🇨🇦 Canada Federal Corporations API — Corporations Canada Registry

Get Corporations Canada's federal corporations open data as clean JSON — every federal business corporation (CBCA), not-for-profit, co-operative, board of trade and special act corporation, active and inactive, with corporation number, business number, name in both forms, governing act, status, anniversary date, last annual filing and registered office address.

Filter by status, corporation type, name words, province, city, postal code prefix, governing act, corporation or business number and anniversary date. Newest anniversary date first by default; file order is fastest.

The unit of output is one corporation. You pay per corporation delivered; a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

Who buys this and for what job

• KYB, onboarding and compliance teams confirming a Canadian federal corporation's number, status and registered office.
• Sales and market-research teams listing new federal corporations by name, province and city.
• Lenders and credit teams checking annual-filing recency and dissolution status.
• Data teams keeping a copy of the federal register current.

Buyers usually search for this as "canada corporation search" or "corporations canada data".

📊 Sample Output

corporate_name	corporation_number	anniversary_date	city	province	status
Maqam Coffee Ltd.	18290172	2026-10-05	Toronto	ON	Active
Mocella Icecream and Coffee Ltd.	18248656	2026-09-16	Vancouver	BC	Active
BIBI Coffee Corp.	18239584	2026-09-13	Mississauga	ON	Active
Hole in One Bagels and Coffee Inc.	18211892	2026-09-01	Ottawa	ON	Active
Khuzain's Coffee INC.	18186499	2026-08-22	East York	ON	Active
Coffee Tech House Inc.	18161089	2026-08-12	Markham	ON	Active

Rows from live run 05HMSa8oGY8f9Jf5e on Apify (the Store example: name contains coffee, active, 10 records). Notice the newest anniversary dates first — mostly recent incorporations.

✅ What you get

Every field of each record:

• record_id — cA-CORP:
• corporation_number — corporations Canada corporation number.
• business_number — cRA business number (BN), when published.
• corporate_name — corporate name (form 1).
• corporate_name_other_language — name in the other official language (form 2), if any.
• governing_legislation — e.g. Canada Business Corporations Act, Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act.
• status — active, Inactive or Dissolved.
• status_detail — status detail as published, e.g. Inactive - Amalgamated.
• anniversary_date — anniversary date as published (sets the annual filing cycle).
• last_annual_filing_year — year of the last annual filing.
• last_annual_meeting_date — date of the last annual meeting.
• street — registered office street.
• street_2 — registered office street, line 2.
• city — city or town.
• province — province or territory code.
• country — country code.
• postal_code — postal code.
• min_directors — minimum number of directors in the articles.
• max_directors — maximum number of directors in the articles.
• source_file — corporations Canada file read.
• source — publisher dataset.
• source_url — dataset page.
• licence — licence notice.
• attribution — source line.
• observed_at — when this run read it (UTC).

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. The Store example — active corporations with "coffee" in the name

{
  "nameContains": ["coffee"],
  "maxRecords": 10
}

Read 696,553 active corporations, matched 427 and returned the 10 newest in run 05HMSa8oGY8f9Jf5e; $0.50 on the Free plan.

2. Software companies in British Columbia

{
  "provinces": ["BC"],
  "nameContains": ["software"],
  "maxRecords": 40
}

Matched 167 and returned 40 in run 2cn8VukB0VibOWsuT.

3. Look up one business number, any status

{
  "businessNumbers": ["835752437"],
  "status": "all",
  "maxRecords": 5
}

Read all four files (1.57 million corporations) and returned the one match in run fM4jnxkDvSUnuawA8.

Input fields:

Field	Meaning
status	Which corporations to read.
corporationType	Which file family to read.
nameContains	Corporations whose name contains any of these words.
provinces	Two-letter codes, e.g. ON, QC, BC, AB.
cities	Exact city or town names, e.g. Toronto (any case).
postalCodePrefixes	e.g. M5V, H2X.
legislationContains	e.g. Not-for-profit, Cooperatives, Boards of Trade.
corporationNumbers	Exact Corporations Canada numbers.
businessNumbers	Nine-digit CRA business numbers.
anniversaryFrom	e.g. 2026-01-01.
anniversaryTo	e.g. 2026-06-30.
order	Sort order.
maxRecords	Stop after this many corporations (each is charged once).

