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Does Web Hosting Canada (WHC) store data in Canada?
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Yes.
For Canadian customers, Web Hosting Canada (WHC) stores data in Canada. It is Canadian-owned.
Tier 2: Canadian-owned, data in CanadaCanadian-owned and data stored in Canada, but the servers belong to AWS, Microsoft or Google, or the vendor does not say whose servers they are.
Checked 2026-10-13 against the vendor's own pages.
The facts, claim by claim
- Where data is stored
- Montréal, Toronto or Vancouver, chosen at sign-up
- Where it is processed
- Canada
- Support and backups
- Not stated on the pages read
- Owner
- WHC Online Solutions Inc. (Montréal, QC), privately owned · Parent country: Canada
- Servers run by
- WHC servers in Canadian data centres (facility operators not named) · Owner not stated
- Customer-held keys
- Not recorded
- Certifications
- Not recorded (blank means not checked, not none)
- Worth knowing
- Canadian-owned and Canadian-hosted at small-business prices.
- Caveats
- A WHC blog post refers to an outage at a Montréal "BHS" data centre, the code OVHcloud uses for Beauharnois. If WHC's Montréal servers sit there, the facility is French-owned (not US). Ask WHC.
What the rules say about this
- Nova Scotia public bodies: Storage and access must both be in Canada: check support access and backups, not only storage.
- Québec Law 25: Canada is not Québec: storage in Toronto still needs a privacy impact assessment for Québec data.
- OCAP®: Data held by any outside vendor is not in the Nation's possession, whoever owns the vendor.
Summaries only; each rule page links the law or regulator. Not legal advice.
Canadian alternatives to Web Hosting Canada (WHC)
Other website hosting listings that are Canadian-owned, not US-owned, or self-hostable.
| Listing | Tier | Stored in Canada? | Owner | Servers run by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HostPapa | Tier 2: Canadian-owned, data in Canada | Yes, if you choose it | Canadian | Owner not stated |
Sources
All checked 2026-10-13. Claims about storage and ownership rest on the vendor's own pages (or its parent's); supporting links can include regulators and program lists.
- Where the data is stored: https://whc.ca/blog/choose-your-hosting-region-in-canada/
- Who owns it: https://whc.ca/about-web-hosting-canada/