Official sources take priority. Search uses the licensed federal datasets and a separately identified Québec RACJ permit-holder subset. Other provincial and territorial searches use official links.
Federal data and attribution
The Federal Corporations dataset is published through Canada’s Open Government Portal under the Open Government Licence — Canada. It covers corporations regulated by Corporations Canada, not all businesses in Canada.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Canada. This independent project is not endorsed by the Government of Canada. Consult the source record and synchronization details for the snapshot actually searched.
Why some sources are link-only
Public visibility does not establish commercial reuse rights. Québec’s public enterprise dataset has non-commercial licensing restrictions; this project does not ingest it for commercial use. BC OrgBook access terms require separate assessment before storage or redistribution.
Canada’s Business Registries prohibits automated copying, searching or scraping of results. The project provides a link for a person to use that service; it does not use it as a bulk source. Source accessibility checks do not certify that fees or procedures were reverified.
Limited Québec permit-holder data
A separate commercially permitted RACJ dataset adds legal-person permit-holder observations for Québec retail alcohol permits. We select NEQs beginning with 11, deduplicate by NEQ, and index holder and establishment labels. We omit street addresses and do not infer incorporation jurisdiction, current corporate registration status or name availability. The weekly source is distinct from the full REQ enterprise dataset.
Regional office filters and licensed local observations
Every province and territory can be searched for federal corporations with a filed office in that location. This is a geographic view of the federal dataset, not evidence of provincial incorporation. The federal source uses the legacy code NF for Newfoundland and Labrador.
Separate licensed observations cover selected Calgary and Toronto municipal licences, B.C. liquor establishments, New Brunswick vehicle dealerships and Nova Scotia on-highway dealers. These are limited programmes. Counts refer to source observations, not deduplicated companies. The Nova Scotia list is dated July 1, 2026; published update dates and import/check dates remain distinct.
Full provincial and territorial corporate registers are not generally copied here. Missing permissions, stale files and poor-quality sources remain explicit gaps. Personal owner/contact/street fields are excluded. No new mass-indexable profile pages are created for licence records.
Federal corporation search index
Our derived index combines the four open Corporations Canada CSV subsets. Selected fields include legal names, identifiers, status, governing Act and filed-office city or province. Personal details, street addresses and contact fields are excluded. It does not represent the complete provincial registers.
Corporations Canada source dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada
Sources and review
Source checked October 30, 2026.
Open Government — Federal CorporationsOpen Government Licence — CanadaDonnées Québec — Registre des entreprisesOrgBook BC — API informationCanada’s Business Registrieswww.donneesquebec.caCalgary municipal business licencesB.C. liquor-licence establishmentsToronto selected establishment licencesNew Brunswick motor vehicle dealershipsNova Scotia on-highway vehicle dealers