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Book stores in Canada

Database of book stores in Canada: 1,873 stores with address and coordinates, postcode, phones, website, e-mail, social media, opening hours and chain — in all provinces and territories, one file for $20 USD. Also separately: a province or a city — a part of the price of the category, from $10 USD. Part of the “Books, stationery & hobbies” type.

1,873 stores12 provinces and territories1,394 with a phone161 chains
Book stores · Canada SampleProvinces and territoriesChainsQuestions

How many book stores are there in Canada?

1,873 stores

As of November 7, 2026, our base holds 1,873 book stores in Canada — 15% of the “Books, stationery & hobbies” type. That is 5.0 per 100,000 people. The provinces and territories with the most of them are Ontario (659), Quebec (430), and British Columbia (334). 407 (22%) belong to chains; the largest are Indigo (120), Renaud-Bray (33), and Coles (26).

1,873
Book stores
in 12 provinces and territories
1,394
With a phone
74% · unique numbers: 1,370
593
Unique e-mails
at 369 stores · website at 64%
22%
Chain stores
161 chains

B2B contacts of book stores in Canada: what is inside

How often the fields are filled in — the share of open stores where the field is not empty.

FieldFormatFilled%
Store nametext, as on the card
100%
Type and categorye.g. Grocery · Convenience store
100%
Other categoriese.g. “Convenience store, Bakery”
29%
Addresstext
100%
Postcodeas in the address
93%
Province, city13 provinces and territories
96%
Coordinateslatitude, longitude
100%
Phone+1 format, up to 5 numbers · unique numbers: 1,370
74%
WebsiteURL
64%
E-mailfrom the store website · unique addresses: 593
20%
Social mediaFacebook, Instagram, WhatsApp…
29%
Opening hourspublished or not
69%
Chainname of the chain; empty — independent
22%

List of book stores in Canada: data sample

Rows of the export — you can page through the table. Click a phone, website or e-mail: contacts open after a free sign-up, up to 20 stores a day.

StoreCityPhoneWebsite and e-mailSocial media
George Brown Polytechnic Campus Store - Casa Loma160 Kendal Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 1M3 Book store chain: George Brown
TorontoOntario
LA
La Librairie GourmandeJean Talon Market, 7070 Av. Henri-Julien, Montreal, Quebec H2R 1T1 Book store Corporate gift supplier, Gift shop
MontrealQuebec
LU
Lucky's Books & Comics3128 Main St, Vancouver, BC V5T 3G7 Book store
VancouverBritish Columbia
SE
Second Shelf Books8927 K Whyte Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6C 0Z2 Book store
EdmontonAlberta
CA
Carrefour Atlantic Emporium1869 Upper Water St, Halifax, NS B3J 1S9 Book store Art gallery, Gift shop
HalifaxNova Scotia
ME
Mennonitische Post Die355 4 St, Winkler, MB R6W 1B4 Book store
WinklerManitoba
UP
UPEI Bookstore550 University Ave, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3 Book store
CharlottetownPrince Edward Island
SP
Spafford Books1637 Broad St, Regina, SK S4P 1X3 Book store
ReginaSaskatchewan
RE
Reads Books & Coffee347 Mountain Rd, Moncton, NB E1C 2M7 Book store
MonctonNew Brunswick
YE
Yellowknife Books4914 49 St, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2N9 Book store
YellowknifeNorthwest Territories
—
TH
The NeverEnding Story7 Commonwealth Ave, Mount Pearl, NL A1N 1W3 Book store
Mount PearlNewfoundland and Labrador
—
MA
Mac's Fireweed Books203 Main St, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2B2 Book store Tobacco shop
WhitehorseYukon
—
HO
Hopeless Romantic Books1080 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1H8 Book store
TorontoOntario
LA
La Livrerie | Librairie · Café · Coop1289 Ontario St E, Montreal, Quebec H2L 1R7 Book store Cafe
MontrealQuebec
UN
University of Victoria Bookstore3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 Book store Clothing store, Computer store
VictoriaBritish Columbia
shop AT NAIT11762 106 St, Edmonton, AB T5G 2R1 Book store chain: NAIT
EdmontonAlberta
MO
Mount Book Store131 Lumpkin Rd, Halifax, NS B3M 1P5 Book store
HalifaxNova Scotia
BE
Beans Story Inc.Down East Mall, 500 Main St, Montague, PE C0A 1R0 Book store
MontaguePrince Edward Island
CA
Campus StoreCM-52, 2055 Notre Dame Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3H 0J8 Book store
WinnipegManitoba
TH
The Black Bird Commons1437 Rose St, Regina, SK S4R 2A1 Book store
ReginaSaskatchewan
Click a contact to see it — free after signing up, up to 20 stores a day. The full list is in the file after purchase.1–20 of 1,873

Book stores by province

Open stores of the category in each province and per 100,000 people. Click a column to sort.

Province ↕Stores ↓Share ↕Per 100,000 people ↕
Ontario 659
35%
4.6
Quebec 430
23%
5.1
British Columbia 334
18%
6.7
Alberta 191
10%
4.4
Nova Scotia 73
4%
7.5
Manitoba 55
3%
4.1
Saskatchewan 52
3%
4.6
New Brunswick 37
2%
4.8
Prince Edward Island 19
1%
12.3
Newfoundland and Labrador 19
1%
3.7
Yukon 3
<1%
7.5
Northwest Territories 1
<1%
2.4
The provinces and territories link to “Books, stationery & hobbies” in that province1,873 in Canada

Where there are the most

Cities with the most stores of the category.

Book stores: chains

Chains with stores in this category. Share — of all stores of the category in Canada.

RankChainStoresProvinces and territoriesMarket shareAddresses
01
IndigoBook store · 123 stores in Canada
120 10
6.4%
02
Renaud-BrayBook store · 42 stores in Canada
33 1
1.8%
03
ColesBook store · 26 stores in Canada
26 8
1.4%
04
ChaptersBook store · 10 stores in Canada
10 6
0.5%
05
BC
Buropro CitationBook store · 12 stores in Canada
9 1
0.5%
06
BB
BMV BooksBook store · 4 stores in Canada
4 1
0.2%
07
BC
Book CityBook store · 4 stores in Canada
4 1
0.2%
08
CO
CoopscoBook store · 4 stores in Canada
4 1
0.2%
09
AM
AmazonBook store · 27 stores in Canada
3 3
0.2%
10
TB
Type BooksBook store · 3 stores in Canada
3 1
0.2%

Other categories: books, stationery & hobbies

Questions about the base

As of November 7, 2026, our base has 1,873 book stores in Canada. 407 (22%) belong to chains; the rest are independent. The largest chains here are Indigo (120), Renaud-Bray (33), and Coles (26).

All book stores in Canada cost $20 USD — one file for the whole country. The price depends on the number of stores; a province or a city is sold separately, for its share of this price (from $10 USD). The complete base of all types costs $290 USD.

74% of the stores have a phone number, 64% a website, 29% social media and 69% published opening hours. E-mails come from the stores' own websites (20%). Every row has an address and coordinates.

XLSX and CSV (UTF-8), one row per store: name, type, category and other categories, chain, province, country, city, postcode, address, coordinates, phones, website, e-mail, social media, published opening hours and the date the store was added to the base. The files appear in your account right after payment.

With every update new stores are added and those that the source marks as closed are removed.

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