5 Largest Canadian Companies

3. Bank of Nova Scotia

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 34.8

Total profit of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 6.4

Total assets of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 872.6

Total market value of the company in March 2020 (in billions of dollars): 48.7

The Bank of Nova Scotia is considered to be one of the Big Five banks in Canada, and is 188 years old, having been founded initially in Halifax in 1932. It claims to be Canada’s most international bank due to its presence in several countries across the world, including the Caribbean, Latin America, the US, Europe and Asia. The bank has more than 88,000 employees and is currently headquartered in Toronto, where it has been for more than the last century.