# Canada Company Data — Federal & BC Corporation Search (`foxlabs/canada-company-data`) Actor
Search Canadian federal corporations by name or number. Returns corporation status, registered office, directors, and governing legislation from ISED Corporations Canada.
- **URL**: https://apify.com/foxlabs/canada-company-data.md
- **Developed by:** [Berkan Kaplan](https://apify.com/foxlabs) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing
from $2.50 / 1,000 results
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# README
## Canada Company Data — Federal & BC Corporation Search
> **Also known as**: Canada corporation lookup · Corporations Canada search · ISED corporation data · Canadian business registry · CBCA company data · OrgBook BC search · BN9 lookup · Canadian not-for-profit list · Canadian KYC / due-diligence data.
### What does Canada Company Data do?
Give it a **company name**, a **corporation / registration number**, or a **category** and it returns structured firmographic profiles as JSON. It searches two official open-data registries:
- **Federal — Corporations Canada (ISED)**: ~640,000+ active **CBCA** corporations plus ~50,000 active **non-CBCA** entities (not-for-profits, cooperatives, boards of trade), and optionally dissolved/inactive corporations.
- **British Columbia — OrgBook BC**: companies registered in BC.
All data comes from **official government open data** (Open Government Licence – Canada / – British Columbia). **No API key, no fragile HTML scraping.**
### Three ways to search
1. **By number** — paste a federal corporation number or BC registration number for an exact, instant lookup.
2. **By name** — substring search across Federal + BC (e.g. `Shopify` → `SHOPIFY INC.`, `Shopify Quebec Inc.`, …).
3. **By category** — browse/list federal corporations by **organisation type** (business corporation, not-for-profit, cooperative, board of trade), optionally narrowed by **province**. No name needed — great for building lists (e.g. *all federal not-for-profits in Ontario*).
> **Why "category" = organisation type?** The Canadian federal open data has **no industry / NAICS codes**, so the available category is the corporate form (CBCA business corp vs not-for-profit vs cooperative, etc.). Category/province browse is **federal only**.
### What you get
**Federal record** (Corporations Canada):
- **Identity**: corporate name, secondary name, **corporation number**, **business number (BN9)**
- **Status & legislation**: status (Active/Inactive/Dissolved, normalized to English), governing legislation (CBCA, CNCA, Cooperatives Act, …)
- **Filing dates**: anniversary date, year of last annual filing, date of last annual meeting — populated for **both** name/category records (from bulk data) **and** number lookups (from the corporation's annual-return history)
- **Address**: street, city, province/territory, postal code, country
- **Directors**: minimum and maximum number of directors permitted by the articles *(director **counts**, not names — see note)*
**British Columbia record** (OrgBook BC): corporate name, BC registration number, **business number** (fetched per entity), status, registration date, province, country. *(Street address and director information are not exposed by OrgBook.)*
> **Director names?** This version returns director **counts** (min/max), not individual director names. Federal director *names* live behind a separate free-account API and are a planned later phase.
### How to use
1. Open the **Input** tab.
2. Pick any combination of:
- **Company names** (one per line) and/or **corporation / registration numbers**, or
- a **Category** (organisation type) and/or **Province** to browse — no name required.
