The Canadian Car & Foundry Company Ltd of Montreal began production at their Fort William plant (now Thunder Bay, Ontario) of the Hurricane Mk.I on receipt of an Air Ministry order on 4 January 1939. Production started with the construction of 140 Mk.I aircraft. These machines were fitted with Rolls Royce-built Merlin II engines and later with the Merlin III.

In early 1940, the first Canadian-built Hurricane (a Mk.1 with Rolls Royce Merlin III) made her first flight. The first Hurricanes from Canada started to arrive in the United Kingdom in June 1940.

The Mk.XI and XII were the final Canadian Hurricane marks, powered by Packard Merlin 28 and 29 respectively. Of the Mk.XII three different variants, depending on wing armament configuration were produced:
XIIA: eight Browning machine guns.
XIIB: twelve Browning machine guns.
XIIC: four 20mm cannons.



Depending on the source, the total number of Hurricanes of all Canadian marks produced by CC&F varies from 1,204 (The Hawker Hurricane, F.K. Mason, Bourne, 1987) to 1,223 aircraft (British Military Aircraft Serials 1912-1966, B. Robertson, 1966 and British Military Aircraft Serials 1878-1987, B. Robertson, Earl Shilton, 1987). Other sources on the internet quote a numer as high as 1,451 aircraft.