London Life Insurance

The London Life Insurance Company was a Canadian life insurance company that existed from 1874 to 2020. In 1997, London Life was acquired outright by Great-West Lifeco, the holding company of the Great-West Life Assurance Company, headquartered in Winnipeg. Great-West Lifeco had since 1969 been controlled by the Power Corporation of Canada. In 2003, Lifeco acquired Canada Life, thus bringing three of the country's largest life insurers under its control. Through the 2000s and 2010s, Lifeco ran the three insurance companies effectively as one, though they retained separate corporate identities. On 1 January 2020, Lifeco merged the three companies under the Canada Life name.