A Healthy Foundation resource · Updated September 2026
Browse Canadian-owned health and wellness — goods and services, in one place.
Care you can book yourself. The software and devices holding up the health system behind the scenes. And the Canadian-owned makers of the supplements, skincare, food and candles on your shelf. Every company here has been checked for Canadian ownership. Every goods company ships across the country.
Why buy Canadian
Ownership is invisible on a shelf and on a website. A brand can look homegrown and answer to a parent company somewhere else. This index does the checking, so patients, employers and shoppers can choose Canadian on purpose — not by accident.
Where it gets complicated
If you have had bloodwork done in Ontario, British Columbia or Saskatchewan, there is a good chance it went through LifeLabs. It is the largest community lab network in the country and it processes something like 100 million tests a year. It is also, since August 2024, owned by Quest Diagnostics, a US company listed on the NYSE, which bought it from OMERS for C$1.35 billion.
That is why LifeLabs is not listed in the index. The bar here is Canadian ownership, and it no longer meets it.
But leaving it off without explanation would be dishonest, because this is not a boycott list. LifeLabs is deeply embedded in how Canadians actually get care, and no domestic alternative currently operates at that scale. Pulling it out of the system tomorrow would not make anyone healthier.
The useful question is not whether to partner. It is whether Canada partners from a position of strength or dependence.
Partnerships with foreign operators are going to be necessary in Canadian health care for a long time yet — for capital, for scale, for technology we have not built. The risk is not the partnership. The risk is having nothing of our own to bring to it.
That is what the rest of this list is for: the Canadian-owned diagnostics, imaging and records companies that already exist, and deserve to be known before the next decision about who runs this infrastructure gets made for us.
Farm to shelf
Most small Canadian producers don’t start by calling a national chain. They start close to home — farmers’ markets, farm gate, an online store, a wholesale market like the Ontario Food Terminal — and use that to prove demand and build enough volume to supply consistently.
To reach a grocery shelf they need what every retailer asks for: food safety practices and licences, a GS1 barcode and product data, labelling that meets federal rules, and any certification they want to claim, like Canada Organic. From there the route is either a store manager who agrees to stock them directly, or a distributor who carries them into many stores at once and handles delivery, invoicing and returns.
Provincial buy-local programs matter the whole way through. They give a small producer a label shoppers recognise, a listing people can search, and an introduction to the buyers already looking for local suppliers. Start here.
Where the money goes
Every dollar spent with a Canadian business — a two-person candle studio in Swift Current or a national telehealth platform — stays in the Canadian economy. It pays Canadian wages. It funds Canadian suppliers. It builds companies that answer to people who live here.
Buying Canadian isn’t sentiment. It’s a choice about where your money ends up, and who it comes back to.
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Every listing is reviewed before it goes up. Canadian-owned, health or wellness, and if it sells goods it ships across Canada — that’s the whole bar.
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