🧾 JSON sample record

{
  "record_id": "CA-CORP:18290172",
  "corporation_number": "18290172",
  "business_number": "782043244",
  "corporate_name": "Maqam Coffee Ltd.",
  "corporate_name_other_language": null,
  "governing_legislation": "Canada Business Corporations Act",
  "status": "Active",
  "status_detail": null,
  "anniversary_date": "2026-10-05",
  "last_annual_filing_year": null,
  "last_annual_meeting_date": null,
  "street": "905-180 Mill St",
  "street_2": null,
  "city": "Toronto",
  "province": "ON",
  "country": "CA",
  "postal_code": "M5A 0V7",
  "min_directors": 1,
  "max_directors": 10,
  "source_file": "corporations-active-cbca-en.csv",
  "source": "Corporations Canada — Federal Corporations open data",
  "source_url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/0032ce54-c5dd-4b66-99a0-320a7b5e99f2",
  "licence": "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). Source: Corporations Canada, Federal Corporations dataset.",
  "attribution": "Source: Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada), Federal Corporations open data",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-12T04:08:52Z"
}

🔧 How it works

1. Robots check. The download host's robots.txt is requested on every run. It answers HTTP 403 (it is a file bucket), so no robots policy is readable; that is recorded. A readable robots file that disallowed the files would stop the run with nothing charged.

2. Pick the files. Corporations Canada splits the data into four CSVs: active business corporations (645,341 on 12 Oct 2026), other active corporations (51,212), inactive business corporations (832,935) and other inactive corporations. The actor reads the ones your status and type select.

3. Stream and filter. Each file is streamed and every row checked against your filters; the newest anniversary dates are kept (or, with file_order, reading stops at maxRecords).

4. Deliver, then charge. Records are pushed in batches, each charged after delivery, so records and charges always match.

5. Receipt. RUN_RECEIPT records the robots result, rows read per file and matched, and delivered and charged counts.

No login, API key, proxy or bot workaround.

💰 Pricing example

Per corporation delivered, no start fee, no monthly charge:

Apify plan	Price per corporation
Free	$0.05
Bronze	$0.045
Silver	$0.04
Gold, Platinum, Diamond	$0.0335

• 10 records (the Store example): $0.50 on the Free plan, $0.335 on Gold.
• 1,000 records (the default cap): $50 on Free, $45 on Bronze, $40 on Silver, $33.50 on Gold.

Coverage and size. Federal corporations only: CBCA business corporations, NFP Act not-for-profits, Canada Cooperatives Act co-operatives, Boards of Trade Act corporations and special act corporations, active and inactive. Corporations Canada states the data excludes financial-legislation corporations (banks, insurers, trust and loan companies) and provincial or territorial corporations. Files are typically updated daily. No director or officer names exist in this open data.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

Data: Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada), "Federal Corporations" dataset on open.canada.ca, licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Every record carries the licence notice in licence and a source line in attribution. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Corporations Canada.

Records describe corporations: names, numbers, status, filing dates and registered office addresses as published. The open data contains no director or officer names. The download host's robots file is unreadable (HTTP 403), recorded on every run. Public files only, declared User-Agent, no login, key, proxy or form.

❓ FAQ

Does it include provincial companies? No. Only federal corporations; provincial registries are separate.

Are directors included? No. The open data lists only the minimum and maximum number of directors in the articles.

What is the anniversary date? The date Corporations Canada uses to set the corporation's annual filing cycle, as published.

How fresh is it? Corporations Canada says the files are typically updated daily.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Slow run with status all — the inactive business file is about 158 MB; set status to active when you can.
• 0 records for a city — cities matches the exact name (any case); try postalCodePrefixes instead.
• Business number not found — give the 9-digit business number without the program suffix.
• SOURCE UNAVAILABLE message — the source did not answer after four tries; nothing was charged — run again later.
• CAPPED message — your maximum total charge was reached; raise it in the run options.
• Run failed with "Invalid input" — a filter value is malformed; the message names the field. Nothing was charged.

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