Canadian Federal Corporation Statistics

Name: Canadian Federal Corporation Statistics
Creator: Entity Search
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

A portrait of the federal index. Open data, independently explored.

1,576,708

federal records indexed

Federal files published November 1, 2026
Imported November 1, 2026

Each dot represents about 1% of the index. Light dots show the active share.

Active: 697,06244.21%
Inactive and dissolved: 879,64555.79%
Provinces and territories represented: 13by registered office

Source checked November 1, 2026 · Daily federal checks; weekly sector-licence checks.

How the numbers are updated

Where are the registered offices?

As of November 1, 2026, Ontario accounts for 57.99% of registered offices in the federal index.

Explore cities

This map locates federal corporations’ registered offices. It measures neither province of incorporation nor all businesses in a province.

Select a province on the map or in the list to explore its data.

0 records
1–999
1 000–9 999
10 000–99 999
100 000+

Registered-office ranking

Not supplied / unrecognized : 1 (< 0.01%).

View table and exact values

Registered-office provinces and territories · Denominator : 1,576,708
Category	Records	%
Ontario	914,324	57.99%
Quebec	455,422	28.88%
British Columbia	73,299	4.65%
Alberta	66,580	4.22%
Manitoba	21,545	1.37%
Nova Scotia	13,814	0.88%
Saskatchewan	11,485	0.73%
New Brunswick	8,704	0.55%
Prince Edward Island	5,452	0.35%
Newfoundland and Labrador	3,914	0.25%
Northwest Territories	1,000	0.06%
Nunavut	614	0.04%
Yukon	554	0.04%
Not supplied / unrecognized	1	< 0.01%

Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files, January 1, 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Official boundaries · Licence.

Active, inactive, dissolved.

The index contains 697,062 active records, or 44.21% of indexed federal records.

All Canada

Active697,06244.21%
Inactive and dissolved879,64555.79%
Not supplied / unrecognized1< 0.01%

View table and exact values

Official statuses · Denominator : 1,576,708
Category	Records	%
Dissolved	781,455	49.56%
Active	697,062	44.21%
Inactive	98,190	6.23%
Not supplied / unrecognized	1	< 0.01%

Explore inactive status details

Denominator: inactive and dissolved records only.

Dissolved for non-compliance528,215 · 60.05%
Dissolved by the corporation236,328 · 26.87%
Inactive - Amalgamated79,260 · 9.01%
Inactive - Discontinued18,927 · 2.15%
Dissolved by Corporations Canada7,868 · 0.89%
Not supplied / unrecognized6,547 · 0.74%
Dissolved – Part II of CCA2,470 · 0.28%
Dissolved by court order30 · < 0.01%

44.21%

The active share of the index

“Active” is the status published by Corporations Canada. It does not guarantee business activity or trustworthiness.

55.79%

A record of past statuses

Inactive and dissolved records remain in the index. Amalgamation or continuance can make a record inactive. Inactivity does not mean bankruptcy.

Unknowns stay visible

A missing or unrecognized status stays separate. Records are never redistributed to round the results.

Twenty cities in focus.

Registered offices, by the city name as filed.

All Canada

Each city’s share of the 1,576,708 records in the selection. Identically named cities in different provinces remain distinct.

1TORONTO · ON201,991 12.81%
2MONTREAL · QC112,327 7.12%
3BRAMPTON · ON100,988 6.40%
4OTTAWA · ON86,896 5.51%
5MISSISSAUGA · ON72,560 4.60%
6MONTRÉAL · QC42,502 2.70%
7CALGARY · AB34,666 2.20%
8MARKHAM · ON28,302 1.80%
9VANCOUVER · BC27,553 1.75%
10GATINEAU · QC20,760 1.32%
11RICHMOND HILL · ON20,110 1.28%
12SCARBOROUGH · ON19,884 1.26%
13LAVAL · QC19,682 1.25%
14OAKVILLE · ON18,752 1.19%
15EDMONTON · AB18,381 1.17%
16WINNIPEG · MB18,237 1.16%
17NORTH YORK · ON17,521 1.11%
18LONDON · ON14,909 0.95%
19HAMILTON · ON14,411 0.91%
20KITCHENER · ON12,879 0.82%

