title: Standard Life (Canada)
text: # Standard Life (Canada)
  
  The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada (also known as Standard Life) was an investment, retirement and financial protection company and is now part of Manulife Financial.
  
  ## History
  
  Standard Life first established a presence in Canada through John George Irvine, who took an agency in Quebec in 1834. Spencer Campbell Thomson, son of the manager of the Standard Life Assurance Company, visited Canada in 1882 and approved a new Canadian head office in St James Street.
  
  On January 30, 2015, the Canadian operations of Standard Life plc joined Manulife.
  
  