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Short answer
A corporate records search finds every Canadian company a person is registered against as a director, officer, or shareholder. Sleuthify queries the federal Corporations Canada registry plus provincial registries in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec, then reconciles name variants into one profile with each finding cited to its registry entry.
Draws on 6 record sources, each named below with the statutory basis we rely on. See the list.
Canada has fourteen separate corporate registries — one federal, one per province and territory — and they do not talk to each other. A person can be a federal director, hold two Ontario numbered companies, and sit on a Québec board without any single search surfacing all of it. Searching only Corporations Canada is the most common reason a due-diligence check misses the entity that actually holds the assets.
Registries publish director and officer names as a condition of incorporation, which is why this information is lawfully searchable without consent — it is a statutory public registry under the Regulations Specifying Publicly Available Information. Typical fields are the registered office address, incorporation and dissolution dates, current status, annual return compliance, and the names and addresses of directors. Québec's REQ goes further and publishes shareholders, making it the richest free registry in the country.
Registries store whatever was typed on the incorporation form. The same person appears as Robert J. Smith, Rob Smith, and R. J. Smith across three filings. We search variant sets and score each hit on how many identifiers corroborate it, then tell you plainly which matches are confirmed and which are merely possible. A search that returns fifty unscored hits has moved the work to you, not done it.
What you receive
Honest limits
Every item here is a structural limit of the Canadian record, not a paywall. Anyone promising you these is either misrepresenting what they have or describing something unlawful.
6 connectors
Each source carries the paragraph of the Regulations Specifying Publicly Available Information that permits collecting from it without the subject's consent.
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Public web form · No search fee
Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Paid account · 8.00 CAD per search
BC Registry Services
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
API · No search fee
Service Alberta
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Paid account · 12.00 CAD per search
Gouvernement du Québec
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Public web form · No search fee
Canadian Securities Administrators
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Browser session · No search fee
Figures
| Measure | Value | Source | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Separate corporate registries in Canada that do not share data | 14 | Corporations Canada | 2026 |
Questions
Yes. Corporations Canada and the provincial registries in British Columbia and Québec support director and officer name search directly. Ontario and Alberta are weaker: Ontario's registry is oriented around the entity rather than the person, so finding a named individual's Ontario companies often means cross-referencing other records. Sleuthify runs all of them and reconciles the results.
Yes. Corporate registries are statutory public registries — one of the five categories PIPEDA's Regulations Specifying Publicly Available Information treat as collectable without consent. Directors' names are published precisely so that the public can identify who stands behind a company. No notice to the person is required.
The registry shows directors and officers, not always the beneficial owner. To get closer you cross-reference the registered office against other filings, check whether the numbered company appears as a shareholder in a Québec REQ filing, look for it in land title and PPSA registrations, and check securities filings if any entity in the chain is a reporting issuer. This chaining is what the Deep Research tier does by hand.
Registries update when a filing is made, so accuracy depends on the company complying with its annual return obligations. A dormant company may show a director who resigned years ago. Every finding in a Sleuthify report carries the date we retrieved it and the date of the underlying filing, so you can judge staleness yourself.
No. Private Canadian companies do not file financial statements publicly. You can infer financial signals from other public records — PPSA security registrations, liens, judgments, and mortgage charges on corporate property — and reporting issuers file statements on SEDAR+, but a private company's revenue and profit are not public anywhere.
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