The following is a list of trust companies that operate or that have operated in Canada. Historically, trust companies were one of the "four pillars" of the Canadian financial system, along with banks, insurance companies, and investment brokerages.Patricia Best and Ann Shortell, A Matter of Trust: Power and Privilege in Canada's Trust Companies, (Viking, 1985), 1. The country's first trust company was the Toronto General Trusts Corporation, which received its charter in 1872.E. P. Neufeld, The Financial System of Canada: Its Growth and Development, (Macmillan of Canada, 1972), 48. By the turn of the century, 14 trust companies had received charters.Philip Smith, The Trust-Builders: The Remarkable Rise of Canada Trust, (Macmillan of Canada, 1989), 50.

For much of the 20th century, Canada's trust companies were controlled by the major banks through interlocking directorates. However, revisions to the Bank Act in 1967 forbade individuals from sitting on a bank and trust company board simultaneously; this had been a recommendation in the 1964 Report of the Royal Commission on Banking and Finance (or Porter Commission).Report of the Royal Commission on Banking and Finance, (Queen's Printer, 1964), 563. Until 1991, Canadian banks were barred from performing trust duties. Amendments to the Bank Act in 1991 allowed bank holding companies for the first time to acquire trust companies. Since 1991, most of Canada's major trust companies have been acquired by banks. Canadian trust companies with federal incorporations are regulated by the Trust and Loan Companies Act.

Trust companies owned by big five banks The following list is of trust companies operated currently by Canada's Big Five banks:

Bank of Montreal

BMO Trust Company

Bank of Nova Scotia Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company Montreal Trust Company National Trust Company Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

CIBC Trust Corporation (formerly Morgan Trust Company of Canada)

Royal Bank of Canada

Royal Trust Company Toronto-Dominion Bank

Canada Trust Other subsidiary trust companies

B2B Trustco – B2B Bank Central 1 Trust Company – Central 1 Credit Union Cidel Trust Company – Cidel Bank Citizens Trust Company – Vancity Community Trust Company – Questrade Computershare Trust Company of Canada – Computershare Concentra Trust – Equitable Bank Desjardins Trust – Desjardins Group Equitable Trust – Equitable Bank Fiduciary Trust Company of Canada – Franklin Templeton Investments FNB Trust – First Nations Bank of Canada Industrial Alliance Trust – IA Financial Investors Group Trust – Investors Group Laurentian Trust of Canada – Laurentian Bank of Canada LBC Trust – Laurentian Bank of Canada Manulife Trust Company – Manulife Natcan Trust Company – National Bank of Canada Northern Trust Company of Canada – Northern Trust Solus Trust Company – Raymond James Financial State Street Trust Company Canada – State Street Corporation Sun Life Financial Trust – Sun Life TSX Trust Company – TMX Group

Independent trust companies

Effort Trust Company Home Trust Company Legacy Private Trust Odyssey Trust Company Peace Hills Trust Company Peoples Trust Company

Defunct trust companies