Canada New Corporations Feed: Federal Incorporations Daily

Get every newly incorporated Canadian federal corporation from the official Corporations Canada (ISED) open data: CBCA business corporations, not-for-profit corporations, co-operatives and boards of trade, with corporation number, CRA Business Number (BN), name in both official languages, city, province, postal FSA, status and a link to the official registry page. Filter by province, city, postal code prefix, name keyword or corporation type, drop numbered companies, and schedule it with "new since last run" mode to receive only corporations you have not seen.

New in v0.2 (opt-in): a status-change feed of federal corporations that were dissolved, flagged "Dissolution Pending (non-compliance)", filed an intent to dissolve, amalgamated, continued out or were revived, plus a stateless current list of the ~31,000 corporations now in Dissolution Pending. The default run is unchanged (new incorporations).

Uses the free official Federal Corporations open-data files (refreshed daily): no API key, no login, no scraping of search pages.

Who it's for

• Accountants, bookkeepers and tax firms: every new corporation needs a first-year financial statement and T2 return. Get a daily list of new corporations in your city.
• Business banks, payment processors, insurers and payroll / HR SaaS: reach new businesses in the first weeks, when they choose providers.
• B2B sales teams and agencies (web design, branding, signage, office fit-out, telecom): new-company trigger lists by province or postal area.
• Lawyers, KYC / AML and risk teams: monitor new incorporations that match a brand or keyword, spot look-alike names.
• Researchers and journalists tracking business formation in Canada by province or sector keyword.
• Credit, collections, supplier-risk and KYC teams (with eventType: statusChange): a daily distress / churn signal when a customer, supplier or counterparty is flagged for dissolution, dissolved or amalgamated.
• Insolvency practitioners, business brokers and accountants: corporations that just fell into non-compliance (missed annual returns) are prospects for catch-up filings, revival or wind-down help.

What you get

Each record is one new federal corporation:

• Identity: corporation number, Business Number (BN, when assigned), corporate name (form 1) and other-language name (form 2), numbered-company flag.
• Type and status: business / nonProfit / cooperative / boardOfTrade / other, governing legislation, status and status detail.
• Dates: incorporation date, whether a first annual return has been filed yet.
• Where (entity level): registered-office city, province (code and name), country and postal FSA (first 3 characters of the postal code).
• Governance: minimum and maximum number of directors in the articles.
• Link to the official Corporations Canada record (directors and full address are visible there).

By design, no personal data is output: the source files contain no director names, and this Actor never outputs street address lines (many small corporations use a home address as registered office) or the full postal code.

Quick start

1. Click Try for free and run the default input {}: the 30 newest federal incorporations from the last 3 days, all provinces.
2. Narrow it down, for example new non-numbered business corporations in Toronto and Montréal:

{ "corporationTypes": ["business"], "cities": ["Toronto", "Montréal"], "excludeNumberedCompanies": true, "maxItems": 200 }

3. For alerts, set "mode": "sinceLastRun" and schedule the Actor daily (after 12:00 UTC, when the new file is out). Each run returns only corporations you have not received before (per stateKey).

More recipes

• New tech companies in British Columbia: { "provinces": ["BC"], "nameKeywords": ["tech", "software", "AI", "digital", "data"] }
• New not-for-profits nationwide in the last month: { "corporationTypes": ["nonProfit"], "daysBack": 30, "maxItems": 1000 }
• Calgary postal area, newest week: { "postalCodePrefixes": ["T2", "T3"], "daysBack": 7, "maxItems": 500 }
• Construction start-ups in Quebec: { "provinces": ["QC"], "nameKeywords": ["construction", "rénovation", "renovation", "toiture"] }

Status changes: dissolutions, Dissolution Pending, amalgamations (opt-in)

Corporations Canada's files show each corporation's current status but no date of dissolution or status change. This Actor therefore detects changes the honest way: with "eventType": "statusChange" it saves a compact snapshot of the status of all ~1.58 million federal corporations (active + inactive/dissolved files, ~280 MB read with range requests) and, on every later run with the same stateKey, reports each corporation whose status changed since the previous run.

