# Canada New Corporations Feed: Federal Incorporations Daily (`moment-data/canada-new-corporations-feed`) Actor

Daily feed of newly incorporated Canadian federal corporations from official Corporations Canada open data: CBCA business corporations, not-for-profits and co-operatives with corporation number, BN, city, province and postal FSA. Filter by province, city, name. Entity-level only.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/moment-data/canada-new-corporations-feed.md
- **Developed by:** [Luke Miller](https://apify.com/moment-data) (community)
- **Features:** Limited permissions
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## Pricing

Pay per event

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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:

```json
{ "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):

```json
{ "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)

```json
[
  {
    "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).

# Actor input Schema

## `eventType` (type: `string`):

newCorporation = newly incorporated corporations (default, uses Mode / Days back). statusChange = corporations whose status changed since the previous statusChange run with the same State key (the source has no dissolution date, so the first run only saves a baseline snapshot and returns 0 records; schedule it daily). currentStatus = stateless list of active corporations currently flagged Dissolution Pending (non-compliance) or similar.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

window = every matching corporation incorporated in the last Days back days (stateless, default). sinceLastRun = only corporations not delivered by a previous run with the same State key (re-reads the last 14 days because Corporations Canada adds some records a few days late). Applies to eventType newCorporation; statusChange is always since-last-run.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

Incorporation-date window ending on the date of the latest Corporations Canada file (refreshed daily around 11:00 UTC). Roughly 150-300 new federal business corporations are incorporated per working day.

## `corporationTypes` (type: `array`):

business (Canada Business Corporations Act), nonProfit (Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act), cooperative (Canada Cooperatives Act), boardOfTrade (Boards of Trade Act), other (Special Acts etc.). Empty = all. Only business = smaller download.

## `provinces` (type: `array`):

Registered-office province: 2-letter codes (ON, QC, BC, AB, MB, SK, NS, NB, NL, PE, YT, NT, NU) or names. Empty = all.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

Registered-office city/town, exact match ignoring case and accents (Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, Calgary). Empty = all.

## `postalCodePrefixes` (type: `array`):

Postal code prefixes, 1-3 characters: M (Toronto), H (Montreal), V6 (Vancouver), T2 (Calgary), K1A. Empty = all.

## `nameKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keep corporations whose name (English or French form) contains any of these words, e.g. tech, construction, holdings, consulting, restaurant.

## `excludeNameKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop corporations whose name contains any of these words, e.g. holdings, gestion.

## `excludeNumberedCompanies` (type: `boolean`):

Drop numbered companies like '18322741 Canada Inc.' (about 40% of new CBCA incorporations).

## `onlyWithBusinessNumber` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only corporations that already have a CRA Business Number.

## `onlyNoAnnualReturnYet` (type: `boolean`):

Drop records that already filed an annual return (useful with long windows to focus on brand-new incorporations).

## `changeTypes` (type: `array`):

statusChange only. Any of: dissolutionPending, intentToDissolve, discontinuancePending, dissolved, amalgamated, discontinued, revived, backToActive, statusChanged. Empty = all.

## `listStatuses` (type: `array`):

currentStatus only. Any of: dissolutionPending (about 31k corporations), intentToDissolve (~1k), discontinuancePending (~150). Empty = dissolutionPending.

## `autoExtend` (type: `boolean`):

In window mode, walk back day by day (max 14 days) when fewer than about 25 records match (weekends, holidays, narrow filters). Turn off to get exactly the Days back window.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on delivered records (also caps your spend). newCorporation: newest first in window mode, oldest first in sinceLastRun mode. statusChange: changes over the cap are held and reported by the next run. currentStatus: most recent annual filers first.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

sinceLastRun and statusChange: separate saved state per saved search (e.g. 'toronto-tech'). newCorporation and statusChange states are stored separately.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "eventType": "newCorporation",
  "mode": "window",
  "daysBack": 3,
  "excludeNumberedCompanies": false,
  "onlyWithBusinessNumber": false,
  "onlyNoAnnualReturnYet": false,
  "autoExtend": true,
  "maxItems": 30,
  "stateKey": "default"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `corporations` (type: `string`):

One record per newly incorporated federal corporation (or per status change / listed corporation with the opt-in event types).

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Window, filters, counts by type/province/date, source file dates.

## `statusChanges` (type: `string`):

eventType statusChange: one record per detected status change.

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("moment-data/canada-new-corporations-feed").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("moment-data/canada-new-corporations-feed").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call moment-data/canada-new-corporations-feed --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,moment-data/canada-new-corporations-feed"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7OFoPo4PV8n9ULflD/builds/G88W2fORU2cSgouf1/openapi.json