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Canada Company, brainchild of John Galt, was established in late 1824 and chartered in 1825 as a land and colonization company in Upper Canada. In 1826 the company purchased from the government about 2.5 million acres (1 million ha) of land for $295 000. Roughly half lay in the Huron Tract (western Ontario) and the rest consisted of scattered crown reserves. The payments, spread over 16 years, went directly to the executive branch of the Upper Canada government, to the bitter resentment of Reformers in the elected assembly, who also charged that the company failed to provide promised improvements in its structure and treated immigrants dictatorially. After the Act of Union (1841), the company's connection to the Tory elite lessened and, with the implementation of a leasing system, the company operated more effectively and less conspicuously - though settlement would likely have proceeded as quickly without it. Following the sale of its last holdings in the 1950s, it ceased operation.

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The origin of Canada Steamship Lines lies with the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company, founded in 1845. One of the largest fleets existing in Canada in the nineteenth century, the company prospered, expanding to eighteen vessels operating between Toronto and Quebec.

In 1912-1913, the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company, Canada Interlake Lines, Ontario and Quebec Navigation Company, Lake Ontario and Bay of Quinte Steamboat Company, the Quebec Steamship Company, the Inland Lines and the Wolvin Lines came together under the leadership of Messrs. Anglin, Wolvin, Norcross and Enderby resulting in a mixed fleet of passemger ships and freighters which included such well-known vessels as the Noronic, Toiler and Turbinia. A peaceful corporate adjustment to the merger was not to be. Just one year after its formation participation in World War I cost the firm sixteen ships.

Under the stewardship of W.H. Coverdale, the firm regrouped after the war and was revitalized by the acquisition of both the Montreal Transportation Company and the Davie Shipbuilding and Repair Company and in 1925-1926 the Playfair company and the vessels of George Hall Shipping Ltd. were also acquired, creating a world-class fleet. By 1927 the CSL fleet consisted of 115 ships including twenty-three passenger vessels. The corporation then changed direction and abandoned ocean trade in favor of concentration on lake shipping. Many of the company's vessels and personnel were retired as a result of the Depression and throughout World War II the company lost six of its fleet. The War, however, also allowed the firm an expanding role in shipping iron ore from upper Lake Superior to to the steel mills and munition plants of central Canada and the United States.

After the war the company's passenger service was discontinued in favor of a concentration on freight alone. Under the leadership of T.R. McLagan, an engineer, a major fleet overhaul was begun, with an emphasis on technical innovation and efficiency rather than fleet expansion. With the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, this technological refit was given new impetus and a twenty year building program was begun. Under the aegis of Power Corporation (1975) and L.R. Desmarais innovation continued to be the company's hallmark. In 1981 Power Corporation sold CSL to Paul Martin Jr., who consolidated his holdings in 1988 as Paul Martin Passage Holdings.Today CSL is one of the world's leading inland shippers.

The year 1909 was the beginning of country-wide co-operation among organized farmers when E. A. Partridge of Saskatchewanand D. W. McCuaig and Roderick McKenzie of Manitoba proposed united action by organized farmers in all provinces. This bore fruit the following year when the annual meetingof the SGGA at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, was also attended by delegates from Ontario,Manitoba and Alberta. The meeting formed the Canadian Council of Agriculture with D. W. McCuaig of Manitoba as President and E. C. Drury of Ontario as Secretary. The Council acted as a co-ordinating body of the provincial groups and was soon directing national action on a massive scale. In 1916 the UFO had affiliated to the Canadian Council of Agriculture and sections of the UFO program were incorporated into the Farmers' Platform adopted by the Council in that year. These sections included the nationalization of railways, a more progressive system of taxation and legislation more favourable to the establishment of co-operatives. By 1935 the Canadian Council of Agriculture was faltering and was revitalized under the name Canadian Chamber of Agriculture.

In 1901 the first meeting of municipal leaders was held. The first political initiative of the Union of Canadian Municipalities (UCM) was to convince the federal government to create legislation that would give municipal governments more control over the actions of utility companies within their boundaries. In 1935, the Dominion Conference of Mayors (DCM) was formed and in 1937, the UCM and DCM merged to form the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities (CFMM). Since then CFMM has functioned as a central resource organ, conference co-ordinator and clearing house for Canadian municipal bodies and officials. It also acted as a national representative of these groups for international purposes, establishing an international prescence in 1951 when CFMM sent its first delegation to the Congress of the International Union of Local Authorities (IULA) in Brighton, England. In 1957 CFMM became a founding member of the United Town Organization, headquartered in France. The organization's main objective was to promote international twinning of towns and cities. In 1967 CFMM moved its offices from Montreal to Ottawa and in 1972 The first tripartite conference was held with CFMM, federal and provincial representation. In 1985 FCMM became the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

Founded in 1919, The Canadian Federation of University Women, is a voluntary, non-profit, self-funded bilingual organization of over 10,000 women university graduates. CFUW/FCFDU members are active in public affairs, working to raise the social, economic and legal status of women, as well as to improve education, the environment, peace, justice and human rights. Members belong to 122 clubs in every province in Canada. CFUW/FCFDU is one of the 71 member affiliates of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW/FIFDU) and its 180,000 members. CFUW/FCFDU is a Non-Government Organization in consultative status with the United Nations (ECOSOC).

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The Canadian Political Science Association was founded in 1913, to encourage and develop political science and its relationship with other disciplines, and was incorporated under the Canada Corporation Act in 1971. The Association has an elected Board of Directors, nominations to which are received by an appointed Nominating Committee. The Executive is made up of a President, President-Elect, Past-President, Secretary-Treasurer, as well as a representative of the members-at-large elected by the Board. The Association has a permanent Secretariat currently housed in Ottawa. Among affiliations the Association is a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, the International Political Science Association and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.