Canada Business Entity Search
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from $3.00 / 1,000 results
Canada Business Entity Search
Search 12 official Canadian business data sources, including federal corporations, BC entities, charities, money services businesses, OSFI-regulated institutions, and Statistics Canada business datasets.
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Search 1.55 million+ Canadian federal corporations and 12 official Canadian business data sources in one run.
- ✅ Search 1.55 million+ federal corporations from ISED Corporations Canada
- ✅ Query 12 official Canadian sources in parallel: ISED, OrgBook BC, CRA charities, FINTRAC MSBs, OSFI, and Statistics Canada datasets
- ✅ Get company name, status, corporation number, jurisdiction, and source metadata in one dataset
- ✅ Cross-check regulated entities, charities, and money service businesses without visiting multiple sites
- ✅ Pay only for what you use: $0.002 per record
Verifying a Canadian company usually means searching ISED first, then checking BC OrgBook, then CRA charities, then FINTRAC, then OSFI, and sometimes pulling Statistics Canada indicators separately for market context. This Actor runs those searches in parallel and returns every match in one structured dataset.
What you can do with it
1. Verify a Canadian company's federal registration and status
This is the fastest KYB-style use case: search a company name and confirm whether it appears in the federal corporation registry, what its status is, and when it was incorporated.
To run this, you only fill in two simple fields in the Apify input form at the top of this page:
What you enter:
| What | Example |
|---|---|
| Search terms | Shopify |
| Max results per source | 20 |
Click Start. Within seconds, the Actor queries ISED and the other configured Canadian sources for the same term:
What you get back:
| Corporation | Number | Status | Jurisdiction | Incorporated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHOPIFY INC. | 835186-8 | Active | Federal | 2004-09-28 |
| SHOPIFY PAYMENTS (CANADA) INC. | 987654-3 | Active | Federal | 2012-05-15 |
Every ISED row comes from the official Corporations Canada federal registry. You also get _source, _product_id, and _search_term fields so you can tell exactly which public source produced each match.
2. Screen for regulated financial entities and MSBs
If you're onboarding a payments company, FX business, lender, or other financial counterparty in Canada, you usually need more than just corporate registration. You also want to know whether the name appears in FINTRAC's money services business registry or OSFI's regulated institution lists.
What you enter:
| What | Example |
|---|---|
| Search terms | Wise, exchange, or credit union |
| Max results per source | 50 |
What you get back:
| Source | Entity | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| FINTRAC MSB Registry | Matches for MSBs, FX providers, remitters | AML / registration screening |
| OSFI Regulated FI | Matches for federally regulated institutions | Prudential / banking supervision context |
| ISED Federal Corporations | Company registration baseline | Corporate existence check |
This gives compliance teams one run that covers the core "is this company registered?" and "does it show up in the expected regulated registry?" questions.
3. Check whether an organization is a registered Canadian charity
This is useful for nonprofit due diligence, grant screening, donor research, or validating that a foundation or association appears in the CRA charities database.
What you enter:
| What | Example |
|---|---|
| Search terms | foundation, food bank, or a charity name |
| Max results per source | 50 |
What you get back:
| Source | Example match |
|---|---|
| CRA Charities | Registered charities and foundations |
| ISED Federal Corporations | Related nonprofit corporate entities |
| OrgBook BC | BC-linked records where applicable |
Instead of opening CRA search manually and then searching corporate records separately, you get the charity-side and entity-side matches in one dataset.
4. Build Canadian prospect or research lists by keyword
Search terms do not need to be exact company names. You can search broad keywords like mining, logistics, energy, fintech, or AI and return matching organizations across the 12 configured Canadian sources.
This is useful for:
- B2B prospecting
- market mapping
- investor sourcing
- partner discovery
- thesis research
What you enter:
| What | Example |
|---|---|
| Search terms | mining, fintech, artificial intelligence |
| Max results per source | 100 |
What you get back:
| Search term | Example use |
|---|---|
mining | Find mining-related entities and adjacent business records |
fintech | Surface companies, registries, and finance-related matches |
artificial intelligence | Track naming patterns and sector activity |
Because every source is searched in parallel, one query can return both company-style matches and regulated or macro context sources in the same run.
