Total annual building energy demands and associated greenhouse gas emissions have increased steadily over the past decades in Canada and are projected to continue in this vein for years to come. A potential pathway to counteract this trend involves moving away from carbon intensive fossil fuel and electricity driven space conditioning technologies like furnaces and vapour compression air conditioners towards more sustainable solar heating and cooling technologies. The current study evaluates the techno-economic and environmental performance of a proposed solar-driven adsorption-based system used to meet the space conditioning and domestic hot water demands of a 12-unit low energy multi-unit residential building exposed to Canadian climate conditions. This study has two components: 1) an experimental study to explore the use of an adsorption chiller to provide dehumidification and 2) a modeling study to evaluate the larger solardriven adsorption-based system. In the experimental study an existing performance map of a 14 kW SorTech adsorption chiller is expanded to include the lower chilled water temperatures required for dehumidification. This experimental study shows that the chiller cannot function properly at low temperatures and enters a freeze protection mode which limits its ability to provide dehumidification. In the modeling component of this study a transient numerical model of the low energy multi-unit residential building and proposed system which includes a solar thermal collector array, thermal storage tanks, and an adsorption chiller is developed in the TRNSYS environment. The following two reference systems are also modeled for comparison: 1) a modern system that uses distributed unit-level electric mini-split heat pumps for space heating and cooling, and a centralized electric domestic hot water tank for water heating; and 2) a conventional centralized system that uses natural gas for space and domestic water heating, and a conventional vapour compression chiller for space cooling. Annual simulations are conducted in 12 Canadian locations with differing climate conditions, and system performance is assessed by calculating the total annual greenhouse gas emissions and levelized cost of energy. The technical performance of the proposed system is additionally assessed via calculating the annual solar fraction. Results show that the proposed system can achieve solar fractions greater than 0.8 in certain Canadian locations (e.g., the cities of Winnipeg and Ottawa) and can reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 62.7% and 99.8% (in the city of Winnipeg) relative to the all-electric unit-level heat pump and centralized natural gas reference systems, respectively. Although the levelized cost of energy for the proposed system is greater than both reference systems in all 12 locations analyzed, a compelling economic argument can be made for these systems in jurisdictions whose electrical grids are largely fossil fuel dependent.