Type a Canadian corporation number, a Business Number or a company name and get the federal corporation from Corporations Canada: legal name, governing statute, status, registered address and province, live. Federal corporations only, not provincial companies.
Every federal corporation has a corporation number of 2 to 8 digits shown like 426160-7 for Shopify Inc. The last digit is an advisory check digit. A 9-digit number is a Business Number, which this lookup also accepts and searches with business_number.
Company records from Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada): corporation name, legal form (the governing statute), status (including dissolution pending, intent to dissolve, amalgamation and discontinuance), registered address with the province or territory, the Business Number, other names, and dates; updated daily. Federal corporations only: those incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act and the Canada Cooperatives Act, with the repealed Canada Corporations Act Part I corporations kept as history. Provincial and territorial companies, banks, insurance companies, not-for-profit corporations and boards of trade are not included. No officers, no registry-compliance signal, no activity code, no share capital, no VAT (GST/HST) number and no insolvency status. Register-change events (name, status, legal form and registered address changes, dated when the change first appears in the register data, none before the first load in October 2026) and company monitoring are available.
A provincial company, a bank, an insurer, a not-for-profit corporation or a board of trade returns nothing even though it exists. A Business Number can match more than one corporation.
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Company lookup API · Company autocomplete API. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Corporations Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)