5. Use it from ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or no-code tools
Ask your assistant:
"Check whether Shopify is registered federally in Canada and whether it appears in any Canadian regulated financial source."
Or:
"Find Canadian business records matching mining."
This Actor also works as a standard "Run Actor" step in Make, Zapier, and n8n.
How to use (no code required)
- Click "Try for Free" at the top of this page
- Enter one or more company names, keywords, or business identifiers
- Choose how many results to return per source
- Click Start
- Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS
The free $5 Apify credit covers about 2,500 records.
What you get back
Each matching row includes:
- the original record fields from the public source
_product_idshowing which data product matched_sourceshowing the source label_search_termshowing which query triggered the row_collected_atshowing when the Actor retrieved it
Because this Actor searches multiple official datasets, field names differ by source. ISED federal corporation rows look different from CRA charity rows or FINTRAC MSB rows. The Actor preserves the original structure instead of flattening everything into one lossy schema.
Data sources
This Actor currently searches these 12 Canadian public data products:
| Source label | Product ID | Authority |
|---|---|---|
| Federal corporations | ca_federal_corporations | Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) |
| OrgBook BC | ca_orgbook_bc_entity | Province of British Columbia |
| CRA charities | ca_cra_charities | Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) |
| FINTRAC MSB registry | ca_fintrac_msb_registry | FINTRAC |
| OSFI regulated financial institutions | ca_osfi_regulated_fi | OSFI |
| Statistics Canada business dynamics | ca_statcan_business_dynamics | Statistics Canada |
| Statistics Canada business openings/closures | ca_statcan_business_openings_closures | Statistics Canada |
| Statistics Canada business registrations | ca_statcan_business_registrations | Statistics Canada |
| Statistics Canada labour force | ca_statcan_labour_force | Statistics Canada |
| Statistics Canada retail trade | ca_statcan_retail_trade | Statistics Canada |
| Statistics Canada weekly earnings | ca_statcan_weekly_earnings | Statistics Canada |
| Statistics Canada wholesale trade | ca_statcan_wholesale_trade | Statistics Canada |
The strongest entity-level verification sources are ISED, OrgBook BC, CRA, FINTRAC, and OSFI. The Statistics Canada sources are useful for business and market context rather than direct legal entity verification.
Pricing
Pay per record. No subscription.
| What triggers a charge | Cost |
|---|---|
| Actor start (each run) | $0.005 |
| Each business record | $0.002 |
$5 free Apify credit = about 2,500 records.
Connect to your tools
| Platform | How to connect |
|---|---|
| Make.com | Search "Apify" -> "Run Actor" -> Actor ID lentic_clockss/canada-business-search |
| n8n | Add Apify node -> "Run Actor" -> same Actor ID |
| Zapier | Use Apify's "Run Actor" action |
| ChatGPT / Claude / Cursor | Connect through Apify MCP |
| Python / custom code | Use Apify API or SDK |
When to use something else
| If you need... | Use this instead |
|---|---|
| US company registrations | US Business Entity Search |
| Global company search across multiple countries | Global Company Search |
| Canadian government contracts | Canada Government Contracts Search |
| Canadian building permits | Canada Building Permits Search |
| A single provincial registry outside BC | Not yet covered directly in this Actor |
FAQ
Q: Does this only cover federal corporations?
A: No. Federal corporations are the largest entity registry in this Actor, but it also searches OrgBook BC, CRA charities, FINTRAC, OSFI, and several Statistics Canada datasets.
Q: Does this cover every provincial company registry in Canada?
A: No. BC is covered through OrgBook BC. Other provinces are not yet fully represented as standalone registry products in this Actor.
Q: Can I search multiple company names at once?
A: Yes. Add multiple values to searchTerms and the Actor searches each term across all 12 sources.
Q: Are field names standardized?
A: No. The Actor preserves source-native fields and adds metadata fields like _source, _product_id, _search_term, and _collected_at.
Q: What's the maximum number of results I can request?
A: maxResultsPerSource is capped at 200.
