Private company

Can-ar Coach Service

Canadian coach operator

TOK Coachlines (formerly Can-ar Coach Service) is a chartered coach operator in the Greater Toronto Area, It is a division of Tokmakjian Inc., a privately held Canadian corporation operating as TOK Group based in Vaughan, Ontario. A related division of TOK Group is TOK Transit which operates public transit services under contract to municipalities.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Photo: Secondarywaltz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

TOK Coachlines (formerly Can-ar Coach Service) is a chartered coach operator in the Greater Toronto Area, It is a division of Tokmakjian Inc., a privately held Canadian corporation operating as TOK Group based in Vaughan, Ontario. A related division of TOK Group is TOK Transit which operates public transit services under contract to municipalities.2

Corporate structure

Can-ar Coach Service sits at the top of its group. 2 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Can-ar Coach Service
    • Tok Transit Limited Subsidiary · Canada

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Can-ar Coach was established in 1983 when Travelways Incorporated, a Thornhill-based bus operator founded in 1976, was sold by Larry Needler (co-owner with several other partners).

Both TOK Coachlines and TOK Transit originally operated as Can-ar Coach Service.

From Wikipedia’s article on TOK Coachlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

TOK Transit operates public transit bus service under contract for York Region Transit, and for Fort Erie Transit.

TOK's now-discontinued intercity services included a route from Southampton via Kincardine to Pearson Airport and Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station (ended 2026) and a route from Haliburton and Lindsay to Toronto (ended 2024.)

From Wikipedia’s article on TOK Coachlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

  • Tok Transit Limited

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1983Founded Founded1

Sources

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