3. Choose **Jurisdiction**: `Both` (Federal + BC), `Federal only`, or `British Columbia only`.
4. Options: **Include inactive / dissolved** (federal), **Fetch BC business number** (on by default), **Max results**.
5. Click **Start**. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML.
**Examples**
| Goal | Input |
|---|---|
| Look up one company | `corporationNumbers: ["8660115"]` |
| Find a company by name | `companyNames: ["Lululemon"]`, `jurisdiction: both` |
| All federal not-for-profits in Ontario | `category: nonprofit`, `province: ON`, `maxResults: 5000` |
| All federal cooperatives | `category: cooperative` |
### Output
**Federal** (real example):
```json
{
"jurisdiction": "Federal (CBCA)",
"corporateName": "SHOPIFY STUDIOS HOLDINGS INC.",
"corporateNameSecondary": null,
"corporationNumber": "11125885",
"businessNumber": "721968915",
"governingLegislation": "Canada Business Corporations Act",
"status": "Active",
"anniversaryDate": "2018-12-03",
"yearOfLastFiling": "2025",
"lastAnnualMeeting": "2025-12-03",
"street": "151 O'Connor Street, Ground Floor",
"city": "Ottawa",
"province": "ON",
"country": "CA",
"postalCode": "K2P 2L8",
"directorsMin": 1,
"directorsMax": 10,
"source": "Corporations Canada (ISED) — Open Government Licence – Canada",
"sourceUrl": "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=11125885",
"scrapedAt": "2026-06-28T11:55:38.593Z"
}
````
**British Columbia** (real example):
```json
{
"jurisdiction": "British Columbia",
"corporateName": "LULULEMON ATHLETICA CANADA INC.",
"corporationNumber": "BC0578072",
"businessNumber": "872184155",
"governingLegislation": "British Columbia",
"status": "Active",
"registrationDate": "1999-01-12",
"province": "BC",
"country": "CA",
"source": "OrgBook BC — Open Government Licence – British Columbia",
"sourceUrl": "https://orgbook.gov.bc.ca/entity/BC0578072",
"scrapedAt": "2026-06-28T11:55:49.137Z",
"searchQuery": "Lululemon"
}
```
### Data table
| Field | Federal | BC | Description |
|---|:--:|:--:|---|
| `jurisdiction` | ✓ | ✓ | `Federal (CBCA)` or `British Columbia` |
| `corporateName` | ✓ | ✓ | Current legal name |
| `corporateNameSecondary` | ✓ | — | Secondary name form (if any) |
| `corporationNumber` | ✓ | ✓ | Federal 7-digit number, or BC registration number |
| `businessNumber` | ✓ | ✓¹ | 9-digit CRA business number (BN9) |
| `governingLegislation` | ✓ | ✓ | CBCA, CNCA, Cooperatives Act, or `British Columbia` |
| `status` | ✓ | ✓ | Active / Inactive / Dissolved (English) |
| `anniversaryDate` | ✓ | — | Corporation anniversary / coming-into-existence date |
| `yearOfLastFiling` | ✓ | — | Year of last annual filing |
| `lastAnnualMeeting` | ✓ | — | Date of last annual meeting |
| `registrationDate` | — | ✓ | BC registration date |
| `street` / `city` / `province` / `postalCode` / `country` | ✓ | partial | Registered address (BC: province + country only) |
| `directorsMin` / `directorsMax` | ✓ | — | Min/max directors permitted by the articles |
| `source` / `sourceUrl` | ✓ | ✓ | Provenance and link to the official record |
| `scrapedAt` | ✓ | ✓ | ISO timestamp of retrieval |
¹ BC business number is fetched per entity when **Fetch BC business number** is on (default). It is present for ~90% of incorporated entities; some BC firms/partnerships have no CRA business number.
### Data quality
Measured across the full active CBCA dataset (643k corporations): corporate name, number, legislation, status, address and director counts are **~100%** filled; **BN9 99.8%** (all valid 9-digit); postal codes 100% valid format. `yearOfLastFiling`/`lastAnnualMeeting` are present for ~65–75% (newer corporations have not filed yet). BC records are leaner — identity, status and registration date are complete; business number ~90% (with enrichment on).
### Pricing / Cost estimation
**Pay-per-result at $2.50 / 1,000 results.** Each output record counts as one result.
- **Number lookup** is instant and cheap (one official JSON call per number).
- **Name search & category browse** stream the official bulk CSV(s) and stop as soon as your `maxResults` cap is reached, so they are fast for typical caps; a rare name with no match scans the full active dataset (~100 MB) once.
