Where NorthCan Roofing Works

NorthCan Roofing covers Toronto, the whole Greater Toronto Area and southwestern Ontario from a yard at 425 Alness Street in North York. Coverage runs from Oshawa in the east to Kitchener in the west, and from Hamilton and Burlington in the south to Barrie in the north.

How does coverage work from one yard?

Everything runs out of Alness Street, in the industrial block near Keele and Finch. That location is roughly central to the region: Highway 400 and Highway 401 are both minutes away, which puts most of the GTA inside a straightforward morning move for crews, materials and equipment.

Practically, distance is rarely the constraint on a commercial roof. Access is. A downtown Toronto job is limited by a lane closure, a hoist window and a delivery slot, while a Milton distribution centre is limited by shipping schedules and yard traffic. A Barrie warehouse in February is limited by snow load and daylight. We plan each job around the constraint that actually applies to it, and the cities below have their own pages precisely because those constraints differ.

For reactive work, crews are dispatched from the yard rather than held in each municipality. The 24/7 emergency line takes calls from anywhere in the coverage area, and the response is a temporary watertight repair first, with the permanent work quoted afterwards. Details are on the emergency roof repairs page.

North and central GTA

Newer industrial parks, large single-storey floorplates, corporate campuses and mixed-use podiums, plus a design snow load that rises as you move north of the city. Drift loading against parapets, mechanical screens and adjacent higher walls is a bigger factor here than downtown.

• Vaughan, including Concord and the Highway 7 corridor.
• Markham, including the technology campuses and Milliken Mills.
• Richmond Hill, with its mix of retail plazas and light industrial units.
• Barrie and Simcoe County, where snow is the governing design condition.

What if your building is not on the list?

The city pages are the places we work most often, not a boundary. We also attend buildings in Etobicoke, East York, York, Aurora, Newmarket, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Caledon, Halton Hills, Guelph, Cambridge, Waterloo, St. Catharines and the wider southwestern Ontario region, particularly for industrial work and for clients with buildings in more than one municipality.

If you hold a portfolio spread across several of these cities, the reporting matters more than the geography. Our property manager service keeps one point of contact and one consistent condition record across every site, whatever municipality each building sits in.

Call 416-456-0777 with the address and we will tell you plainly whether it is work we can service properly. If it is outside what we can cover well, we will say so rather than stretch.