Canada Federal Corporations Search – CBCA Company Data & New Company Leads

Search every Canadian federal corporation registered with Corporations Canada: business corporations (CBCA), not-for-profits, co-operatives and others. Each record has the corporation number, Business Number (BN), corporate name (English/French form), governing act, status and status detail, incorporation/anniversary date, last annual filing year, last annual meeting, registered office address (street, city, province, postal code) and the minimum/maximum number of directors.

Find newly incorporated companies in a province or city, companies whose name contains a keyword, corporations flagged for dissolution (annual returns not filed), or look up thousands of corporation numbers or BNs in one run.

The data comes from the official Federal Corporations open dataset published daily by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) on open.canada.ca. No scraping, no login, no API key.

$1 per 1,000 corporations. You pay only for records saved.

Who uses it

• Accountants, bookkeepers, lawyers, banks, insurers and payroll/SaaS vendors: a daily list of new Canadian companies by province, city or postal code, ready for outreach.
• Compliance and corporate-services firms: active corporations with "Dissolution Pending (non-compliance)" status, which usually means the annual return was not filed.
• KYC / due diligence / data teams: bulk check corporation numbers or Business Numbers: is the company active, dissolved or amalgamated, and where is its registered office?
• Market researchers and journalists: incorporation trends by province, keyword (e.g. AI, cannabis, holdings) or legislation.

Input examples

Business corporations incorporated in Ontario in the last 30 days (the default prefill):

{ "incorporatedWithinDays": 30, "provinces": ["ON"], "corporationTypes": ["business"], "maxResults": 20 }

New AI companies in Montréal in the last year, without numbered companies:

{
  "cities": ["Montréal"],
  "nameContains": ["AI", "artificial intelligence", "intelligence artificielle"],
  "excludeNumberedCompanies": true,
  "incorporatedWithinDays": 365,
  "maxResults": 0
}

Quebec corporations flagged for dissolution for non-compliance:

{ "provinces": ["QC"], "statusDetails": ["dissolution-pending"], "maxResults": 500 }

Bulk lookup by corporation number or Business Number (searches active, inactive and dissolved records):

{ "corporationNumbers": ["8660115", "7286139"], "businessNumbers": ["118965557RC0001"] }

Daily feed of new British Columbia corporations (schedule it daily):

{ "provinces": ["BC"], "incorporatedWithinDays": 7, "onlyNew": true, "stateKey": "bc-feed", "maxResults": 0 }

Filters

Field	Meaning
incorporatedWithinDays / incorporatedAfter / incorporatedBefore	Anniversary date range (date of incorporation, amalgamation or continuance)
provinces, cities, postalCodePrefixes	Registered office location (city match ignores case and accents)
nameContains	Keywords matched at the start of a word in the English or French name
excludeNumberedCompanies	Skip 1234567 CANADA INC.-style names
statuses	active (default), inactive, dissolved
statusDetails	e.g. dissolution-pending, intent-to-dissolve, dissolved-non-compliance, amalgamated, discontinued (replaces statuses when set)
corporationTypes	business (CBCA), not-for-profit, cooperative, other
corporationNumbers, businessNumbers	Bulk lookup (other filters are ignored)
sortNewestFirst	Most recently incorporated first (default on)
onlyNew + stateKey	Monitoring: skip corporations returned by earlier runs
maxResults	Stop after N corporations (0 = all). You pay per corporation saved

Output

One record per corporation:

{
  "corporationNumber": "18327505",
  "businessNumber": "744972977",
  "name": "J2G AUTO CUSTOMS INC.",
  "nameOtherForm": null,
  "corporationType": "business",
  "governingLegislation": "Canada Business Corporations Act",
  "status": "Active",
  "statusDetail": null,
  "anniversaryDate": "2026-10-21",
  "yearOfLastAnnualFiling": null,
  "lastAnnualMeetingDate": null,
  "street": "243 Thorndale Rd",
  "street2": null,
  "city": "Brampton",
  "province": "ON",
  "postalCode": "L6P 3H2",
  "country": "CA",
  "fullAddress": "243 Thorndale Rd, Brampton, ON L6P 3H2",
  "minDirectors": 1,
  "maxDirectors": 10,
  "numberedCompany": false,
  "corporationsCanadaUrl": "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=18327505",
  "sourceFile": "active-business",
  "source": "Corporations Canada (ISED) - Federal Corporations open data",
  "licence": "Open Government Licence - Canada"
}

The run summary (OUTPUT in the key-value store) shows rows scanned, matches, corporations saved, numbers not found and the Last-Modified date of each source file.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.001 per corporation saved ($1 per 1,000), plus a tiny Actor start fee. Error rows are free. Set Max corporations or a maximum cost per run, and the run stops cleanly at that limit.

	This Actor	Other Canada corporation Actors on the Store (Oct 2026)
Price per record	$0.001	$0.002 – $0.021
Source	official daily bulk file, all ~1.57M federal records	mostly search pages / API per query
New-company feed	date filter + newest first + onlyNew	varies
Bulk lookup by corp. number / BN	yes	varies

Use with AI agents (Apify MCP)

Add this Actor to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server and ask, for example: "List the companies incorporated in Calgary this week" or "Is Business Number 835752437 still active?"

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Corporations Canada regenerates the files every day. Each run downloads the current file, so newly incorporated companies usually show up within a day or two.

Does it include provincially incorporated companies? No. Only federal corporations (CBCA, Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, Canada Cooperatives Act and older federal acts). Companies incorporated only in a province (e.g. an Ontario-only "1234567 Ontario Inc.") are not in this dataset.

Does it include director names, emails or phone numbers? No. The open dataset has no director names or contact details, only the minimum/maximum number of directors. Director names are visible on the Corporations Canada page linked in corporationsCanadaUrl.

Is anniversaryDate the incorporation date? It is the date of incorporation, amalgamation or continuance (the date annual returns are based on). For most new companies it is the incorporation date.

How long does a run take? About 5–10 seconds for active corporations and 15–20 seconds when inactive/dissolved records are included (the Actor streams ~280 MB of CSV and never stores it).

Why are some Business Numbers empty? Older corporations and some not-for-profits have no BN in the registry.

Data source and licence

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada – Corporations Canada, Federal Corporations dataset. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of Canada.