- **BC business number** adds one lightweight OrgBook call per BC result (turn it off for faster BC runs).
Free tier: $5 monthly platform credit covers your first ~2,000 results.
### Tips
- Use a **corporation number** for a guaranteed single-entity match.
- **Name search is a substring match** — common words (e.g. `Holdings`) return many entities, so set `maxResults` to control volume.
- **Category browse**: combine `category` + `province` to build targeted lists (e.g. all not-for-profits in BC). Raise `maxResults` for large pulls (up to 50,000).
- Set **Jurisdiction = Both** to catch a company registered federally *and* in BC.
### FAQ, disclaimers, and support
**Data sources:** Corporations Canada (ISED) under the Open Government Licence – Canada; OrgBook BC under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.
**Coverage limits:** Federal coverage is CBCA + non-CBCA (optionally dissolved). Provincial coverage is currently **British Columbia only** — other provincial registries (Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, …) are not included. Category = organisation type (no industry/NAICS in the source). Director **names** are not included in this version (counts only).
**Support:** Found a bug or need a feature (another province, industry codes, director names)? Open an issue on the **Issues** tab.
### Changelog
#### 0.1 — 2026-06-28
- **Federal** lookup by corporation **number** (official legacy JSON) and by **name** (official bulk CSVs), English-normalized status & legislation, director counts.
- **Number lookups now include filing dates** (anniversary, year of last filing, last annual meeting) from the corporation's annual-return history.
- **British Columbia** search via OrgBook BC, with **per-entity business-number (BN9) enrichment** (search results alone rarely carry it).
- **Category / province browse** — list federal corporations by organisation type (business / not-for-profit / cooperative / board of trade) and/or province, no name required.
- Robust bulk-CSV streaming that settles correctly on early abort when the result cap is reached.
# Actor input Schema
## `companyNames` (type: `array`):
Search by company name across Federal + BC registries. Substring match (e.g. "Shopify" finds Shopify Inc.).
## `corporationNumbers` (type: `array`):
Federal corporation number (e.g. 8660115) or BC registration number. Most precise lookup.
## `category` (type: `string`):
Browse/list federal corporations by organisation TYPE. The federal open data has no industry/NAICS codes, so this is the corporate form. Works without a name/number — combine with Province to narrow. Federal only.
## `province` (type: `string`):
Filter federal results to a province/territory. Use with Category to browse (e.g. all not-for-profits in Ontario), or alongside a name search.
## `jurisdiction` (type: `string`):
Which registry to search. Federal = Corporations Canada (CBCA). BC = British Columbia (OrgBook). Both = merge. Category/Province browse is federal only.
## `includeInactive` (type: `boolean`):
Federal: also stream the dissolved/inactive corporations file (larger, slower). BC already excludes historical.
## `bcBusinessNumber` (type: `boolean`):
For BC results, make one extra OrgBook call per company to retrieve the 9-digit business number (the search result alone rarely includes it). Turn off for faster, lighter BC runs.
## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):
Hard cap on records (1–50000).
## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):
Apify Proxy. Datacenter is fine — official open-data sources don't block.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"companyNames": [
"Shopify",
"Lululemon"
],
"corporationNumbers": [],
"category": "any",
"province": "any",
"jurisdiction": "both",
"includeInactive": false,
"bcBusinessNumber": true,
"maxResults": 100,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
}
```
# Actor output Schema
## `dataset` (type: `string`):
No description
# API
You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.
