Canadian Automobile Association

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The CAA logo

The Canadian Automobile Association (or CAA) is a non-profit federation, founded in 1913, of nine clubs across Canada, providing roadside assistance service, a complete range of auto touring and leisure travel services, insurance services, and member discounts with preferred companies.

CAA is also the leading advocate for Canada’s motorists and travelers, affiliated with the American Automobile Association. Many English-language Tourbooks and maps about Canada distributed by CAA clubs are published by AAA, and carry both CAA and AAA branding.

In Ontario, CAA facilitates Ontario's Drive Clean program from the CAA locations that double as Ministry of Transport license renewal and vehicle registration offices. CAA Ontario was originally known as the Ontario Motor League[1] and existed independently of CAA/AAA affiliations.

CAA is not affiliated with the Dominion Automobile Association or consumer groups such as the Automobile Protection Agency.

[edit] CAA clubs and territories

CAA British Columbia -- British Columbia and Yukon
Alberta Motor Association -- Alberta and parts of Northwest Territories directly north of Alberta and Saskatchewan
CAA Saskatchewan -- Saskatchewan
CAA Manitoba -- Manitoba and Nunavut
CAA North and East Ontario -- Ontario: counties of Dundas, Glengarry. That portion of Leeds-Grenville formerly known as Grenville County, Lanark, Prescott, Renfrew, Russell, Stormont. Regional Municipality of Ottawa, Sudbury, Districts of Cochrane, Manitoulin, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, Kenora (including area of Patricia), Rainy River, Thunder Bay
CAA South Central Ontario -- Ontario: counties of Wellington, Perth, Oxford, Middlesex, Elgin, Norfolk, Hastings, Prince Edward, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington, Peterborough, Northumberland, Haliburton, Essex, Lambton, Grey, Bruce, Huron, Dufferin, Brant, Simcoe, Peel and the portion of Leeds-Grenville formerly known as Leeds and the Regional Municipalities of Chatham-Kent, Durham, Haldimand-Norfolk, Hamilton-Wentworth, Halton and Waterloo, York, and the city of Kawartha Lakes and the Districts of Algoma and Muskoka
CAA Niagara -- Niagara region
CAA Québec-- Quebec
CAA Maritimes -- New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Newfoundland and Labrador is not served by any CAA club. CAA and AAA members stranded in this territory should call the SuperNumber and ask to be directed to CAA South Central Ontario as this club dispatches calls for the region.