The Canadian dealer groupsdatabase, including the cross-border ones
Filter the 1,432 groups we track down to the ones operating in Canada, province by province. Rooftop count, franchise footprint, combined inventory and operating geography are free to read before you spend 5 credits on the full rollup.
How do I find Canadian dealer groups?
Filter on operating_country for CA, then narrow by province with operating_state. Both columns are rolled up from a group's member rooftops, which matters more in Canada than anywhere else in our coverage: a group that runs stores in Ontario and in Michigan appears under both countries, so it is never filed away as American and lost. That is the gap this page exists to close for a US vendor expanding north, who usually inherits a list built from a single head-office country field and never sees the operators that straddle the border. Ownership in Canada is also concentrated enough that a provincial territory can be a handful of accounts rather than a hundred cold calls. Reading a Canadian group costs nothing up front - name, rooftop count, franchises carried across the portfolio, combined inventory, and the provinces it operates in are all free - and 5 credits unlocks the headcounts, HQ detail, average tenure, provider mix and the member-rooftop roster.
Border-straddling groups stay visible
operating_countries is a list, not a single value, so an operator with rooftops in both countries is returned by a Canadian filter and an American one. A vendor list keyed on one head-office country drops exactly those companies, and they are usually the largest ones in the market.
A market worth its own targeting
CADA reports that Canada's franchised new-car dealerships employ more than 160,000 people and generate over $28 billion in GDP. That is a distinct retail economy with its own OEM mix and its own group structure, not a rounding error to be handled by a US territory plan.
Province-level footprint, before you buy
Canada holds 3,601 dealership rooftops in our coverage, and each one lifts its province into its parent group's operating list. You can tell a single-province operator from one running Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia while the record is still free. That decides whether the account belongs to one rep or to a national team.
Same wallet, same price, no regional surcharge
A Canadian group costs 5 credits, exactly what a US one costs, out of the same shared credit balance. There is no separate Canadian plan, no minimum, and no annual contract to sign before you can look at the market.
Provinces that appear in group operating geography
Compliance & sourcing
CASL governs Canadian commercial email and runs on consent rather than opt-out, which makes it stricter than the US baseline. It does not reach a dealer group record directly: that record is firmographic, its people fields are counts, and it contains no names or addresses to send anything to. CASL becomes your problem at the join, when you take a group roster into the Contacts product and start writing to individuals - so review the sequence, not the rollup. Our side: Canadian coverage is built as a first-class market rather than bolted onto a US product, and group data is licensed for your own use under our terms of service, not sold and not for resale.
Industry context
Independent research on this segment, from the primary sources. We don't publish these figures — we read them off the publisher's own page, and last checked every one on .
Canadian Automobile Dealers Association · 2024 edition
CADA Data Report: Annual Profile of Canada's Franchised New-Car Dealerships
Canada's franchised new-car dealerships employ more than 160,000 people and generate over $28 billion in GDP and $6.3 billion in tax revenue.
Built with Statistics Canada, Canadian Black Book, J.D. Power, DesRosiers and MNP.
Read it at Canadian Automobile Dealers AssociationKerrigan Advisors · Q1 2026
Blue Sky Report — buy/sell market data
The dealership buy/sell market completed 478 transactions in the twelve months ending March 2026 — a record, and 114% above the pre-pandemic norm — with Q1 franchise sales up 21% year over year.
Read it at Kerrigan Advisors
Frequently asked questions
How do I filter dealer groups to Canada?
Set operating_country to CA, and add operating_state for a specific province. Both fields are rolled up from the group's member rooftops, so the filter returns every group that operates at least one Canadian store - including operators headquartered in the United States that also run rooftops in Canada.
Are Canadian dealer groups covered as deeply as US ones?
Yes. Canadian groups carry the same columns as American ones - rooftop count, combined inventory, franchise footprint, operating geography, employee and decision-maker counts, HQ headcounts, average years in business and provider mix - and cost the same 5 credits. Canada is built as a first-class market rather than as a region field on a US dataset.
Does a group record include contacts at Canadian dealerships?
No. Group records are firmographic rollups with no person-level data in them at all. To reach people, buy the group, take its member-rooftop names from the roster, and filter the Contacts product to those dealerships, where Canadian records are built CASL-aware.
What does Canadian dealer group data cost?
5 credits per group, the same as anywhere else in the product, from one shared credit balance. Plans start at $99/month for 150 credits and a $0.99 trial gets you 20 credits, which is four groups. Credits roll over and never expire.
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