Does Canadian Web Hosting Email store data in Canada?
Hosted email (powered by OpenSRS) and resold Microsoft 365
Yes.
For Canadian customers, Canadian Web Hosting Email 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
- Canada ("servers in Canada", vendor)
- Where it is processed
- Canada
- Support and backups
- Not stated on the pages read
- Owner
- iDigital Internet Inc. (Vancouver, BC); mail platform by OpenSRS (Tucows) · Parent country: Canada
- Servers run by
- OpenSRS hosted email on Canadian-hosted infrastructure · Owner not stated
- Customer-held keys
- Not recorded
- Certifications
- Not recorded (blank means not checked, not none)
- Worth knowing
- Its resold Microsoft 365 option stores data in Canada but is a Microsoft (US) service, so it is a separate listing.
- Caveats
- Which company runs the OpenSRS mail servers, and where, is not stated on the page.
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 Canadian Web Hosting Email
Other email listings that are Canadian-owned, not US-owned, or self-hostable.
| Listing | Tier | Stored in Canada? | Owner | Servers run by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoho Mail | Tier 3: Not US-owned, data in Canada | Yes | India | 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://canadianwebhosting.com/hosting/email-hosting
- Who owns it: https://canadianwebhosting.com/
- Supporting page: https://opensrs.com/about-us