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What is Corporations Canada?

Corporations Canada is the federal corporation registry within Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. It publishes federal corporation records including corporation number, business number, corporate name, governing legislation, status, address fields, filing details, and director-count fields through search and Open Canada bulk datasets.

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Short explanation

Corporations Canada is the authority behind Fonteum's `canada-corporations` source family. Fonteum reads the Open Canada Federal Corporations CSV resources, licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada, and stores corporation number and business number separately. That separation matters because the corporation number identifies the federal corporate record, while the BN is a tax and program-account identifier issued through CRA systems.

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Last updated: 2026-07-11Reviewed by: Fonteum data standards desk — Source-provenance editorial review. Definitions checked against primary federal sources.

How it’s used

  • Federal corporation lookup: corporation number, business number, name, status, legislation, and address fields are read from the public federal corporation files.
  • Identifier separation: Fonteum stores corporation number and business number as different facts, with source and date retained for each.
  • Canadian register ingestion: the `canada-corporations` family reads active and inactive federal corporation resources from the Open Canada package.

Frequently asked questions

Who maintains Corporations Canada records?
Corporations Canada is part of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.
What identifier anchors a federal Canadian corporation record?
The corporation number identifies the federal corporation record. A business number can also appear, but it is a separate identifier.
What Corporations Canada data does Fonteum ingest?
Fonteum ingests the Open Canada federal corporation CSV resources as the `canada-corporations` source family.

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What’s on file, by the numbers

Platform snapshot · 2026-08-30

13.4Mproviders & companiesProviders, organizations, owners, and facilities on file
26.2Msource-linked factsSource-linked field facts in the dated platform snapshot
90sources with dataDistinct snapshot source IDs with at least one positive record count
16fresh sourcesDistinct source IDs whose latest positive-data snapshot falls within the preceding 45 days
111sources integratedActive registry rows; integration does not establish a load
13state Medicaid jurisdictionsDistinct states represented in the state-exclusions serving table

Integrated, with-data, and fresh-observation counts are separate. No platform-wide source-completeness count is published. Completeness is source-specific and must be evaluated against the named source's expected scope. State coverage is a separate jurisdiction measure.

Source authority is record-specific

Use the issuer named on the record.

Fonteum spans federal, state, and global public publishers. A source page or returned record identifies its issuer and dataset where that metadata is available. A platform registry count does not assign every page to one authority or establish loaded, fresh, or complete coverage.

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Source and date

Research pages expose the named public file and observation date where those fields are available. Source-file SHA-256 coverage is separate; facts do not currently link deterministically to signatures.

Available derivation

Studies with a retained release and committed derivation link the SQL or method used. Other studies state the evidence and reproduction limits they actually have.

Daily observations

Dated table row-count observations can detect local drift. They do not imply that an upstream publisher released or Fonteum ingested new data that day.

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