Canada New Incorporations — Fresh Federal Company Leads

A daily feed of newly incorporated federal Canadian companies, built from the official Corporations Canada open data (Open Government Licence). Filter to companies incorporated in the last N days and get a clean, structured lead list. Results are returned newest-first, so the freshest companies are always at the top. For recent windows the Actor also probes the live registry to catch companies incorporated in the last day or two that may not be in the daily bulk file yet.

Why this is useful

A brand-new company is a brand-new buyer. Newly incorporated businesses need banking, insurance, accounting, legal, payroll, and software — fast. This Actor turns the federal register into a fresh B2B lead feed you can pull on a schedule.

Related MCP server: mcp-opencorporates

What you get

One record per corporation:

• Corporation number and Business Number (BN)

• Corporate name (and secondary/operating name)

• Incorporation date (CBCA anniversary / formation date)

• Registered office address — street, city, province, postal code

• Status and governing legislation

• Min / max number of directors

Example input

{
    "incorporatedWithinDays": 30,
    "provinces": ["ON", "BC"],
    "keywords": ["holdings", "consulting"],
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
    "maxResults": 500
}

• incorporatedWithinDays — only companies incorporated in the last N days (set 0 for all active corporations)

• provinces — two-letter codes of the registered office; empty = all of Canada

• keywords — match corporate name or city

• includeOtherTypes — also include not-for-profits, cooperatives and boards of trade

• onlyNewSinceLastRun — incremental mode; return only corporations not seen before (perfect for a daily new-company feed)

• freshFrontier — probe the live registry for just-incorporated companies not yet in the daily bulk file (on by default; applies to windows of 1–60 days)

• maxResults — cost guard; 0 = no limit. Because results are newest-first, a cap keeps the freshest companies.

Example output

{
    "corporationNumber": "9876543",
    "businessNumber": "123456789RC0001",
    "name": "BRIGHT NEW STARTUP INC.",
    "governingAct": "Canada Business Corporations Act",
    "status": "Active",
    "incorporationDate": "2026-07-01",
    "address": "10 King St W, Suite 200",
    "city": "Toronto",
    "province": "ON",
    "postalCode": "M5H1A1",
    "minDirectors": 1,
    "maxDirectors": 10,
    "id": "corp-9876543"
}

Export to Excel / CSV works out of the box, so the list drops straight into a CRM or an outreach campaign. Schedule the Actor daily with onlyNewSinceLastRun for an automatic feed of just-registered companies.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is available over the Model Context Protocol:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=truenorthdata/canada-new-incorporations

Ask an MCP client in plain language — "companies incorporated in Ontario this week" — and the agent runs the Actor and filters for you.

Notes

• Source: Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada), Federal Corporations open data, Open Government Licence – Canada. Files are updated daily. Covers federal corporations only (CBCA business corporations, plus optionally NFP / cooperatives / boards of trade) — not provincial registrations.

• Contact data: registered office mailing address is included. Director names + service addresses can be attached via optional enrichment (see below); the bulk data itself does not include director names, phone or email.

Director enrichment (optional — turns a company into a contactable lead)

Turn on Enrich with directors to attach each corporation's directors (names and service addresses) from the official Corporations Canada API — ideal for outbound, since you get a real person to reach, not just a company name.

1. Get a free API key: go to api.ised-isde.canada.ca, sign up, and subscribe to the Federal Corporation API → Public Plan. Copy your user-key.

2. In the Actor input, set Enrich with directors on and paste the key into Federal Corporation API key (stored as a secret). You can also provide it via the FEDERAL_API_KEY environment variable.

3. Keep the window small (e.g. incorporatedWithinDays = 1–7). Enrichment is rate-limited to ~55 lookups/min and capped by Max director lookups.

Output then includes a directors array (first/last name, city, province, postal) and a directorNames summary column.

Use in Clay and n8n (no code)

This Actor plugs straight into the tools outbound teams already use, so a fresh-company feed lands in your workflow automatically.

Clay — in a Clay table, add a source → Import from Apify Actor → search canada-new-incorporations → set your input (e.g. incorporatedWithinDays = 1, provinces = ["ON"]). Turn on daily auto-update to append newly registered companies as rows, then enrich (email, LinkedIn) with Clay's providers.

n8n — add the official Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify): use Run Actor on truenorthdata/canada-new-incorporations with your input, then Get Dataset Items, and pipe the result into Google Sheets, a CRM, or Slack. Add a Schedule trigger for a daily new-company feed. Tip: turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun so you only get (and act on) companies you haven't seen before.

Ready-made n8n template

Don't want to wire it up yourself? Import our ready-made n8n workflow — it pulls the newest incorporations every morning and appends them to a Google Sheet (or your CRM), deduped automatically.

→ Copy-paste import + setup: Two free n8n templates for Canadian B2B lead lists

Ready-made n8n templates: import a working lead-gen workflow in one click — see Two free n8n templates for Canadian B2B lead lists.

More Canada open-data Actors by TrueNorthData

• Canada Tenders Scraper — federal + Québec government tenders (CanadaBuys, SEAO)

• Building Permits Canada — fresh building permits from Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton & Montréal

• Contractor License Scraper Canada — Quebec RBQ + Ontario HCRA builder & trade licences

• Canada Charities Scraper — CRA registered charities directory

All built on official Canadian open data.