View table and exact values

Registered-office cities · Denominator : 1,576,708
Category	Records	%
TORONTO · ON	201,991	12.81%
MONTREAL · QC	112,327	7.12%
BRAMPTON · ON	100,988	6.40%
OTTAWA · ON	86,896	5.51%
MISSISSAUGA · ON	72,560	4.60%
MONTRÉAL · QC	42,502	2.70%
CALGARY · AB	34,666	2.20%
MARKHAM · ON	28,302	1.80%
VANCOUVER · BC	27,553	1.75%
GATINEAU · QC	20,760	1.32%
RICHMOND HILL · ON	20,110	1.28%
SCARBOROUGH · ON	19,884	1.26%
LAVAL · QC	19,682	1.25%
OAKVILLE · ON	18,752	1.19%
EDMONTON · AB	18,381	1.17%
WINNIPEG · MB	18,237	1.16%
NORTH YORK · ON	17,521	1.11%
LONDON · ON	14,909	0.95%
HAMILTON · ON	14,411	0.91%
KITCHENER · ON	12,879	0.82%
Other cities	673,358	42.71%
Not supplied / unrecognized	39	< 0.01%

Normalization: case, whitespace and Unicode only. Montréal and Montreal remain distinct; municipalities and metropolitan areas are never merged.

The legal landscape at a glance.

Canada Business Corporations Act : 1,482,570 (94.03%).

All Canada

The band compares the leading Act with all others. The breakdown makes every category readable, including the smallest. These legal categories are not economic sectors.

Canada Business Corporations Act

1,482,570records out of 1,576,708

The most represented legal category in the selection.

Leading Act 94.03%Other Acts 5.97%

A closer look at the other Acts

94,138 records across 12 categories. Bars use their own scale to keep smaller categories readable. Percentages use all 1,576,708 records in the selection.

Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act67,1724.26%
Canada Corporations Act - Part II14,1960.90%
Canada Corporations Act Part I - Private10,0450.64%
Boards of Trade Act - Part II8340.05%
Canada Corporations Act Part I - Public6610.04%
Boards of Trade Act - Part I4460.03%
More than 1 Act Applicable3160.02%
Canada Cooperatives Act2460.02%
Special Act of Parliament1710.01%
Other25< 0.01%
Canada Cooperative Associations Act20< 0.01%
Pension Fund Societies Act6< 0.01%

View table and exact values

Federal corporations by governing Act · Denominator : 1,576,708
Category	Records	%
Canada Business Corporations Act	1,482,570	94.03%
Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act	67,172	4.26%
Canada Corporations Act - Part II	14,196	0.90%
Canada Corporations Act Part I - Private	10,045	0.64%
Boards of Trade Act - Part II	834	0.05%
Canada Corporations Act Part I - Public	661	0.04%
Boards of Trade Act - Part I	446	0.03%
More than 1 Act Applicable	316	0.02%
Canada Cooperatives Act	246	0.02%
Special Act of Parliament	171	0.01%
Other	25	< 0.01%
Canada Cooperative Associations Act	20	< 0.01%
Pension Fund Societies Act	6	< 0.01%

Compare statuses across provinces.

One scale for different distributions.

Each row represents 100% of records in that registered-office province.

ActiveInactive and dissolvedOther / missing

480,152434,171152.51%
123,414332,008027.10%
32,09441,205043.79%
29,53137,049044.35%
10,16611,379047.18%
6,5377,277047.32%
5,7005,785049.63%
4,3464,358049.93%
2,3183,134042.52%
1,8602,054047.52%
321679032.10%
357257058.14%
266288048.01%

The numeric column shows active share in proportion mode and total records in count mode.

