| No | Company | Logo | Details of Acquisition |
| 1 | The Dominion Life Assurance Company | | 1984 All lines of business assumed by Manulife |
| 2 | The Monarch Life Assurance Company |  | 1984, Monarch Life transferred its assets and liabilities to North American Life. Lines of business include both group and individual life insurance, annuities (both deferred and immediate) and segregated funds |
| 3 | The Maritime Life Assurance Company | | 2004 Manulife assumes all business as part of the John Hancock transaction. |
| 4 | North American Life Assurance Company | | 1996 Amalgamation with Manulife, all business acquired. |
| 5 | The Excelsior Life Insurance Company | | 1960 All shares acquired by Life & Casualty;
1989 Name change to Aetna Life Insurance Company of Canada
2000 Acquired by Maritime Life |
| 6 | Heritage Life Assurance Company | | 1980 Acquired by Monarch Life – all lines of Business
1984 Monarch Life acquired by North American Life |
| 7 | Financial Life Assurance Company of Canada | | 1997 all shares of company acquired by Aetna Life Insurance Company of Canada.
2000 Acquired by Maritime Life along with Aetna and business then assumed by Maritime. |
| 8 | Commercial Union Life Assurance Company of Canada | | 2001 Manulife acquired Commercial Union's life insurance business across Canada, including critical illness insurance portfolio |
| 9 | Aetna Life Insurance Company of Canada | | 2000 Maritime Life amalgamated with Aetna Life Insurance Company of Canada and company is continued as Maritime Life |
| 10 | The Citadel Life Assurance Company | | 1990 North American Life acquires Mass Marketing Business of Citadel, consisting of both group and individual policies for term life, trip cancellation, line of credit insurance marketed through financial/retail institutions |
| 11 | Sovereign Life/Pioneer Life |
| 1990 December 31 Sovereign merged with Pioneer Life
1991 January 31 North American Life purchased a block of business from Sovereign consisting of the Pioneer issued individual policies: Hospital Cash, Prime Life and Classic Term. |
| 12 | The London Assurance | | 1967 business assumed by Sun Alliance and London Assurance Company
1994 Sun Alliance acquired by North American Life |
| 13 | Confederation Life Insurance Company | | 1994 Manulife assumes Group Life and Health Business
1994 Maritime Life assumes Individual Insurance business which is subsequently assumed in 2004 by Manulife as part of John Hancock transaction |
| 14 | Continental Life Insurance Company | | 1955 Acquired by Zurich Insurance Company
2000 – 2001 Zurich business acquired by Manulife |
| 15 | Zurich Life Insurance Company of Canada | | 2001 Group life and health employee benefits business acquired from Zurich Canada
2002 Manulife acquires Zurich Life Insurance Company of Canada including its individual life insurance and associated blocks of wealth management, individual annuity, segregated fund, and group pension businesses |
| 16 | Gerling Global Life Insurance Company | | 1997 acquired by Royal and Sun Alliance, later acquired by Maritime Life in 2001 |
| 17 | Holland Life Insurance Society Limited | | 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited acquires the Canadian business of Holland Life.
2001 Manulife acquires Commercial Union Life Assurance Company of Canada |
| 18 | Liberty Health [trade name] | | 2003 Maritime Life assumes the business of Liberty Health |
| 19 | Sun Alliance and London Assurance Company (Canada) | | 1995 Jan. 1, Sun Alliance and London Assurance Company (Canada) transferred its assets and liabilities to NAL.
The business consisted of two blocks of business:
- Individual - term, whole life, universal life, deferred and immediate annuities and a segregated fund type product called equity linked which was available as a life policy or annuity.
- Mass Marketed Products: consisted of term life, accidental death and personal accident coverage, mostly marketed through financial/ retail institutions.
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Note: Sun Alliance had previously purchased the individual business or policy blocks of Acadia Life, Beacon Life and Phoenix Life. |
| 20 | The Acadia Life Insurance Company | | See Sun Alliance and London Assurance Company (Canada) |
| 21 | Royal & Sun Alliance Life Insurance Company of Canada | | 2001 acquired by Maritime Life. Companies are amalgamated and continued as Maritime Life |
