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Top 25 Publishing companies based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 339 publishing companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 4,103 professional contacts across them, including 762 with verified work emails and 470 with mobile numbers. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers publishing companies headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026.
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The 25 largest publishing companies based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indirect evidence | 595 contacts → | |||
“Harlequin is one of the world's leading publishers of books for women.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Indirect evidence | 288 contacts → | |||
“Penguin Random House Canada, the country’s largest book publisher, aims to nourish a universal passion for reading by connecting authors and their writing with readers everywhere.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Indirect evidence | 237 contacts → | |||
“We print books.it's our passion!” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Indirect evidence | 205 contacts → | |||
“Established in 1937, Marquis, now a division of Lakeside Book Company, is offering integrated book printing and logistics solutions to thousands of content owners in Canada, the…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Strong evidence | 110 contacts → | |||
“FriesenPress is the world's only 100% employee owned publishing services provider.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Strong evidence | 81 contacts → | |||
“Advocate Printing & Publishing, the largest independent printer in Atlantic Canada, was founded in 1891.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Strong evidence | 77 contacts → | |||
“Tellwell is the only company that gives authors 100% net royalties and lets you as the author know your publishing team.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Indirect evidence | 76 contacts → | |||
“Éditeur spécialisé en matériel scolaire aux niveaux primaire, secondaire et collégial.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Strong evidence | 67 contacts → | |||
“With over 40 years’ experience in business, advertising, marketing, publishing and design, Focus Media Group is the publisher of multiple international publications.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Indirect evidence | 66 contacts → | |||
“Dundurn Press is a leading independent book publisher based in Toronto, Canada.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Indirect evidence | 55 contacts → | |||
“Simon & Schuster Canada is a division of Simon & Schuster, and publishes a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction books, including by authors such as Beverley McLachlin…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Indirect evidence | 48 contacts → | |||
“Firefly Books Ltd.(est.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Indirect evidence | 47 contacts → | |||
“Fondé en 1976, Prologue est un diffuseur - distributeur canadien de livres imprimés et numériques francophones.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Indirect evidence | 38 contacts → | |||
“Maison d'édition” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Strong evidence | 37 contacts → | |||
“Page Two is different from other publishing companies.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Indirect evidence | 36 contacts → | |||
“Publishers Weekly recognized ECW Press as one of the most diversified independent publishers in North America.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Indirect evidence | 36 contacts → | |||
“Groupe Librex rassemble cinq maisons d’édition : Libre Expression, Logiques, Publistar, Stanké et Trécarré, en plus des Guides Voir!” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 36 contacts → | |||
“Connecting the world's most discerning brands with high-value, influential Male and Female consumers through content, data, and experiences.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Indirect evidence | 35 contacts → | |||
“House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 by writers Dennis Lee and David Godfrey to publish work by Canadian writers.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Indirect evidence | 33 contacts → | |||
“A versatile Canadian publisher, PAPP International publishes more than 500 titles annually for children and adults.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Indirect evidence | 31 contacts → | |||
“Owlkids, a division of Bayard Canada, is Canada's leading creator of quality content for children.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 31 contacts → | |||
“Québec Amérique (QA) est devenue l’une des plus grandes maisons d’édition indépendantes québécoises, publiant un catalogue de fictions audacieuses, d’essais inspirants et…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Indirect evidence | 30 contacts → | |||
“Annick Press publishes dynamic, groundbreaking fiction and nonfiction for children and teens, and our books have been recognized with numerous awards and honors.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Indirect evidence | 27 contacts → | |||
“We strive to produce high-quality, pedagogically useful books, while upholding fair business practices in relation to our authors, our staff, the academics who choose Broadview…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Indirect evidence | 22 contacts → | |||
“Greystone Books is a trade book publisher that focuses on high-quality non-fiction books that appeal to regional, national, and international readers.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: publishing companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names publishing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of publishing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name publishing companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Publishing companies based in Canada at a glance
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Freshness & accuracy
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How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among publishing companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “publishing companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names publishing companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among publishing companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 762 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 7, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Publishing companies by metro
- Publishing companies in Toronto62
- Publishing companies in Montreal34
- Publishing companies in Vancouver25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names publishing companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many publishing companies are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 339 publishing companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Harlequin, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most publishing companies?
Toronto leads with 62 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (34) and Vancouver (25).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 762 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 339 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 7, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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