Family Channel (commonly or simply known as Family) was a Canadian English-language specialty channel owned by WildBrain Television Inc., a subsidiary of WildBrain. The network aired children's television series, teen dramas, as well as other programming targeting a family audience. Despite having its own headquarters in the Brookfield Place office in Financial District, the channel was transmitted from Blue Ant Media's headquarters.

Launched on September 1, 1988, it was originally a joint venture between the owners of the premium television services First Choice (now Crave and Superchannel, which was later named the Movie Central); due to the split of Western International Communications, the network became a joint venture between Astral Media and Corus Entertainment. By 2001, Astral had acquired full ownership of the network; after the 2013 acquisition of Astral by Bell Media, the network and its sister channels were divested to WildBrain (at the time known as DHX Media) in 2014.

From its launch in 1988 until 2015, Family's programming heavily mirrored that of the American cable network Disney Channel, with which Family held a licensing agreement. Family Channel's lineup consisted mainly of domestic and foreign-imported, live-action and animated series from Disney Channel, feature films from the Disney film library, vintage films from other Canadian and American film studios, and specials. Astral also used this relationship to launch Canadian versions of Disney Junior and Disney XD. After the DHX acquisition, the license agreement ended in 2015; Disney then entered into a new licensing agreement with Corus and launched new Canadian versions of Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Junior. Since then, Family Channel has acquired programming from other sources.

Family was originally licensed as a premium specialty service, which necessitated that it operate under a commercial-free format, but allowed it to operate multiplex feeds (particularly the aforementioned Disney Junior, now Family Jr.). Nevertheless, television providers typically distributed Family as a conventional specialty channel. In 2016, Family was relieved of this mandate after the CRTC transitioned premium specialty services to the standardized discretionary service license.

As of March 2013, Family Channel was available to approximately six million pay television households in Canada. In August 2025, WildBrain announced that it would close all of its specialty channels due to loss of carriage agreements.

Family Channel was licensed as a premium television service by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on December 1, 1987; it was originally operated as a joint venture between Allarcom Pay Television Limited and First Choice Canadian Communications Corporation (owners of both Superchannel and First Choice), with both companies owning a 50% stake in the service.

In October 1999, as part of the split of Western International Communications (which had acquired Allarcom), its stake in Family Channel was sold to Corus Entertainment. In March 2001, in response to concerns from the CRTC over Corus' near-monopoly position in children's specialty channels (accounting for its stakes in YTV, Treehouse, and Teletoon), Corus traded its stake in Family Channel to Astral Media in exchange for its stake in The Comedy Network for $126.9 million, giving them full ownership.

On July 1, 2007, Family became the last English-language children's network in Canada to switch to a 24-hour broadcast schedule. On January 11, 2011, Family launched a high-definition feed, and concurrently introduced an updated logo and on-air presentation.