Canada’s machine shops, province by province

Statistics Canada counted 2,384 machine shops with employees in June 2026. Ontario had 1,006 and Quebec 704: 1,710 together, 72% of the national total. Alberta followed with 289 and British Columbia with 196. The four Atlantic provinces had 102 between them, 44 of them in Nova Scotia.

Most are small. Of the 2,384, 911 had 1 to 4 employees and 595 had 5 to 9, so 1,506 shops, 63%, employ fewer than 10 people. The sums and shares in this write-up are our arithmetic from the table.

How we built the table

The counts come from table 33-10-1174-01, Canadian Business Counts, with employees, June 2026, released on 14 August 2026. We selected NAICS 332710, machine shops, and the total for businesses with employees, for Canada, each province and each territory, and read the values on 26 September 2026. Statistics Canada counts statistical locations, so a business with shops in two provinces counts once in each. It also notes that changes between editions can reflect its methods as well as openings and closures.

The wider industry group, NAICS 3327, adds makers of turned products, screws, nuts and bolts, and counts 2,462 locations. We use 332710 because it holds machine shops alone.

What’s missing

The table returns no value for the Northwest Territories or Nunavut. The other 11 rows add up to the Canada total, which implies none in either, but we don’t print a number Statistics Canada didn’t publish.

When we’ll check it again

Statistics Canada publishes these counts twice a year. We’ll re-check this page on 6 November 2026 and again when the December 2026 counts are released.