This is a list of trolley bus systems in Canada by province. It includes all trolley bus systems, past and present. Use of boldface for a city name and color highlighting indicates systems that still exist; in the case of Canada, there is only one such system, that of Vancouver.
Name of system (current or last) | Location | Date (from) | Date (to) | Notes |
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Calgary Transit System | Calgary | 1 June 1947 [1] | 8 March 1975 [1] | |
Edmonton Transit System[fn 1] | Edmonton | 24 September 1939 [1] | 2 May 2009 [2] | See also Trolley buses in Edmonton. |
Name of system (current or last) | Location | Date (from) | Date (to) | Notes |
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TransLink[fn 2] | Vancouver | 16 August 1948 [1] | Also a demonstration, 5–14 December 1945. See also Trolley buses in Vancouver. |
Note: There was also a demonstration trolley bus line in Victoria in 1945,[3] operated by the British Columbia Electric Railway, from 19 to 30 November 1945.[citation needed]
Name of system (current or last) | Location | Date (from) | Date (to) | Notes |
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Metro Transit[fn 3] | Winnipeg | 21 November 1938 [1] | 30 October 1970 [1] |
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Nova Scotia Light and Power Company, Limited |
Halifax | 27 March 1949 [1] | 31 December 1969 [1] |
Name of system | Location | Date (from) | Date (to) | Notes |
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Cornwall Street Railway, Light and Power Company, Limited | Cornwall | 8 June 1949 [1] | 31 May 1970 [1] | |
Fort William Transit Company | Fort William | 15 December 1947 [1] | 1970 | see Thunder Bay. |
Hamilton Street Railway | Hamilton | 10 December 1950 [1] | 30 December 1992 [1] | |
Kitchener Public Utilities Commission | Kitchener | 1 January 1947 [1] | 26 March 1973 [1] | |
Ottawa Transportation Commission | Ottawa | 15 December 1951 [1] | 27 June 1959 | |
Port Arthur Transit | Port Arthur | 15 December 1947 [1] | 1970 | see Thunder Bay. |
Thunder Bay Transit | Thunder Bay | 15 December 1947 [1] | 16 July 1972 [1] | Fort William and Port Arthur merged to form Thunder Bay from 31 December 1969. |
Toronto Transit Commission bus system Toronto Transit Commission[fn 4] |
Toronto | 18 June 1922 [1]
19 June 1947 [1] |
31 August 1925 [1]
16 July 1993 [4] |
Service suspended 19 Jan. to 4 Sep. 1992.[5] Final closure on 16 July 1993 (the very early hours of 17 July).[4] |
Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway Company | Windsor | 5 May 1922 [1] | November 1926 (?)[6] |
Name of system | Location | Date (from) | Date (to) | Notes |
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Montreal Tramways Company | Montreal | 29 March 1937 [1] | 18 June 1966 [1] | Montreal Tramways Company succeeded by the Montreal Transit Commission, 1951 |
Name of system | Location | Date (from) | Date (to) | Notes |
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Regina Municipal Railway Regina Transit System |
Regina | 4 September 1947 [1] | 28 February 1966 [1] | |
Saskatoon Transit System | Saskatoon | 22 November 1948 [1] | 13 May 1974 [1] |