Private company
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Canadian insurance company, 1833–2016
The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada (also known as Standard Life) was an investment, retirement and financial protection company that is now part of Manulife.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada (also known as Standard Life) was an investment, retirement and financial protection company that is now part of Manulife.2
Standard Life is part of a group headed by Phoenix Group. 259 entities, 22 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.
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What Standard Life reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.
Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1
Standard Life first established a presence in Canada through John George Irvine, who took an agency in Quebec in 1834.
Spencer Campbell Thomson, son of the manager of the Standard Life Assurance Company, visited Canada in 1882 and approved a new Canadian head office on St. James Street in Montreal.
On January 30, 2015, the Canadian operations of Standard Life plc joined Manulife.
From Wikipedia’s article on Standard Life (Canada), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
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