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.
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.
Related platform: Source library
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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