View table and exact values

Records by registered-office province · Denominator : 1,576,708
Category	Records	%
Ontario	914,324	57.99%
Quebec	455,422	28.88%
British Columbia	73,299	4.65%
Alberta	66,580	4.22%
Manitoba	21,545	1.37%
Nova Scotia	13,814	0.88%
Saskatchewan	11,485	0.73%
New Brunswick	8,704	0.55%
Prince Edward Island	5,452	0.35%
Newfoundland and Labrador	3,914	0.25%
Northwest Territories	1,000	0.06%
Nunavut	614	0.04%
Yukon	554	0.04%

Cross-tabulation: exact status counts by province

Each province is its own denominator; missing geography remains separate.
Province	Active	Inactive and dissolved	Other	Total
Ontario	480,152	434,171	1	914,324
Quebec	123,414	332,008	0	455,422
British Columbia	32,094	41,205	0	73,299
Alberta	29,531	37,049	0	66,580
Manitoba	10,166	11,379	0	21,545
Nova Scotia	6,537	7,277	0	13,814
Saskatchewan	5,700	5,785	0	11,485
New Brunswick	4,346	4,358	0	8,704
Prince Edward Island	2,318	3,134	0	5,452
Newfoundland and Labrador	1,860	2,054	0	3,914
Northwest Territories	321	679	0	1,000
Nunavut	357	257	0	614
Yukon	266	288	0	554
Not supplied / unrecognized	0	1	0	1

The year of the last annual filing.

A distribution of filings in this snapshot, not a timeline of business creation.

All Canada

Missing : 520,670 (33.02%) · Invalid or future : 9.

View table and exact values

Year of last annual filing · Denominator : 1,576,708
Category	Records	%
1980	134	< 0.01%
1981	692	0.04%
1982	1,641	0.10%
1983	5,581	0.35%
1984	6,378	0.40%
1985	8,096	0.51%
1986	7,994	0.51%
1987	7,979	0.51%
1988	8,696	0.55%
1989	9,294	0.59%
1990	9,760	0.62%
1991	8,829	0.56%
1992	8,938	0.57%
1993	7,849	0.50%
1994	7,903	0.50%
1995	7,350	0.47%
1996	7,805	0.50%
1997	7,722	0.49%
1998	12,186	0.77%
1999	7,371	0.47%
2000	5,969	0.38%
2001	6,248	0.40%
2002	6,800	0.43%
2003	7,615	0.48%
2004	7,940	0.50%
2005	7,841	0.50%
2006	7,410	0.47%
2007	10,136	0.64%
2008	10,726	0.68%
2009	9,613	0.61%
2010	9,917	0.63%
2011	12,464	0.79%
2012	12,993	0.82%
2013	13,445	0.85%
2014	13,992	0.89%
2015	14,273	0.91%
2016	15,600	0.99%
2017	16,789	1.06%
2018	19,081	1.21%
2019	22,193	1.41%
2020	18,388	1.17%
2021	26,031	1.65%
2022	37,157	2.36%
2023	42,380	2.69%
2024	51,378	3.26%
2025	185,000	11.73%
2026	322,452	20.45%
Not supplied / unrecognized	520,670	33.02%
Invalid / future	9	< 0.01%

An older filing proves neither non-compliance nor inactivity. Future and invalid years are counted separately.

Three landmarks in the national data.

57.99%

of federal records have a registered office in Ontario.

201,991

TORONTO · ON, the leading filed city (12.81% of the index).

94.03%

of records are governed by the Canada Business Corporations Act.

Shared denominator: 1,576,708 federal records. These landmarks remain national when charts are filtered.

Other sources. Other units.

These six programs are presented separately. Their observations are never added to the federal total and do not form a national business census.

10,123establishment licence observations

B.C. liquor-licence establishments

Liquor-sector establishments throughout B.C., with a published establishment name. Licence holders’ personal names and addresses are excluded. A listed licence does not establish current corporate status.

Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch , Government of British Columbia
Source published October 22, 2026 · imported October 30, 2026

Official dataset · Open Government Licence – British Columbia

18,040licence observations

Calgary municipal business licences

Calgary only: non-home-based records published as Licensed or Renewal Licensed. These are municipal licence observations, not Alberta corporate registration.

City of Calgary
Source published October 30, 2026 · imported October 30, 2026

Official dataset · Open Government Licence – City of Calgary

863licence observations

New Brunswick motor vehicle dealerships

Provincial motor-vehicle dealership licence-list observations. The operating label and source licence number do not establish a corporation’s identity or current registration status.

Justice and Public Safety , Government of New Brunswick
Source published September 21, 2026 · imported October 30, 2026

Official dataset · Open Government Licence – New Brunswick

970dealer-list observations

Nova Scotia on-highway vehicle dealers

Point-in-time provincial on-highway dealer list. No official licence or corporation identifier is supplied; observation references are generated by Entity Search. Missing dealers may not have obtained or renewed a licence at the snapshot.