• First run = baseline: saves the snapshot and returns 0 records (you only pay the start event). Schedule it daily (after 12:00 UTC); from the second run on you get the changes between the two file dates.
• changeType values: dissolutionPending (Active - Dissolution Pending (non-compliance)), intentToDissolve, discontinuancePending, dissolved (by the corporation, for non-compliance, by court order, by Corporations Canada), amalgamated, discontinued (continued to another jurisdiction), revived (dissolved/inactive back to Active), backToActive (pending flag cleared), statusChanged (anything else).
• Each record has previousStatus / previousStatusDetail, the current status / statusDetail, all the usual entity fields and filters (province, city, FSA, type, name, numbered), previousSourceFileDate / sourceFileDate (the change happened between these file dates) and detectedAt.
• Filter with changeTypes, e.g. ["dissolved", "dissolutionPending"]. Changes over maxItems (or your max cost) are held and reported by the next run, never lost; changes that do not match your filters are skipped, so use one stateKey per filter set. A corporation missing from one day's files (it is moving between the active and inactive files) keeps its previous status until it reappears.
• New incorporations are not repeated here: use the default event type for those.

Example (daily schedule):

{ "eventType": "statusChange", "changeTypes": ["dissolutionPending", "dissolved"], "provinces": ["ON", "QC"], "excludeNumberedCompanies": true, "maxItems": 2000, "stateKey": "on-qc-distress" }

Stateless current list

"eventType": "currentStatus" lists corporations that are currently in dissolutionPending (default, ~31k), intentToDissolve (~1k) or discontinuancePending (~150) (listStatuses), with all filters; sorted by the latest annual filing year (most recently compliant first), then newest incorporation. No snapshot needed, but there is no "since when" date. Example: { "eventType": "currentStatus", "cities": ["Calgary"], "excludeNumberedCompanies": true, "maxItems": 500 }

Input

Field	Default	Description
eventType	newCorporation	newCorporation (default), statusChange (since last run, first run = baseline) or currentStatus (stateless list)
changeTypes	all	statusChange only: dissolutionPending, intentToDissolve, discontinuancePending, dissolved, amalgamated, discontinued, revived, backToActive, statusChanged
listStatuses	dissolutionPending	currentStatus only: dissolutionPending, intentToDissolve, discontinuancePending
mode	window	window = stateless lookback; sinceLastRun = only corporations not delivered before (per stateKey)
daysBack	3	incorporation-date window (1-365 days) ending on the latest file date
corporationTypes	all	business, nonProfit, cooperative, boardOfTrade, other
provinces	all	ON, QC, BC, AB, ... or names
cities	all	exact city names, case/accents ignored
postalCodePrefixes	all	FSA prefixes like M, V6, H2X
nameKeywords / excludeNameKeywords	none	name contains any / none of these
excludeNumberedCompanies	false	drop "12345678 Canada Inc." style names
onlyWithBusinessNumber	false	keep only records with a BN
onlyNoAnnualReturnYet	false	drop corporations that already filed an annual return
autoExtend	true	widen a short window (weekends, narrow filters) by up to 14 days
maxItems	30	max records per run
stateKey	default	separate saved state per saved search (sinceLastRun and statusChange)

Output (example, real records from Oct 2026)

