User:BleegTel/Names/Companies

Organizations are included if their name would have some sort of legally recognized standing; informal groups and so forth are listed at Groups and Organizations.

Symbols used: ⚓ (exists IRL), 🌎 (genericized<ref>I am using the symbol 🌎 to indicate when a term that originated as a trademark is used as a generic term in the text. Many of these are trademarks that have expired or been legally genericized, but many of them are not.</ref>), 🔄 (expy), ✨ (fictional).

Checked up to the end of Pact: Malfeasance (arc 11)

Companies and organizations

Government and non-profit

Emergency services

• ✨ Jacob’s Bell Police Department - municipal police service
  • IRL name: N/A (fictional)
  • First appears: Pact: Conviction 5.1<ref>The local police are referenced many times earlier in Pact, but Conviction 5.1 is the first time that the police service is explicitly named.</ref>
• ⚓ RCMP - federal police service
  • IRL name: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
  • First appears: Pact: Bonds 1.4
• ⚓ Toronto Emergency Services<ref>Toronto Emergency Services are technically not an organization per se, but rather a joint initiative of the Fire Services, Paramedic Services, Police Services and the Office of Emergency Management.</ref> - municipal emergency service
  • IRL name: Toronto Emergency Services
  • First appears: Pact: Collateral 4.8
• ⚓ Toronto PD - municipal police service
  • IRL name: Toronto Police Service (TPS)<ref>The police force in Toronto was called the "Toronto Police Department" from its founding in 1834 until 1957, when it merged with other neighbouring police forces to form the "Metropolitan Toronto Police Force". Today, the organization is called the "Toronto Police Service" or "TPS".</ref>
  • First appears: Pact: Collateral 4.12

Education

• ✨ St. Sebastian’s - high school in Jacob's Bell
  • IRL name: N/A (fictional)
  • First appears: Pact: Signature 8.1

Charities

• ⚓ AA - addiction recovery program
  • IRL name: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
  • First appears: Pact: Subordination 6.2
• ✨ Hamm's Shelter - homeless shelter in Toronto
  • IRL name: N/A (fictional) (?)
  • First appears: Pact: Null 9.4

Professional services

• ✨ Mann, Levinn, and Lewis - diabolist law firm
  • IRL name: N/A (fictional)
  • First appears: Pact: Damages 2.3
• ⚓ Realtor 🌎 - real estate trade association (member)
  • IRL name: REALTOR; member of the National Association of REALTORS
  • First appears: Pact: Signature 8.5
• ✨ T.O. Plow - snowplow company
  • IRL name: N/A (fictional)
  • First appears: Pact: Void 7.x

Manufacturing

See also Products

• ⚓ BMW - car manufacturer (or the cars made by them)
  • IRL name: Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW)
  • First appears: Pact: Collateral 4.3
• ⚓Macallan - Scottish distillery
  • IRL name: The Macallan
  • First appears: Pact: Damages 2.x
• ⚓ Ugg 🌎 - footwear manufacturer
  • IRL name: UGG
  • First appears: Pact: Bonds 1.4
• ⚓ Velcro 🌎 - hook-and-loop fastener manufacturer (or the products made by them)
  • IRL name: Velcro (officially Velcro IP Holdings LLC, trade name Velcro Companies)
  • First appears: Pact: Collateral 4.12

Retail

Department stores

• ⚓ Canadian Tire - Canadian department store chain
  • IRL name: Canadian Tire
  • First appears: Pact: Conviction 5.5

Restaurants

• ✨ Bell Pizza - pizzeria in Jacob's Bell
  • IRL name: N/A (fictional)
  • First appears: Pact: Bonds 1.5

Entertainment

See also Products and Media

Resorts and theme parks

• ⚓ Disneyland - entertainment resort in Anaheim, California, USA<ref>"Disneyland" can also refer to Disneyland Park, one of two theme parks within the resort.</ref>
  • IRL name: Disneyland Resort
  • First appears: Pact: Void 7.7
• ⚓ Euro-Disney - entertainment resort in Chessy, near Paris, France
  • IRL name: Disneyland Paris<ref>The theme park formerly known as Euro-Disney was renamed to Disneyland Paris in 1994.</ref>
  • First appears: Pact: Void 7.7

Bands and performers

• ⚓ Madonna - stage name of Madonna Louise Ciccone
  • IRL name: Madonna
  • First appears: Pact: Signature 8.1
• ⚓ (Natalie Portman) - stage name of Natalie Portman<ref>I don't know whether Natalie legally changed her surname name from Hershlag to Portman, but the fact that another actor named Natalie Portman would need to use a different name professionally means that it counts for this list as far as I'm concerned.</ref>
  • IRL name: Natalie Portman
  • First appears: Pact: Signature 8.1 ("Fatalie Shortman")
• ⚓ (Olsen Twins) - (unofficial?) stage name of Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen
  • IRL name: Olsen twins
  • First appears: Pact: Signature 8.1 ("Olsen Triplet")

Honourable mentions

• The University (first appears in Pact: Collateral 4.2) - the unnamed university in Toronto where Isadora works. Though always capitalized, the University is never named. It could be an expy of any of the five universities in Toronto, or may be entirely fictional.
• CAS (Children's Aid Society) is a type of organization. Normally, both IRL and in the text, one refers to the CAS without any need to specify which CAS is being referred to. However, we can make some inferences based on geography, noting that this may not apply within the fictional Otherverse:
  • Highland Shores Children's Aid is the local CAS for the IRL area where Jacob's Bell is probably located (mentioned in Signature 8.1<ref>"'I'm going to call the CAS, given your situation-'. Lola approached the principal and the Briar Girl." - Signature 8.1</ref>).
  • The Children's Aid Society of the District of Thunder Bay covers the IRL area where Kennet is probably located (first mentioned in One After Another 10.4<ref>"'No need.  That’s great.  So hi, I’m David, I’m from CAS.  Do you know what that means?  CAS?'" - One After Another 10.4</ref>).
• Dudley Donut, used in Mala Fide 10.x as an insulting nickname for Duncan Behaim, may be a reference to Dunkin' Donuts (?)
• Princess Lilyhugs (Poke: Fourth) - a "Princess Lilyhugs lamp" is a thing that exists in-universe, but who or what Princess Lilyhugs is, is not stated. I'd guess that it's some sort of fictional goblin Disney Princess type character, but it could be the fictional company that made the lamp?
• The S.K. (Pact: Duress 12.1) - some kind of spy operative entity