Popular Book Company (Canada) Ltd ( Popular Canada ) was incorporated on July 19, 1994 to publish quality workbooks and other learning materials for preschool and elementary children. The history of Popular Canada was marked with a line-up of successful publications beginning with MathSmart published in May 1999. It became an instant success with more than 200,000 copies sold in one year.

Since then, Popular Canada has been constantly improving and expanding its product range. Riding on the success of MathSmart, it strengthened its Math products by publishing MathSmart Problem-Solving and MathSmart Skills Builder. 2001 saw the launch of its anchor series, Complete MathSmart, which became a perennial bestseller across Canada.

On top of the Math workbooks, Popular Canada started publishing English workbooks in 2001 with the EnglishSmart series and later the EnglishSmart Grammar series. Both series, like the Math workbooks, were well-received, which led to the publishing of Complete EnglishSmart in 2003. Complete MathSmart and Complete EnglishSmart continue to be the two best-selling series in Canada year after year.

Starting in 2004, Popular Canada went full-colour with its products in an effort to maintain its leading position in the supplementary workbook sector. This came in the form of TripleSmart, a full-colour workbook series providing practice in English, Math and Science. This was met with great success, followed by two other full-colour series: SpellingSmart and PhonicsSmart. In 2007 we introduced Complete Canadian Curriculum, which has become another of our anchor series, along with Complete EnglishSmart and Complete MathSmart. In 2009 we launched two French products: FrenchSmart to help Anglophone children learn basic French and Maths faciles to help Francophone children master elementary Math concepts and skills.

Today, our reach has gone beyond Canada, with schools and individuals in as far off countries and places as Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jordan, Germany, Denmark, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Italy, and the Papua New Guinea choosing our Smart workbooks as supplementary learning resources for their children.