Sired by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Windfields, he was out of the mare Bolesteo.
Trained by John Passero, during his racing career Canadian Champ set three track records at Woodbine Racetrack and equalled another there as well as at Gulfstream Park in Florida.
Sent south to Saratoga Race Course, he ran second in the United States Hotel Stakes to Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's colt Career Boy.
Canadian Champ was ridden by jockeys David Stevenson and Eugene Rodriguez.
Standing at E. P. Taylor's Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, between 1959 and 1968, Canadian Champ notably sired the 1963 Canadian Triple Crown winner, Canebora, and the 1966 Queen's Plate winner, Titled Hero.