Outside of the United States, Canada has had the fastest and most fervent adoption of the sport since its creation in 2005 at Middlebury College in Vermont.

The first team on the West Coast was the University of Victoria Valkyries who made the trip to New York for the former World Cup.

Recently, the Lower Mainland of BC, all of Southern Ontario, parts of Quebec, and Central Alberta have become hotspots for quidditch, with efforts being made to bring the sport to the remaining provinces and territories.

[3] In 2009, McGill attended the third World Cup[4] with 22 teams, where they came in 12th place after having been defeated by the eventual victors, Middlebury College, in the quarter-finals.

[8] In September of that year, the International Quidditch Association created a membership programme of which four teams; McGill, U of T, Ryerson and Carleton, became official IQA members.

[11] In November, the fourth World Cup saw four Canadian teams in attendance: McGill, Carleton, U of T and Ryerson, coming in 16th, 32nd, 43rd and 45th place out of 46, respectively.

UBC, in February 2013, travelled to the Western Cup, the regional championship for the IQA along the west coast of the United States held in Sacramento, where they did not advance to the second day.

[23] In March, quidditch expands within BC with the Cascadia Cup being held in Vancouver by UBC where the Burnaby Boggarts (being formed in January 2013)[24] and UVic face off.

[23] At the same time, the University of Northern British Columbia begin holding practices,[25][26] but the team soon withers away due to lack of local competition.

[27] For the sixth World Cup in Kissimmee, Florida, three Canadian teams travel there to compete (uOttawa, Fleming College and U of T).

The 2012 IQA Summer Games, held in London, UK was the first tournament where nations sent teams to represent themselves instead of having clubs participate.

However, two teams did make their way to Saskatchewan on February 1, 2015 being the Alberta Clippers and the Winnipeg Whomping Willows, coming in first and second place, respectively.