The information is compiled by Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada. With the information in this database you can identify the existence in Canada of a corporation or business name. Other uses for the data include, making a comparison of a newly planned corporate name to existing registered names and identifying where a company can operate, based upon the jurisdiction in which it is registered. The database documents contain the company name, the jurisdiction in which the company has been registered, the date of incorporation, and various status indicators. Update Frequency Weekly, for federal data only.
All provincial data are closed, so there are no provincial updates.
Field Descriptions NAME Name of the corporation REF Reference number within the jurisdiction, assigned by the appropriate government department. Status date - the date the company was last updated if active, or cancelled if inactive. These fields are not searchable. Documents in this database may or may not contain all the fields described above. Only the fields that contain information are included in the document.