its subsidiaries such as Bell Aliant,
Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange
carrier for telephone services in most of Canada east of Manitoba and in the
northern territories, and a leading competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) in
the western provinces. In a majority of its service territory, Bell Canada's
principal competition is Rogers Communications. Bell Canada currently services
over 13 million phone lines. It is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.
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Bombardier Inc.
Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian conglomerate, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier
as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern
Townships, Quebec. Over the years it has been a large manufacturer of regional
aircraft, business jets, mass transportation equipment, recreational equipment
and a financial services provider. Bombardier is a Fortune Global 500
conglomerate company.
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Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (reporting mark CN) (TSX: CNR, NYSE: CNI)
is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.
CN is the largest railway in Canada, in terms of both revenue and the physical
size of its rail network, and is currently Canada's only transcontinental
railway company, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the
Pacific coast in British Columbia. Following CN's purchase of Illinois Central
(IC) and a number of smaller US railways it also has extensive trackage in the
central United States along the Mississippi River valley from the Great Lakes to
the Gulf of Mexico. Today CN owns approximately 20,400 route miles of track in 8
provinces (the only two not served by CN are Newfoundland & Labrador and Prince
Edward Island), as well as a 70 mile stretch of track into the Northwest
Territories to Hay River the southern shore of the Great Slave Lake; it is the
northernmost rail line anywhere within the North American Rail Network, as far
north as Anchorage, Alaska (although the Alaska Railroad goes further north than
this, it is isolated from the rest of the North American network. The railway
was referred to as the Canadian National Railways (CNR) between 1918 and 1960
and as Canadian National/Canadien National (CN) from 1960 to present.
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Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil (English: "Circus of the Sun"), is a Canadian entertainment
company, self-described as a "dramatic mix of circus arts and street
entertainment." Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and located in the inner-city
area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former
street performers, Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier.
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Hydro-Québec
Hydro-Québec is a government-owned public utility established in 1944 by the
Government of Quebec. Based in Montreal, the company is in charge of the
generation, transmission and distribution of electricity across Quebec. With
sixty hydroelectric and one nuclear generating stations, Hydro-Québec is the
largest electricity generator in Canada and one of the world's largest
hydroelectric generating company. The combined capacity of its power stations
was 36,810 megawatts and its distribution network served over 3.96 million
customers in 2009.
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Molson
Molson is the Canadian division of the world's fifth-largest brewing company,
the Molson Coors Brewing Company. It is the second oldest company in Canada
after the Hudson's Bay Company. Molson's first brewery was located on the St.
Lawrence River in Montreal where the Molson family continues to maintain its
headquarters today.
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National Bank of Canada
National Bank of Canada (Banque Nationale du Canada) (TSX: NA) is the 6th
largest bank and 7th largest financial institution in Canada. The bank's
headquarters are in Montreal, Quebec. There are 446 branches, the vast majority
of which are in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick, and 2,35 million personal
clients. The bank also has representative offices or branches in Havana, Hong
Kong, London, Paris, Nassau, New York City, and a subsidiary of 2 branches in
Florida named Natbank.
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Power Corporation of Canada
Power Corporation of Canada (TSX: POW) is a major Canadian company with assets
in North America and Europe in a number of industries. These industries include
media, pulp and paper, and financial services.
The corporation is known for its active participation in Canadian politics
through its relationships and the relationships of the Desmarais family with
prominent politicians of all political stripes.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada
Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC or P&WC) is a Canadian aircraft engine manufacturer.
PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, just outside Montreal. It is a
division of the larger US-based Pratt & Whitney (P&W), itself a business unit of
United Technologies. United Technologies has given PWC a world mandate for
smaller aircraft engines while P&W's US operations develop and manufacture
larger engines.
Although PWC is a division of P&W, it has its own research, development and
marketing as well as the manufacturing of its engines. Since the development of
its famous PT6 turboprop engine in the 1960s, PWC has dominated its sector of
the world market for aircraft engines. The company currently has 10,000
employees worldwide, with 7,000 of them in Canada.
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Rio Tinto Alcan
Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. became the world's largest Aluminium company when Rio Tinto
PLC's Canadian subsidiary, Rio Tinto Canada Holding Inc., completed a friendly
acquisition of Canadian company Alcan Inc. on November 15, 2007. On this date,
Alcan Inc. was renamed Rio Tinto Alcan Inc..
Alcan Inc., at the time of the takeover, had been the world's third largest
aluminium producer, behind its one time parent Alcoa (from which it split in
1928) and Rusal. The 2007 deal that created Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. followed a
failed hostile takeover bid for Alcan by Alcoa.
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Via Rail
Via Rail Canada (generally shortened to Via Rail or Via; styled corporately as
VIA Rail Canada) is an independent crown corporation offering intercity
passenger rail services in Canada. It is headquartered at 3 Place Ville-Marie in
Montreal, Quebec.
Via Rail operates 480 trains in eight Canadian provinces (exceptions are
Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island) over a network of 14,000
kilometres (8,700 mi) of track, almost all of which is owned and operated by CN
Rail. Via carries approximately four million passengers annually, the majority
on routes along the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor.
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