Where do I get the filing history?

Run Canada company filings with the same corporation number.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a lookup cost?

5 points per resolved lookup, which is $5 per 1,000, and only successful lookups are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance, so there is no separate per-country contract.

Corporate registry

Canada Company Registry API and MCP — Federal Corporation Lookup with Directors

Send a corporation number or a link to the record on Corporations Canada, and you get one federal corporation: name, status, business number, governing legislation, incorporation date, registered office address, directors, annual filing status and previous names.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a corporation number or a registry link
You get back: Federal corporation with status, address, directors, annual filings and name history
Coverage: Canada — entities on Corporations Canada.
Price: 5 pts — $5 per 1,000; Charged only when the record resolves. A lookup that finds nothing is not billed.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
Corporations Canada directly	Open Corporations Canada and read the record	Usually free, sometimes per-document	A different interface, language and data shape for every country you add
Collecting it yourself	Build and host a crawler per register, then keep each one alive	Infrastructure and maintenance	Registers change their pages without warning, and nobody is on the hook when yours breaks
NeuralVerge	One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog	$5 per 1,000, misses not billed	Covers Canada — other countries are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`session_id`	string	Id of this run, for tracing.
`kind`	string	Always "ca_companies".
`company`	string	The identifier you sent.
`company_id`	string	The identifier as the register keys it.
`human`	string	Readable Markdown summary of the record.
`machine.company`	object	The company record, described below.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	False when the register answered normally.
`machine.pages_opened`	number	Register pages read for this record.
`machine.proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Data transferred for the run.
`total_points`	number	Points charged: 5 for a resolved lookup.
`machine.company.name`	string	Corporation name.
`machine.company.status`	string	Status, for example Active.
`machine.company.status_date`	null	Empty in the sample.
`machine.company.registration_number`	string	Corporation number.
`machine.company.business_number`	string	Federal business number.
`machine.company.governing_legislation`	string	Act the corporation is governed by.
`machine.company.incorporation_date`	string	Incorporation date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`machine.company.address`	string	Registered office address.
`machine.company.company_type`	string	Same as governing_legislation in the sample.
`machine.company.corporation_type`	string	Corporation type, for example Distributing corporation.
`machine.company.directors_min`	number	Minimum number of directors.
`machine.company.directors_max`	number	Maximum number of directors.
`machine.company.directors`	array	Directors shown, each with name and address.
`machine.company.directors_total`	number	Total number of directors.
`machine.company.isc_last_updated`	string	Date the significant-control information was last updated.
`machine.company.isc_note`	string	Note on individuals with significant control, such as an exclusion for public corporations.
`machine.company.isc_total`	null	Empty in the sample.
`machine.company.individuals_with_significant_control`	array	Individuals with significant control; empty in the sample.
`machine.company.anniversary_date`	string	Anniversary date as MM-DD.
`machine.company.last_annual_meeting`	string	Date of the last annual meeting.
`machine.company.annual_filing_period`	object	from and to dates (MM-DD) of the annual filing window.
`machine.company.annual_filings`	array	Annual filings by year with status.
`machine.company.name_history`	array	Previous names with from and to dates.
`machine.company.filings_total`	number	Total filings on record. See Canada company filings for the list.
`machine.company.data_modified`	string	Date the register data was last modified.
`machine.company.url`	string	Link to the record on Corporations Canada.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "ca_companies",
  "company": "426160-7",
  "company_id": "4261607",
  "human": "# Canada — Corporations Canada — company\n\n- **Number:** 4261607\n- **Pages opened:** 1\n- **Proxy traffic:** 67.6 KB\n- **Name:** SHOPIFY INC.\n- **Status:** Active\n- **Type:** Canada Business Corporations Act\n- **Registered:** 2004-09-28\n- **Address:** 151 O'Connor Street, Ground Floor, OTTAWA ON, K2P 2L8, Canada",
  "machine": {
    "company": {
      "name": "SHOPIFY INC.",
      "status": "Active",
      "status_date": null,
      "registration_number": "426160-7",
      "business_number": "847871746RC0001",
      "governing_legislation": "Canada Business Corporations Act",
      "incorporation_date": "2004-09-28",
      "address": "151 O'Connor Street, Ground Floor, OTTAWA ON, K2P 2L8, Canada",
      "company_type": "Canada Business Corporations Act",
      "corporation_type": "Distributing corporation",
      "directors_min": 1,
      "directors_max": 10,
      "directors": [
        {
          "name": "Fidji Simo",
          "address": "c/o 151 O'Connor Street, Ground Floor, Ottawa ON K2P 2L8, Canada"
        },
        {
          "name": "Joseph Natale",
          "address": "c/o 151 O'Connor St, Ground Floor, Ottawa ON K2P 2L8, Canada"
        }
      ],
      "directors_total": 9,
      "isc_last_updated": "2025-11-17",
      "isc_note": "The corporation is excluded from providing information about individuals with significant control to Corporations Canada because it is a public corporation that trades its securities on a stock exchan",
      "isc_total": null,
      "individuals_with_significant_control": [],
      "anniversary_date": "09-28",
      "last_annual_meeting": "2025-06-17",
      "annual_filing_period": {
        "from": "09-28",
        "to": "11-27"
      },
      "annual_filings": [
        {
          "year": 2026,
          "status": "Due to be filed"
        },
        {
          "year": 2025,
          "status": "Filed"
        }
      ],
      "name_history": [
        {
          "name": "4261607 CANADA LTD.",
          "from": "2004-09-28",
          "to": "2006-01-19"
        },
        {
          "name": "Jaded Pixel Technologies Inc.",
          "from": "2006-01-20",
          "to": "2011-11-30"
        }
      ],
      "filings_total": 23,
      "data_modified": "2026-10-01",
      "url": "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=4261607&locale=en_CA"
    },
    "blocked": false,
    "pages_opened": 1,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 69217
  },
  "total_points": 5
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

One company per request. Pass the registration number or the link to the record on the register.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-ca-companies \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"company":"426160-7"}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Counterparty due diligence

Confirm status, registered office and governing act of a federal corporation.

KYB and director checks

Read the list of directors with addresses and the allowed range.

Tracking compliance

See which annual filings are filed and which are due.

Tracing renames

Follow the name history to link old contracts to the current entity.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Canada — entities on Corporations Canada.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the register as it stands when you ask.

Handling

Corporations Canada is a public register. Every response carries the source URL it was read from and a session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Federal corporations only. Companies incorporated in a province or territory are not in this register.
—Individuals with significant control may be empty or excluded, as the isc_note explains.
—The directors array shows the entries returned; directors_total gives the full count.

FAQ

Questions, answered

No. The source is the federal Corporations Canada registry, so only corporations incorporated federally appear.

Related sources

Canada company search

Find a corporation number from a name.

Canada company filings

Certificates and filings for one corporation.

All corporate registries

Company registers across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, plus global LEI lookup.

Try canada company on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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