History in Canada
- Honda Canada was founded in 1969. Head office is now in Markham, Ontario.
- Honda's first car to officially launch in Canada in 1973 was the 3-door Honda Civic.
- Honda Accord arrived in Canada in 1976.
- Honda of Canada Mfg. opened the Alliston facility to build the Honda Accord in November of 1986, becoming the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to open a manufacturing facility in Canada.
- Acura was introduced in Canada in 1987.
- Honda introduced the first hybrid-electric vehicle (Honda Insight) to Canada in 1999
- Total Honda Canada Inc. sales in Canada (2025): 128,446 vehicles
- Honda Canada investment: $6.5B (CDN)
- Honda Canada Foundation gives approximately $2 million to Canadian charities each year.
- Each year, about 70% of Honda vehicles sold in Canada are built in Canada.
- 99% of all Honda and Acura vehicles sold in Canada are sourced from North American facilities and are USMCA-compliant.
- Introduced Honda Prologue & Acura ZDX in 2024, our first electric vehicles in Canada.
- Honda Canada strives to bring the joy of mobility to consumers through more than automobiles: we offer Motorcycles, ATVs, Side-by-Sides, small engines, marine engines, snowblowers, lawnmowers and landscaping equipment, and generators in the Canadian market.
Honda of Canada Mfg. today (Alliston facilities)
- Opened in 1986, 2026 marks the 40th anniversary.
- Second facility opened in 1998, producing Honda's first full-size Odyssey minivan.
- This is the first plant outside of Japan to build Acura vehicles.
- More than 4,200 associates currently work at the two facilities in Alliston.
- Plant size: 4 million sq. ft.
- Line 1 currently produces the Honda Civic – petrol, hybrid and Si variants
- Line 2 currently produces the Honda CR-V - petrol and hybrid variants
- Annual capacity: more than 400,000
- Vehicles produced in 2025: 401,000
- 11 millionth vehicle produced in 2025
- HCM was Canada's second largest auto manufacturer by volume in 2025.
- In J.D. Power's 2025 Initial Quality Study, line 2 received the Bronze Plant Award, making it one of the best-performing auto manufacturing plants in the Americas based on the fewest manufacturing-related defects or malfunctions per vehicle.
- HCM sources $3 billion through Canadian suppliers each year, supporting 30,000 spin-off jobs