Canada (Alberta)

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This guide contains public integration notes for CA-AB, the Alberta register. Use it for identifier formats, search behavior, and register-specific caveats. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, legal forms, roles, and status values is the pricing page.

Canada (Alberta) coverage, pricing, and sources

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CA-AB covers entities registered in Alberta. In Canada a company is incorporated either federally or in one province or territory, and each keeps its own register. A federal corporation that registers in Alberta to do business there keeps its own record in Canada (Federal): its Alberta registration is returned here flagged as such, with the federal corporation number and Business Number to use with countryCode: "CA-FED". CA on its own is not a jurisdiction.

Data Sources
Company Identifiers
Search Capabilities
Supported Entity Types
Quirks & Gotchas
Mappings
Data Availability

Data Sources

Source	Role	What it provides
Canada’s Business Registries	Primary source for search and company data (business corporations and limited partnerships)	Name, entity type, status, incorporation or registration date, registered office city, Business Number when published, and the link between a company’s registrations across provinces. Updated daily by the Alberta register.
Alberta Registrar’s Periodical	Search and company data for the other Alberta entities	Every incorporation, registration, continuance, amalgamation, name change and revival the Alberta Corporate Registry has published since 2006, with the entity type and registered address
GLEIF	Supplementary	Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), when one matches the corporate access number

Directors and shareholders are not offered yet. The Alberta record does not list them; they are only on the corporate search Alberta sells through registry agents. A federal corporation registered in Alberta has its directors and beneficial owners in Canada (Federal).

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
Corporate access number	9 or 10 digits; partnerships: `LP`, `AL` or `EL` followed by 7 or 8 digits	`2028462931`, `LP4270245`	Assigned by the Alberta Corporate Registry. Spaces and hyphens are ignored.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`corporateAccessNumber`	9 or 10 digits, or a 2-letter partnership prefix and 7 or 8 digits	`2028462931`	All entities. Same value as `company.id`
`businessNumber`	9 digits (the BN root)	`139829337`	When the register publishes it; for the Alberta registration of a federal corporation, the federal corporation’s BN
`lei`	20 letters and digits		When GLEIF has a unique match

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Example	Match Type	Notes
By name	`ATCO`	Name	Business corporations and limited partnerships live; other Alberta entities from the Registrar’s Periodical
By corporate access number	`2028462931`, `LP4270245`	`id`	Exact match
By Business Number	`139829337` or `139829337RC0001`	`id`	Returns the Alberta records carrying that BN

Search is free. Only company data retrieval is charged.

Active companies only

Search returns inactive companies too. Business corporations and limited partnerships carry the register’s status, so activeOnly=true removes the inactive ones. Entities found only in the Registrar’s Periodical carry no status and are kept.

Supported Entity Types

Entity type	Supported	Notes
Alberta business corporations (named, numbered, professional)	Yes	Company data with status
Limited partnerships	Yes	Company data with status
Societies, non-profit companies, cooperatives, limited liability partnerships	Partial	Company data from the Registrar’s Periodical, without status
Alberta registrations of federal or other-province corporations	Flagged	Returned with their home jurisdiction and, for a federal corporation, the number to use with `CA-FED`
Sole proprietorships and trade names	No	Not covered

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Extra-provincial registrations	A corporation incorporated federally or in another province also has an Alberta number. Its company record says so in `status.statusDetails.additionalInfo` (home jurisdiction and number there), its legal form is `Extra-Provincial Corporation`, and its `businessNumber` links it to the home record.
Registered office city only	Canada’s Business Registries publishes the city and province of the registered office, not the street address. Entities read from the Registrar’s Periodical carry the full address published with their latest registration notice, which may have changed since.
Periodical entities have no status	The Registrar’s Periodical lists dissolutions and strike-offs by name only, without the corporate access number, so no status is returned for an entity found only there.
No beneficial owners	Alberta has no public register of beneficial owners.
No activity codes	The register publishes no industry classification.

Mappings

Company Status

Local Status	`active`	Standardized Status
Active	`true`	`ACTIVE`
Inactive	`false`	`CLOSED`
Struck	`false`	`CLOSED` (administrative dissolution)
Dissolved	`false`	`CLOSED`

Data Availability

Datapoint	Available	Notes
`company`	Yes	Live for business corporations and limited partnerships; Registrar’s Periodical for other entities
`legalRepresentatives`	Not yet	Not on the Alberta record; only on the corporate search
`shareholders`	Not yet	Not on the Alberta record; only on the corporate search
`ultimateBeneficialOwners`	No	No public beneficial-ownership register in Alberta
Documents	No	No document is offered yet

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Canada (Alberta) coverage, pricing, and sources

Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Active companies only

Supported Entity Types

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Company Status

Data Availability

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Canada (Alberta) coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Search Capabilities

​Active companies only

​Supported Entity Types

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Company Status

​Data Availability

Start here

Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Active companies only

Supported Entity Types

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Company Status

Data Availability