Public Works , Province of Nova Scotia
Source published July 22, 2026 · imported October 30, 2026 · Period : 2026-07-01

Official dataset · Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia

21,331licence observations

Toronto selected establishment licences

Toronto licensing-authority records in selected establishment/company categories, with an operating name and no cancellation date supplied. This does not independently confirm current licence validity, a local office or Ontario incorporation.

Municipal Licensing & Standards , City of Toronto
Source published October 30, 2026 · imported October 30, 2026

Official dataset · Open Government Licence – Toronto

14,318legal-person holders, deduplicated by NEQ

Quebec : RACJ retail permit holders

Legal-person NEQs beginning 11 in the RACJ retail permit dataset. Not the full REQ; incorporation jurisdiction and corporate registration status are unknown.

Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux , Gouvernement du Québec
Source published October 27, 2026 · imported October 30, 2026

Official dataset · CC BY 4.0

Numbers you can check.

Sources, calculations and limitations travel with the data.

Download CSV JSON

As of November 1, 2026, the Entity Search index contains 1,576,708 Canadian federal corporation records, of which 697,062 are active (44.21%).

Methodology, fields and limitations

Scope and deduplication: The four open Corporations Canada CSV files. One record per unique corporation number (id). Duplicate identifiers fail import. An alternate legal name is not another corporation.
Fields and formulas: Total = COUNT(*) of corporations. Grouping fields: province, city, status, status_detail, act and annual_year. Percentage = group count ÷ all records in the selection × 100. Inactive details use Inactive + Dissolved as denominator. Every table retains missing values and, for cities, the remainder beyond the top 20.
Registered office and cities: Province describes the registered office, not incorporating jurisdiction. NL is normalized to NF. Unknown codes remain separate. Cities use Unicode NFC, whitespace and case normalization; accents and punctuation are retained. No metropolitan aggregation or matching of similar names.
Statuses and Acts: Active = Active. Inactive and dissolved = Inactive + Dissolved. Other statuses and blanks stay distinct. Acts come from the act field and do not describe industries. Status details are reproduced or translated without inferring bankruptcy.
Annual filings and history: annual_year is the year of last filing. Blank values are missing; malformed years, years before 1900 and years later than the file reference year are invalid. No historical series is shown: comparable snapshots or permitted official transaction data would be needed. anniversary is never used as an incorporation date.
Refresh and retention: The existing Windows task checks the federal catalogue daily at 6:10 a.m. Toronto time when the workstation is on and the user is signed in. Licence programs are checked weekly. Aggregates are rebuilt and reconciled before atomic publication to the site database. On failure, the previous valid snapshot is retained. An unchanged check does not alter publication or import dates.
Dates and provenance: Aggregates calculated November 1, 2026. Exact timestamps, per-file dates, source generation and metric definitions are included in the JSON.
Licence and attribution: Corporations Canada : Open data · Open Government Licence – Canada. Aggregation: Entity Search. Neither Entity Search nor its calculations are endorsed by government. The six programs retain their own licences and units; no cross-source deduplication is claimed. Downloads contain no individual names or addresses.

Federal files used

corporations-active-cbca-en.csv : 645,741 records · November 1, 2026
corporations-active-non-cbca-en.csv : 51,321 records · November 1, 2026
corporations-inactive-or-dissolved-cbca-en.csv : 836,829 records · November 1, 2026
corporations-inactive-or-dissolved-non-cbca-en.csv : 42,817 records · November 1, 2026

Search for a federal corporation · Read the guides

Where are the registered offices?

Registered-office ranking

Active, inactive, dissolved.

The active share of the index

A record of past statuses

Unknowns stay visible

Twenty cities in focus.

The legal landscape at a glance.

Canada Business Corporations Act

A closer look at the other Acts

Compare statuses across provinces.

The year of the last annual filing.

Three landmarks in the national data.

Other sources. Other units.

B.C. liquor-licence establishments

Calgary municipal business licences

New Brunswick motor vehicle dealerships

Nova Scotia on-highway vehicle dealers

Toronto selected establishment licences

Quebec : RACJ retail permit holders

Numbers you can check.

Federal files used

Your privacy choice