Canada Federal Corporation Search: Open Registry Data

Verify Canadian federal corporations by number, or list new ones, from the Federal Corporations open dataset that Corporations Canada publishes daily under the Open Government Licence – Canada. It covers more than 1.5 million active, dissolved and inactive corporations. The Actor reads only the published data files. It never scrapes the corporation search pages.

Use it to check that a customer, vendor or grantee exists and is in good standing, to catch corporations heading for dissolution, to find newly formed companies and not-for-profits, or to give an AI agent a way to answer "is this corporation active?". This is a list of corporations, not of people: it has no director names, street addresses, phones or emails.

Two ways to use it

Verify numbers. Put corporation numbers or business numbers in numbers. All other filters are ignored, and dissolved corporations are included:

{ "numbers": ["866011-5", "100094283"] }

Numbers with no match are listed under numbersNotFound in RUN_SUMMARY and are not charged.

List corporations. Leave numbers empty and filter by name, province, kind or date. Results are newest first:

{ "provinces": ["QC"], "kinds": ["business"], "incorporatedWithinDays": 30, "maxItems": 200 }

Output

One item per corporation:

{
  "id": "ca-corp:8660115",
  "source": "corporations-canada",
  "corporationNumber": "8660115",
  "name": "MINDANGLER CAPITAL INC.",
  "nameConfirmed": true,
  "kind": "business",
  "active": true,
  "url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/0032ce54-c5dd-4b66-99a0-320a7b5e99f2",
  "attribution": "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Corporations Canada, Federal Corporations, https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/0032ce54-c5dd-4b66-99a0-320a7b5e99f2",
  "alternateName": null,
  "businessNumber": "835752437",
  "status": "Active",
  "statusDetail": null,
  "dissolutionPending": false,
  "governingLegislation": "Canada Business Corporations Act",
  "anniversaryDate": "2013-10-10",
  "lastAnnualFilingYear": 2026,
  "lastAnnualMeetingDate": "2023-10-10",
  "city": "Ottawa",
  "province": "ON",
  "postalArea": "K2K",
  "minDirectors": 1,
  "maxDirectors": 12,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T09:00:00+00:00"
}

Field	Meaning
id	Stable key. Use it to remove repeats between runs
source	Always corporations-canada
corporationNumber	The number on the official record, without the hyphen and with no leading zeros. 866011-5 is 8660115
businessNumber	The 9-digit Canada Revenue Agency number when the source has one. The same number can appear on more than one corporation, for example after an amalgamation
name, alternateName	The two registered forms of the name, often English and French. null when nameConfirmed is false, see "Personal data"
nameConfirmed	true if the name was confirmed as an organisation's name
kind	business, not-for-profit, cooperative, board-of-trade or other, from the governing act
active	true if status is Active
status, statusDetail	The source's own wording, such as Dissolved and Dissolved for non-compliance
dissolutionPending	true if the status detail says dissolution is pending, which usually follows missed annual filings
governingLegislation	The act the corporation is under
anniversaryDate	The date the corporation incorporated, amalgamated or continued under its act. It is not always the date the business began. An older company that moved under federal law shows the date it moved
lastAnnualFilingYear, lastAnnualMeetingDate	From the source. null if not published
city, province	Registered office. Old codes are updated, so NF becomes NL. A city that contains a street or box number is null
postalArea	The first 3 characters of the postal code
minDirectors, maxDirectors	The range in the corporation's articles. The number of directors, not their names
url	The official dataset page
attribution	The credit line to keep when you pass the data on
scrapedAt	When this run produced the item

Input

Field	Default
numbers	none	Up to 1,000 corporation or business numbers. Other filters are then ignored
keywords	none	Name contains any keyword, as registered. societe does not match Société, so try both spellings
provinces	all	Province or territory of the registered office
kinds	all	Any of the kind values
activeOnly	true	Leave out dissolved and inactive corporations
incorporatedWithinDays	0	Anniversary date in the last N days. 0 means no limit
maxItems	100	Total for the run, newest first. You pay per result

The default run lists the 100 newest active corporations in about 5 seconds. Reading all four source files, which is what activeOnly: false and lookups can do, takes about 6 seconds.

Personal data

Corporations Canada's own record pages show directors and their addresses. This Actor leaves all of that out:

• No people. The published files contain no director names, and the Actor does not call the API or pages that do.
• No street addresses. A small corporation's registered office is often a home, so the street columns are never read and location stops at city, province and postal area. A full Canadian postal code can point to a single block, so only the first 3 characters are returned.
• No links to record pages. url is the dataset page, because the record pages list directors. To see a record, search the corporation number on the Corporations Canada website.
• Names must look like an organisation. The source lists only incorporated bodies, but a not-for-profit's name needs no legal word, so an unusual one could be a person's name. A name is returned only if it contains a legal word such as Inc or Ltée or an organisation word such as Society or Fondation. A name that itself contains a person's name, such as Jane Doe Holdings Inc., is still returned as the registered name of the corporation.
• Lists leave out unconfirmed names. All but a handful of business corporations pass, and about 80 percent of not-for-profits. In a list they are counted as nameNotConfirmed in RUN_SUMMARY. Many of those left out are ordinary organisations with plain names, such as a charity named Go Play Outside.
• Lookups keep the status only. When you ask for a number and its name cannot be confirmed, you get the status, dates and kind with nameConfirmed: false, and name, alternateName, city, province and postalArea set to null.

Limitations

• Federal corporations only. Companies incorporated under a provincial or territorial law are not in this source, and neither are sole proprietorships or partnerships. A missing number is not proof that a business does not exist.
• incorporatedWithinDays is not only new companies. Amalgamations and continuances also get a new date.
• Status is what the file shows. The files are typically updated daily and can trail the live registry. RUN_SUMMARY gives each file's date. Confirm with Corporations Canada before relying on a status for a legal or payment decision.
• keywords looks at the two registered name forms only. The source has no industry field.
• If one file cannot be read, the run still succeeds with the others and RUN_SUMMARY shows incomplete: true with the error. Treat numbersNotFound from such a run as unconfirmed.
• Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of Canada or Corporations Canada.

Data source and attribution

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Corporations Canada, Federal Corporations. Each item carries this in its attribution field, so you can keep the credit when you pass the data on.

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日本語

カナダ政府（Corporations Canada）が毎日公開する公式オープンデータから、連邦法人の情報を取得します。法人番号・事業者番号での照合と、新しい順の一覧の 2 通りで使えます。許諾は Open Government Licence – Canada です。登記検索の画面は巡回しません。出力は法人名・種類・状態・根拠法・記念日（設立・合併・継続の日）・最終届出年・市・州・郵便番号の先頭 3 文字までで、取締役の氏名、番地、メール、電話は出力しません。