Cardinal is one of a few school bus operators in Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

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. Cardinal's charter and activity (school-type) buses are white and red while buses used on school routes are yellow with the flashing warning lights as per transport regulation.

Cardinal has a contract for minivans and accessible services for the Toronto District School Board

Toronto District School Board

Toronto District School Board, also known by the acronym TDSB, is the English-language public school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

 for areas west of Yonge Street.

In 2005, Firstbus Canada

First Student Canada

First Student Canada, a subsidiary of the British company FirstGroup and a division of FirstGroup America, is a major contractor of school bus services and public transit systems. The company provides services in Canada comparable to those delivered by sister companies First Transit and First...

 acquired 471136 B.C. Limited and Cardinal Transportation B.C. Inc., Vancouver, BC and Cardinal Coach Lines Limited and Focus Capital Inc., Calgary, AB and Cardinal Coach Lines (Ont.) Ltd., North York, ON.

Roster

• Ford
  Ford Transit
  The Ford Transit is a range of panel vans, minibuses, and pickup trucks, produced by the Ford Motor Company in Europe.The Transit has been the best-selling light commercial vehicle in Europe for 40 years, and in some countries the term "Transit" has passed into common usage as a generic term...
  
   E350 (formerly Econoline 350) chassis with lift system
• Ford
  Ford Transit
  The Ford Transit is a range of panel vans, minibuses, and pickup trucks, produced by the Ford Motor Company in Europe.The Transit has been the best-selling light commercial vehicle in Europe for 40 years, and in some countries the term "Transit" has passed into common usage as a generic term...
  
   E350 (formerly Econoline 350)
• Dodge
  Dodge
  Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, and sport utility vehicles, manufactured and marketed by Chrysler Group LLC in more than 60 different countries and territories worldwide....
  
   Caravan – School purpose vehicle

Cardinal Coach Lines was owned by Stan Weber in Calgary Alberta.
Ellie Cameron is the manager in Toronto.

See also

• Stock Transportation
• Laidlaw Transportation
  Laidlaw
  Laidlaw, organized as Laidlaw International, Inc. , was a predecessor corporation of First Student , a US subsidiary of the Scottish transport firm FirstGroup plc...
  
  
• Parkinson Coach Line
  Parkinson Coach Line
  Parkinson Coach Lines was founded in 1946 in Snelgrove, Ontario by Harold Parkinson, and was acquired by the Murray family in 1953. Parkinson started running the predecessor to Brampton Transit in Brampton, Ontario in the 1960s. They further expanded into school bus service in the 1960s and coach...
  
  
• McCluskey Transportation Services