[
  {
    "eventType": "newCorporation",
    "corporationNumber": "18347638",
    "businessNumber": "742874779",
    "name": "Takhtenard Inc.",
    "nameOtherLanguage": null,
    "isNumberedCompany": false,
    "corporationType": "business",
    "governingLegislation": "Canada Business Corporations Act",
    "status": "Active",
    "statusDetail": null,
    "incorporationDate": "2026-10-30",
    "firstAnnualReturnFiled": false,
    "lastAnnualFilingYear": null,
    "city": "Toronto",
    "province": "ON",
    "provinceName": "Ontario",
    "country": "CA",
    "postalCodeFsa": "M5A",
    "minDirectors": 1,
    "maxDirectors": 10,
    "registryUrl": "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=18347638",
    "source": "Corporations Canada (ISED) Federal Corporations open data",
    "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-31T11:11:39.101Z"
  },
  {
    "eventType": "newCorporation",
    "corporationNumber": "18341192",
    "businessNumber": "776613846",
    "name": "Lindsay Geddes Coaching Inc.",
    "nameOtherLanguage": null,
    "isNumberedCompany": false,
    "corporationType": "business",
    "governingLegislation": "Canada Business Corporations Act",
    "status": "Active",
    "statusDetail": null,
    "incorporationDate": "2026-10-30",
    "firstAnnualReturnFiled": false,
    "lastAnnualFilingYear": null,
    "city": "Vancouver",
    "province": "BC",
    "provinceName": "British Columbia",
    "country": "CA",
    "postalCodeFsa": "V5P",
    "minDirectors": 1,
    "maxDirectors": 8,
    "registryUrl": "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=18341192",
    "source": "Corporations Canada (ISED) Federal Corporations open data",
    "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-31T11:11:39.101Z"
  }
]

A run summary is saved to the OUTPUT record: window, source file dates, counts by type, province and date, rows scanned, filters dropped.

Data source, timing and fair use

• Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) Federal Corporations dataset on open.canada.ca, published under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of Canada.
• Files are refreshed daily (around 11:00 UTC). New incorporations usually appear 1-2 days after the incorporation date, and the newest day fills in over the next few days; sinceLastRun re-reads the last 14 days so late records are not missed.
• Covers federal corporations only (CBCA, NFP Act, Coop Act, Boards of Trade, Special Acts). Provincially incorporated companies (e.g. Ontario OBCA, BC, Quebec REQ) are not in this dataset.
• incorporationDate is the source's "anniversary date": the date of incorporation, amalgamation or continuance.
• Each run downloads the official CSV files (about 104 MB for business corporations, 9 MB for the others) with a handful of polite parallel range requests; choose only nonProfit / cooperative types for a much smaller download.

Pricing

Pay per event (Apify takes care of billing; you only pay for what is delivered):

Event	Price	Charged
apify-actor-start	$0.005	once per run
corporation-record	$0.003	per corporation delivered (new incorporations and currentStatus lists)
status-change-record	$0.003	per status change delivered (eventType: statusChange)

A default test run (30 corporations) costs about $0.095. A daily city alert (10 new corporations/day) costs about $0.035/day ($1/month). The full national firehose (~200 new corporations per working day) costs about $0.60/day. maxItems and Apify's max cost per run cap your spend; the Actor stops delivering when your budget is reached, so you are never charged for more than you set. A daily national status-change run (volume varies; non-compliance dissolutions can come in large batches, so set maxItems) costs about $0.005 + $0.003 per change; the baseline run costs only the start event. No separate platform-usage charges: compute is included in the event prices.

FAQ

Why are there no director names or street addresses? This is an entity-level feed. The source has no director data, and we deliberately drop street lines and the full postal code because many small corporations use a home address. Follow registryUrl for the full official record.

Why do I see only a few records for yesterday? Corporations Canada publishes new incorporations with a 1-2 day lag, and the newest day fills in over the next files. Use daysBack 3+ or sinceLastRun mode.

Does it include Ontario / BC / Quebec provincial companies? No, only federally incorporated corporations (federal incorporation is popular with businesses that operate in several provinces or want name protection across Canada).

What is a numbered company? A corporation named after its corporation number, e.g. "18322741 Canada Inc." (often holding companies). About 40% of new CBCA corporations; drop them with excludeNumberedCompanies.

Is there a dissolution date? No. The open data has no date for dissolutions or status changes, so statusChange reports changes between two file dates (daily if scheduled daily). For history before your first run, use currentStatus or the registry page.

Can I backfill? Yes, up to 365 days with daysBack and a higher maxItems (only corporations still active are in the active files).