Great Canadian Baking Show: Every Winner Ranked

Spoiler note: this post names the winner of every Great Canadian Baking Show season.

The Great Canadian Baking Show is CBC's licensed adaptation of the original tent format, running the same signature, technical, and showstopper structure with Canadian bakers since 2017. It now has its own season hub at /shows/great-canadian-baking-show/, compiled from CBC's own season coverage and cross-checked against Wikipedia's season-by-season records. Here is every champion so far, listed in order rather than ranked by any subjective measure, since the show itself does not rank past winners against each other.

Every Great Canadian Baking Show winner

Two seasons in one year

Seasons 4 and 5 both aired in 2021, a scheduling quirk left over from pandemic-era production delays that pushed the show's usual annual rhythm out of sync for a year before it settled back into one season per year from season 6 onward. Otherwise the show has run close to annually since its 2017 debut, with Edmonton and Vancouver each producing two champions across the show's history so far.

Who runs the show

Dan Levy and Julia Chan hosted the first two seasons, with Bruno Feldeisen and Rochelle Adonis judging. Aurora Browne and Carolyn Taylor took over hosting for season 3, and since season 4 the show has settled with Ann Pornel and Alan Shane Lewis as hosts, alongside judges Bruno Feldeisen, who has judged every season, and Kyla Kennaley, who joined for season 3 and has judged every season since. Dan Levy's involvement in the show's first two seasons drew a wave of attention from viewers who knew him from his other television work, and helped give the format a higher profile in its earliest years than a first-season baking show might otherwise expect.

Same tent, Canadian rules

The format is a close copy of the original: a signature bake to open each episode, a technical challenge judged blind with a stripped-down recipe, and a showstopper to close things out, with a Star Baker named each week and one baker eliminated. What differs is mostly texture rather than structure. The show films outside Toronto rather than in the English countryside, the ingredient lists lean into Canadian pantry staples and regional specialties more than the original does, and the tone, while still gentle by reality TV standards, carries a slightly different sense of humor from its hosts than the UK version's.

No cash prize here either

The Great Canadian Baking Show follows its British parent's lead on prize structure: winners get a trophy, a Star Baker-style handshake moment, and the title, not a check. That choice ties the Canadian version more closely to the UK original in tone than to most homegrown Canadian reality formats, and it keeps the show's stakes feeling personal rather than transactional, contestants are baking for pride and recognition rather than a payout.

The wider Bake Off family

The Great Canadian Baking Show is one of several international versions of the same tent format. The Great American Baking Show runs a near-identical structure south of the border, and back in the UK, our full list of every Great British Bake Off winner covers the original across all sixteen series. If the show has you wanting to attempt your own showstopper, a good bundt pan or a reliable loaf pan covers a surprising amount of what contestants are actually asked to bake in a typical technical challenge.