This is the list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian Open tournament. The winner of the Canadian Closed advances to the World Cup stage of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle. Winners on tiebreak or a playoff match are noted with an asterisk beside their names.
- 1872 tournament not completed
- 1873 Albert Ensor
- 1874 William Hicks
- 1878 Jacob Ascher
- 1879 Edwin Pope
- 1881 Joseph Shaw
- 1882 Edward Sanderson
- 1883 Jacob Ascher, Henry Howe Edwin Pope
- 1889 Richard Fleming *, James Narraway
- 1894 A. Thomas Davison
- 1897 James Narraway
- 1935 Maurice Fox
- 1936 Boris Blumin
- 1937 Boris Blumin
- 1938 Maurice Fox
- 1940 Maurice Fox
- 1941 Daniel Yanofsky
- 1943 Daniel Yanofsky
- 1945 Daniel Yanofsky, Frank Yerhoff
- 1946 John Belson
- 2012 Bator Sambuev
- 2015 Tomas Krnan *, Eric Hansen, Leonid Gerzhoy
- 2017 Bator Sambuev *, Nikolay Noritsyn
- 2019 Evgeny Bareev
- 2022 Yuanchen Zhang *, Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux
- 2023 Nikolay Noritsyn, Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, Bator Sambuev
- 2024 Shiyam Thavandiran
- 2025 Nikolay Noritsyn
- 2026 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux*, Anthony Atanasov, Sai Krishna G V
Canadian Women's Championship
Winners
- 2012 Natalia Khoudgarian
- 2016 Qiyu Zhou
- 2018 Maili-Jade Ouellet
- 2022 Maili-Jade Ouellet
- 2023 Svitlana Demchenko
- 2024 Maili-Jade Ouellet
- 2025 Li Yunshan
- 2026 Maili-Jade Ouellet