House for $1. In 2013, Random House's parent company, Bertelsmann, entered into a joint venture with Pearson PLC (the parent company of the Penguin Group) to form a new trade publishing company called Penguin Random House. As part of this venture Random House of Canada and Penguin Canada were amalgamated as Penguin Random House Canada. References Further reading James King, Jack: The Story of Jack McClelland, Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1999. Roy Macskimming, The Perilous Trade: Book Publishing in Canada, 1946 - 2006. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2003. Jack McClelland (edited by Sam Solecki), Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland, Toronto: Key Porter, 1998. External links McClelland and Stewart website McClelland & Stewart Archive at McMaster University Book publishing companies of Canada Companies based in Toronto 1906 establishments in Ontario Canadian companies established in 1906