## JavaScript example
```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"companyNames": [
"Shopify",
"Lululemon"
],
"corporationNumbers": [],
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("foxlabs/canada-company-data").call(input);
// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
console.dir(item);
});
// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs
```
## Python example
```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"companyNames": [
"Shopify",
"Lululemon",
],
"corporationNumbers": [],
"proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("foxlabs/canada-company-data").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)
# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"companyNames": [
"Shopify",
"Lululemon"
],
"corporationNumbers": [],
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
}' |
apify call foxlabs/canada-company-data --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=foxlabs/canada-company-data",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
```json
{
"openapi": "3.0.1",
"info": {
"title": "Canada Company Data — Federal & BC Corporation Search",
"description": "Search Canadian federal corporations by name or number. Returns corporation status, registered office, directors, and governing legislation from ISED Corporations Canada.",
"version": "0.1",
"x-build-id": "GWd5LcC6mKNdXBLYH"
},
"servers": [
{
"url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
}
],
"paths": {
"/acts/foxlabs~canada-company-data/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-foxlabs-canada-company-data",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
},
"/acts/foxlabs~canada-company-data/runs": {
"post": {
"operationId": "runs-sync-foxlabs-canada-company-data",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK",
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
}
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},
"/acts/foxlabs~canada-company-data/run-sync": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-foxlabs-canada-company-data",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
}
},
"components": {
"schemas": {
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"companyNames": {
"title": "Company names",
"type": "array",
"description": "Search by company name across Federal + BC registries. Substring match (e.g. \"Shopify\" finds Shopify Inc.).",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"corporationNumbers": {
"title": "Corporation / registration numbers",
"type": "array",
"description": "Federal corporation number (e.g. 8660115) or BC registration number. Most precise lookup.",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"category": {
"title": "Category (organisation type)",
"enum": [
"any",
"business",
"nonprofit",
"cooperative",
"board-of-trade",
"other"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Browse/list federal corporations by organisation TYPE. The federal open data has no industry/NAICS codes, so this is the corporate form. Works without a name/number — combine with Province to narrow. Federal only.",
"default": "any"
},
"province": {
"title": "Province / territory",
"enum": [
"any",
"AB",
"BC",
"MB",
"NB",
"NL",
"NS",
"NT",
"NU",
"ON",
"PE",
"QC",
"SK",
"YT"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Filter federal results to a province/territory. Use with Category to browse (e.g. all not-for-profits in Ontario), or alongside a name search.",
"default": "any"
},
"jurisdiction": {
"title": "Jurisdiction",
"enum": [
"both",
"federal",
"bc"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Which registry to search. Federal = Corporations Canada (CBCA). BC = British Columbia (OrgBook). Both = merge. Category/Province browse is federal only.",
"default": "both"
},
"includeInactive": {
"title": "Include inactive / dissolved",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Federal: also stream the dissolved/inactive corporations file (larger, slower). BC already excludes historical.",
"default": false
},
"bcBusinessNumber": {
"title": "Fetch BC business number (BN9)",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "For BC results, make one extra OrgBook call per company to retrieve the 9-digit business number (the search result alone rarely includes it). Turn off for faster, lighter BC runs.",
"default": true
},
"maxResults": {
"title": "Max results",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 50000,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Hard cap on records (1–50000).",
"default": 100
},
"proxyConfiguration": {
"title": "Proxy",
"type": "object",
"description": "Apify Proxy. Datacenter is fine — official open-data sources don't block.",
"default": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
}
}
},
"runsResponseSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"data": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string"
},
"actId": {
"type": "string"
},
"userId": {
"type": "string"
},
"startedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"finishedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"example": "READY"
},
"meta": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"origin": {
"type": "string",
"example": "API"
},
"userAgent": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"stats": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"inputBodyLen": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2000
},
"rebootCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"restartCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"resurrectCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"computeUnits": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"options": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"build": {
"type": "string",
"example": "latest"
},
"timeoutSecs": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 300
},
"memoryMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1024
},
"diskMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2048
}
}
},
"buildId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultDatasetId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultRequestQueueId": {
"type": "string"
},
"buildNumber": {
"type": "string",
"example": "1.0.0"
},
"containerUrl": {
"type": "string"
},
"usage": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"usageTotalUsd": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"usageUsd": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
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"example": 0
},
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"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```